(Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Cricket Australia revealed on Thursday that an unprecedented number of more than 6,000 Indian supporters made the journey to Australia for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series.The five-match contest, which saw Australia secure a 3-1 victory and regain the trophy after ten years, was intensely fought between the two cricket…
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council has given a ‘satisfactory’ rating for the seamer-friendly, grassy pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the fifth and final deciding Test of the recently-concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Cricket Australia informed in a media release on Wednesday. The match saw Australia beat India by six wickets inside three days. With their…
MUMBAI: Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar has criticised the seamer-friendly pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) for the final Test of BGT, which saw Australia beat India by six wickets inside three days. Vengsarkar wants ICC, which conducts the World Test Championship, to take charge of Test match pitches, just like it does in…
Jasprit Bumrah (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Hampered by a back spasm, Jasprit Bumrah must have been itching to take the field and rattle the Australian batters. He sat visibly frustrated in the dugout as Australia chased down 162 runs on a challenging pitch at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground.When Beau Webster stepped down the track…
Former cricket stars Ravi Shastri and Ricky Ponting have praised the record-breaking attendance at the recent five-match Test series between India and Australia. They suggested this rivalry might now surpass the Ashes in significance.Australia triumphed 3-1, ending India’s decade-long dominance of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The series attracted a remarkable 837,000 spectators across the five Tests….
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…
Jasprit Bumrah (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah didn’t take field when Australia came for the chase on Day 3 of the fifth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In his absence, Mohammed Siraj opened the attack for India. India were dismissed for 157 in their second innings, setting Australia a 162-run…
Sunil Gavaskar. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar launched a scathing attack on the critics who always question Indian pitches following a dramatic second day of the fifth Test at the SCG where 15 wickets tumbled.“If 15 wickets fell [on one day] in India, all hell would have broken loose….
Jasprit Bumrah (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India pacer Prasidh Krishna provided a major update on star pacer Jasprit Bumrah at the end of Day 2 of the fifth and final Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. Krishna, who claimed three wickets, said that Bumrah had suffered a back spasm.Bumrah was forced to…
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…