India’s travails with the pink ball under Adelaide skies got a second episode over the weekend. If the 2020 outing and the meagre score of 36 are inextricably linked, the second Test of the current Border-Gavaskar Trophy series moved towards another sobering defeat. The highs gained from the Perth Test were frittered away in the … Read more
There was a flutter in the media enclosure as Greg Chappell dropped in for a while at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday. The Australian great and former India coach spoke about a range of topics with clarity and some dead-pan humour while other legends like Ricky Ponting said a quick hello to him. The elephant … Read more
Australia vs India 1st Test Border Gavaskar Trophy Live Score: Catch the live updates from Day 4 of the first Test between India and Australia at Perth on Monday.
If 17 wickets and the supremacy of pace were Friday’s defining tales, Saturday was about the merits of patience and the virtues of old-fashioned batting. At close on the second day of the first Test here at the Optus Stadium, India muscled its way to 172 for no loss in the second innings. It was … Read more
Australia recorded its second-lowest Test total against India at home during Day 2 of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the Optus Stadium in Perth. India skipper Jasprit Bumrah picked his second fifer in the country to reduce the host to 104 all out after the visitor was bundled out for 150 in its first … Read more
Australia vs India 1st Test Border Gavaskar Trophy Live Score: Catch the live updates from Day 2 of the first Test between India and Australia at Perth on Saturday.
AUS vs IND 1st Test Border Gavaskar Trophy Live Score: Catch the live updates from Day 1 of the first Test between India and Australia at Perth on Friday.
Shubman Gill has been a quiet presence at the Indian team nets and much speculation has centred around his left thumb injury, suffered during a match-simulation exercise at the WACA Ground here recently. Gill was at the Optus Stadium on Wednesday too while the venue geared up for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy’s first Test from Friday. … Read more
Former Australia opener David Warner has backed Nathan McSweeney to score the most runs in the test series against India despite the uncapped batsman’s lack of experience as an opener. South Australia captain McSweeney will march out to the middle with Usman Khawaja in the first test at Perth Stadium starting on Friday, having claimed … Read more
WACA head curator Isaac McDonald on Wednesday said the unusual rain in Perth has impacted the pitch preparation for the first Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy and though he doesn’t expect the surface to develop “snake cracks”, there will still be plenty of bounce and carry. The surface at the Optus Stadium or at the nearby … Read more