India captain Rohit Sharma lauded his team’s calmness under pressure as they beat England in the T20 World 2024 semi-final comprehensively to secure a third straight ICC final across formats. On Saturday, India will play South Africa to try and break their 11-year trophy drought at a world event. “We’ve been very calm as a

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur believes playing in Chennai is a “great opportunity” for the side to get used to the conditions, given it could be one of the venues for the Women’s ODI World Cup next year. India’s women’s team last played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk in a Quadrangular series in 2007.

Match details England vs India, 2nd semi-finalGuyana, June 27, 10.30am local time Big picture – Adelaide redux All the best origin stories start from a point of intense trauma. England’s rise from their humiliation in Adelaide at the 2015 ODI World Cup has been well documented – the shedding of reticence and the embracing of

India’s captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of keeping the team environment normal and clarity of thought as they prepare to take on England in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2024 in Providence, Guyana on June 27. “See, we want to treat this game as another game that we have played

India are going into the one-off Test against South Africa on the back of successive white-ball series sweeps – T20Is in Bangladesh and ODIs vs South Africa at home – but head coach Amol Muzumdar believes there’s scope for improvement in every department for the team. “We do have the momentum – we won in

Moeen Ali believes that England will have to be at their best to beat India in their T20 World Cup 2024 semi-final, but hopes that they can draw on the 10-wicket thrashing they inflicted on the same opponents at the same stage in the 2022 tournament when they meet in Guyana on Thursday. England were

After stating publicly earlier this year that he would “never play for Andhra again”, out-of-favour India Test batter Hanuma Vihari is set to rejoin the association ahead of the upcoming domestic season. This after he was assured full support by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the state’s new ruling party. Earlier this month, Vihari was

If Rohit Sharma, the Player of the Match for his 41-ball 92 in India’s 24-run win over Australia in T20 World Cup 2024, had to “open up all sides of the field” to counter the breeze in Gros Islet, Arshdeep Singh said the bowlers had to prevent “the wind to come into play” to not

Rohit Sharma said he needed “to be smart” and “open up all sides of the field” to counter the strong breeze at the Daren Sammy Stadium in a Super Eight game of the T20 World Cup 2024 against an Australia bowling attack that tried to use that same breeze to make life difficult for him.

2.1Starc to Rohit Sharma, SIX runs Bosh, launched up and over! Full outside off and Rohit goes for broke over cover, gets a good chunk of it. First six of the innings 2.2Starc to Rohit Sharma, SIX runs Full, wide and clattered again! Rohit has become a free spirit at the top of the batting,

Dhruv Jurel has also been picked as the second wicketkeeper, his first call-up to the T20I squad after making his Test debut earlier this year against England. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson are the only two players from India’s T20 World Cup squad who are also travelling to Zimbabwe; all of the other World Cup

India 220 for 4 (Mandhana 90, Harmanpreet 42) beat South Africa 215 for 8 (Wolvaardt 61, Reddy 2-36, Deepti 2-27) by six wickets A Smriti Mandhana masterclass and Arundhati Reddy‘s sharp bowling helped India beat South Africa by six wickets in the third and final ODI and seal the series 3-0 in Bengaluru. Playing in

If Australia and Afghanistan win Three teams will finish on four points. If Australia win by a run, Afghanistan will need a 36-run margin against Bangladesh to move ahead of Australia on net run rate. If Australia win a run-chase off the last ball, Afghanistan will have to win their game in 15.4 overs or

After spending the group stage waiting in the wings, Kuldeep Yadav continued his run as Super Eight specialist, taking 3 for 19 in India’s comprehensive victory over Bangladesh in Antigua. Kuldeep has now taken five wickets across India’s two Super Eight matches, after picking up 2 for 32 against Afghanistan on Thursday in Barbados. India

Rohit Sharma is convinced that India’s batting approach against Bangladesh – of going hard from ball one – is “how we want to play”. “I’ve been talking about that for a long time,” Rohit said after India’s 50-run win against Bangladesh, which kept them unbeaten in the T20 World Cup 2024 with a semi-final berth

India are set to tour South Africa in November this year to play four T20Is. The matches will be played between November 8 and 15 across Durban, Gqeberha, Centurion, and Johannesburg. It is understood that these four T20Is were the ones postponed when India toured South Africa in 2021, the schedule of which was rejigged

Suryakumar and Hardik added 60 runs off 37 balls for the fifth wicket after coming together when Shivam Dube was dismissed, leaving India 90 for 4 in the 11th over. Three of those wickets were picked up by Rashid Khan. “Surya and Hardik’s partnership was very critical for us right at that point in time,”

India 181 for 8 (Suryakumar 53, Rashid 3-26, Farooqi 3-33) beat Afghanistan 134 (Omarzai 26, Bumrah 3-7) by 47 runs There were geniuses at play in Bridgetown, wearing the India blue as they cruised to victory in their first Super Eight game against Afghanistan in the T20 World Cup 2024. The pitch, once again, was

Former India fast bowler David Johnson has died at the age of 52. Known for his pace, Johnson came into the Indian side on the basis of some fine performances for Karnataka in the domestic circuit. He recorded figures of 10 for 152 against Kerala in the 1995-96 Ranji Trophy season. He made his Test

As this India leadership group starts its last two weeks at the helm, it is a good time to look back. Their biggest legacy will be dragging India towards modern limited-overs batting. Look at its biggest manifestation: Virat Kohli is a much better T20 batter while retaining qualities that made him an ODI great. In

Match details Afghanistan vs IndiaBridgetown, 10.30am local, 8.00pm IST, 2.30pm GMT Big picture – India vs Rashid Khan This January, these two teams produced one of the greatest T20Is ever – one that needed two Super Overs to produce a result – and that was when they were playing less-than-full-strength teams after the series had

Matthew Hayden feels that Virat Kohli‘s experience of assessing surfaces and adjusting to the variables in the Caribbean – India play at three different venues in the Super Eight – are more crucial than his lack of runs so far at the T20 World Cup 2024. Kohli has so far made scores of 1, 4

If you include the warm-up game, Shivam Dube spent 60 legal deliveries in the USA to hit his first six on the tour. This is a batter who has been hitting a six every eight balls or so in the IPL over the last year. In his T20 career overall, which includes times when he

Gautam Gambhir, the frontrunner to replace Rahul Dravid as India men’s head coach, has formally applied for the position and attended an interview on Tuesday, ESPNcricinfo has learned. Gambhir interacted with the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which is the panel entrusted by the BCCI to shortlist applicants. The BCCI, which had set May 27 as

Toss India chose to bat vs South Africa India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bat in the first of the three ODIs in Bengaluru on Sunday. The hosts handed debut to legspinner S Asha, who made her international debut at 33 in the T20I series against Bangladesh in May. Left-arm spinner

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur is all in favour of the points system in multi-format series, saying that it will make things “more challenging”. India’s home series against South Africa begins with the first of three ODIs on Sunday in Bengaluru, following which a one-off Test and three T20Is will be played in Chennai. The points

Match abandoned Canada vs India The T20 World Cup 2024 game between India and Canada was called off due to wet outfield. There wasn’t a lot of rain on the day – a passing drizzle – but the ground at Lauderhill had taken enough water on Friday when USA and Ireland had to settle for

Canada vs IndiaJune 15, Lauderhill, Florida, 10.30am local time Big picture: Rain threat in Florida Canada are facing their toughest test of the T20 World Cup as India aim to go into the Super 8 stage with a clean sheet, but the fixture is at the mercy of the weather in Florida. Friday’s game between

The weather may have a big part to play at the T20 World Cup 2024 over the coming days in Florida, where three Group A matches are scheduled over the next three days. A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida, including in Broward County where the venue

USA became the first team to be penalised according to the new stop-clock regulations put in place to speed up the pace of play in T20Is. They suffered the penalty – which is imposed if the fielding side fails to start the next over within a minute of the previous one ending thrice in an