On this day in 2014, Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropped a bombshell on the cricket world with his sudden announcement of immediate retirement from Test cricket. The announcement was made after India lost the four-Test series to Australia following a draw in the third Test in Melbourne. Dhoni, however,

Brisbane: A withering spell of fast bowling backed up by exceptional catching had Pakistan on their knees as Australia took charge of the day-night first Test in Brisbane on Friday. Australia's three-man pace attack -- Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Jackson Bird -- decimated the tourists' fir

England’s best day of a chastening series since the heady high of a first Test draw in Rajkot became the tale of two Yorkshiremen and their foiled pursuit of a record held by one of the most famous cricketing sons of the county. While Moeen Ali led the way by showing he really can bat at No 4 with

Steve Smith may play with four pacemen at the expense of spinner Lyon Skipper Steve Smith says Australia’s pace attack will test the resolve of Pakistan’s batsmen with short-pitched bowling in Brisbane’s first ever day-night Test from Thursday. Smith has yet to finalise his team and hasn’t r

Virender Sehwag went on to accept publicly, during the post match show at Mumbai, that Virat Kohli is more than prepared to lead India in all three formats. New Delhi, Dec 14: Former India opener Virender Sehwag has advocated that India's charismatic Test skipper Virat Kohli can now lead Team Ind

Cristiano Ronaldo won his fourth Ballon d’Or on Monday to get one over his nemesis Lionel Messi in their long-running duel for the title of best footballer on the planet. It was the perfect ending to another fantastic year for the Real Madrid star, who won the Champions League for the second time

Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar on Tuesday said that Virat Kohli needed to fine-tune some aspects of his captaincy in order to attain more success in Test cricket. Speaking to NDTV, the former India opener gave Kohli seven out of ten for his leadership after India sealed the five-match Test series aga

Mumbai: A dominant India today completed formalities by crushing England in the fourth cricket Test by a whopping innings and 36 runs margin to take clinch the five-Test series 3-0. Spin wizard Ravichandran Ashwin blew away the lower order with another superb effort of 6 for 55 as England were bu

Virat Kohli's colossal 235, his personal-best as well as the highest individual score by an Indian captain in the longest format of the game, helped the hosts tighten their grip on the proceedings at the buzzing Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Sunday (December 11). Kohli provided the sort of entertain

The lack of sting in England's bowling on Thursday raised doubts about whether the Wankhede Stadium pitch has eased up in favour of the batsmen but India wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel feels the difference was due to the quality of the hosts' attack. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked up six wick

New Delhi: India's limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will hopefully get a chance to play at least a couple of warm-up matches before the England ODI series starting in Pune on 15 January, next year. Before the start of the limited overs series, England are scheduled to play a warm-up mat

India has coped with the lack of a settled opening pair, put up reasonable totals on the scoreboard and won seven of the 10 Tests it has played this calendar year. While England struggled for four years to find an opening partner for its captain Alastair Cook, after the retirement of Andrew Strau

India are likely to face problems in opening slots and fielding an unfit Mohammed Shami. New Delhi: It's still good four days to the start of the penultimate Test of the five-match India-England series. But India, despite enjoying a 2-0 lead, has got themselves in a bit of trouble as persiste

Steve Smith, the Australian captain, smashed a career-best 164 in the highest individual One-Day International (ODI) score at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) to spearhead Australia to a 68-run victory over New Zealand in the opening match of the Chappell-Hadlee series on Sunday (December 4). Chas

India's limited-overs captain MS Dhoni looks set to head straight back into the side for the ODI series with England. The veteran, who retired from Test cricket at the end of 2014, last featured competitively against New Zealand at Visakhapatnam on October 29. Dhoni has not featured in the Ran

Kane Williamson, the New Zealand captain, reckoned that his side's victory against Pakistan in the second Test at Hamilton on Tuesday (November 29) was one of the greater wins he's been part of. The hosts needed nine wickets in the final session and a draw appeared the most probable result, but the

With KL Rahul's injuries, failure of Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan still to hit a good run of form, Parthiv Patel has has emerged as an another alternative for Virat Kohli. Parthiv Patel's positive batting with scores of 42 and 67 not out have impressed skipper Virat Kohli so much that he did n

With the second new ball, Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami revoked memories of Ishant Sharma in Lord’s, relentlessly trampolining the balls. A piece of Chris Woakes’s neck protector flew and dropped tattered on the crease. The bowler Mohammed Shami and a few other Indian fielders looked alarm