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12:37 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India’s current batting coach Sanjay Bangar is likely to lose his job to Vikram Rathour, while bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar are expected to retain their positions for another two years. India’s selection panel shortlisted three candidates each for all the support staff positions with Rathour,

11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin‘s exclusion from India’s starting XI in the Antigua Test has left former captain Sunil Gavaskar stunned. This is now the fourth straight Test Ashwin has sat out of after missing the last three in Australia with injury. Ashwin did miss the first innings of the tour game with

2:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has indicated that India will go into the Antigua Test with the same combination that helped them pull off their first-ever Test-series win in Australia at the turn of the year. If this is the case, Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari will most likely be contesting the No.

1:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Umesh Yadav has dropped some way down the pecking order for India since the 2018-19 tour of Australia, the one-off appearance in a T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam in February 2019 his only outing in national colours since then. But now, back in the Test set-up in the Caribbean, Umesh

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Blue 112 for 6 (Gaikwad 30, Porel 3-26) drew with India Green The first match of the Duleep Trophy 2019-20 between India Blue and India Green was abandoned without Blue completing their first innings after being put in to bat. Persistent rain and a wet outfield at the Just

12:21 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test match batting is in decline. Those are the words of India’s captain Virat Kohli in an age when pitches have become result-oriented and bowlers have raised their game several-fold. In just the last two years, various teams have suffered outrageous collapses. England were knocked over for 58 by New

7:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sreesanth, the one-time India fast bowler, can finally breathe a little easy after the BCCI reduced his IPL 2013 spot-fixing ban to seven years, the sanction period coming to an end on September 13, 2020. This comes five months after the Supreme Court of India “set aside” the BCCI ban

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 297 for 6 dec (Pujara 100 retired out, Rohit 68, Carter 3-39) and 188 for 5 dec (Vihari 64, Rahane 54, Frazer 2-43) drew with West Indies A 181 (Hodge 51, Ishant 3-21, Umesh 3-19) and 47 for 3 (Solozano 16, Jadeja 1-3) Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari tuned

© Associated Press Vijay Shankar is set to return to top-flight cricket with the upcoming five-match one-day series against South Africa A in Thiruvananthapuram. The BCCI named two India A squads – one for the first three matches and another for the last two games – and Vijay was named in both of them, with

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 297 for 5 dec and 84 for 1 (Vihari 48*, Rahane 20*, Shepherd 1-3) lead West Indies A 181 by 200 runs A strong batting display on day one was complemented nicely by the Indian bowlers as they skittled West Indies A for just 181, earning themselves a 116-run

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 298 for 5 (Pujara 100 retired, Rohit 68, Carter 3-39) v West Indies A The nearly eight-month long break between India’s previous Test in Sydney and now seemed to matter little to Cheteshwar Pujara as he struck a hundred for India in the tour match against West Indies A,

5:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Overseeing a “smooth transition” and integrating youngsters into the national team is among Ravi Shastri‘s primary objectives as he looks ahead to the next 26 months of his coaching tenure. On Thursday, Shastri was appointed for a second successive term, with the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Kapil

3:48 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India are gearing up to announce their next head coach. The BCCI is conducting meetings with six candidates, including the incumbent Ravi Shastri, and is expecting to make a final call on Friday evening. Three of the candidates were scheduled to make their presentations to the Cricket Advisory Committee led

12:46 PM ET Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which oversaw the reappointment of Ravi Shastri as head coach of the India men’s team, wants to have a say in picking his three assistants too. The CAC has written to the BCCI expressing its desire to be involved in selecting the batting,

9:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ravi Shastri will remain head coach of the India men senior team, with his new contract extending up to the 2021 T20 World Cup in India. The BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) spent all of Friday interviewing five candidates, with a sixth – Phil Simmons – pulling out of the

3:03 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has appointed the Cricket Association of Uttarakhand (CAU) as the representative body to run cricket in the state, ending a long-standing dispute in which four different associations (later three, with two of them merging) had pushed their claims to be in charge. The CoA order

1:16 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff VB Chandrasekhar, the former Tamil Nadu and India batsman, died in Chennai on Thursday. He was six days short of his 58th birthday. A TNCA official told ESPNcricinfo that he had died of a heart attack. A hard-hitting opening batsman, Chandrasekhar was a key member of the Tamil Nadu team

6:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Brendon McCullum is set to take over as head coach at Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming season, to go with his appointment as the head coach of Trinbago Knight Riders, the other team owned by the same group. Less than a week ago, it had been learnt that McCullum

9:58 PM ET Virat Kohli‘s performances in this series -120 and 114 not out in the second and third ODIs – can only be described as masterful. Both knocks were also the bedrocks of India’s innings. And on both occasions, he found able support in tricky situations from Shreyas Iyer, who added partnerships of 125

3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies opt to bat v India For the first time in the white-ball leg of India’s tour of the United States of America and West Indies, Virat Kohli lost the toss, asked to field first by West Indies captain Jason Holder. The hosts need a win to level the ODI

3:00 AM ET Big Picture In the second ODI at Queen’s Park Oval, chasing 270 in 46 overs, West Indies needed 91 off 71 at one stage with six wickets in hand and a set batsman in Nicholas Pooran at the crease. Percentage cricket for a few more overs was perhaps the way to go,

1:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The next head coach of the senior India men’s team is expected to be chosen on Friday from a shortlist of six: the incumbent, Ravi Shastri, as well as Tom Moody, Mike Hesson, Phil Simmons, Lalchand Rajput and Robin Singh. The BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee, headed by Kapil Dev, will

11:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India captain Virat Kohli revealed that he felt “tired” halfway through his innings of 120 against West Indies in the second ODI, but pulled through because one of India’s top three had to bat long to get them to a match-winning total. Kohli ended up hitting his 42nd ODI century,

9:37 PM ET Five minutes was all it took for Bhuvneshwar Kumar to flip the game in India’s favor. 35th over. Nicholas Pooran, the form batsman, made it look like the West Indies had the game in their pocket. They needed 92 off 12 overs, perfectly doable. The ball was on the shorter side and

3:00 AM ET India chose to bat v West Indies Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat in the second match of the three-ODI series in Port-of-Spain, reasoning that the Queen’s Park Oval pitch would slow down in the second half. India fielded the same XI as in the washed-out first ODI, with

3:00 AM ET Big Picture The paradox of the Indian ODI team is that they have a top three that are the envy of the world. Conversely, the strength of the top order has meant that opportunities for the middle order are more scarce. Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli have been so successful

2:19 PM ET Shreyas Iyer has said India are looking forward to a full match in Port-of-Spain after the first ODI in Guyana was washed out after only 13 overs. Last month, rain had pushed India’s World Cup semi-final against New Zealand into a reserve day, and Iyer hoped the weather won’t wash away this

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 201 (Saha 62, Vihari 55, Chemar Holder 3-55, Frazer 3-53) and 365 for 4 declared (Gill 204*, Vihari 118*) drew with West Indies A (Solozano 69, Ambris 43, Gowtham 6-67) and 314 for 6 (Solozano 92, King 77, Ambris 69, Nadeem 5-103) West Indies A batted out an

8:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after years of resisting the move. The decision came after BCCI chief executive Rahul Johri and the general manager (cricket operations) Saba Karim met sports secretary Radheshyam Jhulaniya and NADA director general Navin Agarwal in

7:39 AM ET The controversy around Rahul Dravid‘s possible conflict-of-interest situation could be resolved by next week, with the BCCI’s ombudsman saying today that he expects to decide on the issue by then. The BCCI, meanwhile, has restated its stand that Dravid is in the clear, with Vinod Rai, the chairman of its Committee of