New Delhi: India and Australia will play the Border-Gavaskar Trophy of 4 Test matches. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is very important in terms of the World Test Championship final especially for the Indian team.

Although Australia’s participation in the World Test Championship final is almost certain, Team India’s place is not yet confirm.

The Indian team will go on the field with the intention of making it to the World Test Championship final by winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

The Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia will begin on February 9. The first match of the four-Test series between the two teams will be played in Nagpur from February 9.

At the same time, the Indian team has reached Nagpur. Apart from this, the Australian team has come to India. However, today the coaching staff members of the team including Usman Khawaja will arrive in India. Actually, Usman Khawaja could not come to India with the team due to lack of visa, but today he will reach Bangalore.

If you look at the World Test Championship points table, the Australian team is at the top. While the Indian team is at number two. Australia is expected to play in the World Test Championship final, but Team India is getting tough competition from teams like Sri Lanka and South Africa, but if the Indian team manages to beat Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy of 4 Test matches, then the Team led by Rohit Sharma will reach the World Test Championship final.

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Dubai: India and Afghanistan will face each other in the Asia Cup 2022 in the UAE today. Both teams are out of the race for the Asia Cup final. In such a situation, this match will be the last match of the tournament for them. Both teams would like to end their journey with a win here.

In the Super-4 round, India and Afghanistan have lost to Pakistan and Sri Lanka. All four matches of this round were very interesting. Especially the Afghanistan-Pakistan match on Wednesday crossed all limits of excitement. After Pakistan’s victory in the same match, Afghanistan and India were out of the race for the final. Now both teams will go to the field to save their reputation.

On the other hand, Afghanistan is also in great rhythm. In wednesday night’s match, they came close to winning over Pakistan despite scoring just 129 runs. Afghanistan have strong bowlers like Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazal Haq. Then this team also has strong T20 batsmen like Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaj.

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New Delhi: KL Rahul will be the captain of the Indian team’s tour of Zimbabwe. Actually, KL Rahul is running out of Team India due to injury, due to which it was not decided whether Rahul will be the captain or not, but now the BCCI has made it clear that KL Rahul will be in the role of captain on the Indian team’s tour of Zimbabwe.

The Indian team will play a series of 3 ODIs with the hosts on this tour. KL Rahul will be the captain of the Indian team on this tour, while Shikhar Dhawan will be in the role of vice-captain.

The first ODI between India and Zimbabwe will be played on August 18.

The second ODI will be played on August 20 while the last ODI will be played on August 22. All the matches of this series will be played at the Harare Cricket Ground. The India vs Zimbabwe series match will start at 12.45 pm IST.

Many senior players, including captain Rohit Sharma, are not part of the team.

At the same time, regular players like captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya and fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah will not be part of the Indian team for the Tour of Zimbabwe.

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New Delhi: England defeated India by 17 runs in the last match of the T20 series. However, team India won the series 2-1.

India lost the third and final match of the T20 series at Nottingham by 17 runs. In this match for Team India, Suryakumar Yadav scored a whirlwind century. However, the Indian team could not win. But Team India captured the three-match series 2-1.

In the final match, England had set a target of 216 runs in the last match. In reply, the Indian team could only score 198 runs.

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London: After the defeat in the fifth Test, the Indian team has also suffered a big blow in the World Test Championship Points Table. Due to the slow over speed in the Test match, India has suffered a loss of 2 points, due to which the Indian team has now come fourth in the points table. Apart from the cutting of points, India has also been fined 40 per cent of the match fee.

It has benefited the Pakistan which is now at number three. In such a situation, now if Team India has to reach the final now, then it will have to win all its remaining Test series. Currently, India’s team has 52.08 percent points while there are 75 points.

Pakistan’s team has benefited from this and is now at number three. Pakistan is yet to play a 2-Test series against Sri Lanka. In the World Test Championship, Pakistan has 52.38 win percentage points and a total of 44 points.

In the fifth Test match played at Edgbaston, England defeated India by 7 wickets to draw the series 2-2. India had given England a target of 378 runs, which England achieved by losing 3 wickets. This is England’s biggest run chase in the history of Test cricket. During England’s innings, Joe Root played an unbeaten innings of 142 runs while Bairstow remained unbeaten on 114 runs.

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New Delhi: South Africa defeated India by four wickets in a T20 match here on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. South Africa captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and elected to bowl first. The Indian batsmen had to face a lot of difficulties while facing the South African bowlers and the team could only manage 148 runs for the loss of six wickets.

Meanwhile, Shreyas Iyer top-scored with 40 and Ishan Kishan scored 34 off 21 balls. Similarly, Katrik scored 30 off 21 balls while Harshal Patel scored 12 runs in 9 balls and remained unbeaten. In reply, South Africa scored 149 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 18.2 overs and won the match.

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New Delhi: The All-India Senior Selection Committee has picked an 18-member squad for the upcoming Paytm T20I and Test series against Sri Lanka. Team India are set to play three T20Is in Lucknow and Dharamsala and two Tests in Mohali and Bengaluru respectively.

India’s T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Deepak Hooda, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Avesh Khan.

India’s Test squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Priyank Panchal, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Shubhman Gill, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), KS Bharat, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, R. Ashwin (subject to fitness clearance), Kuldeep Yadav, Saurabh Kumar, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Mohd. Shami, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain).

Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli have been rested for the third and final T20I against West Indies and the T20I series against Sri Lanka. They have exited the team bio-bubble in Kolkata.

KL Rahul and Washington Sundar are yet to fully recover and were not available for selection for the Sri Lanka series.

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New Delhi : Vice-captain KL Rahul and all-rounder Axar Patel have been ruled out of the upcoming three-match T20I series against the West Indies to be played in Kolkata from 16th February, 2022.

Rahul sustained an upper left hamstring strain during fielding in the 2nd ODI on 9th February 2022 while Axar has resumed the final stage of his rehabilitation after recently recovering from Covid-19. They will now head to the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for further management of their injury.

The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Ruturaj Gaikwad and Deepak Hooda as replacements.

India’s T20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Surya Kumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Mohd. Siraj, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Deepak Hooda.

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