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Ravichandran Ashwin emerged once again as India’s most successful bowler after Australia won the toss and chose to hit first on Day 1 of the Boxing Day test match at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ashwin secured two important wickets, including Steve Smith’s, to give India the initial lead of the second …

The non-inclusion of KL Rahul for the 2nd Test vs Australia has earned the disapproval of several former Indian cricketers, while some have said that the strategy of entering with five bowlers for the match is “strange” at MCG, the place of the Test. “I don’t understand why KL Rahul …

It was just a couple of sentences from Ravichandran Ashwin, but they were enough to describe Mohammed Siraj’s journey. Ashwin acknowledged that Siraj had gone through the ‘routines’ of national and India A cricket and has ‘earned’ his right to play for India as he handed over the test cap …

IND vs AUS Live: Ravichandran Ashwin has represented two wickets at MCG.© Twitter Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head are the hitters in the fold, following the layoffs of Matthew Wade and Steve Smith. Australia opted to bat against India on Day 1 of the second Test Match, at the Melbourne …

“If Kohli is the angry Amitabh Bachchan, then Rahane is the Amol Palekar of Indian cricket,” says former Mumbai player and coach Vinayak Samant, Rahane’s roommate on the national team. Palekar is a man of substance and a talented actor who made a name for himself with kind, modest characters …

MUMBAI: The Dharavi Slum Colony in Mumbai did not report a single case of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. This is the first time since April 1, when the first coronavirus case was reported in Dharavi, that Asia’s largest slum has not reported any new cases in a single …

The iconic Boxing Day event that kicks off at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Saturday will be India’s 100th match in the traditional format against Australia, the BCCI said on Friday. The two countries first played a test series in 1947-48. “#TeamIndia will play its 100th test against Australia …

Sachin Tendulkar extended a Christmas greeting to all his Twitter followers on Friday and posted a video of the former Indian cricketer wearing a Santa Claus outfit. Tendulkar wished his fans Merry Christmas in the video. The video was accompanied by the message “Merry Christmas everyone! Christmas has always been …

When Ajinkya Rahane last captained India in a test against Australia in March 2017, he was in that phase of his career where he could do little wrong. Thrown into the lead in the final deciding game of an intensely contested series following Virat Kohli’s injury, the Mumbai player led …

India vs Australia, 2nd test: After taking a beating at the hands of Australia in Adelaide, India’s back is against the wall as they attempt to square the 1-1 series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the site of the second round of the 2021-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy that begins December 26, …