Former India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin on Friday compared wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant at par with England’s Joe Root and Australia’s Steve Smith as the best batters in the last seven years, when batting has become “significantly difficult and averages have decreased.”
Australia batting great Ricky Ponting believes young Sam Konstas has a long way to go if he is to cement his place as a Test opener, and added that playing two matches against India would have given him a lot of learnings.
In the aftermath of India’s 3-1 series loss to Australia that led Rohit Sharma’s men to concede the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade, former India batter Manoj Tiwary criticised current national team head coach Gautam Gambhir, terming him a ‘hypocrite,’ and went on to suggest that the ex-India opener doesn’t does not walk the talk.
With unprecedented attendance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and India, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting asserted that it's hard to argue that the rivalry between the two teams isn't the biggest in world cricket.
Despite India ending up losing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1-3, ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting believes that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s exploits are not only the best he’s seen of a visiting bowler in Australia but probably also the best fast-bowling display of all time.
It was a time overshadowed by the Indian Premier League, when all our geese were swans preening and turning heads, out there in the middle or on the dance floor after the hurly-burly was done.
Root's unbeaten 118 not out, his 30th century in Test cricket, was the stand-out contribution on a surface that offered little for the bowlers
Once may be bad luck, but twice in a row should be cause for introspection. As India’s loss to Australia in the World Test Championship final sinks in, certain facts are evident.
India will lose all of their match fees for slow over rate and Australia would face h fine of 80 per cent of their match fees
There are several places where IPL teams have popped up ~ in South Africa, they make up an entire competition of Twenty20s ~ and well might they have deemed owning the players made eminent sense. They wouldn’t lose sleep if Test cricket found itself cut loose from its talent pool, its best boys away in Timbuctoo or Papua New Guinea playing shorter matches for bigger gains. They’d like to see the conventional game squeezed into a corner no one notices.
