Devendra Pandey

Chandrakant Pandit confirmed the news and talked about how former India wicketkeeper Kiran More helped him in moving to the new role with Madhya Pradesh.

Anand Rajan, a Madhya Pradesh player who has also played in the IPL, is anxious because his father is stranded in Iran, a country struggling to cope with Corona virus.

Pondicherry's cricket board has offered the dormitories in its cricket campus to be used for Corona patients. Pondicherry has witnessed one positive corona case so far.

Atul Bedade has been suspended by Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) with immediate effect after a few players complained about Bedade's behaviour, construed to fall under sexual harassment.

Sunil Joshi, the chief selector, will get this facility while his colleagues will fly economy class. However, the restriction is lifted for any overseas travel in flights that takes more than seven hours.

Cheteshwar Pujara opens up to The Indian Express about the Ranji hangover, planning for the title, his role in the side, his often misunderstood batsmanship and in a lighter vein, the social-media trolls.

While the BCCI president says IPL "has to be truncated", franchise officials cite the 2009 edition played in South Africa, where a full tournament was completed inside 37 days.

The premier domestic trophy reaches the land of the man the tournament is named after, the irrepressible Ranjitsinhji.

Just 72 runs more for the first-innings lead for Bengal. Only four wickets more for Saurashtra. The morning session on Day 5 will decide who will be the winners of the 2019/20 Ranji Trophy season.

The DRS technology in place for the Ranji Trophy doesn’t have ball-tracker, snickometer, and hotspot. This has already thrown up problems in the final.

At the end of Day 3 in the Ranji Trophy final, Bengal need 292 more runs for the all-important first-innings lead while Saurashtra seemed better poised to take seven wickets first.

After two days, the first innings is yet to be completed, 178 runs trickled on a pitch where the ball started to keep low and played a bit slow and it's all down to Pujara-Vasavada's heads-down-graft-hard approach.

“It’s a very poor wicket. The board has to look into it, this is very poor. The ball is not coming up, this is not good for cricket. The ball is not getting off the thing, it's dusting the first day."

Saurashtra need a special from their star as a score of 350 on this low-slow pitch, where bowling within the line of the stumps seems an effective strategy, could put great pressure on Bengal.

While Bengal was last in a final 13 years ago, Saurashtra will be playing their fourth final in eight years. The former possess Saha and Tiwary, who would be playing his 100th Ranji Trophy game, the latter have Pujara.

Standing resolutely by the Indian team's side on Sunday at MCG will be the parents — some boarding a plane for the first time, others putting together a surprise to watch the young women take flight.

Chirag Jani has taken 16 wickets and as a middle-order batsman, has hit two hundreds and two fifties this season. In the semifinal, it was his half-century that helped Saurashtra set a competitive target for Gujarat.

Since Jadeja is part of the Indian ODI team that plays its first game against South Africa on March 12 — Ranji Trophy final starts on March 9 — he won’t be released to play the final.

Jaydev Unadkat not only shattered the timber first and then dreams of Gujarat but he gave Saurashtra another chance to clinch the title which they have never won.