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IND vs ENG fifth Test | Team India looks to finish on a high in Ashwin’s 100th

Indian cricket team player R. Ashwin during the practice session ahead of the India vs England final test match at HPCA Ground in Dharamshala on March 06, 2024. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy England may be licking its wounds but nurses hope of hurting India in pretty much English weather conditions here. This optimism rose in the week leading to the fifth and final Test starting on Thursday after a fresh spell of snowfall in the higher reaches triggered another round of cold wave.After India took a series-clinching 3-1 lead at Ranchi, some golf-playing members of the England team travelled to Bengaluru while some others camped in Chandigarh before landing here. The weather that greeted them has surely lifted their spirits. A start-stop-start pattern of play cannot be ruled out but the p...
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Fast bowler Akash Deep likely to make Test debut at Ranchi

Bengal fast bowler Akash Deep, 27, is likely to make his Test debut during fourth Test against England in Ranchi which starts on Friday. Akash is set to play in place of Jasprit Bumrah, who has been released for the game to manage his workload. Akash and Mukesh Kumar, also a Bengal fast bowler, are the two pace options to partner Mohammed Siraj for the fourth Test. But The Indian Express understands that the team management and selectors are likely to go with Akash as they are impressed with the way he bowled in the matches between India A and England Lions Akash picked up 10 wickets from two red-ball games for India A in Ahmedabad. Together with Mukesh, Akash has been a leading fast bowler for Bengal in red-ball cricket. Akash has scalped 104 wickets from 30 First-Class games, averagi...
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IND vs ENG: Who will replace Jasprit Bumrah in India playing XI for Ranchi Test against England?

With a resounding 434-run win over England in the third Test in Rajkot, India head into the next match with a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Having bounced back from a defeat in the first Test in Hyderabad, India have been led by brilliant individual performances with both bat and ball. On the bowling front, Jasprit Bumrah has led the wicket-taking charts with his exemplary display in all three Tests thus far. Bumrah’s exhaustive work is likely to call for a break in the upcoming Test in Ranchi, in line with the workload management program. In the second Test in Visakhapatnam, India had rested seamer Mohammed Siraj after his long and continuous run across formats. READ: Railways record highest successful chase in Ranji Trophy history The 30-year-old Bumrah turned the Vizag Test in...
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Asian Champions Trophy: Savita Punia and Co know they were poor against China in Hangzhou, now they get a chance for a do-over

At Gate No 1 of the hockey Stadium in Ranchi, there is the regular tournament branding but it is impossible to miss what is next to it: a roughly 20-feet cutout of India captain Savita Punia. The goalkeeper who has stood tall between the posts many a time in the recent years, is literally doing so at the venue of the Asian Champions Trophy. “Haan dekha,”(yes, saw) Savita tells The Indian Express with a sheepish smile when shown a photo of it. “I have never seen anything like this for myself before. Hockey India posted a video and my brother saw the cutout and called me. Even my family knows how I am not comfortable with these things. But it’s good of course, that there is a regard. However this is not something like a thing to celebrate. If it was a cutout of our team I would have perha...
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Ranji Trophy | Sanju Samson back on familiar turf, but in a different role

Sanju Samson. | Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN It is a different homecoming for Sanju Samson. Jaipur may have been his second home as the Rajasthan Royals captain, but this time it is with the Kerala team that he has reached the Pink City to take on Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament.Sanju and his men are in good spirits too, after scoring a splendid victory against Jharkhand in the opening fixture at Ranchi, where just about everything had gone right for them.After declaring on the final day, Kerala was able to bowl out the home side in under 62 overs (out of the maximum 67). The spinners — Kerala played four of them — had played the key role. But against Rajasthan, Kerala may drop one of them to accommodate a seamer. So M.D. Nidheesh or N.P. Basil could come in. There is cause...