New Zealand may be the defending champions of the World Test Championship (WTC) but they will still be an underdog when they face India in a two-match series starting on November 25, batsman Ross Taylor has said. Taylor said that any team is an underdog against India at their home, regardless of what their ranking is…
India’s fielding has been the biggest positive to take out of their 3-0 T20I series win over New Zealand, captain Rohit Sharma has said. A 73-run win in Kolkata on Monday helped India complete a series sweep over the T20 World Cup runners-up in a series in which both sides rested a number of key players.…
Ravichandran Ashwin has made a “great comeback” to white-ball cricket and is an important wicket-taking option for India in the middle overs in T20 cricket, captain Rohit Sharma has said. Ashwin took three wickets in the two matches he played in the series against New Zealand. “It has been a great…
PV Sindhu fell to a tame straight-game defeat to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi in the semi-final of the Indonesia Masters on Saturday. The double Olympic medalist had a 12-7 head-to-head lead against Yamaguchi but was no match in Bali as she lost 13-21 9-21 in a match that lasted 32 minutes. Sindhu had earlier beaten…
Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has been staying in her own home “freely” and will make a public appearance “soon”, Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, a prominent state-media journalist, said on Saturday. Former doubles world number one Peng has not been seen or heard from publicly since…
India’s T20I captain Rohit Sharma joined the deluge of tributes flowing for former South Africa skipper AB de Villiers, who announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Friday. Rohit said that there haven’t too many cricketers who have had an impact on the game like De Villiers. De Villiers is…
Tim Paine would have been sacked as Australia Test captain three years ago over the sexually explicit messages he sent to a female colleague had the current leadership of Cricket Australia been in place, chair Richard Freudenstein said on Saturday. Paine quit the post on Friday after media revelations he had been…
England’s major cricketing bodies collectively apologised on Friday to all those who have suffered racism and discrimination in the game following former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq’s revelations about the abuse he encountered. Rafiq told a British parliamentary committee on Tuesday that he had suffered…
India fast bowler Harshal Patel said that AB de Villiers, with whom he shared a dressing room this season at Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League, told him how to reduce the number of big overs he tends to have. De Villiers retired from all forms of cricket on Saturday, making the 2021 season…
World number one Novak Djokovic and all other players will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to compete in the Australia Open next January, tournament chief Craig Tiley said on Saturday. Djokovic has declined to disclose whether he is vaccinated and said that he would wait until Tennis Australia revealed the…