Mohammed Siraj replaces Bumrah while England makes two changes in its playing 11. Check IND vs ENG playing 11 and head to head stats here
India needs to win the final Test match to be the second finalist in the World Test Championship. Check IND vs ENG 4th Test match time, live telecast and streaming details here
India is at second spot at the ICC WTC points table and needs to win 3rd Test to qualify for World Test Championship final. Check IND vs ENG live streaming details here
England has made four changes in its playing 11 while India has brought Washington Sundar and Jasprit Bumrah in its team line-up. Check IND vs ENG playing 11 here
India to lock horns with New Zealand in ICC World Test Championship final, scheduled to take place on June 18-22, at Lord's cricket ground. Check India vs England 4th Test highlights and scorecard
Reverse sweeping James Anderson to pick a boundary on the second day of a Test match perfectly summed up Rishabh Pant's belligerent knock at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday.The swashbuckling wicket-keeper batsman single-handedly put India in command on the second day of the fourth Test against England with his third century in Test cricket. Having started cautiously, Pant took the English bowlers to the cleaners in the final session to take the game away from the visitors and put the hosts in the driver's seat.At stumps, India's score read 294/7 with Washington Sundar (60) and Axar Patel (11) at the crease -- leading the visitors by 89 runs in the first innings. India scored 141 runs in 32 overs in the final session of the second day.With wickets tumbling around him, Pant took 82 balls to reach his first fifty runs. But the next 50 came off just 33 balls as he decided to send the English bowlers on a leather hunt. The second new ball turned to be a blessing in disguise for the ...
India opener Rohit Sharma on Friday labelled Rishabh Pant's 101-run knock as the finest he has seen from the wicketkeeper-batsman so far in the longest format of the game.Reverse sweeping James Anderson to pick a boundary on the second day of a Test match perfectly summed up Pant's belligerent knock at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. The swashbuckling wicket-keeper batsman single-handedly put India in command on the second day of the fourth Test against England with his third century in Test cricket."In my opinion, it was probably his (Pant) finest knock. It came under pressure as well, we were not in a good position when he came out to bat. We saw few sides of Rishabh Pant's knock today. He was cautious at the beginning and then he actually flourished like we know Rishabh can. He put the team into a good position, when we came inside during the tea break, the message to both Rishabh and Washington Sundar was that we need to get to England's score and then try to press from ...
As Pant brought his team back in the game with his enthralling century, England's spin bowling coach Jeetan Patel said it is "pretty daunting" to see the way the India wicket-keeper batsman scores
Pant cracked a 118-ball 101 studded with 13 hits to the fence and two sixes to anchor India's innings after a 144-ball 49 by opener Rohit Sharma. Check India vs England 4th Test match scorecard here
Gill could not even open his account, losing his wicket to James Anderson in the third ball of the innings. Check India vs England highlights and scorecards here
Joe Root has hinted that spinner Dom Bess might feature in the playing XI for the fourth and final Test against India which gets underway on Thursday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad
India's Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane said there is no need to take criticism of the spin-friendly pitches in the country 'seriously' as not a word is spoken about the 'damp' tracks elsewhere
Young England opener Zak Crawley echoed Rahane's sentiments on the Motera strip which he believes will be 'similar' in nature but red ball will make it 'slightly easier' for the batsmen
Dhiraj Parsana, former India left-arm spinner and the long-time curator at the Motera stadium, remembers a young Axar Patel as someone who had a beautiful high-arm action
England ropes in Jon Lewis and New Zealand's Jeetan Patel as bowling and spin bowling coaches on a permanent basis
Ahead of the 4th Test against England, India skipper Virat Kohli said the World Test Championship (WTC) is a distraction for them as the team is already motivated enough to play Test cricket
India skipper Kohli feels rotation policy is the way forward in the age of bio-bubbles as mental fatigue caused by restrictive quarantines will make it extremely difficult for players to stay hungry
All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja may not be able to just walk into the Indian Test squad considering how his replacement Axar Patel has performed in his first two games, says former captain Sunil Gavaskar
By his own admission, England's Jack Leach is in awe of the exploits of Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel during the pink-ball Test
England batsman Tom Banton is one of the two foreign players who tested positive for COVID-19 in the ongoing Pakistan Super League and he has been put under isolation, the cricketer confirmed. Pakistan Cricket Board's Director of Media Sami Burney had announced on Tuesday that two foreign players and one member of the support staff had tested positive for the virus. This was after Australian leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed tested positive on Monday. Burney had not named the two players and the support staff member. "Unfortunately I received a positive COVID-19 test yesterday and I am now isolating and following the PSL protocols. Fortunately I am feeling OK so far," Banton tweeted. "I have been well looked after by the PCB and Quetta Gladiators," added the 22-year-old who has played six ODIs and nine T20 International matches for England. The PCB official had said that out of the fresh three positive cases, one cricketer belonged to the Islamabad United franchise, whose player Ahmed had .