Nayar joined the Indian team’s backroom staff after Gautam Gambhir took over as head coach in July last year while Dilip has been part of the set up since Rahul Dravid’s tenure, and was given an extension for another year.
Bringing back memories of the infamous match-fixing scandal that rocked the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2013, the Anti Corruption Security (ACSU) wing of the BCCI has reportedly alerted all stakeholders of the current edition of the lucrative league to keep a certain Hyderabad-based businessman at bay.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has deferred Saturday’s proposed meeting in Guwahati. The meeting was scheduled to finalise the annual central contracts for men’s cricketers.
The BCCI has awarded 16 contracts in all from the 17 they announced previously in April 2023.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Rajeev Shukla has said that the Indian government will take a call regarding the resumption of bilateral ties with Pakistan. He said BCCI will follow the decision by the government on this issue.
The 30-year-old Rahul has been out of action for a while with a sports hernia, with Covid-19 extending his stint on the sidelines
The 36-year old Dhawan, who had also led India recently and guided them to a 3-0 series whitewash in West Indies, will captain once again in absence of Rohit Sharma, who has been rested for Zimbabwe ODI's.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma was rested in the ODI series against West Indies but will be returning to the squad for the five-match T20I series starting from Friday. India won the ODI series as West Indies got clean swept with the score of 3-0.
In a video posted on July 26 by the BCCI on their Twitter account about T20I squad members like Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dinesh Karthik among others joining the ODI team in Trinidad, netizens were curious about where Rahul was.
While Dhawan fell three runs short of the century, Gill, who was named to the ODI squad for the first time since December 2020, played with a point to prove, scoring a magnificent 64 off just 53 balls.
