Brendan Taylor made a return to Zimbabwe’s Test cricket team after serving a four-year International Cricket Council (ICC) ban, joining the squad for the second Test against New Zealand at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Thursday. Taylor, who replaced Ben Curran, was sanctioned in January 2022 for accepting USD 15,000 from an Indian businessman…
India bowler Jasprit Bumrah (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) Jasprit Bumrah recently found himself at the center of intense online criticism following India’s fiercely contested Anderson Tendulkar Trophy series against England, which ended in a dramatic 2-2 draw.Fans expressed frustration over Bumrah’s selective participation in only three of the five Tests and his Instagram post…
Matt Henry (X- Somerset Cricket) New Zealand’s fast bowlers dominated Zimbabwe on Day 1 of the second Test match in Bulawayo, with Matt Henry taking 5-40 and debutant Zakary Foulkes claiming 4-38 to dismiss the hosts for 125. The Kiwi opening pair of Will Young and Devon Conway then propelled their team to 174-1, establishing…
Jasprit Bumrah of India (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) Former India wicketkeeper-batter Deep Dasgupta has criticized the Indian cricket team’s decision to announce Jasprit Bumrah‘s limited availability of three Tests before the recent Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series in England, which ended in a 2-2 draw. Dasgupta believes this pre-series announcement was unnecessary and the team could…
Shubman Gill of India and Ben Stokes of England (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is not in favour of a two-division World Test Championship (WTC), especially if it risks England being placed in a different division from Australia or India. That could mean missing out on two of…
Ishant Sharma (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup-winning former coach Gary Kirsten has expressed his admiration for the manner in which Gautam Gambhir shepherded the team to a creditable 2-2 draw on the tough Test tour of England recently.India and England settled for a stalemate after five intensely fought Tests played across nearly…
London: India’s captain Shubman Gill acknowledges the crowd after India won the fifth Test match against England, at The Oval cricket ground, in London, England. (PTI Photo/R Senthilkumar)(PTI08_04_2025_000333A) After an impressive outing as Team India captain in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, Shubman Gill is set to lead North Zone in the upcoming Duleep Trophy.The Duleep Trophy…
Shubman Gill scored 754 runs in the five-match Test series against England. The series finished 2-2. (PTI Photo) The inaugural Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, a five-Test epic between two fierce cricketing teams, came to a thrilling conclusion at The Oval, with India edging England by six runs to level the series 2-2. The far from conventional series…
Harshit Rana. (Pic Credit – X) NEW DELHI: India pacer Harshit Rana has candidly opened up on the mental toll of being dropped from the national squad, especially during long overseas tours. After being initially omitted from India’s squad for the 2025 Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in England, Rana was later added for the first Test but…
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma MUMBAI: It was because of an advice to this effect by India’s ODI captain Rohit Sharma that India’s opener Yashasvi Jaiswal reversed his decision to play for Goa instead of Mumbai in the upcoming domestic season. “Rohit asked Yashasvi to stay on in Mumbai at this stage of his career….
