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 In what comes as good news in Australian camp, all-rounder Cameron Green is making a quick recovery from his index finger injury and has an ‘outside chance’ of making it to playing XI for the first Test against India, starting in Nagpur from February 9.

 The Hero ISL 2022-23 season is almost at the end of its league stages and the schedule for the knockouts are out. A new format is introduced this year with chances given to more number of teams to reach the final. Where does the tournament stand at the moment. Explained in details. Watch the video to know more.

 Australian test captain Pat Cummins on Saturday said his team will be better prepared going into the test series against India. Watch Pat Cummins press conference in Bengaluru

India’s Test rivalry with Australia was barely worth talking about in the 20th century. All that changed in 2001, when an unforgettable series came to life partly because of a war of words in the media. For close to 150 years, one rivalry – the Ashes contested by England and Australia – has defined Test cricket. For a couple of decades, the Frank Worrell Trophy contested by West Indies and Australia was equally fierce, and South Africa’s return from post-Apartheid isolation saw the resumption of their heated contests against Australia. Indian cricket didn’t really have anything comparable in the…

 The WHITE FERNS arrived in Cape Town today ahead of their first official ICC T20 World Cup warm-up match against West Indies on Monday. Chat with former Cape Town resident Bernadine Bezuidenhout.

 The Indian cricket team’s preparations have been boosted by the addition of four net bowlers to the squad for the upcoming Test series against Australia. Unsurprisingly, all four are spin bowlers. Saurabh Kumar (29), a left-arm spinner from Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Chahar (23), a leg-spinner from Rajasthan, and R Sai Kishore (26), a left-arm spinner representing Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Gujarat Titans in the IPL, have been selected to join the squad. Washington Sundar, a regular in India’s white-ball teams and who last played a Test match against England in March 2021, has also been included in…

 Will a top hockey coach join on probation, G Rajaraman wonders. India needs to find order amid chaos



 Indian cricketer Joginder Sharma, who was part of the team that defeated Pakistan by five runs to win the first T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2007, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Friday. In the final match in Johannesburg, Sharma was entrusted with the responsibility of defending a target of 13 runs in the last over, with Pakistan’s final pair of Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Asif on the field. Despite the pressure, Sharma managed to hold his nerve as Misbah attempted a scoop shot, only to mis time it and have S. Sreesanth make a…

— Souvik Naha Atul Mukherji, the editor of the Khelar Asar, was a first division cricketer when West Indies came to play a Test series in 1948–49. Equipped with 20 rupees given by his maternal aunt, he went to CAB Secretary Amarendranath Ghosh’s (A. N. Ghosh) house at Mango Lane in central Calcutta where Ghosh personally sold tickets. The ticket covered both the Test and the match against the Governor’s XI. Mukherji bought one. He was told before leaving, ‘come back should you need more tickets’.58 Twenty years later, during the India–Australia Test match in 1969, around 20,000 people queued…