Former coach Ravi Shastri`s assertion that the Indian team lost in Indore due to "overconfidence" has been termed "rubbish" by skipper Rohit Sharma, who minced no words while calling him an "outsider"

India`s batting megastars will be desperate to clear the cobwebs from their head in pursuit of a second successive World Test Championship final berth as they take on Australia in the series-deciding fourth Test here from Thursday

Australia`s star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell says the late Shane Warne had the ability to make one feel at ease in an instant and reveals how the spin wizard reached out to him during a tough phase

Having lost all their matches, both RCB and GG are sitting at the bottom of the table. RCB suffered their first defeat against Delhi Capitals by 60 runs and then Bangalore failed to claim a win against Harmanpreet Kaur-led side Mumbai Indians (MI) handing them a 9 wickets victory

But Lanning didn’t slow down one bit. She was particularly terrific playing square of the wicket.  She reached her second half-century of the tournament in just 32 balls with a six off left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone (1-41)

Bharat has had scores of 8, 6, 23*, 17 and 3 in the five innings that he has played

“Over the last couple of weeks for the West Indies, I’ve been working on my batting, getting the big scores. I have just tried to carry that [form] here. Also, batting on much better wickets here than what we got in South Africa has also helped. It has also got the confidence up as well,” she added

“It’s been awesome. When I look back to Nagpur when he walked out to bat, I was at the top of my mark thinking this is as good as it gets... getting to bowl to a guy like that

Karmarkar, the former president of the Sports Journalists Association of Mumbai, was also sports editor of Maharashtra Times. His expertise ran across a variety of sports, but he had special love for cricket, kabaddi and kho-kho. He highlighted numerous wrongdoings of various sports associations through his articles