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Either Hyderabad or Rajkot may host India's maiden  day-night Test match when the West Indies will arrive for a tour, later this year. The BCCI on Saturday finalised Indian team's home series itinerary and picked the two centres for hosting Test matches during the West Indies tour. "If the Committee of Administrators (CoA) gives its approval, one of the two centres will host the Test under floodlights," a BCCI source told PTI. The CoA was unhappy that acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary had explored had discussed the possibility of playing a day-night Test with Ravi Shastri even as the head coach was not averse to the idea. According to India's home series itinerary, the Indian team will play only three Test matches at home -- the historic first against Afghanistan in June along with two more against West Indies in October after Diwali. Apart from that, India will also host the Caribbeans for five ODIs in Mumbai, Guwahati, Korchi, Indore and ...

Upbeat after a thrilling victory in their last league game against hosts Sri Lanka, Bangladesh will have their tails up as they prepare to take on Rohit Sharma-led Team India in the  final of the Nidahas Trophy T20 tri-series  at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday. While the second-string Indian team recorded a hat trick of comfortable wins after their opening loss to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh reached the summit clash with couple of dramatic wins over the hosts. In a tense virtual semi-final encounter against Sri Lanka on Friday, Bangladesh pulled off a brilliant two-wicket win from the jaws of defeat in the final over, which was marred by  ugly scenes following the on-field umpires' failure  to call the second delivery of the over a no-ball for height. However, an angry Shakib Al Hasan's attempt to call the team off the ground and allegedly damaging of the dressing room by Bangladeshi players is a testimony that they still have some way to go as far as composu...

ইসুরু উদানার বলটা ওয়াইড হতে পারতো। ধারাভাষ্যে ব্রেট লি তো বলছিলেন, টেস্টেও এটা ওয়াইড হতো! তবে মাহমুদউল্লাহ ওয়াইডের জন্য অপেক্ষা করেননি, বলের নাগালে পৌঁছে এক্সট্রা কাভারের ওপর দিয়ে মেরেছেন চার। ৪ বলে ১২ রানের সমীকরণটা নেমে এলো ৩ বলে ৮ রানে। শেষ ২ বলে ছয় রানের সমীকরণটাও মাহমুদউল্লাহ মিলিয়ে দিলেন দারুণ এক ফ্লিকে ছয় মেরে। তার এই স্ট্রোক ভরপুর ইনিংসকে বাংলাদেশের সীমিত ওভারের ক্রিকেটের শেষের দিকের অন্যতম সেরা ইনিংস বলে মনে করছেন সাকিব আল হাসান।  ‘আমাদেরকে অনেক ভাল ব্যাটিং করতে হয়েছে। স্নায়ু ধরে রাখতে হয়েছে। তামিম শুরুতে দারুণ ব্যাটিং করেছে। তবে মাহমুদউল্লাহ যেভাবে ব্যাটিং করেছে, আমার মনে হয় সীমিত ওভারে শেষের দিকে ব্যাটিংয়ের ক্ষেত্রে এটা আমাদের অন্যতম সেরা ইনিংস। সে যেভাবে বলকে মারছিল, দারুণ।’ শ্রীলঙ্কার সঙ্গে আগের ম্যাচে দারুণ এক ইনিংস খেলেছিলেন মুশফিকুর রহিম, এবার খেললেন মাহমুদউল্লাহ। এ দুইজনই ছিলেন বেঙ্গালুরুতে ভারতের সঙ্গে ৩ বলে ২ রানের সেই ম্যাচে। মুশফিক তার দায়মোচন করলেন, এবার করলেন মাহমুদউল্লাহও।  সাকিব অবশ্য ব্যাপারটিকে শিক্ষা নেওয়া হিসেবেই দেখছেন, ‘সবাই তো শিখে। ওই...

West Indian spinner Sunil Narine faced a new storm on Thursday when his bowling action was again reported during the ongoing Pakistan Super League T20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates, officials said. The 29-year-old, who is playing for Lahore Qalandars, was placed on the warning list but can continue to take part in the event. READ |  Indian Premier League 2018: Full list of players of all eight IPL teams and their salaries “Narine has been reported for a suspected illegal bowling action during Wednesday’s PSL T20 game between Lahore Qalandars and Quetta Gladiators at Sharjah,” said a Pakistan Cricket Board statement. Lahore are already out of the play-offs and will play their last match against Peshawar Zalmi in Sharjah on Friday. “The match officials’ report on Narine’s bowling action will be sent to Cricket West Indies (CWI) and he will have to go through the process that is followed by the CWI, for suspected illegal bowling actions,” added the statement. Nari...

Former West Indies star and national coach Phil Simmons aims to deliver a major blow to his former team and salvage Afghanistan's hopes of making the 2019 World Cup when the two sides clash on Thursday. Simmons, who played 26 Tests and 143 ODIs for the West Indies from 1987 to 1999, was sacked as coach of the Caribbean side in 2016, just five months after leading them to the World Twenty20 title in India.Now the 54-year-old, who has been coach of Afghanistan since December, finds himself in another dogfight as the faltering Asian side attempts to salvage a torrid qualifying campaign which saw them squeeze into the Super Sixes after winning just one of four first-round games. Afghanistan, now a Test-playing nation, arrived in Zimbabwe with high hopes of making the finals in England and Wales in 2019, but they will carry no points into the next stage. "It's been difficult from the time we lost the first game. We know how difficult it is now, but all we can do is wh...

There was an evident change to Rohit Sharma's approach on Wednesday as he recognised the sluggish nature of the surface and focused on staying at the wicket.  Stuck in a seemingly infinite loop of failures, Rohit Sharma resorted to his ODI template to lift himself up from the abyss and contribute to India’s surge to the finals of the Nidahas Trophy. The Mumbaikar was the first of two openers to be dismissed in 10 out of the last 11 limited-overs games India had played since the start of the ODIs in South Africa and needed a big innings to get going. Rohit’s ODI mantra is pretty much out there for everybody to see — he starts off sedately, builds up momentum as the innings goes on, and then goes bonkers in the final few overs. While it seems like a fairly easy template to follow, it was Rohit's consistent execution that transformed him from a wonderkid to the pillar of India’s ODI batting. However, in the past couple of T20I series, he seemed to be in a hurry to kick...