India are still the best travelling team in Test cricket: Brian Lara
Cricket | March 13, 2020 11:30 ISTLara said that West Indies and India would be two teams that Australia will be worried about the most at the T20 World Cup later in the year.
Lara said that West Indies and India would be two teams that Australia will be worried about the most at the T20 World Cup later in the year.
It's time for retrospection for India. For the batters whose follies have been called out and for the bowling department that showed lack of depth in New Zealand.
After Team India's recent 2-0 defeat in New Zealand, the World Test Championship has been thrown wide open with few other possibilities for the finale at Lord's in June 2021.
New Zealand beat India by 7 wickets in the second Test at Hagley Oval to complete a 2-0 series whitewash over India.
India retained their No.1 spot in the World Test Championship despite the two losses in the two-match series against New Zealand.
Gaining 60 points, New Zealand jumped to the fifth position on World Test Championship's points table with 120 points to overtake Sri Lanka, who have 80 points in four matches till now.
Team India are currently at the top of the World Test Championship table and are on red-hot form but Ajinkya Rahane feels beating New Zealand in New Zealand won't be easy.
As per points system, the value for each Test match win in a two-match series is 60 points per game but during a five-game series, it gets reduced to 24 per game.
Indian skipper Virat Kohli has termed the World Test Championship as the biggest ICC tournament.
Team India coach Ravi Shastri said Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill are supremely exciting talents and have bright futures ahead of them.
The last time the two faced each other was in Australia when the hosts were without Steve Smith, David Warner and Mitchell Starc. India won the series 2-1
After an emphatic series win over New Zealand, Australia have reduced the gap with India in the World Test Championship table.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket committee is likely to consider four-day Test matches as being part of the World Test Championship from 2023.
Pakistan secured a comprehensive 263-run win over Sri Lanka to jump to third position in the World Test Championship.
Australia leads the three-test series 1-0 going into the second test in Melbourne on Boxing Day.
India had refused to play a pink-ball Test during their last tour of Australia but last month they hosted their first day-night Test against Bangladesh in Kolkata with Sourav Ganguly taking the initiative after becoming the BCCI president.
Windies are currently ranked eighth in the ICC Test team rankings, however, Holder felt his team will soon be at the fourth or fifth spot in the charts.
As per the existing format, a team is supposed to play six series in the WTC, three home and three away but they are not scheduled alternatively.
Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma took 9 wickets among themselves as India beat Bangladesh by an innings and 46 runs to take the two-match series 2-0.
India secured another emphatic victory over Bangladesh in the second Test in Kolkata, and as a result, took a commanding lead in the World Test Championship table.
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