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Incidents of racist taunts being hurled at cricketers happen a lot in countries like Australia and South Africa and it must stop, former India opener Gautam Gambhir said.
The injury crisis has seen former India opener Virender Sehwag offer up his services for the final Test in Brisbane.
Before the Indian team even enter the field of play, they will have other issues to deal with - including having to endure a hard quarantine at their hotel.
While it is difficult to top India's grit, determination and fight at SCG 2021, there have been some other memorable 4th innings' performances from India over the decades - where they have shown character and fight and saved the Test against all odds and adversity.
Australia will delay making a call on Will Pucovski's availability for the fourth and final test against India and give the opener two days to recover from a shoulder injury, the hosts said on Tuesday.
Indias list of injured and absent cricketers on tour to Australia has grown again with reports emerging in the wake of a defiant draw in the third test that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah could miss the seriesdeciding match starting Friday in Brisbane.
Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the decider in Brisbane with an abdominal strain. His injury comes as a huge blow for India already broken and bruised with several of their leading players out of the series due to injuries. It also means that India will be without any member of their famous pace quartet in Brisbane.
An Indian-Australian spectator said that he heard nothing racist from the group of four people who were first asked to leave and that he was sent out for sticking up for them.
While India have a huge injury list to deal with before the start of the fourth Test at Brisbane, Australia too have a concern in their team. Opener Will Pucovski, who marked his debut in the Sydney Test, suffered a shoulder subluxation injury while diving in the field on day five of the Test.
India skipper Virat Kohli was on Tuesday pushed to the third spot by Australian batsman Steve Smith in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen but middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara gained two places to be number eight.
Nadkarni's economy rate of 0.16 in the innings is the lowest for an innings (min. 10 overs bowled) in Test cricket history! The second name on this list is Gary Sobers who conceded just 3 runs in his 14 overs at an economy rate of 0.21 against New Zealand in Wellington in 1956.
Mohammad Siraj may just have played two Test in his career so far, but just weeks after making his Test debut - an impressive one at that - the Hyderabad pacer finds himself in a very unlikely position of being the leader of the Indian attack as the injury-hit visitors travel to the Gabba in hope of retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
So India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja underwent surgery in Sydney on Tuesday, after he had suffered a fracture and dislocation on his left thumb. The 32-year-old, who has had a major impact on this Test series, is out of for four-five weeks and will miss the last Test at Brisbane. Before he got injured, while batting, he had some match-winning contributions in the Melbourne Test, where India won comprehensively, by eight wickets.
Australia opener David Warner has said "sorry" to Mohammed Siraj and Team India after members of the visiting team were subjected to alleged racial abuse by a section of a crowd during the third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The Indian team had apprised match referee David Boon of alleged racial abuse of players -- Jasprit Bumrah and Siraj -- by a section of the SCG crowd at the end of the third day's play. The incident again took place on Sunday following which six people were evicted from the stand just before Tea during Australia's second innings on Day Four of the Test match.
In a big blow to India's chances, pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the Brisbane Test against Australia. Although it is still unconfirmed, but in all likelihood, he won't be able to take part in the final Test. That has left India with serious questions over their playing XI combination.
A oneday international between the United Arab Emirates and Ireland in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday has been postponed after another four players from the hosts squad tested positive for COVID19, the Emirates Cricket Board said.
In what could be the biggest blow for India ahead of the 4th Test at Brisbane, pacer Jasprit Bumrah has reportedly been ruled out of the fourth Test against Australia due to abdominal strain as per BCCI sources
Australian captain Tim Paine apologised Tuesday after launching an ugly tirade at India's Ravichandran Ashwin in the drawn Sydney Test, admitting he was "bitterly disappointed" in his own conduct.
After Indian batsmen took the team to a draw in the Sydney Test against Australia, they managed to retain their second position in the World Test Championship (WTC) standings. They are just marginally ahead of New Zealand in the points table, in terms of percentage of matches won.
In a big blow to India's chances in the upcoming fourth Test at Brisbane against Australia, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been ruled out from the fixture, a BCCI release said. The left-hander suffered a thumb dislocation of day three of the Sydney Test, and could not participate in the match after that. He later went for scans and the results have shown that he has dislocated his thumb.
Pant scored 36 off 67 deliveries in the first innings at the SCG before coming up with the match-changing 97 off 118 deliveries in the second. His innings changed the course of play and took the Australians by surprise.
The 11th of January, 2021 will go down as one of the greatest days in Indian Test cricket history.
Speedster S Sreesanth, who has been in wilderness for over seven years because of a betting/fixing-related life ban, returned to competitive cricket on Monday and bagged a solitary wicket for Kerala against Puducherry in an Elite E match of the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Mumbai.