India vs New Zealand WTC final

SOUTHAMPTON: Batting coach Vikram Rathour on Saturday said that a first innings score of 250-plus will put India in a fighting position against New Zealand, keeping the prevailing conditions…

The first session of the World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand has been washed out due to continuous drizzle at the Ageas Bowl. "Update: Unfortunately…

NEW DELHI: India is all set to take on New Zealand in the much-anticipated final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) being held at Ageas Bowl in Southampton starting Friday.…

India have taken the bold step of going in with five specialist batsmen, two frontline spinners in Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin and the veteran pacer Ishant Sharma over young…

Welcome to a sporting ‘first’, a rarity in a pandemic-ravaged world. Fitting, then, that this is about an age-old format. Test cricket, forever in existential crisis in a post-T20 landscape,…

Three weeks after the epochal triumph in the Brisbane Test earlier this year, England were running India ragged in the Chennai Test. By the last session of the fourth day, England had batted…

While the WTC final against New Zealand will start on June 18, five-match series against England starts on August 4. The Indian team management has decided to give a three-week break to…

The team does not include K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar. Veteran speedster Umesh Yadav pipped Brisbane Test hero Shardul Thakur as the 15th member of…

Vengsarkar reckoned that New Zealand could have slight advantage given that they are already in the zone competitively. Lack of match practice before the World Test Championship final…

India’s pace attack is on par with New Zealand’s world-class swing operators but the Black Caps batsman Henry Nicholls is more wary of the threat spinners R. Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja may…