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The 45-year-old believes Jadeja has found his perfect batting position at No. 7 and it must not be tinkered with. Ravindra Jadeja had begun his Test career playing as a frontline spinner. However, with time, his batting has improved leaps and bounds. He has scored 1926 runs in 50 Tests at a decent average of 35.66. The 32-year-old scored a crucial half-century in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), which played a vital role in Team India’s emphatic eight-wicket win....

Joe Root amassed 426 runs in the two-match Test series against the island nation. He followed that up with a majestic unbeaten 128-run knock at the Chepauk in Chennai. During a discussion on Star Sports, Ashish Nehra said that Joe Root produced a chanceless knock. The England captain started cautiously before unleashing his sweep shots to punish the Indian bowlers. “Joe Root built his innings very well” - Ashish Nehra Ashish Nehra also commended Joe Root for showing restraint against Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma when the ball was reversing, while playing aggressive strokes against Washington Sundar and Shahbaz Nadeem....

The rain stayed away to allow 90 overs to be bowled at the Home of Cricket, and this time England had nowhere to hide. Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul put together 126 runs for the first wicket before Virat Kohli joined in on the fun later in the innings. Here are three mistakes England made on Day 1 of the second Test against India. #3 England won the toss and elected to bowl Did Joe Root make a grave error by electing to bowl first after winning the toss for the second Test?...

Siraj dismissed the well-set Santner for 57 with a well-directed short delivery. The batter tried to make room but only managed to slice it straight down the throat of deep mid-wicket fielder Suryakumar Yadav. The next ball witnessed Mohammed Siraj breaching through the defense of Henry Shipley with a pearler. It tailed in sharply and clattered the stumps. Mohammed Siraj took 4/46 despite Bracewell onslaught In pursuit of a huge target of 350, New Zealand were 131/6, with Mohammed Siraj taking important wickets of Devon Conway and Tom Latham....

Growing up, watching Test cricket was an absolute pleasure. My mind immediately traces back to Tests between India and Australia. They were hard fought battles, not only physically but also technically. As a kid growing up, listening to the commentary was an absolute pleasure. The likes of Tony Greig, Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Holding helped to break down the nuances of the game superbly to an average viewer. Tactics were discussed, strategies were elaborated upon and phases of play were immortalised due to the words spoken....

With Virat Kohli rested from the first Test and KL Rahul injured, Shubman Gill was pushed into the top-order. Consequently, an opportunity opened up for Iyer, who grabbed it with both hands. He received his Test cap from former India captain and Mumbai stalwart Sunil Gavaskar which made the occasion even more special. Reacting to his Test debut, Shreyas Iyer wrote: Shreyas Iyer, who came out to bat at No....

The Rishabh Pant-led side haven’t performed as per their potential in the opening two games. They couldn’t finish out a run-fest in Delhi before running out of gas in the second game in Cuttack. South Africa, on the other hand, have been admirably cohesive and have also been complemented by their skipper Temba Bavuma’s luck at the toss. While Rassie van der Dussen and David Miller were the heroes in the opening game for them, Heinrich Klassen proved to be the standout performer on Sunday....

The ODI series in Zimbabwe, which begins on August 18, will mark Rahul’s return to international cricket. He last played for India back in February, during the home series against the West Indies. He hasn’t played any competitive cricket since IPL 2022. Initially, Rahul was not part of the Zimbabwe tour. However, he was added to the squad and was even named captain after being declared fit. The right-handed batter’s return puts the Indian think tank in a dilemma....

The first of the two four-day first-class matches between India ‘A’ and Australia ‘A’ ended in a draw at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday. The hosts resumed play at 121/3 in the morning, following which they declared at 206/8, giving Australia a target of 240 runs. The visitors batted well but ran out of overs and time to finish the day’s play at 161/4. India resumed play in the morning with Shreyas Iyer (33) and Karun Nair (23) at the crease....

Without skipper Yuvraj Singh, who was out due to a stiff back, India Blue — riding on a 73-ball-91 by Mumbai all-rounder Abhishek Nayar — made a competitive 270 for six in 50 overs. In reply, Sehwag displayed his aggressive style of play as he scored 58 in only 39 balls, hitting nine boundaries and a six, but couldn’t prevent Delhi from getting skittled out for 252 in 47.5 overs....

This remarkable first book gains much of its power from the gentle narrative voice. Lahiri’s language is uncluttered; she’s sparing with metaphor, and the riches accumulate unobtrusively. In the title story, the tour guide is transfixed by a woman “stroking her hair with a small plastic brush that resembled an oval bed of nails.” Everything about this relationship is ominous, and the hairbrush says it all.

Those are the things that Wofford associate head coach Dustin Kerns will remember about rising junior guard Jeremiah Tate, a charismatic young man whose journey ended far too soon in the early morning hours on Monday. “If we officially named Mr. Wofford on campus, it would be him,” Kerns told Sporting News. “He knew everybody. Everybody loved him and he was involved in a lot of different things — student government, the Bonner Scholars program....

In August, San Francisco became one of the first major cities to require proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to dine indoors and enter bars, gyms, theaters, and entertainment venues. On October 14, officials from the city’s Department of Public Health shut down the location at 333 Jefferson St. in Fisherman’s Wharf, because it would not stop customers who did not have vaccination documentation from coming inside. It reopened the following day for takeout only but is the only restaurant in the city that has been closed for violating the mandate, the Associated Press reported....

In fact, there are no such standards. A NewsGuard analysis has found that a significant number of sites with a .org domain traffic in misinformation related to COVID-19, U.S. politics, and other important issues. Of 290 .org sites in NewsGuard’s U.S. database as of February 2022, nearly 20 percent — 56 sites — were Red-rated, meaning they are generally unreliable. PIR: Monitoring misinformation is not our job Asked about the large number of ....

At the event, Johnson noted the recent surge in his home state’s COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. He then suggested people take vitamin D, zinc and vitamin C to keep themselves healthy. “By the way, standard gargle mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus,” Johnson added. “If you get it, you may reduce viral replication. Why not try all these things?” “It just boggles my mind that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) tell people, ‘Do nothing....

There have only ever been around a dozen confirmed sightings of the creature worldwide, making the latest images of it hugely important to science. In total, the team led by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO filmed five individual squid during a dive in the Great Australian Bight—an open bay of water off the country’s southern coast. The bodies of the Bigfin squid filmed measured around six foot, while their tentacles stretched out to 23 feet....

By beating the Aussies in the second T20I at Sydney, the Men in Blue have now taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series and have made it 10 wins in a row in completed T20Is. Rohit was rested for the limited-overs leg of the Australian tour as he is recovering from a hamstring injury. Bumrah too was rested for the first two T20Is after having played in all three ODIs....

Although India won the game, former England skipper Michael Vaughan believes that it does not hide the failure of India’s top-order in the third ODI. No one except Virat Kohli really got going, and Vaughan feels that the Men in Blue need to be a bit more aggressive in their approach. I feel the culture in the Indian dressing room is a bit old school: Michael Vaughan Michael Vaughan believes that the Indian team have the ability to play with freedom, something that the England team is doing....

In this match, there is much more at stake for the Indian cricket team than just pride as they have now lost five consecutive ODI matches. New Zealand had whitewashed India 3-0 during the team’s Kiwis tour earlier this year. In the current Australia tour, India is trailing the 3-match series by 0-2. Until now, India has been whitewashed four times in a bilateral ODI series. The first two instances occurred in the 1980s against West Indies, and both were demoralizing 5-0 losses....