Australia’s Captain Pat Cummins and teammates celebrate the team’s win in Melbourne. (ANI Photo) Australia defeated India by six wickets in the fifth Test in Sydney on Sunday, securing their spot in the World Test Championship final against South Africa. This victory also marked Australia’s first series win against India in a decade. The WTC…
Border-Gavaskar Trophy 24/25 (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Australia secured a six-wicket victory in the fifth and final Test against India in Sydney, clinching the series 3-1 and securing their place in the World Test Championship final. The match concluded on the third day, with India being dismissed for 157 in their second innings, adding only…
Australian team celebrate the dismissal of Rishabh Pant on Day 2 of the SCG Test in Sydney. (Getty Images) Australia re-claimed the historic Border-Gavaskar Trophy after clinching the fifth and final Test of the series by 6-wickets at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. With the triumph at SCG, Australia also qualified for the World…
India’s Rishabh Pant during the Sydney Test. (AP Photo) SYDNEY: Fifteen wickets, the series’ most successful bowler leaving the stadium with an ambulance escort, a freak fifty and probably a legend’s final outing on Australian soil.Day 2 of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Test was absolute theatre and there was not a single passage of…
Mitchell Starc of Australia (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) Fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been named in Australia’s XI on Thursday for the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India, starting Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground, despite carrying a rib niggle. The left-arm pacer will lead the attack alongside Pat Cummins,…
NEW DELHI: Legendary Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday angrily expressed his disapproval of Rishabh Pant‘s shot selection during a critical moment on the third day of the Boxing Day Test. A fuming Gavaskar had slammed Pant for his ramp shot that got him out, labelling it as ‘stupid’.For Gavaskar the Pant shot was driven by ego…
NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar Reddy rescued India with a maiden Test hundred against Australia in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.The hundred by Nitish at No. 8 came when India needed someone to stay at the crease. Nitish Kumar Reddy’s family reacts to his maiden Test century at MCG Having…
Virat Kohli. (Pic Credit – X) NEW DELHI: Modern-day great Virat Kohli may be struggling in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, but former Australian batter and head coach Justin Langer still regards him as the best batter he has ever witnessed.Kohli’s resilient innings ended in disappointment late on Day 2 of the fourth Test at…
NEW DELHI: Ravi Shastri likened Australia’s teenage sensation Sam Konstas to Indian legend Virender Sehwag following Konstas’s electrifying debut knock of 60 off 65 balls in the fourth Test against India. Speaking on Star Sports, Shastri praised Konstas’s fearless stroke play, drawing comparisons to Sehwag’s explosive style. “He’ll have his odd failures, but when he…
Australia’s Travis Head bats on Day 1 of the fourth Test between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. (AP) The fourth Test match between Australia and India got underway on Thursday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with the series locked at 1-1. Both teams are now striving to catch up with South Africa…