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India vs New Zealand 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score Updates: New Zealand skipper Tom Latham won the toss and opted to bat against India in the third Test of the three-match series in Mumbai. For India, star pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been rested as he is not well.
Ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 between India and Australia, former Australia skipper Tim Paine expressed his feelings as right-arm seamer Mohammed Shami is set to miss the upcoming series. Following the end of the ODI World Cup 2023, the India pacer suffered an ankle injury, which forced him to stay away from the field since November last year. "Shami is going to be a huge difference, Bumrah, there is so much on his shoulders. If he gets hurt, then it's curtains for me," Paine said while talking on The Grade Cricketer podcast.
Pat Cummins has never been part of a victorious Test series campaign against India, and the Australian captain wants to erase that blemish from his CV during the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy, starting with the first match at Perth from November 22. Under the leadership of 31-year-old, Australia have won the World Test Championship, the ODI World Cup, both beating the Indians, and the Ashes, but never managed to beat India in a bilateral rubber in the traditional format.
There was both pride and a sense of having been hard done by among South African football fans after Bafana Bafana captain Ronwen Williams was deemed the ninth-best goalkeeper at the Ballon d'Or awards in Paris on Monday.
With the IPL 2025 mega auction retention deadline coming on October 31, it's the time where all ten teams will be firming up their retention plans. Kolkata Knight Riders, the IPL 2024 winners, are also in the process of finalising their retention list. But sources have told IANS that the retention status of their title-winning captain Shreyas Iyer is lining on unsure currently, as other players like West Indies duo of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine, along with middle-order batter Rinku Singh, wrist-spinner Varun Chakaravarthy and uncapped fast-bowling all-rounder Harshit Rana, who recently got a call-up for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, are ahead in contention of being retained by the franchise.
SYDNEY : Australia's Twenty20 captain Mitchell Marsh and his test teammates will skip the three matches against Pakistan in November as they prepare for the blockbuster series against India in the longest format of the game.
After a surprising series defeat by New Zealand, India's skipper Rohit Sharma said undue expectation was being put on frontline spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, as he called for more collective bowling efforts to win test matches.
Proteas Test captain Temba Bavuma has been ruled out of the second Test against Bangladesh due to a left elbow injury.