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It’s a series both India and Australia would have loved to go into with their best possible XIs. But that hasn’t been the case. Australia have been plagued by injuries to their champion pace duo of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. For…

NEW DELHI: Team India vice-captain KL Rahul reckons that you can never ever predict how the pitch will play but there is a "temptation" to play three spinners in the first Test against Australia, beginning on Thursday, specially when you…

A Test series in India invariably boils down to the spinners. The last time the subcontinental giants lost a series at home, to England in 2012-13, spinners Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar wreaked havoc.India took their lessons from that…

White Ferns all-rounder Amelia Kerr has some mixed emotions about the wickets she's played on since arriving in South Africa for the T20 World Cup. Amelia Kerr Photo: PHOTOSPORT As a spinner, she's smiling... however as a…

NEW DELHI: Washington Sundar scored a fighting maiden T20I fifty but could not stop hosts India from suffering a 21-run defeat against New Zealandat JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi on Friday. With the victory, New Zealand took…

New Zealand’s Devon Conway celebrates after scoring century during the second one-day international cricket match between Pakistan and New Zealand, in Karachi, Pakistan. | Photo Credit: AP New Zealand's spinners strangled Pakistan on a…

NEW DELHI: Victoria uncapped off-spinner Todd Murphy was included in the 18-man squad as Australia kept their bowling options wide open with four spinners and six quicks for the upcoming four-match Test series in India. The squad, announced…

West Indies great and former skipper Brian Lara has laid bare the difficulty in facing two of the greatest spinners the sport has seen – Shane Warne and…

Saud Shakeel registered his maiden test century but Pakistan's lower-order collapse left the second test against the Black Caps evenly poised in Karachi. Ajaz Patel has three wickets in Pakistan's first innings. Photo:…

KARACHI: Saud Shakeelregistered his maiden Test century but Pakistan's lower-order collapse left the second Test against New Zealand evenly poised at Karachi's National Stadium on Wednesday.The hosts, replying to New Zealand's…