Armed with multiple match-winners, India will look to continue their excellent build-up to the forthcoming World Cup when they face England in the potentially series-deciding second and penultimate women’s ODI in London on Saturday (July 19, 2025). India won the opener at Southampton by four wickets, and a victory at Lord’s will give the visitors … Read more
Ravindra Jadeja is seen during a practice session ahead of the fourth Test in Beckenham on July 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI India head coach Gautam Gambhir led the chorus of praise for experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, describing his heroics in the Lord’s Test against England as an “incredible fight”. Jadeja remained unbeaten on … Read more
Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah during a training session at Beckenham on Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI Jasprit Bumrah spent quite a bit of time at the gym, but did not bowl as India had a long practice session at the Beckenham county ground on Thursday. While it raised questions on whether he would be available … Read more
The clock had just ticked over to 1.46 p.m. on a warm Friday afternoon when Jamie Smith, the England wicketkeeper-batter, edged Mohammed Siraj to substitute wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel. In itself, it was a significant moment in the third Test. Smith had been a thorn in India’s side in both preceding Tests, had been dropped by K.L. Rahul at second slip … Read more
India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal at a training session in Beckenham on Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI Some foot-tapping music at the gym, some banter and a lot of laughter – there were plenty of sunshine moments during India’s training session on a rather cloudy and gloomy Thursday at the Beckenham County ground. Resuming training after … Read more
Eagerly waiting: Kuldeep will be keen on making a mark with the series on the line. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO As India trained at the Beckenham County Ground on a cloudy Thursday morning, after a two-day break, Kuldeep Yadav bowled to Karun Nair and Abhimanyu Easwaran in one of the nets for about an … Read more
Deepti Sharma feels that Indian team is on the right track as far as preparations for the upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup are concerned but wants to focus on the ongoing England series as the marquee event is still two months away. | Photo Credit: Reuters Deepti Sharma feels that Indian team is on the … Read more
England’s Ben Stokes celebrates with Joe Root after taking the wicket of India’s Nitish Kumar Reddy in the third Test at Lord’s on July 12, 2025 | Photo Credit: Action Images via Reuters Ben Stokes’ lengthy bowling spells against India in the third Test shows the England all-rounder has full confidence in his body after … Read more
Amanjot Kaur celebrates after hitting four runs to win the match, with Deepti Sharma. | Photo Credit: Reuters Deepti Sharma showed enormous composure with an unbeaten half-century that powered India to a comfortable four-wicket victory in the opening women’s ODI against England. The dress rehearsals for India’s 50-over World Cup started in earnest as a … Read more
West Indies’ Andre Russell plays a shot during a cricket match. File | Photo Credit: AP Two-time Twenty20 World Cup winner Andre Russell will retire from international cricket at age 37 after the second T20 match against Australia on July 22 in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, Cricket West Indies (CWI) said on Wednesday. All-rounder … Read more
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that England’s run-rate in the Lord’s Test against India was well under its usual lofty standards. Ever since coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes joined hands in June 2022, the Englishmen’s run-scoring graph has seen more crests than troughs. It was a different England that set out … Read more
Tough going: India is winless in its nine Tests at Manchester, with four losses and five draws. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO From playing a Test match under the leadership of the Maharaja of Vizianagram, back in 1936, to Sachin Tendulkar scoring his maiden international century — the Old Trafford has seen some of the … Read more
Bumrah has been the standout bowler for India. | Photo Credit: PTI Jasprit Bumrah has never played a Test match at Old Trafford, but it’s now that India needs him the most. As the team heads to Manchester, trailing 1-2 in the five-match series, the think tank has a tough task at hand as it … Read more
Harmanpreet Kaur. File | Photo Credit: Action Images via Reuters England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and elected to bat against India in the first women’s ODI here on Wednesday (July 16, 2025). England had lost the preceding five-match T20I rubber 2-3. Teams England: Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones (wk), Emma Lamb, Nat Sciver-Brunt (capt.), … Read more
England captain Ben Stokes leaves the field with his team after winning the 3rd Rothesay Test Match between England and India at Lord’s Cricket Ground on July 14, 2025, in London, England. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The England cricket team slipped a rung to third position in the World Test Championship table on Wednesday … Read more
File picture of former West Indies player Viv Richards Only a day after West Indies endured one of its worst performances in nearly a century of playing Test matches, the president of the Caribbean cricket board was looking to the past to improve the future. WICB president Kishore Shallow on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) said … Read more
The experienced Zoravar Singh Sandhu asserted his expertise by shooting a series of 24, 25, 24 for the third-best score of 73 after three rounds of trap in the Shotgun World Cup in Lonato on Friday. With two more rounds of qualification left on Saturday, Zoravar could aspire for a final berth with a strong … Read more
Jofra Archer of England celebrates dismissing Washington Sundar of India caught and bowled during Day Five of the 3rd Rothesay Test Match between England and India at Lord’s Cricket Ground on July 14, 2025, in London, England. | Photo Credit: Getty Images After missing four years of test duty due to injury, England speedster Jofra … Read more
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has picked Rishabh Pant’s dismissal in the first innings and Karun Nair’s wicket in the second essay as the key moments that tilted the third Test at Lord’s in England’s favour. England registered a narrow 22-run win to go 2-1 up in the five-match series, bowling India out for … Read more
The India Under 19 team was held to a tense draw after England Under 19 captain Hamza Shaikh led from the front with a fighting century on the fourth and final day of the first Youth Test here. Chasing a stiff target of 350, England ended on 270/7 in 63 overs, frustrating the visitors’ push … Read more
Lord’s was hot, and seeing Ben Stokes virtually bowl himself into the ground was tiring just watching from the stands. It was a final day tempered with the heat of Stokes and treated with the ice of Ravindra Jadeja. Exhaustion is not a feeling, it is a physical state; yet at the end of the … Read more
The Indian recurve men’s and women’s teams’ campaign ended early after they lost their respective second-round matches at the Archery World Cup Stage-4 here on Thursday. On the previous evening, B. Dhiraj and Ankita Bhakat emerged as the best Indians in individual qualifying rounds. The results: Recurve: Qualifying round: Individual: Men: B. Dhiraj (13th, 674), … Read more
Grandmasters R. Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh Chithambaram, five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand, GMs Karthikeyan Murali and M. Pranesh at the launch of Chola Chess, in Chennai on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran After he won the Uzchess Cup Masters by the end of last month, R. Praggnanandhaa became the World No. 4 (Elo 2779) in the … Read more
Karun Nair has yet to register a fifty in the series. | Photo Credit: PTI Karun Nair landed in England with the hope of reviving his Test career. A dominating domestic season meant he got one more chance to prove his mettle at the highest level. But three matches into the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, Karun has … Read more
Gower reckons several smaller boards have struggled to keep the Test format going. | Photo Credit: Shayan Acharya Former England captain David Gower believes the World Test Championship (WTC) format is ‘inevitably flawed’ because it does not offer an event contest among the teams. According to him, while the tournament adds some context to the … Read more
File picture of Yash Dayal in action for Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Photo Credit: PTI The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) stayed the arrest of cricketer Yash Dayal in connection with an FIR against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman. The court also directed that no coercive action be taken against … Read more
England captain Ben Stokes revealed that bowler Jofra Archer thought that Sourav Ganguly’s iconic shirt-swinging on the Lord’s balcony was just six years to the day of the final day of the third Test against India on Monday (July 14, 2025). England defeated India by 22 runs in a close contest, thanks to a dream … Read more
Cricket’s much-hyped return to the Olympics at LA Games will take shape at the Fairgrounds Stadium in the city of Pomena — about 50km from Los Angeles — from July 12, 2028 with the medal matches scheduled on July 20 and 29, 2028. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockPhoto Cricket’s much-hyped return to the Olympics at … Read more
Riding high on confidence after scripting a historic T20I series win over England, the Indian women’s team will aim to carry the momentum into the three-match ODI series, beginning in Southampton on Wednesday (July 16, 2025). The ‘Women in Blue’ made history by clinching their first-ever T20I series against England, taking the five-match series 3-2. … Read more
England off-spinner Shoaib Bashir ruled out of the reminder of the five-match Test series against India due to finger fracture. | Photo Credit: Getty Images England off-spinner Shoaib Bashir was on Monday (July 14, 2025) ruled out of the remainder of the five-match series against India after he sustained a finger fracture during the third … Read more