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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Shell-shocked, Australian legends Allan Border and Matthew Hayden have lambasted Pat Cummins and Co. for their second innings collapse in the Delhi Test against India, where pre-determined sweep shots led to their downfall.Leading by 62 runs, Australia started the morning session of day three with a slight …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Australia skipper Pat Cummins on Sunday admitted that their pre-determined ploy to use sweep shots to counter spin backfired for them at the Kotla pitch in Delhi. An over-reliance on sweep shots hastened their collapse on the third day of the second Test as they suffered a …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India’s lower order batters always come to the rescue whenever the team stares down the barrel and on Saturday Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin again rose to the occasion with their match-turning partnership.Axar (74) and Ashwin (37) added 114 runs for the eighth wicket to help India …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: For all the paranoia surrounding the pitches offered, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb showed there’s always a way to score runs, let alone survive. If the Indian bowlers are able to consistently dismiss their opponents inside a day, then it has more to do with their skill …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Spinner Todd Murphy might have taken seven wickets on debut in the first Test against India but Australian skipper Pat Cummins revealed why his spinners do not enjoy the same success as compared to Indian counterparts.Australia’s main spinner Nathan Lyon had a mediocre outing in the first …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Australia did everything to tackle India’s spin attack on a turning Nagpur track in the opening Test but it was all in vain. The Pat Cummins led side also turned to Maheesh Pithiya, an Indian spinner with an action similar to Ashwin’s, in the nets, but that …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Following his eight-wicket show against Australia in the opening Test in Nagpur, India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday jumped to the second spot in the ICC Men’s Test Bowlers Rankings.Courtesy his player-of-the-match winning effort in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series-opener, left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, who made a successful …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli might have not performed with the bat in the first Test against Australia but the star Indian batter managed to grab the headlines for his funny side that won the hearts of his fans.Kohli took the social media by storm with his viral video of …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Australia legend Ian Chappell opined that the pitch in Nagpur was “by no means impossible to play on”, and called it nothing more than a fairly typical first-day Indian red-soil wicket.Chappell added that the noise around the pitch was not unexpected, but asked Australia to stop thinking …

[ad_1] Ashwin, Jadeja & Axar made the Test their own with match-winning contributions, giving captain Rohit Sharma a happy problem of plentyFifty years down the line, when someone sits down to write the history of Indian cricket in the 21st century, there is bound to be a chapter on the …