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India vs West Indies: We're never conservative, new approach in T20s will witness occasional failures, says Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma believes the new fearless approach adopted by India in the shortest format will result in occasional failures but disagrees that they were playing "conservative" cricket during last year's T20 World Cup in UAE. Rohit said the new approach provides more freedom to players, which has yielded success after the disappointing World Cup campaign, where India were eliminated in the league stage. "We didn't get the result from the last World Cup but that doesn't mean we played bad cricket all these years and I don't agree we were playing conservative cricket," Rohit said ahead of the five-match T20 series against the West Indies which begins here on Friday.

India vs West Indies, 1st T20I, India Predicted XI: Will Ravichandran Ashwin Get A Chance?

After registering a ODI series sweep against West Indies, Team India would hope for a good show in the five-match T20I series against West Indies, beginning Friday. Rohit Sharma will be back to lead the side, and Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya will also be back after being rested for the ODI series. It would be interesting to see whether the side continues to play that attacking brand of cricket which was on show against England. The biggest question is whether the side would give a chance to Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing XI for the first T20I

India vs West Indies: Shimron Hetmyer recalled by West Indies to face India in T20I series

Left-hander Hetmyer had been frozen out of the international set-up due to question marks over his fitness. The 25-year-old played the last of his 42 T20 Internationals against Australia in November last year at the 2021 World Cup in the UAE.

Ricky Ponting Weighs In On Australia Star Batter's "Indifferent" Form

Two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting has backed Steve Smith to come out of his "indifferent" form as Australia gears up for the much-anticipated tour of India early next year, saying there is nothing wrong with the star batter's technique. Ponting reckons the opposition teams may have found ways to put brakes on Smith's free-flowing batting.

Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: India Start Table Tennis Campaign With Doubles Action vs South Africa

Commonwealth Games, Day 1 Live Updates: India's Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula have taken the one first game against Lailaa Edwards and Danisha Patel of South Africa. Table tennis event is also about to get underway and first up is women's team event which will see Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya, and Diya Chitale squaring off against South Africa. India's campaign at the Commonweath Games in underway with the lawn bowls event.

Citing Kashmir, Pakistan pulls out on Chess Olympiad eve

Pakistan raised the Kashmir spectre to pull out of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram on the eve of the event, citing India's torch relay passing through Kashmir on June 21. The 13-member Pakistani contingent had already checked into the team hotel in Mamallapuram when they were informed they would not be taking part. In a statement, Pakistan's foreign ministry said that India has chosen to politicise this prestigious international sporting event by passing the torch relay through Jammu and Kashmir. It said the matter would be raised with the International Chess Federation. Accusing Pakistan of politicising the event, the MEA said the UTs of J&K and Ladakh "have been, are, and will remain an integral part of India."

Chess Olympiad: Time to play the right moves

India, with six teams, will be one of the favourites in the 44th OlympiadIt was in 2013 that home boy Viswanathan Anand lost the World Championship title at India's chess capital, Chennai. Nine years have gone by and top-flight chess is back in Tamil Nadu with the 44th Olympiad starting at Mamallapuram, a sea town 60 km from Chennai, on Friday. Chennai is all geared up, the iconic Napier Bridge has been painted in black and white and the event's mascot Thambi --- the knight clad in a traditional south Indian attire of white shirt and veshti --- is on every other billboard. The players are trooping in - there are about 2000 from about 187 countries - and the excitement around the event is palpable. There's a sense of missing out though with Russia not being there -- being barred from world events due to the Ukraine war -- and China preferring to stay away. But there will be no shortage of star value as the likes of World no. 1 Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian and Anish Giri will be in action. And then, there will be six Indian teams (three in open and three in women's categories) - trying to better their bronze won in 2014 over-the-board Olympiad.

Sridharan Sriram leaves Australia's coaching job to focus on RCB role

The development comes ahead of Australia's tour of India next year. Sriram, who played eight ODIs between 2000 and 2004, has been part of the Australian coaching set up since 2015. He was a part of the Australia A program on an Indian tour before being appointed as spin bowling coach under the then head coach Darren Lehmann in 2016.

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India vs West Indies: We're never conservative, new approach in T20s will witness occasional failures, says Rohit Sharma

India vs West Indies, 1st T20I, India Predicted XI: Will Ravichandran Ashwin Get A Chance?

India vs West Indies: Shimron Hetmyer recalled by West Indies to face India in T20I series

Ricky Ponting Weighs In On Australia Star Batter's "Indifferent" Form

Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: India Start Table Tennis Campaign With Doubles Action vs South Africa

Citing Kashmir, Pakistan pulls out on Chess Olympiad eve

Chess Olympiad: Time to play the right moves

Sridharan Sriram leaves Australia's coaching job to focus on RCB role