England resumed Day 4 at 220-2 and Lyon struck in the fourth over, triggering a collapse that netted eight wickets for 77 runs as the visiting team finished the match in a similar vein to how it started.
The modern attitude surrounding cricket means that different platforms are flourishing across the game. One of them is simulated cricket.
The BCCI, it is learnt, waited for the last 48 hours for Kohli, who has already relinquished T20 captaincy, to voluntarily step down from ODI leadership as well but he did not. By the 49th hour, losing the position to Rohit Sharma was simply ‘fait accompli’.
England hasn’t won a test match in Australia since winning the Ashes here in 2010-11 and hasn’t won a test at the Gabba since 1986. After the first two sessions, it’ll be an uphill struggle to reverse that sequence.
The Indian captain, after the team’s thumping 1-0 series win over New Zealand, answered some tricky questions, including his own form or the lack of it which, he said, couldn’t be connected to any repetitive pattern of dismissals.
Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara are under pressure to save their places in the side ahead of the South Africa tour and in that context, Dravid’s comments assume significance.
At exactly 10.13 am, 43 minutes to the start of the day, Ravichandran Ashwin (4/34) benefitted from a reflex stumping by Wriddhiman Saha and also completed his 300th wicket on Indian soil to finish the proceedings in a jiffy as New Zealand were all out for 167 in 56.3 overs.
Resuming the day at 221 for four, India scored 64 runs in the morning session with the loss of two wickets. They added another 40 runs for four wickets after lunch to end their first innings at 325.
Patel, who had migrated to New Zealand with his parents back in 1996, ended the Indian innings with figures of 47.5-12-119-10 to equal England great Jim Laker and Indian legend Anil Kumble, who had achieved the rarest of rare feat in Test cricket.
”This is what the dreams are made of, to be out here and go out there and pick up four wickets on the first day is pretty special,” he said during a virtual media interaction at the end of the proceedings on Friday.
“Update from Mumbai: The toss has been delayed. There will be a pitch inspection at 9:30 AM,” tweeted BCCI. Coming to the second Test match, Virat Kohli will be coming back to the playing XI and leading the hosts.
The first four-day game ended in a draw due to inclement weather on Friday last week even as the detection of the B.1.1.529 COVID-19 variant, which was named Omicron by the WHO, forced many countries to impose international travel restrictions on South Africa.
Tom Latham (95) was the top-scorer for New Zealand while his opening partner Will Young scored 89.
Cummins was Friday named Australia’s first fast bowler Test captain on a fulltime basis, with former skipper Smith as his deputy, to replace Tim Paine, who resigned last week over a ‘sexting’ scandal four years ago.
Shreyas Iyer hit a century on his debut before he was out in the morning session.
The elegant right-hander, who hails from Mumbai’s Worli area, achieved the feat in the ongoing first Test against New Zealand on the second day of the match at the Green Park Stadium here.
Harmanpreet Kaur enjoyed a dominant season in red, ending the regular season as her side’s leading batter with 399 runs and bowler with 15 wickets.
Opting to bowl, India produced a decent bowling effort to restrict New Zealand to a modest 153 for six.
Runners-up in the recently concluded T20 World Cup 2021, New Zealand gave their heart out against India in the first T20I, but ended up on the losing side.
The messages date back to 2017, months before Paine was recalled to the Test team after a seven-year absence and a joint Cricket Australia and Cricket Tasmania investigation cleared Paine at the time.
Australia has named a 15-man squad for the opening two Ashes Tests, with skipper Paine, who had gone under the knife to fix a bulging disc in his neck in September, included despite an injury cloud.
Senior speedster Tim Southee will lead the Black Caps in the white ball series, the New Zealand Cricket stated in its release.
Gilchrist held the record for most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in One-Day Internationals, until it was surpassed by Sangakkara in 2015
C. K. Nayudu was famous for being the first Cricket player of India who was bestowed with the Padma Bhushan award.
Both teams had finished in the second spot in their respective groups. They defeated stronger teams in the semi-finals to reach this far.