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AHMEDABAD: Shifting his focus to the basics and a “special talk” with his teammate Royal Challengers Bangalore Villiers AB Helped the patron of India virat Kohli return to their best level in the second international T20 against England here on Sunday. SCOREKEEPERKohli, who did not have the best of times …

The management of the Indian team has decided to wear a metaphorical label of ‘explosive’. It is a brand of Cricket captain virat Kohli he wants his T20 team to play seven months later, in the T20 World Cup. As much as it keeps opponents wary, harboring explosives requires extremely …

India’s last mile on the way to the final of the World Test Championship (WTC), successive victories in Australia and against England at home, has seen the contributions of unlikely heroes who rescued the team from difficult situations. But most of them may not even appear in the WTC final …

News Says the hotel on site made the Ageas Bowl more viable than Lord’s, praises Dravid for the strength of the Bank of India BCCI President Sourav Ganguly revealed on Monday that the World Trials Championship final between India and New Zealand will take place in Southampton in June. The …

News England captain wants better shots, more points for a draw at the County Championship Joe Root has reiterated his call for changes to be made to county cricket to provide players with better preparation for international play. Root, England’s test captain, suggested that flatter terrain and a change in …

Like taking out the receptionist’s frustrations in wait times at A&E, blaming England’s individual players for their series loss in India might be understandable, but it’s largely easy. Of course, these results look ugly. And more than the results, the loss margins (317 runs, 10 wickets, and one inning and …

Time. Gifted hitters always seem to have more of that. On Friday, James Anderson threw a perfectly good ball to Washington Sundar: leaning from around the wicket, pitching at a good length, heading for the stump. Anderson had just fired Rishabh Pant, who had given him an absolute hammering during …

India crushed England by one inning and 25 runs to seal the series 3-1 and qualify for the WTC final.© BCCI India defeated England by one inning and 25 runs in the fourth and final Test to win the four-game series 3-1 and seal a spot in the final of …

There is audacity and lack of respect. Rishabh Pant was five years and 72 days old when James Anderson made his England debut. On Friday afternoon in Ahmedabad, Anderson, 38 years, 218 days old and bowling as usual, was 17-11-19-2 when he bowled with a second spotless new ball. Pant, …

The alarm sounds strident, but there is a hint of spring and a dash on the night of March. In Ahmedabad, however, there is little relief for England, groundhog on the scene of their two-day beating, the pitch turned, the sun set to shine and warm, 37 degrees at noon. …