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7Feb

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Working hard on my skills and focussed on being consistent: Prasidh Krishna | Cricket News – Times of India

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Recovering from a quadriceps injury incurred during India's tour of South Africa, fast bowler Prasidh Krishna is diligently working towards enhancing his consistency and broadening his skill set for the future.Having made his debut in India's two-Test series in South Africa, Prasidh struggled to find his rhythm in red-ball cricket, leading to his exclusion from the ongoing England series. Currently undergoing rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy, the Bengaluru-based bowler is focused on honing his abilities to ensure improved performance in the upcoming challenges."I am working on my skills on being consistent and doing better for the side," Prasidh told PTI on sidelines of a promotional event.Asked what are the areas he would be working on as he already is na...

29Jan

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South Africa’s Dean Elgar claims Virat Kohli once ‘spat’ on him during Test series

[ad_1] Former South Africa captain Dean Elgar has claimed that former India captain Virat Kohli once ‘spat’ on him during a Test series. Elgar said that the incident happened during the first Test at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali during South Africa’s tour of India in 2015. The four-match Test series was part of a lengthy series that also contained five ODIs and three T20Is. After winning the first Test by 108 runs, India had gone on to sweep the series 3-0 with one match being drawn. “Those wickets were jokes. Like playing on that… that surface there. And I came into bat and I was actually like holding my own against (Ravichandran) Ashwin and what’s his name Jeja (Ravindra Jadeja) (smiles) and Kohli, he like spat at me,” Elgar said on “Banter, with The Boys” podcast. “I said to him ...

14Jan

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In aftermath of the Cape Town rapid-fire Test, former Australia captain Ian Chappell bats for trimming down format to four days

[ad_1] Former Australia captain Ian Chappell, who played as many as 75 Tests, is batting in favor of trimming the longest format of the game from five to four days, a necessary move born out of “a lack of competitiveness” among a lot of Test playing teams. “Discussion is gaining momentum for four-day Tests in the wake of five-day games lasting slightly longer than a 50-over match. There are valid arguments about the increasing costs and for the introduction of four-day Tests, but why isn’t the tardy pace of play being addressed?” Chappell scathed in his recent column for ESPN Cricinfo. Even though the former cricketer and broadcaster was all praise for the aggressive tactics deployed by Ben Stokes and England to make the game more entertaining, Chappell conceded that the problem at hand ...

7Jan

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‘Haven’t won ICC trophies…Test team has been one of best traveling teams: R Ashwin reacts to Vaughan’s ‘underachieving cricket team’ comments

[ad_1] After getting thrashed in the first Test in Centurion, India made a resounding comeback in the second Test in Cape Town. The performance has again been a testament to the side’s improvement in overseas conditions in the last decade and unshakable belief that the group can return from adverse situations. However, the side has been constantly criticized for not being able to win an ICC trophy since 2013. Since the Champions Trophy wins in England, India has struggled to add another trophy to the cabinet. Though they have reached the knockout stages of these ICC competitions, they could not go that extra step to add silverware. Former England cricketer Michael Vaughan recently said India was the “most underachieving cricket team.” Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, reacting t...

6Jan

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Rohit Sharma has a point but India has too much mud on hands from pitch tinkering

[ad_1] After winning the one-and-half-day Test in Cape Town, Rohit Sharma allowed some righteous anger to kick in. At the press conference after the series was drawn, he expressed the angst that Indian cricketers have lived with for long. Rohit called out those who credited Indian pitches for the team’s incredible home record.Rohit said that if a Test in India had got over on Day 2, all hell would have broken loose. He wasn’t afraid to point at the ICC’s double standards towards spin and the sub-continent. The Indian skipper made a strong plea: We should be allowed to prepare pitches that suit us and the visiting teams shouldn’t start floating conspiracy theories if it starts turning on the first day. Didn’t the ball jump at batsmen from a good length at Newlands from the first hour? On ...

5Jan

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‘Don’t think Steve Waugh is going to care…everybody outside South Africa become experts’: Test coach Shukri Conard

[ad_1] South Africa sending a weakened squad to New Zealand for a two-match Test series and preserving the majority of their first team to play SA20 has created a lot of commotion in the cricketing world. Australian legend Steve Waugh was critical of the decision and said, “If I was New Zealand, I wouldn’t even play.” South African Test coach Shukri Conrad, after a loss to India in the 2nd Test in Cape Town, responded to the remark. “I do not think Steve Waugh is going to care what I say, but I love how everybody outside South Africa has become experts on South African cricket,” he said, as quoted by ESPNCricinfo. “Our hand has been forced. Everybody understands the SA20 has to happen. SA20 has to happen because it is the lifeblood of South African cricket. If it does not happen, we are ...

5Jan

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‘This has to be right up there’: Rohit Sharma compares IND vs SA Cape Town Test win to famous Gabba victory

[ad_1] On Thursday India created history by winning their first Test in Cape Town to level the two-match series after getting thumped in the first match in the Centurion. India’s overseas performance stock has gone up quite sharply in the last decade. Rohit Sharma in his press conference after the victory would compare the win to the famous Gabba victory in Australia. “This has to be right up there (Gabba win) because we had not won here. That shows how important a venue this is for us to come here and perform,” Rohit said. In the 2020/21 Border Gavaskar trophy Indian side was severely handicapped by the injuries of players from the starting eleven. The team was humiliated in Adelaide and the skipper Virat Kohli has flown back to India for personal reasons. Against all the odds young I...

4Jan

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One-and-a-half days, 107 overs: India win shortest Test in 90 yrs, draw series with South Africa

[ad_1] IN THE end, it felt like a win-win for both teams. Indian captain Rohit Sharma roared like he has seldom done in the past when the match-winning and series-levelling hit came in the second Test in Cape Town. There was the relief of not losing the series but the 1-1 result also meant that South Africa still remained Indian cricket’s “last frontier”. As for South Africa, they too had reasons to celebrate. Dean Elgar, their most pugnacious batsman of the last decade, was retiring after this game.India was humbled in the first Test but would, at least, leave South Africa without being embarrassed, and also with a slice of history, registering their first Test win in Cape Town after trying for years. A game that was done and dusted in one-and-a-half days, that lasted just 107 overs — l...

4Jan

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South Africa’s Dean Elgar bows out with ‘amazing memories’ | Cricket News – Times of India

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Dean Elgar may have ended his Test cricket career as a losing captain, but the Proteas reflected on it as a significant journey filled with incredible memories.The 36-year-old opener bid farewell after a Test that will be etched in history as the shortest ever in terms of balls bowled.Despite his remarkable 185 in the series' first Test against India, Elgar's final appearance saw him scoring only four and 12 in a match that ended with the tourists clinching victory by seven wickets, leveling the series.In a candid admission, Elgar acknowledged his wrong call of opting to bat on Wednesday, which led to a stunned South African team being dismissed for a mere 55 runs."I would have liked to do more in this game," he said at the post match presentation ceremony where he was ...

4Jan

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India vs South Africa: In a heartwarming gesture Rohit Sharma presents Dean Elgar with signed Indian jersey

[ad_1] With the close of the second Test in Cape Town comes the end of Dean Elgar’s illustrious Test career. The southpaw has had his mark on the Proteas team, especially in the red-ball format. Appreciating his services for the Test game, the Indian skipper, during the post-match presentation, would give a signed Indian jersey to the gritty opener. “Such an important player for SA, very gritty, we appreciate that. I’d like to wish him the best. A brilliant career, best wishes ahead,” Rohit would say after the game when asked about Elgar. Elgar and Jasprit Bumrah were awarded the Player of the Series. “Still very proud of my performance that I had in Centurion. Finally on the board there in the hundred club. Nice to contribute to a winning cause. Some really tough batting conditions thr...

3Jan

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India vs South Africa, Cape Town Test: Lessons from 23-wicket Day – How not to bat in Tests

[ad_1] What’s the best thing to have happened to India on a day when they lost 6 wickets for zero runs? That South Africa batted worse in their first innings to be shot out for 55 and had yielded a 98-run lead on a dramatic day’s play that could prove the difference in the end. South Africa continued their woeful ways in the second, losing three wickets and trailing by 36 runs. The pessimists would identify this run-difference to India’s total from that Pink ball Test during the 2020 Australia tour, but surely India can’t implode again?The day, however, was perfect to rant about the falling standards of Test batting. First, there was Pakistan’s shenanigans on a flat track pre-dawn in Australia before a tailender rescued them. This was followed by South Africa’s implosion in the afternoon...

3Jan

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Carnage in Cape Town as India become first team to lose six wickets without scoring in Test cricket

[ad_1] At 153/4, India looked in a promising position on Day 1 of the Cape Town Test. The bowlers had bundled out South Africa for 55 and with a near hundred run lead, the visitors had Virat Kohli (46) in the middle alongside last game’s centurion, KL Rahul. Which is when the lightning struck. Six wickets off 11 deliveries with not a single run added on the board. For the first time in a single Test innings, a team had lost as many wickets without scoring any run. “If someone went round the corner for a DUMP and has come back, India has been bowled out for 153,” former India captain Ravi Shastri would sum the chaos up on the commentary. It’d start with Lungi Ngidi claiming three wickets in one over, removing Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah. In the next over, Kagiso Rabada woul...

3Jan

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Simple and cerebral: How Mohammad Siraj took 6 for 15 to bowl out South Africa for 55

[ad_1] “Remember how we batted against Australia and England,” Rohit Sharma would remind in the immediate aftermath of the bruising at Centurion. He didn’t place the bowling in that memory frame then – they too had leaked over 400 runs on a bowler-friendly surface – but they certainly reminded everyone, least of all the South African batsmen, what venom they are capable of. In particular, their top 2 – Mohammad Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah, who pitched in new-ball spells that would stay in the mind for long as they wiped out South Africa for 55 in the first innings.In the time to come, a highlights package might show a couple of spectacular kickers, but it was the underlying plan – refreshingly simple and yet very cerebral – that should be cherished after the profligacy in Centurion. It had ...

3Jan

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India vs South Africa 2nd Test: Watch SA’s fall of wickets in 55 all out as Siraj runs through the lineup in an incredible opening session

[ad_1] It was a dream start to the new year for the Indian Test team in Cape Town, after 2023 ended on a nightmare note with an innings defeat at Centurion. After winning the toss and opting to bat, South Africa were shot out for just 55 in an innings that ended before lunch was taken on the opening day of the second Test on Wednesday. The wrecker in chief was Mohammed Siraj who got on a roll in an incredible opening spell as he claimed his best Test figures, with South Africa’s batters lasting just 23.2 overs. South Africa’s total was its lowest since being readmitted to the test arena in 1991. Siraj took 6-15 in a stunning nine-over burst as the Proteas collapsed before lunch. It was his third five-wicket haul in his 23rd test, and his first against South Africa. His previous best was ...

3Jan

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WATCH: Virat Kohli hints Mohammed Siraj where to bowl, the pacer follows and claims Marco Jansen to nab 5-fer

[ad_1] South Africa batters came and went as the Indian seamers did a demolition job on Day 1 of the Cape Town Test, removing the hosts for a mere 55 in the first innings. Leading the slaughter was Mohammed Siraj, who produced the third best bowling figures by an Indian bowler in Tests in South Africa, finishing with 6/15 off his nine overs quota as the Proteas fell to the lowest total against India in Test cricket. Amongst his wickets were Aiden Markram, Dean Elgar, Tony de Zorzi, David Bedingham, Paul Verreynne and Marco Jansen. The left-arm South African quick, who’d notched up his best ever Test innings – 84* – in Centurion last week fell victim to a caught behind dismissal off Siraj. One that was hinted to the bowler by Virat Kohli from the first slip. In the lead up to the wicket, ...

3Jan

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India’s simple new bowling plan: How Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah reduced South Africa to 15 for 4

[ad_1] India’s bowling plan was refreshingly simple and yet very cerebral after losing the toss at Cape Town. It had the remnants of India’s 2021 triumph in Australia but with an attacking twist: attack the leg-side game of the two most successful left-handers in the previous Test, and keep it simple to the right-handers. Against Australia, it was initially to test out the batsmen’s strengths and patience (like Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne’s), keeping them tied with a packed on-side field. Here, they gunned for the left-handers with a more attacking approach to actively pursue a dismissal. That open-chested predator Mohammed Siraj had a leg-slip, a deepish short-leg very square (Rohit Sharma had himself stationed there) and kept peppering Elgar. #MohammedSiraj finds the first brea...

2Jan

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Rohit Sharma on CSA opting for SA20 League over New Zealand series: ‘We don’t have these problems…Test cricket is something we all have to protect’

[ad_1] Indian captain Rohit Sharma shed concern over Cricket South Africa (CSA) fielding an inexperienced team for the three-match Test series against New Zealand starting next month, with their top players prioritizing SA20 League over the longest format. “For me, Test remains ultimate challenge and we would like to see best players playing that format but everyone has own problems to deal with and make sure there is a reason behind it,” Rohit said in the press conference ahead of the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town on Wednesday. “I don’t know what the reason is (for SA not picking senior players) and in Test cricket you want to see best players being available but like I said I don’t know what internal discussions are in CSA but from my perspective, the priority should be...

2Jan

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IND vs SA, 2nd Test: Will Ashwin and Jadeja play together? Will Mukesh Kumar or Avesh Khan make their debut?

[ad_1] With the Table Mountain in the background, India have an uphill task of mounting a comeback in the second and final Test against South Africa in Cape Town. Having been outplayed across all departments in Centurion, they face plenty of questions with regards to their team combination and balance. Here are the talking points: In both the innings at Centurion, India’s batting unit failed to cope with the bounce and seam movement. In conditions where they were supposed to be compact and tight, they were guilty of failing to do the basics. Given this is a batting unit that is in transition, India will not be seeking reinforcements unless they are forced because of anybody’s unavailability. So in that case, Abhimanyu Easwaran will spend another game warming the bench. So where to expect...

2Jan

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South Africa vs India: Can Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill step up during Cape Town Test?

[ad_1] India’s tours to South Africa are like primetime soap operas without the endless drag. They all look and feel the same. Just the names and characters change. The latest trip is unfolding like the nine others to the country. The usual themes have played out—lost opportunities, false hopes and swift implosions, the pain numbed somewhat by stirring individual performances. A twist here, a tweak there, the script takes the much-trodden route. So just replace Sachin Tendulkar’s Centurion masterclass with KL Rahul’s virtuosic hundred at the same venue; just erase Javagal Srinath’s name and scrawl that of Bumrah. Instead of Durban 1996 read Centurion 2023.Now, they reach Cape Town, a venue that evokes the splendor of nature as well as bitter memories. Twice have India landed in the Weste...

2Jan

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I’d change my technique to copy Virat Kohli, and if that failed I’d try copy Rohit Sharma: David Bedingham

[ad_1] South Africa’s David Bedingham reveals he used try and copy the technique of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in his teen years and call the Indian batsmen as his favourites by a country mile. Bedingham, who scored a fluid 56 in Centurion said growing up his crickeing heroes were Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis but it was Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma who fascinated him during his teenage years. “Definitely Herschelle Gibbs. Jacques Kallis was from my school [Wynberg Boys’ High] … or, I was from his school. So I tended to watch those two,” he told reporters ahead of the second Test in Newlands. “My two favourites among Indian players are Sharma and Kohli. I think when I was between 13-18, I was trying to mould my technique like theirs (Kallis and Gibbs) and when I had a bad game, ...