“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.
Anju, the only Indian to have won a medal in the World Championships with a long jump bronze in the 2003 edition, was named for the award in the world body’s annual awards night on Wednesday.
Alexia Putellas became the third winner of the women’s award for an outstanding season with Barcelona and Spain.
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.
Babita’s elder sister Geeta Phogat won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in 2010 in Delhi. Babita Kumari Phogat won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow in 2014.
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.
With each passing season, Football Delhi has grown bigger and better and spreading football across the capital.
Senior speedster Tim Southee will lead the Black Caps in the white ball series, the New Zealand Cricket stated in its release.
Pullela Gopichand won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone.
Arguably India’s greatest women’s tennis player and arguably the best overall in single’s competition, Sania was born on November 15, 1986, in Mumbai (later shifted to Hyderabad) and from a very young age of 6, started playing Tennis and aimed to make it big in the sport.
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.
Considering how both Australia and New Zealand won their respective semifinals against fancied opponents, one can expect another dramatic finish at the ”Ring of Fire”.
Newly appointed T20 captain and regular opener Rohit Sharma, wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, and pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami have all been rested as part of BCCI’s workload management policy.
New Zealand avenged their heartbreaking loss in the 2019 ODI World Cup final against England on boundary count by beating the same opponents by five wickets in the T20 World Cup first semifinals here on Wednesday.
New Zealand registered a sensational five-wicket win over favorites England here on Wednesday in the first semifinals. It would be their third final appearance at an ICC global event in as many years.