India captain Rohit Sharma announced his immediate retirement from Test cricket on Wednesday. The 37-year-old’s final match was the fourth Test against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which India lost. Rohit was dropped for the fifth match of the series as India conceded the series 1-3. Rohit took over as captain in 2021 after Virat … Read more
India’s acting captain Virat Kohli teased the crowd over the infamous ‘Sandpaper Gate’ scandal after Australia’s Steve Smith fell one run short of reaching 10,000 Test runs during the third day of the fifth Test in Sydney on Sunday. Just one short of the milestone, Smith edged a delivery from Prasidh Krishna and was caught … Read more
Australia needs 162 runs to win against India in the fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Syndey on Sunday. A win will secure a 3-1 series triumph for the home side. The highest chase at the Sydney Cricket Ground belongs to Australia, which shot down 288 against South Africa in 2006. This is the only 200-plus … Read more
India will be in a must-win situation on Friday when it starts the fifth and final Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia completed a sensational victory in the last Test in Melbourne, picking seven wickets in the final session of the contest to take an unassailable 2-1 lead. India now … Read more
India will have its task cut out when it steps onto the field at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday for the fifth and final Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test. The side trails 2-1 in the series and needs to win the last Test to stay in contention to reach the World Test Championship final. However, the … Read more
Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey said on Wednesday that he was mesmerised by the way young opener Sam Konstas scored an audacious half-century in the Boxing Day Test against India but insisted that it was unlikely to become a “blueprint” for future matches. Making his debut in front of a near sell-out crowd at the MCG … Read more