Cricket's fab-five Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Kane Williamson, Steve Smith and Babar Azam have enjoyed mixed performances in 2024 with the Pakistani star leading the run-scoring chart across formats.

England arrived in Rajkot on Monday and their first practice session happened on Tuesday (February 13), two days before the third Test of the five-match series. The series is currently locked at 1-1 after the visitors won the Hyderabad Test by 28 runs while India came back strongly in second Test.

Alastair Cook was unbeaten on 46 in his final test innings as England reached 114-2 at stumps Sunday on day three for a 154-run lead over India in the fifth test.

Curran anchored the England innings with a determined 78 as he shared 81 runs with Moeen Ali (40) and 63 runs with Stuart Broad (17) for the seventh and ninth wickets respectively.

Despite rain consuming the larger part of play, England started the second Test on a bright note as they bundled out India for 107 in the first innings, courtesy of James Anderson's 5/20.

Kohli's 149, which will rank amongst one of the finest hundreds by an Indian batsman on English soil, enabled the visitors to reach 274 thereby bringing down the first innings deficit to only 13 runs.

England scripted a remarkable turnaround in the limited over series against India by clinching the three-match ODI rubber 2-1.

England had a field time out as they get their revenge by inflicting an all-out on the visitors, thrashing the Men in Blue by 86 runs at Lord's to level the three-match series 1-1.

Pat Cummins picked up two vital wickets to restore some confidence in Australia's pace trio after a pair of unheralded batsmen grinded through most of the opening day of the Ashes series to help England reach 196/4 at stumps.