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Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana hit fifties and Shree Charani and Deepti Sharma share seven wickets in the 72-run final win in Dubai | Cricket

Sree Charani has spun a web with her wily left-arm spin, picking up four wickets

The Womens Asia Cup 2026 final will see India Women take on Sri Lanka Women, with captain Harmanpreet Kaur determined to cap off an impressive tournament with a win. Scheduled for Sunday, September 13, in Dubai, fans can catch the live action on Sony Sports Network and SonyLIV. The pitch at Dubai International Stadium is expected to favor spinners and slower bowlers, adding to the competitive edge.

Sri Lanka Cricket faces estimated revenue loss of USD 20 million

India skipper Shubman Gill and Jasprit Bumrah both dropped two and one spots respectively in the latest ICC Test rankings. Devdutt Padikkal, however, made gains in the rankings going up to the 54th spot

In 2015, Colombo s Sinhalese Sports Club was the venue where Virat Kohli took a big step in shaping his vision for India s Test side. A decade later, the same venue offers Shubman Gill an opportunity that could prove similarly revealing

Sri Lanka simplified immigration procedures for refugees returning from India. The United Nations welcomed this significant decision for their safe return

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan pacer Chaminda Vaas on Saturday urged the authorities to work towards keeping the Test and 50-over formats alive amid the growing preference for T20s and the onslaught of franchise-based leagues.The International Cricket Council CEO

Kuldeep Yadav has just bowled 25 overs in the first Test at Galle against Sri Lanka. Shubman Gill was reluctant to use his left-arm wrist spinner often in the game compared to Manav Suthar or Ravindra Jadeja

Mohammed Kaif criticized Shubman Gill for not giving Kuldeep Yadav longer bowling spells. He believes this shows a lack of faith in the unique wrist-spinner

After Prime Minister Modi s Independence Day speech mentioned that the government would provide free coaching for competitive examinations to students, Maharashtra s Higher Education Department has constituted a committee to form a policy to expand the state s

Come on yaar, there was a lot of shots in first innings. We need to see something, come on. Niroshan Dickwella had barely reached the crease when Yashasvi Jaiswal began

India has reduced Sri Lanka to 84/4 at the end of Day 4. Manav Suthar yet again has been quite superb with his bowling, picking up two wickets

India wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant became the fastest batter ever to hit 100 sixes in Test cricket, achieving the feat during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Tuesday Eight years to the day he made his Test debut against England in Nottinham, the 28

Rishabh Pant achieved a significant milestone by hitting his 100th Test six. He became the first Indian batter and fourth player globally to reach this mark

Two lakh trees have been mapped, geo-tagged and entered into a digital database across several parameters in Ludhiana, marking the first-ever tree census conducted for a Punjab city. The census assumes significance as the industrial city continues to grapple w

India must be brave with their timing of the declaration on the day four of the Galle Test against Sri Lanka to maintain their hopes to qualify for the ICC World Test Championship, said former India batter Cheteshwar Pujara. With nine Tests remaining in the cu

But while Bangladesh tore up the script in Darwin, recording a historic nine-wicket win over Australia, rain added to the frustration of Shubman Gill & Co after a fruitful first day, and with rain on the radar for the next three days in Galle, the visitors hav

Day One at Galle belonged to India. While it was Devdutt Padikkal's unbeaten maiden century that stood at the forefront of India's domination, after they elected to bat first on a pitch expected to wear down and bring spinners more into play as the game progre

In recent years, Devdutt Padikkal may have been hogging the limelight for his batting in limited-overs cricket, where he has excelled out of his comfort zone. But deep down a fire has been burning in the left-hander

A three-day practice game had instilled some confidence last week, but the mercurial Galle venue could probe India s underlying weaknesses against spin, the true confidence of their batters against the flight, dip and turn from Galle phenoms, Prabath Jayasuriy

India Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill s initiation into the leadership role has faced patches of breaks in between due to injury concerns over the last year. Suffering another impact injury to his right hand last week, Gill was absent from action for two of

Be it Mitchell Santner, Steve O Keefe or Rangana Herath, Indian batters have historically had trouble against left-arm spinners. In the upcoming tour against Sri Lanka, which starts on Saturday, India will face another such wily left-arm finger spinner in Prab

The one thing which makes Rishabh Pant worth watching in red-ball cricket is his intent. If it is a spinner, he does not hesitate to charge down the track and smash the bowler and tends to try a similar method against the pacers too

Jasprit Bumrah s absence will dampen the experience factor in India s squad as they resume their World Test Championship (WTC) bid in Sri Lanka with a two-match series, starting Saturday in Galle. Bumrah, who was initially named in the 15-man squad, was omitte

After India s white-ball tour of Ireland and England this July, during which Kuldeep Yadav spent nearly all his time on the bench, the opportunity to play the One-Day Cup for Yorkshire came around and he didn t have any second thoughts. The plan had been Kanpu

In August 2015, when India landed in Sri Lanka for Virat Kohli s first full Test series as captain, it felt like the beginning of something new. MS Dhoni had retired from Test cricket months earlier

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak was all praise for how their three-day warm-up game in Colombo ahead of their two-Test series against Sri Lanka, even stating that it was more productive than what practising in the nets for four more days would ve done. Indi

Sarfaraz Khan celebrated his return to the Indian team with a post of himself wearing their training kit and posing with his father, the former club cricketer and coach Naushad Khan. Sarfaraz has been included in the Indian side for their two-Test series in Sr

India s only warm-up game ahead of the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting in Galle on August 15 ended in dramatic fashion with Mohammed Siraj blasting three consecutive sixes to help cross the finish line. While the visitors found answers to most quest

Mohammed Siraj slammed back to back three sixes to help India defeat Sri Lanka XI by 6 wickets in the 3-day practice match on Sunday. With 23 runs needed in the last 2 overs, the match was looking to end as a draw but Siraj had other ideas

A source at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) has raised concerns over players playing through injuries during the Indian Premier League (IPL) due to franchise and financial pressures before being sent to the national cricket board's rehabilitation facility

Amid mounting criticism of its operations and India s injury crisis, BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) head VVS Laxman has defended the operations of the Bengaluru-based facility. While Laxman conceded that the BCCI have failed to find a head for its Sports Scie

With India yet to find able backups for Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, the team management has tested a young crop of fast bowlers over the last two years. India pace legend Zaheer Khan recently opened up about the steady rise of young fast-bowling options