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WATCH: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli meet West Indian legend Sobers in Barbados

Members of the Indian cricket team, currently touring the West Indies, met the legendary Sir Garfield Sobers and shared pleasantries with one of the all-time greats of the sport here. The India team, led by Rohit Sharma, will play two Tests in Dominica and Port of Spain beginning July 12, following which the side will take on the Caribbean in three ODIs and five T20Is. The BCCI shared a video of the meeting with the former West Indies captain, captioning it, "In Barbados & in the company of greatness. Team India meets one of the greatest of the game -- Sir Garfield Sobers." Sobers, 86, arguably one of the finest all-rounders to have played the game, scored 8,032 runs in 93 Tests besides taking 235 wickets with his left-arm bowling. Among those to greet Sobers, who was accompanied by his wife, were Rohit, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Ravichandran Ashwin and India head coach Rahul Dravid. Kohli was, in fact, awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for 'male cricketer of the decade' in .

Pujara axed: Scapegoat for WTC failure or stepping stone of team transition

BCCI announced Test and ODI squads for India's West Indies tour on June 23, 2023. The Test squad did not feature Chetewshwar Pujara and Umesh Yadav from the team that played the WTC final

Virat Kohli joins India's richest celebs with net worth over Rs 1,000 crore

Indian cricketer Virat Kohli's net worth has topped the Rs 1,000 crore mark making him one of the richest Indian celebrities.

Only Virat Kohli can reveal why he left Test captaincy: Sourav Ganguly

Kohli finished his tenure as the fourth-most successful captain in Test history, with 40 victories and 11 draws in 68 matches as the Indian captain

WTC Final: India fall in a knockout again; why does this keep happening?

With the loss in the World Test Championship 2023 Final, India have now lost eight straight knockout games (final and semi-final) in ICC events in the last 10 years. They last won in 2013

Can 'Big Three' Cricket stars redeem themselves or is it time for shuffle?

Virat Kohli. Cheteshwar Pujara. Rohit Sharma. The 'holy trinity' has given Indian fans joyous moments over the years but how future ready is India's Test batting as the trio is ready for their last dance. The seismic defeat during the WTC final at the Oval made it mandatory for the bigwigs to search for a solution to that question. Now! The failure of Pujara to kick on against Australia is severely hurting as he was perceived to be in fine fettle after his exploits with Sussex in the County Cricket. Pujara's last memorable innings remains that 77 against Australia in Sydney in 2021, and if we take out a 90 and 102 against Bangladesh at Chattogram in 2022, the cupboard has a bare look. In fact, Pujara has played 17 Tests in the 2021-2023 WTC cycle and made 928 runs at an average of 32 with a solitary hundred, a record so underwhelming for a team's No. 3. So, who is our next No 3? India tried Hanuma Vihari at that position during the home series against Sri Lanka in early 2022 and h

WTC Final: Gavaskar says Kohli should be questioned over shot selection

A livid Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday hit out at the Indian players and did not spare Virat Kohli after the team's meek surrender in the World Test Championship final against Australia, saying the batting was "ridiculous". Australia crushed India by 209 runs on the fifth and final day of a game that was mostly dominated by the team from Down Under. "The batting was shambles today. It was just ridiculous what we saw today. Especially the shot making. We saw some ordinary shots yesterday from (Cheteshwar) Pujara, somebody you never expect to play that shot. "Maybe somebody has gone into his head and said 'strike rate, strike rate'. You have not even lasted a session. Eight wickets have not lasted a session? Come on," Gavaskar told broadcaster Star Sports. The result meant India's underwhelming record in ICC tournaments continued. Australian pacer Scott Boland produced a bowling spell of rare quality to get rid of Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja in the same over, effectively shutting the door o

WTC Final Day 5 Highlights: Australia are new Test champions of the world

India vs Australia Live Score, World Test Championship Final, Day 5: India have lost back-to-back wickets as Scott Boland got both Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja. Rahane is still in the middle

WTC Final: Kohli stands in Australia's way as India need another 280 to win

A focussed Virat Kohli stood between Australia and World Test Championship mace as India require another 280 runs to create history on what promises to be an intriguing final day of the summit clash. Kohli was batting on 44 off 60 balls and had Ajinkya Rahane (20 batting) for company during a stand of 71 for the fourth wicket as India ended the fourth day on 164 for 3 in pursuit of world record chase of 444. Having been set a mammoth target, India lost Shubman Gill (18 off 19) to a contentious catch before skipper Rohit Sharma (43 off 60) and Cheteshwar Pujara (27 off 47) brought about their own downfall to make it 93 for three in 31st over. Australia had declared their second innings at 270 for 8 midway into the afternoon session after an unbeaten 66 from Alex Carey. Though the highest chase at The Oval is 263, Indian fans will not lose hope going into day five with Kohli and Rahane hardly facing any trouble with batting not looking so difficult on the penultimate day. The pitch

IPL 2023 number wise: 12 hundreds, 1124 sixes, 2174 fours and much more

It was an IPL full of high hopes and higher numbers as old records were broken and new ones were created. Here's deep dive into some interesting facts from the recently concluded tournament

Virat Kohli crosses 600 run milestone in single IPL season for 3rd time

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batter Virat Kohli continues to break records. He has now scored 600 runs or more in three Indian Premier League (IPL) seasons each.With his knock of 101* in 61 balls, which consisted of 13 fours and a six, he took his run tally in the ongoing season beyond 600 runs. In 14 matches of IPL 2023, he has scored 639 runs at an average of 53.25 and a strike rate above 139. He has scored two centuries and six fifties this season, with best score of 101*. He is the third-highest run-scorer in the league so far.Virat had previously done this on two occasions, in 2013 (634 runs in 16 matches with six fifties) and in 2016 (973 runs in 16 matches with four centuries and seven fifties. He had also won the 'Orange Cap' for most runs that season.KL Rahul has four seasons with 600-runs or more to his name.He achieved this feat in 2018 (659 runs), 2020 (670 runs, Orange Cap winner), 2021 (626 runs) and 2022 (616 runs).David Warner and Chris Gayle have three IPL ..

Virat Kohli scored his seventh hundred, broke Chris Gayle's IPL record

Virat surpassed Chris Gayle's long-standing record for most centuries in IPL history. Virat smashed its seventh IPL century against GT.

IPL 2023 Highlights: Kohli's ton in vain, Gill's 100 sends MI to playoffs

Indian Premier League Highlights: Virat Kohli's century went in vain as Shubman Gill also hit a century to win it for GT. As a result, MI, which beat SRH earlier in the day, went to playoffs. RCB out

Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis emerge as most successful pair of IPL 2023

SRH nearly put an end to the opening partnership after Mayank Dagar took a sensational catch, however, on a delivery that unfortunately turned out to be a no-ball, adding to SRH's worries

Harshal Patel praised Virat Kohli, says his timing is just incredible

Harshal Patel praised the former skipper Virat Kohli for his much-awaited century against Sunrisers Hyderabad yesterday in a post-match presentation.

Virat's jaw-dropping lofted cover drive stunned Du Plessis, Gavaskar

Virat Kohli ended his four-year century drought in IPL last night. He scored his sixth IPL century in just 63 balls, and his lofted cover drive gained massive attention over the internet.

SRH vs RCB Highlights IPL 2023: King Kohli powers Bangalore to a big win

Indian Premier League 2023 Highlights, SRH vs RCB: Virat Kohli scored a brilliant 100 off 63 balls as the Royal Challengers Bangalore chased down 187 with eight wickets in hand and four balls to spare

IPL 2023 SRH vs RCB preview: Bangalore eye victory to get close to playoffs

A victory in this game would put Bangalore ahead in the race for the playoffs as they would play their last game at Chinnaswamy and would have a better net run rate than Mumbai Indians

Virat can look to sweep spinners post powerplay in T20s: Graeme Smith

Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith wants Virat Kohli to use different scoring options like the sweep shot against spinners post powerplay after the star India batter's "taking the game deep" approach has come under a bit of criticism. Kohli has scored more than 400 runs opening the innings for Royal Challengers Bangalore in this IPL at a strike rate of 133-plus but he has not been able to force the pace of scoring in the middle overs. "It is difficult to say if someone has been such a great batter. A couple of things that stand out for me is the Indian batters around Virat at RCB and they are way short," Smith, an expert for Jio Cinema in IPL, told PTI during an interaction. "I think the middle-order has struggled after No. 3. They have tried a few combinations. Then at Nos 5 and 6, they have struggled and pressure has been put on Virat (Kohli), Faf (du Plessis) and (Glenn) Maxwell to be main performers. If RCB can find some areas of support, it can free up Virat even more," .

Breaking Tendulkar's record will be an emotional moment for me: Kohli

Former India captain Virat Kohli has admitted that breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI centuries would indeed be an "emotional moment" for him. When Tendulkar ended his career with 49 ODI hundreds, including the final one which was also his 100th international ton, not many thought that anyone would get even close to the 'Little Master'. However the 34-year-old Kohli now has 46 hundreds from 274 ODI games and will require three more to emulate his childhood idol and one-time teammate. Kohli, when asked about his thoughts on reaching that milestone, he quickly says, "it will be a very emotional moment for me". The conversation also included Kohli talking about his childhood memories of playing cricket with older boys and highlighting the importance of sports. "Sports teaches you some values of life, discipline and planning. It opens up your side, making you a productive person. No matter which profession you are in, the value of playing sport is immense. "Don't make them