Rica Roy is NDTV's Sports Editor. She is an award-winning journalist with professional experience of over 20 years across Print, Broadcast and Digital. Rica has covered all major sporting fix
Three years ago, Rohit Sharma had called Tilak Varma a "three-format India player in the making" - praising his technique, temperament, and clean shot selection.
Hardik Pandya smashed an unbeaten 28-ball 59 and took a wicket as India thrashed South Africa by 101 runs in the first T20I in Cuttack.
It is 10 matches to go before the start of the T20 World Cup at home. As India preps for the best XI, they have left out Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson, and Washington Sundar from the opening T20 against South Africa
Since Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma returned to the Indian ODI team for the three-match series against South Africa, which started on Sunday, the focus has been on whether the duo will be persisted with until the 2027 World Cup
Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir will not be sacked after the side's embarrassing 0-2 Test series loss against South Africa, BCCI sources told NDTV.
India, meanwhile, have veered towards high-risk, short-tempo batting - the kind that works in the IPL influence era but rarely in long-format chess. For Raina, the issue is as much technical as it is structural.
India vs South Africa: Four days without water. That was the brief India's team management gave Eden Gardens, and the surface responded exactly as scripted-low, slow, cracked, and chaotic from ball one.
Indian cricket team captain Shubman Gill, who sat out the second innings of the first India vs South Africa Test in Kolkata, will not play the must-win second game in Guwahati
Shubman Gill suffered a neck injury while batting on the second day of the game, and was ruled out of the first Test before the start of play on the third day.
Rica Roy is NDTV's Sports Editor. She is an award-winning journalist with professional experience of over 20 years across Print, Broadcast and Digital. Rica has covered all major sporting fixtures in the last two decades, including Cricket World Cups, Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games.