The Supreme Court had appointed its former judge DK Jain as the BCCI Ombudsman last month to resolve disputes.

India and Australia will look to fill the gaps when they take on each other in the five-match ODI series, starting on Saturday in Hyderabad.

KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Vijay Shankar and Siddharth Kaul will look to impress and earn a ticket to the World Cup in the series against Australia.

There were talks that IPL could be a possible shoot-out between Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant for the second wicketkeeper's slot.

Afghanistan's Hazratullah Zazai has gained a whopping 31 slots to reach a career-best seventh position after aggregating 204 runs in the 3-0 series victory over Ireland.

Rahul hopes that it is a blessing in disguise that he courted controversy early in his international career.

KL Rahul returned to the Indian side with a 36-ball 50 but the middle-order and Umesh Yadav failed to grab their chances as India went down by 3 wickets in the first T20I against Australia at Vizag.

KL Rahul scored a 36-ball 50 in the first T20I against Australia at Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

Rahul returned to the side after he was controversially called back midway through the tour of Australia following his and all-rounder Hardik Pandya's loose talk on women in a TV show. 

Rahul and Easwaran continued to pick up runs easily as the England bowlers struggled in good batting conditions. The openers piled on the runs and took the score to 169 at the tea break. 

The team think-tank may consider giving former Test bowler Varun Aaron a go in this match given that the India selectors are looking at genuine quick bowlers with an aim to broaden the pool.

India 'A' came up with a strong reply to England Lions' first innings score of 340, courtesy Rahul and Priyank Panchal, who was unbeaten on 89. 

Many from the cricket fraternity extended their support to the former batsman and Rahul too joined the efforts. 

The Rest of India side's batting line-up bears a formidable look with a lot of current India players like Mayank Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer and Hanuma Vihari in the mix.

A case has been registered in Jodhpur against the trio for the comments made in Karan Johar's chat show Koffee with Karan earlier this year.

KL Rahul, who made a comeback to competitive cricket with India A assignment, had scores of 13, 42 and 0 against England Lions in three one-day games.

Shubman Gill is the seventh youngest ever to debut for India in ODI cricket on Thursday.

The squad doesn't contain any top performers from either Saurashtra or Vidarbha, as the Ranji Trophy final will only get over on February 7.

Rishabh Pant played a destructive knock of unbeaten 73 to take the team to victory line while returning KL Rahul also found some form in with slow but steady innings of 42 runs in 72 balls.   

Coming back into the side after the suspension on him was lifted, Pandya delivered figures of two for 45 in 10 overs and helped India restrict New Zealand for 243 in the third ODI.