Australia defeated India in the fifth and final Test by six wickets and claimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1 after 10 years on Sunday. The last time Australia had won the series was at home in 2014-15 when it beat India 2-0 in a four-match Test series. Since then, India won four series back-to-back, including two … Read more
It has taken nearly a year for Prasidh Krishna to bowl again for India in Test whites. Having played in South Africa during the 2023-24 two-Test series, the pacer was picked for the fifth and final Test here following an injury to Akash Deep. The Karnataka seamer did well and bagged a three for 42 … Read more
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy series is at its tipping point. Having commenced in Perth on November 22, the sporting caravan is now stationed 3290 kilometres away at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and a feverish climax is due. The fifth and final Test’s second day witnessed the fall of 15 wickets as pacers found their mark on … Read more
India 141 for 6 (Pant 61, Boland 4-42) and 185 lead Australia 181 (Webster 57, Smith 33, Prasidh 3-42, Siraj 3-51) by 145 runs During the lunch break on the second day, Rohit Sharma cleared the air, saying that he had sat out of the Sydney Test and that he wasn’t retiring from Test cricket … Read more
India’s Rishabh Pant bats. | Photo Credit: AP India’s Rishabh Pant bats. | Photo Credit: AP
Having dealt with a gruesome car accident, a red cherry hurtling into his body is perhaps the least of Rishabh Pant’s worries. He battled hard against the Australian attack and was India’s top-scorer with a 40 in the fifth Test that began at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Struck eight times on his torso, … Read more
Friday dawned to the wet streaks of rain, just about enough to accentuate the green on leaves. When the dampness paused, it was time for cricket’s annual pilgrimage to the Sydney Cricket Ground. India turned up with Jasprit Bumrah at the helm while Rohit Sharma, according to the former, opted to rest. A change in … Read more
Australia 9 for 1 (Bumrah 1-7) trail India185 (Pant 40, Boland 4-31, Starc 3-49, Cummins 2-37) by 176 runs Off-field chaos swirled around India in the lead-up to the Sydney Test. Their on-field batting performance on the opening day in Sydney was just as chaotic after Rohit Sharma dropped himself in a nearly unprecedented move … Read more
Usman Khawaja wore a black armband on the first day of the fifth Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Khawaja wore the armband in respect of South African batter Ashwell Prince’s wife Melissa Prince, who passed away aged 40 three days ago after a cancer battle. He was the … Read more
The whole of Sydney Cricket Ground and the Australian team caps were draped in pink colour ahead of the fifth and final Test against India. The change in colour from the Baggy Green to Baggy Pink is to mark the beginning of the Pink Test. What is a Pink Test? The first Test of the … Read more