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The fate of the rescheduled fifth Test between India and England in Birmingham is hanging by a thread after Team India skipper Rohit Sharma tested positive for COVID-19. The captain is currently recuperating from the virus in the team hotel where he has been placed under isolation. The Board of Control for Cricket in India […]

Virat Kohli and the remaining members of the Indian cricket team were back in action on Thursday, competing in a four-day warm-up fixture against Leicestershire, ahead of the rescheduled fifth Test against England. The match against the Three Lions was originally set to be played last year but due to a break-out of COVID-19 in […]

Former India Virat Kohli showed glimpses of his old form in the four-day warm-up game against Leicestershire on Thursday as he drove the ball beautifully through the covers and even hit a stunning pull shot of Prasidh Krishna for a six. The man who hasn’t scored a hundred in more than 100 matches across formats […]

It has been 89 innings across cricket’s three formats, a stretch of 951 days, since Virat Kohli last made a century. The wait for his 71st hundred seems to have become eternal. Remarkably, scoring a ton was once a habit for him as he reached three figures every seventh time he went out to bat. […]

Seasoned campaigner Cheteshwar Pujara has made a grand comeback into the Indian cricket team’s squad for the rescheduled fifth Test against England that will be played in Birmingham’s Edgbaston next month. The Rajkot-born cricketer was dropped from the Rohit Sharma-led side for the series against Sri Lanka in March, having performed miserably in the three-Test […]

India suffered a major setback to their chances of winning the Test series in England after their premier spinner Ravichandran Ashwin tested positive for COVID1-19 and missed his flight to the United Kingdom (UK) a couple of days ago, The Indian Express reported. Moreover, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) hasn’t made […]

Joe Root seems to be in the form of his life, having scored 10 hundreds in his last 22 Test matches. The former England captain looked sublime during his innings of 176 against New Zealand in the ongoing second Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. On Sunday, Joe Root swaggered through to his quickest century […]

Joe Root and hundreds go hand in hand these days. On Sunday, the former England captain cruised to yet another century – his 27th in Test cricket. Joe Root’s ton came on the third day of England’s second Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge. Joe Root has been in a rich vein of form […]

England talisman Joe Root has been backed to break Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time record of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. On Sunday, Root became the second England cricketer after Alastair Cook to reach the landmark of 10,000 runs in the longest format and former Australia captain Mark Taylor reckons that he could replace the […]

England talisman Joe Root scripted history at Lord’s on Sunday, becoming the joint-fastest to 10,000 runs in Test cricket. The ex-England skipper struck his 26th hundred in the longest format as the hosts beat New Zealand by five wickets in the first Test of the three-match series. Root breached the 10,000-run barrier in Tests at […]

Last year Joe Root became the fastest English batter to breach the 9000 run barrier in Test cricket. On Thursday, the ex-England skipper struck an unbeaten 77 in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s and is now on the verge of setting up a new world record in the […]

Former England captain Michael Vaughan and English cricket supporters have ripped into Jonny Bairstow after he was dismissed for a low score in the final innings of the opening Test match against New Zealand (NZ) at Lord’s. After the Kiwis set a target of 277 for the home team, England found themselves in trouble at […]

James Anderson made a stunning return to Test cricket as the veteran England paceman set Lord’s ablaze with his remarkable display of swing and seam bowling against New Zealand on Thursday. Anderson didn’t feature in England’s series loss to West Indies in the Caribbean and immediately made an impact on the game, having dismissed both […]

NZ vs ENG, Lord’s. It’s a new beginning for the England cricket. The Stokes-McCullum era is ready start with taking on New Zealand. English team is at the bottom of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023 table, while NZ is at number three. The last year, on the same day, NZ played ENG at Lord’s […]

ENG vs NZ, 2022 Test Series. Brandon McCullum is all set to take on his home side New Zealand as a coach of the England Test team. This is the beginning of a new era for England cricket. New Zealand-born Ben Stokes is set to lead the English Test side after Joe Root stepped down […]

The Cricket world hoped that Jofra Archer would come back to cricket after a long break, but the English pacer stress fractured his lower back. Hence, Archer’s injury saga continues. He will be missing the upcoming English summer season. Archer last played a List-A match against Oxfordshire on July 20, 2021. He bowled only six […]