Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: With the 2027 ODI World Cup now just over a year away, former India batter Aakash Chopra believes Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli do not need to prove anything beyond what they have already done — they simply need to keep scoring runs.Rohit and Kohli are…
Rishabh Pant (Getty Images) Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra believes the Indian selectors have made up their mind about Rishabh Pant’s immediate future in white-ball cricket.Pant was left out of India’s ODI squad for the upcoming West Indies series. However, he has been named captain of the Rest of India side for the Irani Cup.The…
Cultural teams perform duff ahead of the cabinetprocession to Praja Soudha at Padil, Mangaluru, on Friday MANGALURU: DK Shivakumar cabinet, at its first meeting in Mangaluru Friday, approved a Rs 32,611-crore development push for coastal and Malnad regions, alongside a new Sustainable Data Centre Policy that targets 1GW of cumulative IT load by 2031 and…
NEW DELHI: Former India captain Rohit Sharma has revealed the unlikely comfort food he would turn to during sleepless nights in the middle of Test matches, recalling how the pressure of his favourite format often left him nervous and craving a late-night snack.Rohit, who played 67 Tests for India between 2013 and 2024, opened up…
Cheteshwar Pujara and Pat Cummins. ( AP Photo) Pat Cummins has faced some of India’s biggest cricketing names during his international career, but when asked to identify the toughest Indian opponent he has come up against, the Australia captain did not pick MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma.Instead, Cummins went back to the player…
Prithvi Shaw once looked destined to become one of Indian cricket’s next big batting stars. A teenage prodigy who led India to the Under-19 World Cup title and scored a century on his Test debut, Shaw was compared with Sachin Tendulkar and tipped for a long international career. But years later, the Mumbai batter finds…
Indian women’s cricket team and Mohsin Naqvi The Asia Cup trophies won by India’s men’s and women’s teams remain in Dubai, but BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia has assured that both pieces of silverware will eventually make their way to the board’s headquarters in Mumbai.Saikia confirmed the development after the BCCI’s 95th Annual General Meeting in…
Adam Zampa joined Shane Warne as only the second Australian spinner to claim 200 ODI wickets, while Travis Head marked his return to form with a century as Australia beat Zimbabwe by 84 runs in the second ODI at Harare to seal the series 2-0.Zampa reached the milestone after taking 2/62 in nine overs, dismissing…
Devajit Saikia, Ajit Agarkar The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Devajit Saikia on Friday offered no clear answers on the future of men’s selection committee chief Ajit Agarkar but said that “15 days is a long time in the world of cricket.”“We still have fifteen days to go. Fifteen days is…
New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra (AP photo) Rachin Ravindra’s availability for New Zealand’s upcoming five-match T20I series against India has been thrown into doubt after he dislocated his right shoulder during a promotional shoot in Auckland.The all-rounder suffered the injury on Wednesday (September 16) while attempting a diving catch during filming with Sky. Ravindra landed awkwardly…
