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What Manav Suthar’s arrival does to Kuldeep Yadav’s chances in Test team

What Manav Suthar’s arrival does to Kuldeep Yadav’s chances in Test team

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Buried in India’s squad for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka, announced on Tuesday, was a familiar problem for Kuldeep Yadav, wearing a new face. Alongside the usual talking points, Jasprit Bumrah’s fitness, the continued backing for pace prospect Gurnoor Brar, sat the inclusion of a 23-year-old left-arm orthodox spinner named Manav Suthar. Since his Test debut in 2017, Kuldeep has played a mere 18 matches in nine years. A year ago, previewing a different tour, he spoke with the same quiet confidence conditions now warrant. Entering the World Test Championship cycle as India’s lead spinner ahead of the 2025 tour of England, he waved off any suggestion of added pressure. “It doesn’t create extra pressure. It is just normal,” he told The Indian Express, expecting the conditions there to favour spin. He did not play a single Test on that tour. Sri Lanka should not present the same problem. Its pitches genuinely suit wrist-spin, and left-handers dominate the top of the batting order, conditions closer to what he actually needs than England ever offered …

Latest Indian Test debutant Manav Suthar signs County Championship contract with Warwickshire

Latest Indian Test debutant Manav Suthar signs County Championship contract with Warwickshire

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2 min readJun 10, 2026 03:22 PM IST English County Club Warwickshire signed the latest Indian Test debutant Manav Suthar for the next two rounds of the ongoing County Championship season, the club announced on Wednesday. “Warwickshire County Cricket Club are delighted to announce the signing of Manav Suthar on a short-term contract. The Indian international will be available for selection for the next two rounds of the Rothesay County Championship,” confirmed Warwickshire in a statement. The rising Indian spinner will be available to feature for Warwickshire in their next fixture against Yorkshire in Scarborough from June 12, and then the following game against Somerset in Taunton in the following week. The left-arm spinning all-rounder made his Test Match debut for India last week in a one-off Test against Afghanistan, and announced himself on the international stage by taking six for 33 in the first innings and 1-29 in the second which won him the Player of the Match award in his debut game. He also became only the second Indian bowler after Amit Mishra to …

Manav Suthar very bright prospect, knew he would play for India: Sitanshu Kotak

Manav Suthar very bright prospect, knew he would play for India: Sitanshu Kotak

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4 min readUpdated: Jun 8, 2026 07:39 PM IST With his six-wicket haul in Afghanistan’s first innings, debutant Manav Suthar impressed all and sundry in the Mullanpur Test. India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak, who has spent time with Suthar at India A in recent years, lauded the left-arm spinner’s effort and said he knew that the 23-year-old would play for India one day. “He (Manav Suthar) bowled really well. Suthar is a very bright prospect and it was a great opportunity for him. He has been performing well at different levels in the last 3-4 years,” Kotak said at the press conference after India’s record innings win. “The way he bowled for India A, anybody would say he is very talented and consistent. Since I have seen him for a long time, I knew he would play for India.” Suthar’s figures of 6 for 33 were the third best by any Indian bowler in an innings on debut. Meanwhile, India’s victory by an innings and 300 runs on Monday surpassed their previous mark of winning …

Manav Suthar-Washington Sundar combine fashions India’s biggest innings win

Manav Suthar-Washington Sundar combine fashions India’s biggest innings win

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In the inevitable Afghanistan free fall that was bound to occur on the third day, India arrived at a result without overstretching the batting and bowling departments. With 14 wickets felled shortly after tea on Monday, Shubman Gill’s men also held time to rearrange the record books with India’s largest ever innings victory – by an innings and 300 runs. The new PCA Stadium’s subdued Test initiation also successfully soft-launched India’s bid to regain their sub-continental flavours before the World Test Championship (WTC) trip to Sri Lanka in two months. Adding onto the 412-run innings lead that they sucked out inside 20 overs in the morning would have meant a futile exercise in the heat. Having bundled the visitors at 152, Gill decided it was best to deploy his spin forces back on again, with a sprightly debutant and a poised off-spinner’s drifters muting the Afghan resistance. Ten minutes after he led his side off the field with a rare feat in his first Test match bowling innings, Manav Suthar was back on, this time …

Why does Irfan Pathan think Kuldeep Yadav might miss out IND vs AFG Test

Why does Irfan Pathan think Kuldeep Yadav might miss out IND vs AFG Test

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2 min readUpdated: Jun 3, 2026 02:12 PM IST India will take on Afghanistan in a one-off Test match in Mullanpur starting from Saturday. The squad includes four spinners: Washington Sundar, Harsh Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav and Manav Suthar. In the recent series, India preferred spin-bowling all-rounders over specialist spinners in home conditions. Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan said India will look to continue playing with a similar strategy, which could mean wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav misses out. “Absolutely copy-paste, except on one point, because the Indian team likes to bat till No. 8. That’s how they play. So maybe in place of Kuldeep Yadav, at No. 6, No. 7, and No. 8 – Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, and Washington Sundar,” Pathan said on the Follow the Blues show. “Harsh Dubey coming at No. 9 and then Gurnoor Brar and one of the fast bowlers, either Siraj or Prasidh Krishna, whichever way they want to go,” Pathan observed. “That focus will be there. When you play against Sri Lanka and other big teams, your experienced …

Why Jadeja was rested and Manav Suthar, Harsh Dubey picked for Afghanistan Test | Cricket News

Why Jadeja was rested and Manav Suthar, Harsh Dubey picked for Afghanistan Test | Cricket News

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In what was India’s first selection committee meeting since last October to pick the Test squad, the Ajit Agarkar-led panel showed what they have been doing consistently. To look at the future. With the one-off Test match against Afghanistan scheduled to start six days after the IPL ends, they took the safe call to rest Jasprit Bumrah. But the call to even hand an extended break to Ravindra Jadeja signalled the right intentions. In place of the ace all-rounder, who has been indispensable, the selectors have summoned Manav Suthar and Harsh Dubey, two left-arm spinners and capable batsmen, who can be groomed for the future. In Indian cricket, the word ‘rest’ may not be necessarily taken in a literal sense. But the communication of Agarkar & Co, have always been clear. Having not played a Test since South Africa gave them a hiding at home in November, India have ten big months coming up. Before they host Australia in January 2027, they have two important away series in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. While the …

In comeback to cricket, Rishabh Pant sports Virat Kohli’s jersey no 18, makes fans chuckle with one liners on stump mic | Cricket News

In comeback to cricket, Rishabh Pant sports Virat Kohli’s jersey no 18, makes fans chuckle with one liners on stump mic | Cricket News

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Rishabh Pant made him comeback to cricket with the India A side in an unofficial Test match against South Africa A after the foot fracture he suffered in the Test series against England earlier this year. Handed the captaincy of the India A team, Pant was the one who asked South Africa to bat first after winning the toss. Pant’s return to competitive cricket was surrounded by curiosity, as he took to the field sporting the jersey number 18 rather than 17, which is his usual number. The no 18 jersey is one sported by Virat Kohli who retired from Tests in May this year after a 14-year-long career. Pant’s return behind the stumps also means that the one-liners from the wicketkeeper were back. Story continues below this ad Here are some of the lines he was heard by the stump mic saying to his bowlers and fielders during South Africa’s first innings at the National Centre of Excellence ground in Bengaluru. WATCH: Rishabh Pant on stump mic Rishabh Pant is back & so are …