Big Picture – Will India hand Rinku a debut? Think twice before you call it a low-key, out-of-place series. Jasprit Bumrah, returning to international cricket for the first time in 11 months, is the obvious headline-grabber, but this series will also give several India players the chance to push themselves into the reckoning for next

Where does Ishan Kishan fit in to India’s ODI jigsaw if KL Rahul is not ready in time for the Asia Cup? This will be one of the big decisions the team management and the selectors face when they pick India’s Asia Cup squad later this week. Kishan has scored 425 of his 694 ODI

Shaw made a big impact in his limited outings with the team, recording two hundreds in four innings, including a 244 off 153 balls against Somerset, the second-highest List A score in England. He recorded scores of 125*, 26 and 34 in his other three innings to become the leading run-getter (429 runs) after four

As the final steps in their road back from injury to the Indian team, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer are now taking part in match simulations at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. This process will culminate in a couple of practice games for them, as they make their way back from a thigh

India are placing a high value on having a wide array of bowling options in T20I cricket. So, despite the risks involved, they went in with four No. 11s in each of the five games against West Indies. The resulting lack of batting depth has been a big talking point and it appears the team

“If you see, we lost that period post ten overs since I came [in to bat],” he said in the post-match presentation. “I think I was not able to capitalise [on] the situation and took my time and was not able to finish. I think the boys really played well. I think, at that period

Toss India chose to bat vs West Indies Hardik Pandya called correctly and an unchanged India elected to bat in the series-deciding fifth T20I in Lauderhill. Rovman Powell, his West Indies counterpart, said he would’ve wanted to bowl first anyway, which means both teams got what they wanted. Asked about his call to bat first,

Pakistan have long viewed Babar Azam as their biggest global sports star, and the admiration is shared across the border by Virat Kohli, who called Babar “probably the top batsman in the world”. In an interview with Star Sports last year, Kohli spoke of his relationship with the Pakistan captain, and revealed that they had

Madhya Pradesh fast bowler Kuldeep Sen, who made his international debut in December last year, is set to play for Tamil Nadu in the 2023-24 domestic season. It is understood that Kuldeep has been cleared by the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) to turn out as a guest player for Tamil Nadu. Kuldeep has taken

Big picture – India, West Indies look at the long term After losing the first two T20Is, India kept the five-match series alive with a thumping win in the third. While, in the long run, the result of this series will matter little, India are looking to try out personnel for the 2024 T20 World

It’s a debate that didn’t seem settled before and after the 2019 World Cup, and there is a serious danger of India’s No. 4 conundrum carrying over to the 2023 World Cup too. Unlike last time, when the selectors had a late change of mind over personnel, injuries have played a part this time around

India’s first-choice players will not be going to the Games in Hangzhou next month, with the World Cup starting soon after; instead, the BCCI named a second-string squad for the Games, led by Ruturaj Gaikwad. On four previous occasions when first-choice players were unavailable, rested or engaged in a concurrent series elsewhere, Dhawan had taken

India opener Shubman Gill has reached a career-high fifth place in the ICC men’s player rankings, following his exploits in the recently-concluded ODI series against West Indies. Gill, who scored 126 runs from three matches including a match-winning 85 in the series decider, rose to 743 rating points and is now within touching distance of

Suryakumar Yadav feels there is “no shame” in admitting that his performance in ODIs has been “really bad” and that he wanted to find a way to succeed in the 50-over format. He has played 26 ODIs so far and averages only 24.33, though his strike rate is 101.38. Suryakumar made scores of 19, 24

India 164 for 3 (Suryakumar 83, Tilak 49*, Joseph 2-25) beat West Indies 159 for 5 (King 42, Powell 40*, Kuldeep 3-28) by seven wickets A sublime 44-ball 83 from Suryakumar Yadav, peppered with boundary shots all around the park, kept India alive in the T20I series against West Indies – the scoreline now reads

Just five days after announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket on social media, Manoj Tiwary has reversed his decision, saying that the original decision had been an “emotional” one, and that he will “come out of retirement and play for Bengal for one more year”. Seated with Cricket Association of Bengal president Snehasish

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur has called for more women’s Tests as well as a resumption of long-duration domestic cricket in India. Harmanpreet, 34, is broadly representative of the top-level women’s cricketer of her time in how many games she’s played in each of the three formats: only three Test matches to go with 127 ODIs

Big Picture – Can West Indies seal the series? West Indies, 2-0 up with three T20Is remaining, have the chance to win their first series of two or more matches against India, in any format, since 2016. They also have the chance to complete back-to-back T20I series victories for the first time since 2017. If

Daniel Vettori has replaced Brian Lara as the head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. Vettori was previously head coach at Royal Challengers Bangalore, from 2014 to 2018, and is currently working as the assistant coach with the Australia men’s team. The latest update means Sunrisers will have a fourth head coach in six

Tilak Varma has started his international career in fine fashion, clearly India’s best batter in the first two T20Is against West Indies on tricky pitches in Tarouba and Providence. India lost both games, but Tilak played his part well, with help from Rahul Dravid and Hardik Pandya. “I have been with Rahul sir since the

West Indies 155 or 8 (Pooran 67, Pandya 3-35, Chahal 2-19) beat India 152 for 7 (Tilak 51, Joseph 2-28, Shepherd 2-28) by two wickets West Indies beat India in back-to-back T20Is for the first time since 2016, thus giving themselves every chance of triumphing over India in a T20I series (two games or more)

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has requested the BCCI to move the England vs Pakistan ODI World Cup game, scheduled to be played at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens on November 12, to another date, suggesting November 11 as an alternative. The development came after the city police informed CAB that they are expecting enhanced security

After winning the first of five T20Is against India on Thursday, Rovman Powell said that West Indies’ batting against India’s spinners in the middle overs will hold the key to the outcome of the series. “It was difficult,” Powell said of West Indies’ slowdown in the middle overs – they went from 54 for 2

Hosein, who was back from the Major League Cricket tournament in the USA, had set the tone for West Indies by taking out Ishan Kishan in the powerplay. The left-arm fingerspinner then returned to finish with outstanding figures of 4-0-17-1, including 14 dots. Holder, Obed McCoy and Shepherd all took pace off the ball to

Former India batter Manoj Tiwary has retired from all forms of cricket, ending a 19-year domestic career. Tiwary played all his domestic cricket for Bengal and also won the IPL with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, when he hit the winning runs in the last over of the chase. He played 12 ODIs and three

Big picture: IPL heroes vs CPL stars Though West Indies failed to qualify for the main event of the last T20 World Cup – and the upcoming ODI World Cup – their T20I side seems to be in better health than their ODI and Test teams. Either side of the T20 World Cup’s first round

For Shardul Thakur, making an impact in the game – irrespective of discipline – matters most. And along the way, if it helps deliver victory – even if he isn’t always at the forefront – he’s most satisfied. Like in the just-concluded ODI series against West Indies, where he was the highest wicket-taker with eight

The changes to the schedule, two months away from the ODI World Cup, come after the original schedule was already extremely delayed. It was finally released by the BCCI and the ICC at the end of June just 100 days before the start of the tournament. In comparison, the fixtures for the 2019 World Cup

50 overs India 351 for 5 (Gill 85, Kishan 77, Pandya 70*, Samson 51, Shepherd 2-73) vs West Indies Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson scored half-centuries of different styles to set the platform for a tall India total in the series-deciding third ODI in Tarouba. Gill’s was measured, Samson’s breathtaking and Kishan’s somewhere

Rustom Cooper, the former Indian cricketer, has died at the age of 100 years and 229 days. He was the oldest living first-class cricketer at the time of his death. Born in Bombay on December 14 1922, Cooper turned 100 last December. He had played 22 first-class matches between 1941 and 1951, scoring 1205 runs