The four wickets that India prised out in the third session, on balance, swung the game back in their favour, says Prem Panicker .
Images from Day 4 of the third Test between Australia and India in Brisbane on Tuesday.
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England's Jacob Bethell will bat at number three for the first time in first-class cricket when he makes his Test debut against New Zealand at Christchurch's Hagley Oval on Thursday.
TV commentators Graeme Smith and Scott Styris remarked that such discussions should occur privately, not in front of the broadcasting cameras.
Australia bowled out South Africa for a below-par 212 despite David Miller's defiant 101 but the chase was not as straightforward as Pat Cummins and his team would have liked.
Images from the 4th T20I between India and West Indies in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Saturday.
Pandya's stature has grown with his ascendency to India's permanent captaincy job in T20Is, while Shubman Gill has established himself
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 in Ahmedabad from Thursday.
Images from Day 1 of the second Test between India and Australia, at the Arun Jaitley stadium, in Delhi, on Friday.
Shreyas Iyer's performance will be under intense scrutiny as India gear up for the back-to-back T20I games against West Indies
Karunaratne fell for 86 in the final session but Mendis was batting on 84 at stumps
Opener David Warner is still looking for his first Test hundred against Sri Lanka while Smith has managed only one century in his last 18 Tests.
Images from Day 4 of the fourth Test between Australia and India, at the Gabba, on Monday.
Labuschagne played a knock of 108 runs before he was dismissed by debutant T Natarajan in the final session of the opening day.
Prominent deep-pocketed investors are lined up to finance Major League Cricket, the world's top players are supposedly ready to sign on and, according to the ICC and USA Cricket research, there is a baked-in fan base of between 15 and 20 million waiting to be served.
Images from Thursday's IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and SunRisers Hyderabad, in Dubai.
All that's transpired on and off the cricket pitch on Monday.
Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne put on 116 for the third wicket before the latter was bowled by a beautiful delivery from Craig Overton for 67.
What the media said after Australia breached 'fort' Edgbaston to take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes Test series
Images from Friday's World Cup match between South Africa and Sri Lanka, at Chester-le-Street.
'Cheteshwar Pujara is the wall (of Indian cricket) after Rahul Dravid. He is the Indian wall like the China Wall (referring to the Great Wall of China).'
The soul of India resides in pluralism and tolerance. This plurality of our society has come through assimilation of ideas over centuries. Secularism and inclusion are a matter of faith for us. It is our composite culture which makes us into one nation.
Chasing a revised target of 235 from 33 overs following two rain interruptions, Australia were struggling at 53 for three in nine overs when the heavens opened up for the third time in the day, forcing the onfield umpires to abandon the game as both the sides split points.
The US military fired an intercontinental ballistic missile-type weapon on Tuesday from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It then fired a missile to intercept it from Vandenberg air force base in California.
Indian bowlers were thwarted by Australia's perseverance as Steve Smith's men survived a battle of nerves on Monday to force a draw in the third cricket Test in Ranchi and keep the series alive.
K L Rahul (67) scored his fourth half-century (his fifth in Test cricket) of the series and along with fellow opener Murali Vijay (42 batting), conjured up a stand of 91 -- their best of the series -- on a JSCA track that remained good for batting.
Rajneesh Gupta surveys the cricketing milestones from the Mohali Test.
For the first time in a decade, South Africa have been forced to acknowledge they are on the decline following back-to-back series losses to India and England that have knocked them off the top of the Test rankings.
Australia coach Darren Lehmann on Wednesday said the home side is liking the charged up atmosphere created by the newly-appointed Indian captain.
"I love being in Rajasthan and am doubly happy that I have been able to come so soon after doing the The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 's first version. I would like to go to Udaipur again and see how the lakes are there now," Judi Dench, who has been shooting in Jaipur for the sequel of her hit film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, says. P B Chandra reports.
Images from the opening day's play of the fourth Ashes Test between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Thursday.
The JLF has also become one of the most preferred platform to launch new authors and network. It is no surprise then that prominent publishing houses vie for space at the venue. In its 2011 edition, the JLF will see some young and old names gathering again to discuss books, lock horns and back slap each other.Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are at Jaipur attending the festival.
A wrong umpiring decision dashed P Kashyap's hopes of a maiden Commonwealth Games final but Saina Nehwal and women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa assured India of silver medals after advancing to the finals of the badminton event in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Krishna Poonia led an unprecedented sweep of all the women's discus medals at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. Pooniya led a historic Indian 1-2-3 by hurling the disc to 61.51m and became the country's first woman in 52 years to win the gold. Harwant Kaur (60.66m) and National record holder Seema Antil (58.46m) bagging silver and bronze respectively.
Twenty-six year old Casey Brinegar and 22-year old Kartik Kalaichelvan, both flight instructors, and Kartik's brother Pratik Kalaichelyan, 19, died in the accident. Brinegar and Kartik died on the spot while Pratik died in the hospital. Officials have not determined yet, who piloted the plane.
Indian American politicians have denounced a television advertisement by a conservative group called Americans for Job Security that hits at a governor who had earlier favoured outsourcing jobs to India.
Paceman Juan 'Rusty' Theron was the only new cap included in South Africa's 15-man squad, while Graeme Smith was confirmed as captain on Wednesday for the Twenty20 World Cup starting next month. Smith, whose participation was in doubt due to a fractured finger, will return to captain the side in the April 30 - May 16 tournament.
Smith's financial acumen steered the troubled car maker through its toughest times in the recent past.
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