Hardik Pandya

BENGALURU: Suryakumar Yadav on Tuesday smacked West Indies bowlers with impunity as India defeated the hosts by 7 wickets in the 3rd T20I at St Kitts to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Chasing 165, Surya lent India a rollicking start as he sliced and whipped the left-arm medium-pacer Obed McCoy, the hero […]

In the recently-concluded ODI series, India edged England 2-1 in their backyard. Let’s look at three positives India have drawn from the series: 1) Resurgence of Hardik Pandya, the all-rounder: 2022 has been a rite of passage for Hardik. Earlier in the year, he put up a dazzling all-round show in the Indian Premier League […]

BENGALURU: Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya stepped up and put up a spectacular all-round show to steer India to a five-wicket victory in the 3rd ODI at Old Trafford. With this victory, the visitors have also won the three-match series 2-1. The exuberant all-rounder grabbed four wickets to restrict England to 259 and then walloped 71 […]

BENGALURU: Riding on medium-pacer Reece Topley’s six-wicket haul, England thumped India by 100 runs in the second ODI at Lord’s to level the series 1-1. Chasing 247, the visitors were bowled out for 146 in 38.5 overs and slumped to a crushing defeat. The left-arm bowler trapped India’s captain Rohit Sharma in front of stumps […]

BENGALURU: Bhuvneshwar Kumar once again came to the fore and swung India to a 49-run win over England in the 2nd T20I at Edgbaston on Saturday. The ace swing-bowler prised out England skipper Jos Buttler and Jason Roy in his first spell to derail their 171-run chase. On the whole, he snaffled three wickets for […]

BENGALURU: Though Hardik Pandya deservingly walked away with the kudos by thumping a half-century and chalking up four wickets in the first T20I against England, the most stunning moment of the match was conjured up by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. In the first over, Bhuvi whipped out a vicious delivery which started one foot outside the off-stump […]

BENGALURU: After losing the fifth Test at Edgbaston, India thrashed England by 50 runs in the first T20I played at Southampton to take 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, who had missed the fifth Test, won the toss and opted to bat. The dashing right-hander looked in sterling touch as he […]

BENGALURU: After Indian Test captain Rohit Sharma contracted the COVID-19 virus ahead of the 5th Test against England, there are talks that he might not play the match. In his absence, pacer Jasprit Bumrah is touted to take over the reins. India have been grappling with a captaincy conundrum since the beginning of the year. […]

BENGALURU: After the 5th T20I between India and South Africa at Bengaluru was abandoned due to rain, India’s head coach Rahul Dravid threw his weight behind India’s stand-in captain for the series Rishabh Pant. The explosive wicketkeeper-batsman came under fire after he scored just 58 runs in the series and got out in a similar […]

BENGALURU: On a pitch that spat out the variable bounce and some spice, Indian bowlers made mincemeat of South African batsmen and clinched an 82-run victory in the 4th T20I at Rajkot to level the series. The final match of the series, which will be a decider, will take place at Bengaluru on June 19. […]