Kumar Rupesh

Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar were the two cricketing prodigies that emerged from Mumbai's school cricketing culture. While Tendulkar made it big in international cricket, Kambli's career faded after an exponential rise.

The WPL 2025 mini-auction will be held in Bengaluru. All five teams have kept their core intact and would like to make a few valuable additions to their respective squads at the auction on December 15 (Sunday).

India TV Sports Wrap on December 14: From all the kabaddi action to the cricketing circuit, here are all the top 10 trending sports news stories and the latest happenings from the world of sports on December 14.

The ECB has handed full contracts to 17 players with seven of them bagging a two-year contract and 10 players receiving a one-year contract. Nat Sciver-Brunt, Heather Knight, and Danni Wyatt-Hodge are among the seven players who have earned two-year contracts.

Australia are already sweating over the fitness of their captain and wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy. Healy missed the culminating stages of the WBBL and was unavailable for the three-match ODI series at home against India.

Ravichandran Ashwin failed to make the most out of the opportunity in Adelaide. He scored 22 and 7 in the first and second innings of the pink-ball Test and could only manage to take a single wicket. Harshit Rana bagged a pair and could not get a single wicket in Adelaide.

Ricky Ponting has been fairly vocal about his prediction for the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The former Australia captain strongly feels that the hosts are favourites to win the five-match-long bilateral series.

India are on the back foot after losing the pink-ball Test in Adelaide. Their batting performance in the first innings of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been a major cause of concern.

India won the last time they played a Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane. But this time around, the Aussies are riding on the momentum gained by their 10-wicket win over India in the pink-ball Test in Adelaide.

India TV Sports Wrap on December 13: From all the kabaddi action to the cricketing circuit, here are all the top 10 trending sports news stories and the latest happenings from the world of sports on December 13.

Gukesh Dommaraju, popularly known as D Gukesh, is only the third Asian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship. India's Viswanathan Anand and China's Ding Liren had achieved the feat before the Chennai lad.

Tim Southee has claimed 19 wickets in 12 matches in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle. He is the sixth leading wicket-taker for the Kiwis in the ongoing WTC cycle. Southee has claimed the most wickets for the Blackcaps in WTC history.

Amir Jangoo was adjudged the Player of the Match (POTM) for his unbeaten 103-run knock off 83 deliveries. He is only the second male West Indian to score a century on ODI debut after Desmond Haynes. Haynes had scored a hundred on ODI debut against Australia on February 22, 1978.

England are targetting a clean sweep over New Zealand in a Test series in New Zealand for the first time since 1963. The Three Lions are fifth on the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) points table with 11 wins in 21 games.