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The making of Shubman Gill the Test captain, through the eyes of coaches and a trainer
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The making of Shubman Gill the Test captain, through the eyes of coaches and a trainer

What caught India’s junior coach Abhay Sharma’s attention when he first saw a 14-year-old Shubman Gill was the consistency of his conduct. Shubman had hit eight straight centuries for Punjab but there was nothing about his demeanour to suggest that. “His behaviour remained consistent whether he scored 100 or 10. His mindset was excellent, he knew he was good but always wanted to improve,” Sharma says.Two years later, Shubman, now 16, was at Dharamshala in the middle of a net session with his talented Punjab junior team of that time. WV Raman, former India opener and reputed coach, was on the sidelines. Shubman was facing a variety of bowlers, one of them an express pacer. While judging a young batsman, Raman has relied on an old method. “What I look to see is the kind of time that he has w...
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Ayush Mhatre, Vaibhav Suryavanshi to headline India U-19 team for England tour; Check full squad for multi-format series
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Ayush Mhatre, Vaibhav Suryavanshi to headline India U-19 team for England tour; Check full squad for multi-format series

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced the India U-19 squad for the England tour. The youth side is scheduled to travel to England from June 24 to July 23 later this year for a multi-format series. “The Junior Cricket Committee has picked India’s U19 for the upcoming tour of England, scheduled from June 24 to July 23, 2025. The tour comprises a 50-over warm-up match, followed by a five-match Youth One-Day series and two Multi-Day matches against England U19,” read the statement released by BCCI. Mumbai sensation Ayush Mhatre, who was roped in by Chennai Super Kings midway during the Indian Premier League 2025, will lead the India youth side. Another Mumbai player, Abhigyan Kundu, has been named Mhatre’s deputy. Story continues below this ad ...
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Virat Kohli tells BCCI he wants to retire from Test cricket
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Virat Kohli tells BCCI he wants to retire from Test cricket

Virat Kohli has told the Indian cricket board that he wishes to retire from Test cricket, but top officials have asked him to reconsider the decision, The Indian Express has learnt.“He has made up his mind and has informed the board that he is moving on from Test cricket. The BCCI has urged him to rethink as the crucial England tour is coming up. He is yet to revert on the request,” sources told this newspaper. Kohli’s decision comes on the back of Rohit Sharma’s Test retirement a couple of days ago. India’s selectors are set to meet in a few days to pick the team for the five-Test series in England next month. Story continues below this ad It is learnt that Kohli has been contemplating his Test future since the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia earlier this year when he...
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Knocks that encapsulated Rohit Sharma’s Test career
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Knocks that encapsulated Rohit Sharma’s Test career

In the list of India’s highest run-getters in Tests, Rohit Sharma occupies the 16th spot – with 4,301 runs in 110 outings, an average of 40.57 and 12 hundreds. The numbers aptly capture his place among the country’s best willow-wielders. Rohit was a good batsman with great moments in Tests. But in view of his undisputed gifts, the statistics are bound to imply that his talents never soared fully in the longest version.Even more fascinating is the company of the 4,000-ers from his country — that bracket where a batsman is not good enough to be counted among the greats yet superior to most of those to have worn Test stripes. At the upper end is MS Dhoni (4,867), whose batting in the five-day format was acquired and laborious; then comes Mohinder Amarnath, the self-admittedly less-gifted bats...
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Workload, eye on future: no leadership role for Jasprit Bumrah on England tour
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Workload, eye on future: no leadership role for Jasprit Bumrah on England tour

India’s fast bowling figurehead and vice captain Jasprit Bumrah is unlikely to be given a leadership role on the Test tour to England starting June-end, sources in the BCCI told The Indian Express. The ace seamer had led India to their sole win on the Australia tour at the turn of the year, apart from leading in two other Tests. But since Bumrah is unlikely to feature in all the five Tests in England as part of his workload management, the selectors are likely to seek a player who will play through the tour. “We want a player who will be available for all five Test matches, and he should be given the vice-captain’s role. Bumrah won’t be playing all five matches, so we don’t want to appoint different deputies for different games. It will be better that the captain and vice-captain be certai...
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Rohit Sharma on his Test batting: ‘All written in destiny; happy with my Test cricket record’
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Rohit Sharma on his Test batting: ‘All written in destiny; happy with my Test cricket record’

The big question in Indian cricket is whether Rohit Sharma will continue to play Test cricket. India are set to tour England for a 5-Test series in June and Rohit’s recent record in Test cricket has been poor. He struggled on the tour of Australia, averaging just 6.20 in 5 innings and also dropped himself for a Test. In the Test series prior to that, against New Zealand at home late last year, he averaged just 15.16 in three Tests. But it’s clear that Rohit intends to play the Test series in England. He had already indicated as much in a chat with Michael Clarke a couple of weeks ago where he talked about his hope that both Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah would be injury-free and be fresh for the England series. In a latest chat, he spoke about the England series and also about his Tes...
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‘Unreal feeling’: Rohit Sharma on having a stand named after him at Wankhede
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‘Unreal feeling’: Rohit Sharma on having a stand named after him at Wankhede

India captain Rohit Sharma said the feeling of having a stand named in the Wankhede after him was unreal, reminiscing about days when he was a young player trying to catch a glimpse of the Mumbai Ranji Trophy players at the iconic venue. The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) had announced earlier in the week that the Divecha Pavilion Level 3 will soon be named Rohit Sharma Stand. “No one dreams of things like this when they are just starting off playing cricket. I still remember those days when I used to stand outside (the) Wankhede Stadium just to enter and watch Mumbai Ranji Trophy team practice; I am talking about 2004 or maybe 2003,” Rohit said after being announced as the brand ambassador of the third edition of the T20 Mumbai League. “We used to finish our U-14, U-16 training at Azad ...
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IPL 2025: Effortless, exquisite and effective – the story of Abhishek Sharma’s monstrous 141
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IPL 2025: Effortless, exquisite and effective – the story of Abhishek Sharma’s monstrous 141

That the 24-year-old wasn’t averse to breaking out of his comfort zone despite coming into this game after a bout of fever only made it better. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri/The Hindu When a prized racehorse drops back to an uneasily common canter, discomfort reverberates through the stable. Abhishek Sharma’s sluggish start in the ongoing season of the IPL wasn’t too different. With just 51 runs from his first five games, Abhishek’s stutters scarily derailed the ‘Travishek’ juggernaut and, by extension, poked holes in the aura of invincibility around SRH in the PowerPlay. Naturally, when the day came for Abhishek to hit back, he did so with a ruthless calmness, barging into the record books along the way. Wit...
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Ranji Trophy: Rajasthan-Vidarbha game shifted from Sawai Mansingh Stadium to allow IPL pitch preparation
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Ranji Trophy: Rajasthan-Vidarbha game shifted from Sawai Mansingh Stadium to allow IPL pitch preparation

Jaipur’s premier cricket ground, the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, wouldn’t be hosting the Rajasthan vs Vidarbha Ranji Trophy game starting on Thursday. Instead, the game has been moved to the KL Saini Stadium on the city’s outskirts. In times when the Indian board has emphasised the importance of domestic cricket’s oldest tournament, Jaipur’s main venue has given Ranji a miss as it is being prepared for the IPL that is two months away. The KL Saini Stadium last hosted a First-Class match in December 2012. The upcoming IPL season begins on March 21.The Sawai Mansingh Stadium hosted all three of Rajasthan’s home games in the first leg this season. The ground also hosted seven Vijay Hazare Trophy group-stage matches recently, the last of them on January 5. The decision to move Rajasthan’s home mat...
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