Rains have had an adverse for the domestic cricket season in England. 16 matches in last year's Natwest Blast were washed out.
Despite concerns over their own batting, Australia would be considered strong favourites in their home conditions especially with England not going all guns blazing with the bat themselves.
A bunch of 15 budding cricketers from border town of Uri in Jammu and Kashmir are on their way to Pune for a special training camp organised for them by the Army and an NGO.
West Indies will play two Tests against Zimbabwe following a three-day tour match against Zimbabwe A starting on October 15.
With Tamim Iqbal ruled out, Soumya Sarkar is likely to replace the left-hander at top of the order.
Virender Sehwag added there is nothing wrong with Virat Kohli's batting and it has only improved post captaincy.
Hardik Pandya is in brilliant form with both bat and ball for India but Sourav Ganguly feels it's too early to compare him with Kapil Dev.
Sachin Tendulkar tweeted, "Tremendous achievement to get to 400 test wickets by one of the silent warriors of @OfficialSLC! Congratulations and we'll done, @HerathRSL!"
James Pattinson was ruled out of the tour of Bangladesh and India due to pain he had reported following appearances in the English County and then the ICC Champions Trophy.
Virat Kohli and Aamir Khan shared a free wheeling conversation on secrets, personal lives, professional lives and quirky tidbits.
Anupam Kher played the role of MS Dhoni's father in the biopic on the former Indian captain titled 'MS Dhoni: The Untold Story" which starred Sushant Singh Rajput.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan believes that the team management need to address how their players behave.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar had uploaded an image in May of him on "dinner date" with the person on the other side of the table cropped out. He has finally revealed the full pic.
Rashid Khan, still just aged 19, has emerged as cricket's poster boy in Afghanistan. He recently signed for Big Bash League side Adelaide Strikers and Jason Gillespie said that the signing was a "major coup."
England Test vice-captain Ben Stokes and ODI opener Alex Hales have been suspended from international cricket indefinitely, pending an investigation into an altercation outside a nightclub in Bristol last week.
Virender Sehwag said that Australian players may have been worried that franchise owners might think twice before making high bids for them if they sledged Indian players.
India speedster Mohammed Shami is all set to play for Bengal in their opening round Ranji Trophy encounter against Services, starting October 6.
In what turned out to be comedy of errors, the BCCI first named named Rajasthan medium pacer Deepak Chahar in the the Board President's XI squad for the warm-up games against New Zealand only to replace him with cousin brother Rahul.
Ravichandran Ashwin was on Tuesday named in the 15-member Tamil Nadu Ranji squad along with Test opener Murali Vijay for the season-opener against Andhra Pradesh, starting Friday.
Gowtham had played the opening Duleep Trophy game for India Red and got five wickets but left for Bengaluru after the match, claiming that he was down with typhoid.
This is not the first time that England players have been charged with lack of discipline. During 2007 World Cup, players received written warnings for staying out beyond midnight with England set to play two days later.
Brad Hogg will be 47 come February but the Australian Chinaman bowler says the thought of announcing retirement from international cricket has not yet crossed his mind.
Ashish Nehra has been recalled to the Indian squad for their three-match T20I series against Australia.
Like Steve Smith or Darren Lehmann, Graeme Hick was at a loss of words in explaining where the team is going wrong.
Australia stand-in head coach David Saker said that a lot of the players in his team are 'scared' while playing against India.



