India’s 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season could define the next generation of Test cricketers. With the BCCI directive ensuring top players’ participation, all eyes are on emerging fast bowlers, batting contenders, and a shift toward livelier pitches.
IPL trophy (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) The BCCI has officially unveiled the schedule for the second phase of the Indian Premier League 2026, confirming fixtures from April 13 to May 24.The remaining league-stage fixtures, comprising 50 matches, will be staged across 12 venues in India. These include Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad,…
Will Sawai Mansingh Stadium continue to remain a home base for Rajasthan Royals? Even though the Jaipur-based franchise has ‘in principle’ agreed to play its game at the iconic ground, it has written to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council seeking clarity over unresolved…
Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, and Axar Patel took a break as the rest of the Indian team hit the ground running less than two days after its famous Asia Cup triumph, for the first of the two Tests against the West Indies, here on Tuesday. With the squad members, including skipper Shubman Gill and head…
Ishan Kishan always looks like a man in a hurry. Back in the national team this series, after a hiatus, the flashy southpaw didn’t let the early dismissal of the openers curb his natural attacking instincts as he flayed a 32-ball 76 (11×4, 4×6) to power India to a dominant seven-wicket win in the second…
A confident and all-round Indian side, unbeaten so far in the ICC U-19 World Cup 2026, will be an overwhelming favourite against Afghanistan in the second semifinal in Harare on Wednesday. India, led by Ayush Mhatre, has had a great run in the tournament, having won all five of its matches, including most recently against…
Shaheen Afridi (ACC Photo) NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi was at his lethal best in his team’s do-or-die Super Four clash against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, picking up three crucial wickets in a must-win encounter that kept Pakistan’s Asia Cup 2025 hopes alive.After the match, a reporter asked Shaheen…
