Category: TEST MATCH

Opening batter Saim Ayub and fast bowler Khurram Shahzad are in line for Test debuts after being included in Pakistan’s squad for their upcoming tour of Australia. Pakistan, under newly-appointed red-ball captain Shan Masood, will play three Tests on the tour, in Perth (December 14-18), Melbourne (December 26-30) and Sydney (January 3-7). The 21-year-old Ayub...

Rain had to final say on Day 5 of the second Test in Port of Spain, without a single ball being bowled, as the game ended in a draw with India sealing a 1-0 win in the two-match Test series against the West Indies. The hosts, who were 76/2 at Stumps on Day 4, needed...

Earlier, Rohit and Kishan both scored quickfire fifties before Ashwin’s double-strike put the visitors in sight of victory West Indies 255 (Brathwaite 75, Siraj 5-60, Jadeja 2-37) and 76 for 2 (Brathwaite 28, Chanderpaul 24*, Ashwin 2-33) need a further 289 runs to beat India 438 and 181 for 2 dec (Rohit 57, Kishan 52*,...

Captain Kraigg Brathwaite hit his 29th Test half-century as the West Indies ended the third day of the second Test against India on 229-5 after 108 overs, trailing by 209 runs at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain. The West Indies began the day 86-1 and Brathwaite and his overnight partner, debutant Kirk McKenzie, added...

Virat Kohli made his first away Test century in almost five years, and Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin helped themselves to half-centuries, as India piled up 438 in Port-of-Spain. In reply, West Indies started slowly but solidly, with captain Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul responsible for the hosts’ first half-century partnership in the series. But...

Virat Kohli, playing his 500th international game, led India’s revival along with Ravindra Jadeja following an inspired bowling performance from West Indies in the second session of the second Test in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Half-centuries from Rohit Sharma (80) and Yashavi Jaiswal (57) helped India to a solid start after being asked to bat,...

By Brandon Corlette After a few months of successful play in white-ball cricket and first-class cricket, the 23-year-old Kevin Sinclair has earned a maiden call to the West Indies team for the second Test match against India, to be played in Trinidad. Sinclair, who arrived in Trinidad on Tuesday morning for the Test match which...

The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel today announced the squad for the second Cycle Pure Agarbathi Test Match powered by YES BANK against India. The Panel named 13 squad members and two traveling reserve players for the match which will be played at Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad from 20 to...

By Brandon Corlette West Indies will play against India in the second Test match from July 20 at Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago. After West Indies lost by an innings and 141 runs, inside three days in the opening Test match in Dominica, veteran international cricket commentator, Joseph “Reds” Perreira is calling for the...

From selling street food in Mumbai to winning the player-of-the-match award in his test debut in Roseau, India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is international cricket’s latest rags-to-riches story. India thumped West Indies by an innings and 141 runs inside three days, a victory set up by Jaiswal’s 171, which helped the visitors rack up 421-5 before...