Australia were placed at 6-0 in 4 overs after Kuldeep Yadav's five-wicket haul in his maiden Test Down Under helped India bowl the home team out for 300 in the first innings.
India closed in on their maiden Test series triumph in Australia before bad light and rain combined on day three to delay the inevitable, adding more hours to a wait of 71 years.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly batted for Rishabh Pant's inclusion across all the formats in the Indian team after the southpaw's scintilating hundred on Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Leading 2-1 after the 137-run win in the Melbourne Test, India made a strong start by ending at 303/4 in 90 overs with Pujara scoring his third ton of the series.
India remain firm favourites to make it 3-1 at the Sydney Cricket Ground despite the injury-forced omission of premier spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and senior pacer Ishant Sharma.
India took giant strides towards winning their first ever Test series on Australian soil in seven decades by retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a comprehensive 137-run win in the third Test on Sunday. Watch our YouTube Live chat show with our cricket expert and former India captain Sourav Ganguly to find out more.
India took giant strides towards winning their first ever series on Australian soil in seven decades by retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a comprehensive 137-run win in the third Test on Sunday.
Former India captain and IndiaTV's cricket expert Sourav Ganguly said that India should be able to wrap up the Boxing Day Test early on Day 5 at the MCG, as they only have to get two lower-order wickets. Watch 'Cricket Ki Baat' to see how Dada analyses the historic Test match between India and Australia.
Having secured a 292-run lead in the first innings, India finished Day 3 at 54/5 extending the overall lead to 346 runs. But the MCG pitch is deteriorating faster than anyone expected and we are set for what could be the last day of the Boxing Day Test. Watch our experts Chetan Sharma and Yashpal Sharma predict the outcome on the fourth Day.
Cheteshwar Pujara hit his Test 17th hundred while Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scored fifties as India declared first innings at 443/7 on Day 2 of the third Test against Australia at MCG. Watch IndiaTV's YouTube Live chat show with experts and former India cricketers Chetan Sharma and Yashpal Sharma to find out more.
The Chairman of Selectors MSK Prasad made it clear that Ravindra Jadeja was fully fit when he was selected for the tour Down Under, thus going against the claims made by the Indian coach Ravi Shastri. Is there a discord in the Indian team management. To find out more watch 'Cricket Ki Baat' with Samip Rajguru and IndiaTV's cricket expert and former cricketer Chetan Sharma.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was brought back to India's T20 squad to ensure he gets 'enough game-time' before the ODI World Cup but the young Rishabh Pant was axed from the 50-over side for the upcoming series against Australia and New Zealand. . Krunal Panndya claims his place along with his brother, Hardik for the T20Is. India will first play a three-match ODI series against Australia after the Test series, followed by a five-match ODIs and a three-match T20Is against New Zealand.
Team India coach Ravi Shastri revealed that lead spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and his deputy Ravindra Jadeja are not fully fit yet. With the Boxing Day Test in three days time, Shastri said Ashwin will be monitored over the next 48 hours and then a decision will be taken on him. If both Jadeja and Ashwin fail to play, India's only other option is to play Kuldeep Yadav if they decide to go with a spinner.
Former India captain and IndiaTV's cricket expert Sourav Ganguly feels that the Indian batsmen should learn how to read Australian spinner Nathan Lyon before he causes any more damage. Lyon picked a five-wicket haul in both the Tests played. India will next play Australia in the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne.
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Former India pacer Zaheer Khan feels that India are stil alive in the series and are capable of winning the four-match series despite losing the 2nd Test in Perth. In an exclusive interview with IndiaTV, Zaheer also said that India are playing some brilliant cricket in Australia and can create history down under under Virat Kohli's captaincy.
Former captain Sourav Ganguly has questioned the mindset of Indian batsmen after their repeated failures outside the sub-continent. Ganguly, while speaking on IndiaTV’s ‘Cricket Ki Baat’ show, said apart from captain Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara, other Indian batsmen lack the mindset to play long innings in Test matches.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said that head coach Ravi Shastri and batting coach Sanjay Bangar must answer for India's repeated batting failures outside the sub-continent. During IndiaTV's "Cricket Ki Baat" show, Ganguly said it is important that other Indian batsmen, apart from Virat Kohli, should be able to score runs for India to win Test matches overseas.
Australia were on course for a series-levelling win in the second Test after another below-par batting performance from India undid the good work done by their bowlers on day four on Monday. Chasing 287 on a testing surface, India were 112 for five at stumps with skipper Virat Kohli's (17) dismissal in the 20th over of the second innings dealing a massive blow to the away team's hopes.
Captain Virat Kohli became the second fastest to 25 Test centuries before India's pacers made Australia labour for an overall 175-run lead, leaving the second match evenly poised on Sunday. It was his sixth Test hundred on Australian soil, joining boyhood hero Sachin Tendulkar, and he became the second-quickest batsman in Test history to score 25 Test hundreds (in 127 innings) after Sir Donald Bradman's 68 innings.
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