Less than 10 months after lifting the T20 World Cup, the Indian team gears up for a fresh quest for another global title at the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, starting Wednesday. The marquee event will be played across three venues in Pakistan and one in Dubai.
India’s premier quick Jasprit Bumrah and Australia’s Mitchell Starc became the latest addition to the injured list dominated by pace bowlers ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, scheduled to begin on February 19.
The bowling talisman overcame fellow nominees Travis Head, Joe Root and Harry Brook to the title and is the fifth recipient of the award from India, after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
Ever since the BCCI senior selection committee announced the team for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, the Ajit Agarkar-led panel has come under the scanner for ignoring players who are scoring consistently in the domestic circuit.
This policy document follows a review meeting that the BCCI held on Saturday involving the board’s top brass and head coach Gautam Gambhir along with skipper Rohit Sharma and selection committee chief Ajit Agarkar, and lays out detailed logistical plans for players to follow. Here's what the ten points include.
The two-time World Test Championship runners up were looking pretty for a place at next year's final, until the consecutive slip-ups at home against New Zealand has left the door open for opposition sides.
Three years after being sidelined following an underwhelming campaign at the 2021 T20 World Cup, Varun Chakravarthy made an impressive return to the national team, picking three wickets to architect India’s seven-wicket win in the first T20I against Bangladesh in Gwalior on Sunday.
Indian women’s team pacer Arundhati Reddy has been reprimanded for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the women’s T20 World Cup Group A match against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday.
A 58-run loss in the women’s T20 World Cup lung opener against New Zealand isn’t the ideal start that the Indian team would have expected heading into Sunday’s high-octane Group A contest against arch-rivals Pakistan in Dubai.
Deep justified his selection by returning with two wickets in India’s 280-run win against Bangladesh in the opening Test in Chennai, and looked on course to cement his side for the second Test in Kanpur.
