KANPUR: A captain battling existential crisis, a veteran pacer about to be phased out and a white-ball maverick trying to earn his red-ball stripes makes for a heady combination as Ajinkya Rahane’s second-string India aim to size up a gritty New Zealand in first Test starting Thursday. Rahane, with his career on line, gets to […]
DUBAI: India opener KL Rahul gained a slot to occupy the fifth spot while middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav galloped 24 places to the 59th position in the ICC men’s T20I player rankings released on Wednesday. Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan, too, gained a slot to occupy the fourth position. Rizwan’s upward movement is courtesy his 90 […]
VILA REAL: Cristiano Ronaldo’s excellent goal helped Manchester United begin life after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a 2-0 victory over Villarreal on Tuesday and seal their place in the Champions League last 16. Ronaldo’s splendid lob was then capped by Jadon Sancho’s first United goal at the Ceramica, where caretaker manager Michael Carrick dropped Bruno […]
KANPUR: Senior India opener KL Rahul was on Tuesday ruled out of the two-Test series against New Zealand due to a muscle strain in his left thigh, a development which is expected to open up a debut opportunity for either Shreyas Iyer or Suryakumar Yadav. The opening Test is scheduled to begin in Kanpur from […]
KANPUR: New Zealand coach Gary Stead has hinted that if the conditions demand, the visiting side may field three specialist spinners against India in the first Test, starting here on Thursday. Stead also feels that their two-Test series against India won’t feature the kind of tracks that England got in Ahmedabad during their series against […]
SRINAGAR: In the ongoing NIFF Youth Football League 2021 at Synthetic Turf Football Stadium Srinagar three matches were played on Tuesday. In first match of the League, SCFA Srinagar outplayed Gungbugh FA by 6-0 that proved to be a one side affair for the SCFA from the whistle go. Feroz Ahmad of SCFA was adjourned […]
GALLE (Sri Lanka): Rain forced an early end with the West Indies reaching 224/9 after avoiding the follow-on on Day three of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Tuesday. The West Indies added nine runs in 30 balls and lost Rahkeem Cornwall in a brief passage of play after lunch before the […]
MELBOURNE: If Steve Smith is reinstated as captain of the Australian Test squad for the upcoming Ashes following Tim Paine’s exit after the sexting scandal it will only “add to the circus”, said former wicketkeeper-batter Ian Healy Paine had stepped down as Australia’s Test skipper on last Friday after it emerged that he had sent […]
KOLKATA: Newly-appointed India chief coach Rahul Dravid says the 3-0 result over New Zealand augurs well for the team in the long-run but at the same time, he is realistic enough to not read too much into the overall outcome with Black Caps having to play the series three days after the T20 World Cup […]
KOLKATA: Ravichandran Ashwin is “always an attacking option” in the middle overs of a T20I match when a team needs wickets, India captain Rohit Sharma said of the seasoned off-spinner. Rohit, the newly-appointed T20 skipper, picked his team’s bowling as the biggest positive in the 3-0 sweep of New Zealand. Having made a splendid white-ball […]