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Ashwin a wicket away from Muralitharan's record of fastest 350 Test scalps

Former Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble had taken 77 Tests to take 350 wickets

Ind vs SA 1st Test: Proteas tottering at 39-3 after Mayank's double-century

Ravichandran Ashwin provided the breakthroughs by getting through the defences of Markram with a classical off-break that turned sharply

Men's cricket revenue generator, unfair to ask for same pay: Smriti Mandana

Smriti Mandhana, the ICC's woman cricketer of the year, touched on the contentious issue of pay parity at an event

Vaughan wants Tom Banton to play county cricket rather than IPL 2020

Banto was snapped up by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for his base price of Rs 1 crore.

Quinton de Kock replaces Faf du Plessis as South Africa's ODI skipper

Test and Twenty20 captain Faf du Plessis was not in a 15-man squad named by Cricket South Africa

Faf du Plessis dropped from ODI as part of workload management: SA selector

The exclusion of Du Plessis and Kagiso Rabada is part of workload management, keeping in mind the ICC T20I World Cup later this year, says acting selection convenor Linda Zondi

ICC Test championship: England confident ahead of 5th test vs South Africa

South Africa are still struggling to come to terms with the magnitude of the innings defeat in Port Elizabeth that handed England an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the series.

Tim Southee looking forward to India series after Sydney Test snub

New Zealand suffered a heavy defeat in the Test series in Australia, losing it 0-3. After playing in the first two matches, Southee was replaced by Matt Henry in the playing XI.

IPL 2020: Full players' list of Delhi Capitals, and salary of each member

In a bizarre decision, DC bought England opener Jason Roy in IPL 2020 auction, despite having three opening batsmen - Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw - in their squad

IPL 2020: Rajasthan Royals announce sponsorship deal with Expo 2020 Dubai

The one-year deal will see the next World Expo appear on the front of the Rajasthan Royals' jersey as principal sponsor

Veteran leggie Pravin Tambe can't play in IPL as per BCCI protocol: Reports

BCCI rules strictly say that an Indian player has to be exclusively playing in the IPL or he has to stay away from the cash-rich league and participate in other leagues across the globe

IPL 2020: RCB's new recruit Shahbaz aspires to play like Ravindra Jadeja

Shahbaz was sold to RCB at his base price of Rs 20 lakh in the IPL auction as he is only the second player from Bengal, after pacer Ishan Porel, to feature in the 2020's edition

India vs New Zealand: Samson, Prithvi replace Dhawan in T20 and ODI squad

Wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson replaced Dhawan in the T20 Internationals while comeback-man Prithvi Shaw got his maiden selection call-up in the ODI squad in place of the senior opener

Hardik Pandya failed in fitness test, not considered for New Zealand tour

Pandya recently flunked the bowling workload monitoring test, which is one of the mandatory requirements after coming back from a back surgery

India arrive in Auckland, to play first T20 on January 24 vs New Zealand

India arrive in New Zealand high on confidence, having beaten Australia in the three-match series after losing the first game by 10 wickets.

Pitches in New Zealand have become batting-friendly over the years: Sachin

Tendulkar, who has been on a record five New Zealand tours since 1990, feels that from seaming tracks during his early trips years, tracks became high-scoring hard ones during his last tour in 2009

Marcus Labuschagne capable of playing all formats of cricket: Steve Smith

Labuschagne is so quick between the wickets so there are lots of two's to be had and a team needs those sorts of players in T20 cricket, says Steve Smith

Five-match T20 series against India to test our bowling depth: Ross Taylor

Probably right from the Sri Lanka series and England the focus has been on the T20 World Cup, says Ross Taylor

3rd ODI highlights: Shardul's 17-run helps India beat Windies in a thriller

Virat Kohli anchored a tricky chase before Shardul Thakur played the most defining cameo of his short career to power India to a series-winning four-wicket victory

1st ODI highlights: Hetmyer, Hope tons guide WI to 8-wicket win; lead 1-0

Rishabh Pant struck his maiden half-century to silence his critics as India shrug off a poor start to post a 287 for eight.