Shubman Gill has reached Ahmedabad. Even as India were taking on Afghanistan at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, the young opener, suffering from dengue fever, travelled to Ahmedabad from Chennai. He reached Gujarat city on Wednesday night. It is still not clear if the 24-year-old opener will be able to play in the marquee game against Pakistan but indications are that he is improving. After spending a night at the Kaurvery Hospital in Chennai he returned to the hotel...

"The bounce is uneven here." Imam-ul-Haq told one of the coaches as he shifted from net No.2 to net No.3 in Pakistan's second practice session in Hyderabad. Both Imam and Fakhar Zaman had struggled against the pacers on that pitch, and it was Mohammad Rizwan's turn to occupy that net. The 'keeper-bat who had practiced for 20-odd minutes to keep his compulsive pull shots to the ground, was left hurt soon after he moved to the troublesome turf of Net 2....

"Tired! I won't lie," KL Rahul remarked the morning after India's sapping start to the World Cup. The keeper-bat was chatting to Virat Kohli in an informal setting for bcci.tv, the pair recollecting events from their backs-to-the-wall rescue act against Australia. There's only so much time for reflection in a 10-team round-robin league phase and 24 hours later, India find themselves on the other side of the Vindhyas, preparing to double down on the happy high of a tough win. On paper it...

Dinesh Karthik remembers getting a phone call from Rahul Dravid just half-an-hour before the Indian team's departure to the MCG for their last group stage game of the 2022 T20 World Cup. South Africa had dramatically lost to Netherlands in Adelaide that morning and the fog around the identity of the final-four was suddenly lifting. If India beat Zimbabwe in Melbourne later that day, they would set up a semifinal showdown against England. And so in the 11th hour before...

Dawid Malan looks imposing with a bat in hand. It's an assessment that every bowler who has run into him this year will concur with. He's six feet tall and lines up almost fully straight and upright before the ball is bowled - with shades of Marcus Trescothick to his stance. Early on Tuesday morning in Dharamsala, full of sunshine and opportunities on a flat wicket, he put on display minimal footwork for an outrageous shot that would've made Trescothick proud. Bangladesh fast...

"Well, I think I was the No. 1 spinner in 2015 when we won it, so I've been bumped back to number two." Glenn Maxwell had one of those typically beaming smiles on his face as he shot down in jest a question about whether he thought he was a 'specialist spinner'. In his defence, he did out-bowl Adam Zampa, the official specialist spinner in the squad, during Australia's opening World Cup game in Chennai. To his credit, Maxwell was indeed...