The Indian men’s cricket team’s fortunes ebbed and flowed with the vagaries of different formats in 2024, as Rohit Sharma’s men oscillated between the delight of a T20 World Cup win in the Americas and a debilitating Test series defeat against New Zealand at home. If India laid hands on an International Cricket Council (ICC) … Read more
Australian batter Steve Smith has described the elusive 10,000-run mark in Tests as a “different beast” after falling just one run short of touching it at his home ground of Sydney in the fifth and final game against India during which the milestone weighed heavily on his mind. Smith needed 38 runs to achieve the … Read more
Sarfaraz Khan and Abhimanyu Easwaran travelled with the Indian team across Australia over the last couple of months; trained with their colleagues regularly, but returned home without featuring in a single game in the just-concluded five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which India conceded 3-1. While Sarfaraz played in the warm-up match against Australian Prime Minister’s XI in … Read more
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released its pitch ratings for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with the Perth Stadium, Adelaide Oval, Gabba and the MCG pitches all receiving the highest ‘very good’ rating and the SCG given the second top category ‘satisfactory’. The rating system was revamped in 2023 to reduce the number of ratings from … Read more
Jasprit Bumrah, sidelined by back spasms, watched from the bench as India struggled to defend a 162-run target in the final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25. Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna bowled 21 consecutive overs but in vain. The final day in Sydney summed up a tough six-week tour of Australia. While the visitor’s … Read more
The ongoing Big Bash League (BBL) season will be bolstered by the inclusion of some of the members of the Australian Test team, which recently beat India 3-1 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Sean Abbott (Sydney Sixers), Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers), Sam Konstas (Sydney Thunder), Mitchell Marsh (Perth Scorchers), Jhye Richardson (Perth Scorchers) and Beau Websters … Read more
Questioning Mohammad Shami’s injury management, former greats Ravi Shastri and Ricky Ponting feel the veteran pacer could have tilted the series in India’s favour had he been added to the squad in the second half of the five-match Border-Gavaskar series. India’s decade-long stranglehold on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy ended after they went down by six wickets … Read more
Australian batters Usman Khawaja and Travis Head have conceded that the incomparable Jasprit Bumrah’s absence on the third day of the series-deciding fifth Test played a big role in their team’s victory against India on the bowler-friendly SCG deck. Laid low by back spasm, Bumrah could not bowl on the spiciest wicket of the series … Read more
Late on Sunday night, Mitchell Starc and some of his teammates got into a sports utility vehicle and left the Sydney Cricket Ground. The celebrations in the Australian dressing room stretched long and spilled onto the turf. Some ambled near the ropes and a few went close to the pitch. Reclaiming the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after … Read more
From Sachin to McGrath: Sportstar’s all-time Border-Gavaskar Trophy combined XI