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Rohit Sharma’s funny Pujara story from U-14 days: ‘Mummy kya karu, woh ladka 3 din batting karta hai’
August 25, 2025 08:16 IST
Rohit Sharma also revealed that once during a India A tour of West Indies, Pujara had been mugged when he went out of the hotel at night ignoring the advice of the other players like Sharma.
Sourav Ganguly signs up for first coaching stint, named head coach of Pretoria Capitals for SA20 2026 season
August 24, 2025 15:50 IST
Sourav Ganguly's appointment was announced a day after former England batter Jonathan Trott stepped down from the head coach's role at the Pretoria Capitals.
‘Last of his kind’: From Tendulkar to Gambhir and Pant, teammates and legends react to Cheteshwar Pujara’s retirement
August 24, 2025 15:49 IST
Finishing as India's second-highest run-scorer at number three behind Dravid, Cheteshwar Pujara's 66 First Class centuries are also only surpassed by a handful of Indian legends in Sachin Tendulkar (81), Sunil Gavaskar (81) and Dravid himself (68)
Australia equal rare ODI world record with 431-run score and Head-Marsh-Green centuries against South Africa
August 24, 2025 13:43 IST
AUS vs SA 3rd ODI: Australia produced only the second instance across 4897 ODIs in history where all the top-three batters recorded a century in an innings.
Cheteshwar Pujara retires: ‘As a little boy from the small town of Rajkot, I set out to aim for the stars…’Subscriber Only
August 24, 2025 13:14 IST
Pujara made his Test debut against Australia in Bengaluru back in October 2010 and went on to play many crucial knocks against one of the best sides in the world, most memorably starring in a hard-fought series win Down Under.
Cheteshwar Pujara retires: Nearly 30 percent of Indian team’s runs were scored when he was at the crease, faced over 16 percent of deliveriesSubscriber Only
August 26, 2025 21:48 IST
Cheteshwar Pujara batted for 124.14 minutes per innings on an average, third most time spend at the crease among India's modern batting greats - only Rahul Dravid (154.3) and Sachin Tendulkar (125.5) were ahead.
Cheteshwar Pujara retires: The world took time to appreciate Cheteshwar’s method, but the Pujaras stuck to their philosophy of grind and gritSubscriber Only
August 26, 2025 21:48 IST
Cheteshwar Pujara is an outlier, the lone specialist batsman who isn’t from a major metro. In the crowd of achievers from Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad – he is the lone small-towner
Cheteshwar Pujara retires: Why this era of Test batsmanship was Pujara’s as much as it was Virat Kohli’sSubscriber Only
August 26, 2025 21:49 IST
Like most great batsmen of his era, Cheteshwar Pujara conserved his finest for Australia. Against them, home and away, he averaged 49.38 and made five hundreds. Rahul Dravid, a great No.3, mustered 38.67 and two hundreds. He aggregated 43.47 in matches India won overseas; Kohli's corresponding average was 40.57
AUS vs SA Cricket Score, 3rd ODI Highlights: Australia beat South Africa by 276 runs in Mackay
August 25, 2025 00:20 IST
Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI Match Today Highlights: SA are set a massive 432-run chase against AUS as Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh and Cam Green equalled the world record with centuries in Mackay
Bronco Test vs Yo-Yo Test: R Ashwin and Soham Desai reveal ‘big problem’ with Indian cricket’s fitness regime eras
August 24, 2025 08:00 IST
On his YouTube podcast, Ash Ki Baat Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin and former India strength and conditioning coach Soham Desai broke down the newly-introduced Bronco Test and the complexities of India's fitness "eras".
MCA unveils Sunil Gavaskar statue; names museum after former president Sharad PawarSubscriber Only
August 24, 2025 00:03 IST
The MCA had decided to build life-size statues earlier this year along with their museum. It has also revived its vintage Kanga league library.
Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI: When and where to watch AUS vs SA match live?
August 25, 2025 10:44 IST
The Indian Express provides all the livestreaming details of the Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI from Mackay on Sunday.
Lalit Modi on how he convinced ‘good friend’ Shah Rukh Khan to buy IPL team, and roped in broadcasters despite reluctanceSubscriber Only
August 24, 2025 16:15 IST
Lalit Modi also spoke at length about the business model and the team dynamics of the IPL in the initial years
AB de Villiers on Shreyas Iyer’s exclusion from 2025 Asia Cup squad: ‘Is he dragging energy from the squad…’
August 25, 2025 08:17 IST
South African cricket great AB de Villiers also speculated that there might be a few things that have happened in the past that might have affected Iyer's place
Bharat Arun recalls when he tinkered with Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling action: ‘Was great, the ball was…’
August 23, 2025 18:07 IST
In addition to the action, Arun also told how they advised the fast bowler to change his food habits for a longer career
When Virendar Sehwag answers Greg Chappell’s comments, ‘Make sure you score, or I’ll drop you,’ with 184 and says to captain, ‘Tell your coach not…’
August 24, 2025 10:30 IST
Chappell’s tenure as the coach of the Indian team has had its fair share of ups and downs
Prabhsimran Singh reveals turning point in his career after a fruitful IPL 2025 season: ‘He gave me the surety…’
August 23, 2025 16:19 IST
The 2025 season has been the most productive one for Prasbhsimran as he managed to churn out 549 runs at an average of 32.29 and a strike rate of 160.53
‘No cricketing logic’: Manjrekar slams Agarkar-led selectors for ‘mixing formats’ in Asia Cup squad, calls Shreyas Iyer snub ‘shocking’
August 23, 2025 15:00 IST
Experts and fans on social media have been divided over multiple choices in India's Asia Cup T20I squad comprising 15 players while Sanjay Manjrekar criticised the selection panel for snubbing Shreyas Iyer.
‘He’s probably the player that we spent the longest deliberating over…’: RCB director of cricket Mo Bobat opens about not choosing RTM option for Mohammed SirajSubscriber Only
August 23, 2025 13:57 IST
Mohammed Siraj had played 87 matches for RCB from 2018 to 2024 and had taken 83 wickets before he was picked up by Gujarat Titans in IPL Mega-Auction last year
Manoj Tiwary on IND vs PAK clash in 2025 Asia Cup amidst Pahalgam attack: ‘Everything has been forgotten…the value of a human life can be zero’
August 23, 2025 12:58 IST
'I find it hard to believe that this match is happening': Said Tiwary
‘Good to know Mitch Starc knows Tamil’: Rahul Dravid and R Ashwin engage in fun banter on ‘coaching Australia’ during 2023 BGT
August 23, 2025 11:54 IST
In a chat with Dravid, Ashwin revealed how he got to know that his message on tackling spin had lingered through the Aussie dressing-room through pacer Mitchell Starc.
JP Duminy recalls an anecdote when he first met Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Sanath Jayasuriya: ‘was so nerve-racking…intimidating’
August 23, 2025 11:49 IST
From 83 IPL games, Duminy has scored 2029 runs at an average of 39.78 and a strike rate of 124.02. With the ball, he managed to scalp 23 wickets at an economy of 7.38
46-year-old Imran Tahir becomes oldest captain to bag five-wicket haul in T20 cricket, breaks multiple records in CPL 2025 match
August 23, 2025 10:28 IST
CPL 2025: The 46-year-old Tahir became the oldest man to record a T20 five-wicket haul as captain and is the first man to achieve the feat in his forties.
How did Jasprit Bumrah increase bowling speed without unique action sacrifice? ‘Gave up pizzas, milkshakes overnight,’ reveals Bharat Arun
August 23, 2025 09:41 IST
Arun revealed that the NCA coaches had once attempted to remodel Jasprit Bumrah's action to improve his pace and though the resultant action was great, he could not generate adequate pace.
‘When did they retire?’: BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla dismisses Rohit Sharma-Virat Kohli farewell series talks
August 23, 2025 08:25 IST
BCCI vice-president Shukla dismissed all talks about a rumoured farewell series and affirmed that both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli remain very much in the 50-over scheme of things as the Men in Blue charter their plans for the next ODI World Cup in late 2027.
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