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Give Gautam Gambhir and Indian Test team time but home defeats point to larger problem, says Yuvraj Singh | Cricket News

Give Gautam Gambhir and Indian Test team time but home defeats point to larger problem, says Yuvraj Singh | Cricket News

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4 min readUpdated: Apr 3, 2026 08:15 PM IST The Indian team deserves more time to get into the groove in Test cricket considering it remains a relatively inexperienced side but their losses at home shows the players need to play more domestic cricket, said former all-rounder Yuvraj Singh. India have been on a stunning run in white-ball cricket, winning two T20 World Cups and a Champions Trophy on the trot. However, that run has coincided with India’s dominance in Test cricket at home ending in spectacular fashion, suffering whitewashes to New Zealand and South Africa. “A few of our senior players retired and in India, for tackling spin and winning Tests, you have to play more domestic cricket,” said Yuvraj on Sports Tak. “We are not getting out to spinners who are absolutely world class. They are not in the same league as Shane Warne, Muralidharan, Harbhajan, Ashwin or Anil bhai. We need to improve our game against spin and that will happen only when we play more domestic games.” Yuvraj said that he …

Can Virat Kohli find his mojo against New Zealand at his RCB home base in Bangalore ahead of Australia series? | Cricket News

Can Virat Kohli find his mojo against New Zealand at his RCB home base in Bangalore ahead of Australia series? | Cricket News

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Virat Kohli bristled towards the practice nets. He scanned the skies to feel the sun, ran his fingers through the trimmed grass, greeted the groundsmen, shook hands with the curator and eyed the net bowlers haggling to bowl first at him. The setting was familiar: Chinnaswamy Stadium is perhaps more home than a home away from home, his association with Royal Challengers Bangalore turning 18 next year. The lack of hundreds would be tossing uneasily somewhere in the innards of his mind—the drought-ending hundred in Ahmedabad did not stir a hurricane but rather a breeze, a mean of 49 runs in 12 innings. He is riding a curious phase where he has not been as emphatic as he had been in his 2014-2019 pomp, a four-year span wherein he was the emperor of all he surveyed, but has not been as miserable as he had been from mid-2019 to early 2023 slump. He has been hitting the in-between frequency. Some of his contemporaries have been catching a second-wind in their careers, Joe Root for one. …

IND vs BAN, ONE CATCH: Yashasvi Jaiswal’s stunner at gully to remove Zakir Hasan, deja vu to Chennai | Cricket News

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The batter was same. As was the fielder who nabbed him. As it was in the final innings of the Chennai Test, Zakir Hasan’s innings came to an end courtesy of a Yashasvi Jaiswal catch. And as it was in Chennai, the Indian opener produced a stunning effort at gully to remove his Bangladesh counterpart. There were minor differences between both takes, that highlighted his all-rounded ability of fielding in the cordon. At Chepauk last week, Jaiswal had leaped to his left to complete a one-handed off an outside edge induced by a Jasprit Bumrah away-swinger from over the wicket. A perfect delivery to lure the batter into a drive followed by a perfect grab to finish the job. In Kanpur, it was Akash Deep who trapped the southpaw. A delivery that came into the left-hander from an angle round the wicket before straightening as it pitched from a good length and caught an outside edge. Jaiswal pounces like a panther to take the catch! 👌#INDvBAN #JioCinemaSports #IDFCFirstBankTestSeries pic.twitter.com/cfg394XfMm — JioCinema (@JioCinema) September 27, 2024 …

Steve Smith sings high praises of Jasprit Bumrah: ‘Arguably the best fast bowler across three formats’ | Cricket News

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Jasprit Bumrah once again led the Indian bowling attack from the front in the 280-run win against Bangladesh in the first of two Tests. With a 376-run lead in the first innings, Bumrah snapped a 4-fer and now boasts 164 wickets off 37 games. Australia’s seasoned batter Steve Smith has applauded the Indian pace spearhead for his consistency, naming him arguably the best bowler across formats. “He’s a wonderful bowler, whether I face him with the new ball, slightly older ball, or even the old ball. He’s got great skills with all of them. He’s a great bowler, arguably the best fast bowler across the three formats. It’s always going to be a challenge,” Smith told Star Sports. Smith and Bumrah are set to lock horns in the much anticipated five-match Test series between India and Australia in the upcoming summer Down Under. It will be Bumrah’s third Test series in Australia. Over his past two tours, the right-arm quick has 32 wickets over seven Tests and has been part of the squads that won …

Cerebral and patient: How R Ashwin baited Mushfiqur Rahim, Shadman Islam and Mominul Haque on a pitch with no help for spinners | Cricket News

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At 1 pm even as several hundreds of fans were making a delayed entry into the MA Chidambaram Stadium after spending long hours in queues to pick daily tickets, India sprung a surprise with the timing of their declaration. With a lead of 514, they definitely had enough on board when Rohit Sharma called back Shubman Gill and KL Rahul at 287/4 in the second innings. Few had expected India to declare then as the pitch hadn’t shown any signs of listening to their bowlers. Maybe, India believed even if they delayed it by an hour or so, it wasn’t going to make much of a difference. Maybe, they wanted to have a go at the Bangladesh batsmen after tiring them out on the field. In the first innings, on what was the best day for batting, Indian bowlers had overcome extreme heat conditions to take control. But for them to close out the match now, they needed to toil hard. It wasn’t going to come easy on this pitch, which hasn’t undergone as much …

Why Shreyas Iyer is living on borrowed time in the England series | Cricket News

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Kevin Pietersen was raging. “Listen, when Kohli comes back and other guys come back [KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja] and these are the days these boys are going to look back and go, ‘oh why did I not get a hundred? I had the opportunity to get the hundred’. And when you are sloppy like that, getting out doesn’t impress me at all,” the former England batsman, and now television pundit, fumed after the first innings in the second Test at Vizag. His anger was directed at India’s No.4 for the game Shreyas Iyer Now, even without Virat Kohli playing, but the “other guys” returning, the pressure is still on Iyer. Luckily for him, his contender Rajat Patidar didn’t make it count either and the shootout between the two for a spot in the team when the third Test swings into action in Rajkot on February 15 will be interesting. With Rahul’s return, India might want the more overtly aggressive Iyer in the mix but you never know. That it has come to this is …

The only thing the IND-ENG Test series has been missing is Kohli vs Anderson, says Nasser Hussain | Cricket News

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Former England captain Nasser Hussain believes the ongoing five-Test match series between India and England has reached an exciting juncture. With England having won the first Test in Hyderabad, the hosts came back into the contest with a 106-run win in Visakhapatnam earlier this week. But despite it being at level pegging, there has been one notable absence in the series, Hussain noted in a recent chat with Daily Mail – the absence of India’s talismanic batter Virat Kohli, and his contest with England’s star seamer James Anderson. “I hope he does come back because the only thing this series has been missing is the battle between Kohli and Jimmy Anderson. I’m looking forward to that,” Hussain told the English daily. Over the years, Anderson and Kohli have had riveting duels in the red-ball format. Kohli’s first Test series in England in 2014 saw Anderson dish out his fabled pearlers and remove the Indian batter four times, conceding a mere 16 runs off the 50 deliveries he bowled to the first time touring batter. Four …