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[ad_1] India opener Rohit Sharma played a captain’s knock on a slow, testing track in Nagpur on Friday and brought up his 9th Test century that took the hosts past Australia‘s first-innings total of 177 on day two of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.LIVE UPDATES: Day 2Rohit, who …

[ad_1] Visuals of Ravindra Jadeja applying a cream during play on day one of the first Test between India and Australia in Nagpur made a lot of heads turn, but the Indian team management silenced all speculations by revealing that it was a pain-relief cream.LIVE UPDATES: Day 2Jadeja was seen …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Australia skipper Pat Cummins on Wednesday played down concerns about the Nagpur pitch ahead of the opening Test of the four-match series against India. There were accusations against India from the Australian media regarding the selective watering of the pitch by the curators. According to reports, the …

[ad_1] A Test series in India invariably boils down to the spinners. The last time the subcontinental giants lost a series at home, to England in 2012-13, spinners Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar wreaked havoc.India took their lessons from that series and made it mandatory to include one (or two) …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: Australia opener Usman Khawaja is preparing himself for the challenge India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will present in the four-Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, beginning in Nagpur on February 9.It will be Khawaja’s first appearance in a Test on Indian soil, after being part of the touring Australia …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Recovering from an achilles injury, Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood is set to miss the opening Test against India in Nagpur and also remains a doubtful starter for the second game in Delhi.The 32-year-old had sustained the injury on his left leg after bowling in the rain-affected Sydney …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: Cameron Green has an ‘outside chance’ of making it to Australia‘s playing eleven for the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Grophy against India beginning on February 9 in Nagpur, said coach Andrew McDonald while talking to the media on Saturday. The young Australian all-rounder hopes to have his …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam continued his excellent batting form in the last match of the year too, scoring a brilliant century to lead from the front in the first Test against New Zealand in Karachi on Monday.Azam struck spinner Michael Bracewell for a six towards mid-wicket to …

[ad_1] Australia captain Pat Cummins lavished praise on Mitchell Starc as the rangy left-arm paceman joined the 300 wickets club in style on Sunday during the first Test win over South Africa. Starc brought up the milestone by bowling Rassie van der Dussen for a duck with a trademark in-swinging …

[ad_1] DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday rated the pitch used for the first Test between England and Pakistan at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium “below average” for not offering any help to the bowlers. As many as seven centuries were scored in the game, which England won by …