Nagpur: India will aim for a return to the top spot in One Day International (ODI) rankings when they face Australia in the fifth and final match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur on Sunday. The hosts, who have already clinched the five-match ODI series with an unassailable 3-1

To call this cricket team India’s greatest ever on the strength of a string of victories, mostly at home, will certainly be a hyperbolic exaggeration fans are given to. But it won’t be wrong to speculate, on the strength of its solid performances, that this team shows the promise of scaling new peak

New Delhi: Irfan Pathan who was one of the rising cricketers in 2003, suddenly disappeared. While praising India’s present cricketer, Hardik Pandya, he expressed his pain for sudden downfall of his career. He said that a talented cricketer can show his full talent only when he gets full support f

Aaron Finch returned from a calf injury to become the first Australian opener since Shaun Marsh in 2009 to score an ODI century in India, but the hosts pulled it all back rather well in the last 15 overs to restrict them to 293 for 6, at least 35-50 runs short of what they would've hoped to get at o

Kuldeep Yadav became the third Indian bowler to pick a hat-trick in ODIs when he got three wickets against Australia in the second ODI in Kolkata. Calling it a special moment, the left-arm spinner said that since the start was not good, never thought he could take a hat-trick. After the match, in

Guest appearances in a story can be strange at times, it might just be for a limited time frame, but they enjoy a telling impact. Joginder Sharma might not enjoy being termed a guest in one of India's greatest cricketing tales, but he will forever be first associated with the dramatic final over of

Packed with an incisive bowling attack, a confident India would look to pile on the misery for a struggling Australia and seal the five-match series when they clash in the third ODI on Sunday. It was no small task for Virat Kohli and his men to defend a modest 252 on the Eden Garden wicket, which

Gautam Gambhir stepped down as the captain of Delhi’s Ranji Trophy team for the upcoming season. As per the Indian Express report, the reason behind the decision is that Gambhir wants to focus on his batting and give a youngster a shot at captaincy. The Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma is the new ca

New Delhi: It is a country that has produced the greatest ODI batsmen. Among them Michael Bevan. But the current Australian team is a far cry from the days of old. Its ODI record on the road is woeful, having lost the last 10 games. The biggest reason for this poor show has been the frequent batt

Indore: For any cricketer, an interaction with Sachin Tendulkar on batting is priceless and no wonder Ajinkya Rahane’s confidence was boosted when the maestro dropped in during one of his net sessions in Mumbai recently. Rahane is not a regular in the Indian limited overs set- up and there was so

New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Harbhajan Singh was overcome by a sense of deja vu while watching Kuldeep Yadavs hat-trick and feels that the feat will make the youngster an indispensable part of the Team India set-up just like him after that epic 2001 series. "Wahi opposition, wahi lamha, wahi groun

Steve Smith, the Australian captain, isn't one to hide his emotions. The 28-year-old, who just played his 100th One-Day International (ODI), isn't stoic in the mould of legendary modern captains Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor. In many ways, he's closer in spirit to Allan Border, who had the dubious mon

Virat Kohli-led India will look to fancy their chances of attaining an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series when they take on Australia for the third ODI at Holkar Stadium, Indore on September 24. As India's newest spin twins Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal a

Australia captain Steve Smith has accused his batsmen of "panicking" under pressure and demanded they show more starch after another collapse against India saw the side thrashed by 50 runs in the second one-day international in Kolkata. India set Australia 252 to chase at Eden Gardens and defende

The Indian cricket team will be playing three Test matches along with six One Dayers and three T20 Internationals against South Africa, starting January 5. "India will play South Africa in a three-match 'Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela' Test series, six-match One-Day International series followed b

Saina Nehwal and Carolina Marin are yet to win a major this year. Both have tried to make successful comeback but haven’t been able to put in satisfactory results. Marin was ousted by Nozomi Okuhara in the World Championships in the quarters. The Japanese the beat Nehwal in the semi-final despite ha

Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Wednesday launched the revamped 'Khelo India' initiative, which earlier focused on infrastructure development but will now look to ensure all-round growth. The government has approved Rs 1,756 crore for a period of three years for revamping the initiativ

South Africa will play a four-day pink ball Test against neighbours Zimbabwe in Port Elizabeth as the traditional Boxing Day fixture before India arrive for a tour in late December, Cricket South Africa has announced. The day-night match has yet to be granted Test status by the International Cric