Ravichandran Ashwin has the most Player of the Series awards won by an Indian player in Test cricket. He is ranked second in the world. Here is a list of five players who have won the player of the series award for the most number of times.
Australian Test and ODI captain Pat Cummins opened up on his Test future both as a player and as a captain ahead of the two-match series against New Zealand. Cummins, who has been captain of the Australian team in a couple of formats has already led the side to a World Cup and WTC triumphs.
Michael Vaughan has come down heavily on the England team for their approach and mindset, which is almost disrespecting Test cricket. England suffered a heavy loss to India in the third Test in Rajkot by 434 runs as the hosts took a 2-1 lead in the ongoing five-match series.
Afghanistan's multi-format tour to Sri Lanka will kick off with a one-off Test match at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Friday, February 2. Afghanistan have played only seven Tests since getting the full-member nation status and will hope to give a memorable performance to demand more games.
Veteran Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan considers himself privileged to play the amount of cricket he did but admitted that he was shocked when he didn't see his name in the squad for the Asian Games. Dhawan last played for India on the Bangladesh tour in December 2022.
Australian Test superstar Steve Smith is set to begin his new innings as an opener, the only position he hasn't batted yet in the longest format but is excited for the challenge given he put his hand up after the spot opened up. The two-match Test series against West Indies starts on January 17.
India won a Test in Cape Town for the first time as the Rohit Sharma-led side levelled the two-match series 1-1. The match ended in just two days with a total of 107 overs being played, which is the shortest time a Test match has ended with a result in history.
The current arrangement witnesses teams play a minimum of two Test match series in the World Test Championship cycle. Series comprising three Tests or more are on the decline.
India vs South Africa 2nd Test Highlights: Team India finally breached the Cape Town fortress for the first time in history as the visitors won the second Test against South Africa by 7 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj with six-fers in each innings starred for India with the ball.
Former cricketer Kris Srikkanth called the Indian team overrated in T20Is and Test matches looking at how they have performed in the two formats in the last year or so. Srikkanth admitted that in the ODIs the Men in Blue have been fantastic but in Tests, especially, they have not been good recently.
The leading wicket-taker of World Cup 2023 Mohammed Shami will be unavailable for India in the two-match Test series against South Africa due to an ankle injury. Even though India have a couple of decent backups, Shami provides the bowling attack with the X-factor and skipper Rohit Sharma agreed.
Former South Africa Test captain Dean Elgar is set to retire from international cricket after the two-match Test series against India starting on December 26 in Centurion. Elgar, who led the Proteas in 17 Tests, has played 92 matches for South Africa across formats.
After winning the Test against England, the Indian women's cricket team continued their performance against Australia at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium as they had the visitors bowled out for 219 on Day 1 and then scored 98 runs for the loss of just one wicket. India will be keen to get a massive lead.
Australian opener Usman Khawaja has been pulled up by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for sporting black armband during the first Test against Pakistan in Perth. Khawaja was barred from wearing shoes that had the message "all lives are equal" and hence wore a black armband.
Indian women's cricket team extended its dominance over the only Test against England in Navi Mumbai as they are now 478 runs ahead after the end of the second day's play. Deepti Sharma was the star of the show with the figures of 5/7 as England collapsed from 108/3 to 136 all out.
Team India amassed 410 runs on the board, the second highest aggregate for a women's Test on Day 1 as four players scored half-centuries while skipper Harmanpreet Kaur missed it by just one run. The home team would hope to add a few more runs on Day 2 to extend further pressure on England.
The Indian team had a brilliant first day at the office in the one-off Test against England scoring 410 runs in Navi Mumbai. Four half-centuries were scored, but none of the batters could get to a three-figure mark. Harmanpreet Kaur was the unluckiest of them all, who missed her fifty by one run.
KL Rahul left for South Africa on Tuesday, December 12 as he will be leading the Indian ODI team in the three-match series starting December 17 in the absence of Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya. Rahul, who has embraced the middle-order role in the format, is set to expand it to Tests and in the IPL.
Alyssa Healy missed the majority of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) due to finger injury but is confident that she will regain fitness just in time for the Test match against India. Australia are scheduled to play their first Test in India since 1984.
Newly appointed Pakistan's red-ball team skipper scored 156* off 235 balls against the Prime Minister's XI to kick off a three-match Test series with a lot of positives. Masood's hundred helped Pakistan score a total of 324/6 on Day 1 of the warm-up game in Canberra.
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