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Mohammed Shami flattens Roston Chase’s off stump © Getty Images Managing the workload of their fast bowlers is going to be key for India to win the World Test Championship, India’s captain Virat Kohli believes. After the win in Antigua Test, which made him India’s most successful captain in overseas Tests, Kohli spoke of the

3:00 AM ET Lunch India 297 and 287 for 4 (Rahane 90*, Vihari 57*, Chase 3-107) lead West Indies 222 (Chase 48, Ishant 5-43) by 362 runs India added 102 to their overnight score and only lost a wicket as they turned the screws further on West Indies. Their lead is now 362 and with

7:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Despite announcing his retirement from “all forms and levels” of the game in early July, Ambati Rayudu has clarified that he would “definitely be playing the IPL for Chennai Super Kings” next season and keep playing white-ball cricket. Rayudu, currently in Chennai playing the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association’s one-day league

7:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli often speaks about doing whatever it takes to win. He says that’s how he is able to bat on even when he is running on empty and the same philosophy had led to him fielding 38 different Test XIs at the start of his Test captaincy. It appears

3:00 AM ET Innings West Indies 222 (Chase 48, Ishant 5-43) trail India 297 (Rahane 81, Jadeja 58, Roach 4-66) by 75 runs Resuming their innings on 189 for 8, West Indies resisted for 15.2 overs on the third morning before getting bowled out for 222 and conceding a first-innings lead of 75. Their overnight

8:44 AM ET Former India captain Sourav Ganguly does not agree with the existing conflict-of-interest rule within the BCCI constitution, which supports the one-man-one-post concept. Ganguly, who was found to be breaching the rule recently, said the BCCI had to make the conflict rule more “practical” and allow people to perform multiple roles. Ganguly has

3:00 AM ET Lunch India 299 all out (Vihari 81, Jadeja 58, Roach 4-66, Gabriel 3-71) v West Indies What India’s top-order couldn’t do on the first day, their eighth-wicket partnership did expertly on the second morning of the first Test against West Indies. Ravindra Jadeja (58) and Ishant Sharma (19) frustrated the hosts for

5:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Reacting to the bottom-place finishes in two of the last three IPL seasons, Royal Challengers Bangalore has decided to sack the existing coaching staff led by Gary Kirsten and Ashish Nehra. In their place, the RCB management has appointed Mike Hesson as director of cricket with Simon Katich, the former

12:37 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India’s current batting coach Sanjay Bangar is likely to lose his job to Vikram Rathour, while bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar are expected to retain their positions for another two years. India’s selection panel shortlisted three candidates each for all the support staff positions with Rathour,

11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin‘s exclusion from India’s starting XI in the Antigua Test has left former captain Sunil Gavaskar stunned. This is now the fourth straight Test Ashwin has sat out of after missing the last three in Australia with injury. Ashwin did miss the first innings of the tour game with

2:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has indicated that India will go into the Antigua Test with the same combination that helped them pull off their first-ever Test-series win in Australia at the turn of the year. If this is the case, Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari will most likely be contesting the No.

12:21 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test match batting is in decline. Those are the words of India’s captain Virat Kohli in an age when pitches have become result-oriented and bowlers have raised their game several-fold. In just the last two years, various teams have suffered outrageous collapses. England were knocked over for 58 by New

11:39 AM ET Former England batsmen Mark Ramprakash and Jonathan Trott have emerged as high-profile candidates for the role of India’s batting coach as the BCCI interviews numerous aspirants to appoint support staff this week. The board has started the recruitment process to find batting, bowling and fielding coaches for the men’s team and the

7:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sreesanth, the one-time India fast bowler, can finally breathe a little easy after the BCCI reduced his IPL 2013 spot-fixing ban to seven years, the sanction period coming to an end on September 13, 2020. This comes five months after the Supreme Court of India “set aside” the BCCI ban

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Blue 112 for 6 (Gaikwad 30, Porel 3-26) drew with India Green The first match of the Duleep Trophy 2019-20 between India Blue and India Green was abandoned without Blue completing their first innings after being put in to bat. Persistent rain and a wet outfield at the Just

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 297 for 6 dec (Pujara 100 retired out, Rohit 68, Carter 3-39) and 188 for 5 dec (Vihari 64, Rahane 54, Frazer 2-43) drew with West Indies A 181 (Hodge 51, Ishant 3-21, Umesh 3-19) and 47 for 3 (Solozano 16, Jadeja 1-3) Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari tuned

1:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Umesh Yadav has dropped some way down the pecking order for India since the 2018-19 tour of Australia, the one-off appearance in a T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam in February 2019 his only outing in national colours since then. But now, back in the Test set-up in the Caribbean, Umesh

© Associated Press Vijay Shankar is set to return to top-flight cricket with the upcoming five-match one-day series against South Africa A in Thiruvananthapuram. The BCCI named two India A squads – one for the first three matches and another for the last two games – and Vijay was named in both of them, with

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 297 for 5 dec and 84 for 1 (Vihari 48*, Rahane 20*, Shepherd 1-3) lead West Indies A 181 by 200 runs A strong batting display on day one was complemented nicely by the Indian bowlers as they skittled West Indies A for just 181, earning themselves a 116-run

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 298 for 5 (Pujara 100 retired, Rohit 68, Carter 3-39) v West Indies A The nearly eight-month long break between India’s previous Test in Sydney and now seemed to matter little to Cheteshwar Pujara as he struck a hundred for India in the tour match against West Indies A,

5:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Overseeing a “smooth transition” and integrating youngsters into the national team is among Ravi Shastri‘s primary objectives as he looks ahead to the next 26 months of his coaching tenure. On Thursday, Shastri was appointed for a second successive term, with the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Kapil

12:46 PM ET Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which oversaw the reappointment of Ravi Shastri as head coach of the India men’s team, wants to have a say in picking his three assistants too. The CAC has written to the BCCI expressing its desire to be involved in selecting the batting,

9:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ravi Shastri will remain head coach of the India men senior team, with his new contract extending up to the 2021 T20 World Cup in India. The BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) spent all of Friday interviewing five candidates, with a sixth – Phil Simmons – pulling out of the

3:48 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India are gearing up to announce their next head coach. The BCCI is conducting meetings with six candidates, including the incumbent Ravi Shastri, and is expecting to make a final call on Friday evening. Three of the candidates were scheduled to make their presentations to the Cricket Advisory Committee led

1:16 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff VB Chandrasekhar, the former Tamil Nadu and India batsman, died in Chennai on Thursday. He was six days short of his 58th birthday. A TNCA official told ESPNcricinfo that he had died of a heart attack. A hard-hitting opening batsman, Chandrasekhar was a key member of the Tamil Nadu team

6:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Brendon McCullum is set to take over as head coach at Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming season, to go with his appointment as the head coach of Trinbago Knight Riders, the other team owned by the same group. Less than a week ago, it had been learnt that McCullum

9:58 PM ET Virat Kohli‘s performances in this series -120 and 114 not out in the second and third ODIs – can only be described as masterful. Both knocks were also the bedrocks of India’s innings. And on both occasions, he found able support in tricky situations from Shreyas Iyer, who added partnerships of 125

3:03 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has appointed the Cricket Association of Uttarakhand (CAU) as the representative body to run cricket in the state, ending a long-standing dispute in which four different associations (later three, with two of them merging) had pushed their claims to be in charge. The CoA order

3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies opt to bat v India For the first time in the white-ball leg of India’s tour of the United States of America and West Indies, Virat Kohli lost the toss, asked to field first by West Indies captain Jason Holder. The hosts need a win to level the ODI

3:00 AM ET Big Picture In the second ODI at Queen’s Park Oval, chasing 270 in 46 overs, West Indies needed 91 off 71 at one stage with six wickets in hand and a set batsman in Nicholas Pooran at the crease. Percentage cricket for a few more overs was perhaps the way to go,