Jasprit Bumrah and Rishabh Pant. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India pace spearhead and now captain Jasprit Bumrah is a nightmare not only for batsmen all over the world but also to his team’s wicketkeepers.Ahead of the second day’s play in the fifth Test between India and Australia in Sydney on Saturday, 7Cricket…
NEW DELHI: The opening day of the fifth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground was a spectacle of high drama, with Virat Kohli surviving a golden duck scare earlier in the day and the action culminating in a heated exchange between Indian skipper Jasprit Bumrah and Sam Konstas.The incident occurred when Australian opener…
Virat Kohli and Steve Smith during the fifth Test at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 03, 2025 in Sydney. (Photo by Philip Brown/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India lost openers KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal early after captain Jasprit Bumrah won the toss and opted to bat against Australia in overcast conditions and a grassy pitch…
FAR PAVILIONS: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma may be as alike as chalk and cheese, but their predicaments seem to bear a similarity in the twilight of their careers. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton/AFP via Getty Images) In Indian cricket, sentimental retirements have often masked larger issues of selection & form. Superstars have usually extended playing…
NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma faced wrath from fans and cricket pundits after he promoted himself to opening in the Boxing Day Test against Australia at MCG, a move that backfired miserably as the Indian captain’s woeful run with the bat continued.Rohit has struggled, making only 31 runs from five innings, with scores of 3, 6,…
Rohit Sharma walks back after being dismissed cheaply in the second innings at Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Getty Images) Melbourne: The number of runs Rohit Sharma has scored in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) so far is one more than the number of wickets (30) Jasprit Bumrah has picked since landing in Australia last month. Three Tests,…
Jasprit Bumrah (AP photo) NEW DELHI: An exhilarating fourth day’s play of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne on Sunday was topped off with a dramatic last over that saw India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah being denied a fifer despite an unusual and lucky catch taken by teammate KL Rahul. With the last wicket stand…
Nitish Kumar Reddy celebrates his maiden Test century (PTI Photo) Melbourne: It was an absolute theatre at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Saturday (28 December) when Nitish Kumar Reddy realised his dream. The dream of scoring his maiden Test hundred and it couldn’t have come at a better venue. In front of 83,073 fans,…
Rohit Sharma during the Boxing Day Test against Australia at the MCG. (Photo by Martin Keep/AFP via Getty Images) NEW DELHI: It appears that Rohit Sharma is at the end of his game. “Tough times for him,” the legendary Sunil Gavaskar said while on air with broadcasters ‘7Cricket’.“There will be a second innings and two…
Rohit Sharma (Getty Images) MELBOURNE: India’s morning-and-a-half at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Friday (27 December) felt like an endless drag. Not that we haven’t seen many under Rohit Sharma‘s captaincy already, but this one was a step ahead as the visitors just let the game slip away and had a terrible period with…
