Cricket

World’s biggest cricket league, the IPL has given a platform to star international cricketers like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, and AB De Villiers to shine. But more than that, it has given young domestic talents a stage where they get exposure equivalent to international cricket.

After a humiliating 10-wicket loss in the second one-day international against Australia in Vizag on Sunday (March 19), India will look to make a comeback and win the 3-match series in the final ODI against the Aussies at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday (March 22).

After retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by 2-1, the Indian cricket team will play Australia in a three-match ODI series starting today (March 17) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

After making a return to form in T20Is and One Day Internationals (ODIs), Kohli's 28th Test ton is a big sigh of relief for the former Indian skipper and his fans.

The third Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar trophy between India and Australia ended on an embarrassing note for the hosts as the Men In Blue suffered a humiliating defeat. India now have to win the fourth Test of the series to qualify for World Test Championship final.

In India, even if a cricketer doesn't make it big in the ground, they succeed in other fields related to cricket like commentary, coaching or as experts. However, there have also been players who looked promising, but because of their inconsistency they were left out of the team, and then they completely got out of the picture.

Former Indian cricketers Venkatesh Prasad and Aakash Chopra were involved in a war of words over the selection of batter KL Rahul. While Prasad has been a staunch critic of Rahul and his inclusion in the Test team, Chopra jumped into the debate when he called Prasad's tirade against Rahul an 'agenda'.

Rahul's poor run in the format has been going on for some time now, but it became a big issue after former players like Venkatesh Prasad started pointing put out how despite having a dry run in the format, the batsman enjoys the team management's trust.

In the last 7 Test innings, KL Rahul could only score 175 runs. In his last 11 Test innings, Rahul has gone past 25 only once, scoring 50, 8, 12, 10, 22, 23, 10, 2, 20, 17 and 1.

The recent Prithvi Shaw incident on February 15 is a classic example of the fact that cricketers, just like any other human being, can lose their patience when pushed too hard.