Daily Cricket News Highlights: India Squad For Last Two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy Announced

West Indies kept their slender semifinal hopes alive with a nail-biting three-run win over Pakistan in a last-ball finish in the Women’s T20 World Cup here on Sunday.

West Indies (-0.601), who have played all their group matches and are on four points, can still qualify for the semifinals if India (+0.205), also on four points, lose to Ireland by a huge margin, denting their net run rate and Pakistan, who are on two points also go down to England.

Bidding to build on their win over Ireland, the Windies opted to bat and posted a below-par 116-6 at Boland Park.

Former Australia cricketer Mark Waugh got into a heated exchange with India commentator Dinesh Karthik and the whole affair was caught on air. It all started to unravel pretty quickly for Australia in the middle as they lost their nine wickets within 90 minutes.

England captain Ben Stokes fired an Ashes warning to Australia after crushing New Zealand by 267 runs in the first Test at Mount Maunganui on Sunday, saying his team has got more firepower on the way.

England made it 10 wins from 11 Tests since Stokes was handed the captaincy and Brendon McCullum the coaching reins last year, introducing an attacking revolution that again proved decisive in the day-night Test at the Bay Oval.

Indian players visited the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya after the six-wicket win over Australia.

Indian team have outplayed and outsmarted nearly all of their opponents at home. The Indian side haven’t lost a single Test in Delhi in the past 36 years, and they have also lost 2 matches at home in last 44 Test matches at home.

Australian team, in a nice gesture, gave a signed jersey to Cheteshwar Pujara who was playing the hundredth Test match. This is a noble gesture by the Pat Cummins led side where the skipper himself handed the trophy to Pujara, a picture was shared on social media platform which is going viral.

Ex-Australia captain Ian Chappell feels Rohit Sharma-led India can very well complete a 4-0 clean sweep especially after taking 2-0 lead. India beat the Pat Cummins led Australia in Nagpur and Delhi within three days.

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Indian players visited the PM Sangrahalaya museum in Delhi. It is a special museum dedicated to the Prime Ministers of India.

Jaydev Unadkat is in line to play his 8th ODI match for India, after getting a recall into the ODI squad for the upcoming three-match series against Australia. The last time Unadkat played an ODI, it was back in November 2013.

Read more: ‘Hard Work Pays Off’: Fans Celebrate Jaydev Unadkat Getting ODI Recall After 10 Years

Neeraj Kumar, a former IPS officer who served as BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Unit Head between 2015 and 2018, has made some damning allegations in his book titles ‘A Cop in Cricket’. Neeraj claims that fixing is just the tip of the ‘huge iceberg’ of corruption in cricket.

Read more: ‘Players Cheated of Lakhs of Rupees by Coaches or Officials Who Promised Them Place in an IPL or Ranji Team’

After Australia lost 9 wickets in 93 minutes on Day 3 of the second Test against India, Michael Vaughan feared for the future of Australian side after the retirement of the likes of Steve Smith and David Warner.

Read more: ‘The Aussies Once Warner, Smith Retire Have Very Little Waiting in the Wings’: Michael Vaughan

Former Australia captain Allan Border thinks the Pat Cummins-led side panicked and none of their batters tried to defend.  “I’m disappointed, I’m shell-shocked, I’m angry about the way we went about our work today,” Border said on Fox Cricket. Read More Here.

The BCCI has said Rohit Sharma will be unavailable for the first ODI against Australia due to family commitments and allrounder Hardik Pandya will lead in his absence.

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, K L Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya (Vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umran Malik, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Jaydev Unadkat.

India’s Test squad for third and fourth Test against Australia: Rohit Sharma (Captain), K L Rahul, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat.

“Of late there has been lot of talk about his (KL Rahul) batting. For us as the management, we look at the potential of any individual, not just KL, and players with potential will get extended run,” Rohit Sharma. Read More Here.

While Rohit Sharma’s side remain in second place, their PCT climbed to 64.06% with 123 points from 10 wins. Read More Here.

A swift end to the 2nd Test. India spinners ran through Australia in the morning session to bowl them out for 113. And then India overhauled the target for a six-wicket win. Read More Here.

Jaydev Unadkat claimed a match haul of nine wickets, including 6/85 in the second innings, as Saurashtra thrashed Bengal by nine wickets in the Ranji Trophy final.

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