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If I would have been a part of team under Virat, India would have won the World Cup thrice: Sreesanth
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Sreesanth has also played an important role in India's previous two victories. Talking about India not winning any World Cup after 2011, Sreesanth -- during a CricChat on the ShareChat Audio Chatroom -- said that he is confident that Virat Kohli will do something extraordinary.
Pant can handle pressure well, could captain India in future, says Arun Lal
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The 66-year-old Lal, who recently decided to step down as the head coach of the Bengal cricket team, lauded Pant's ability to play game-changing knocks under pressure in both Test and limited-overs formats.
West Indies top-order batter Lendl Simmons announces retirement from international cricket
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The talented batter finished his career with a total of 3,763 runs for West Indies from 144 matches over all three formats. The 37-year-old Simmons played five Tests, 68 ODIs and an equal number of T20Is. Simmons is best known for his exploits in ODI cricket having made two centuries and 16 half-centuries for the Caribbean side.
Beaumont slams century as England crush South Africa in WODI; sweep series
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The 31-year-old veteran opener, who is just three shy of completing a century of ODIs, didn't take too kindly to being left out of England's Commonwealth Games squad as she hit a brilliant 119 off 107 balls to lead her side to a 109-run victory against the Proteas on Monday.
Dortmund's new arrival Haller doesn't feel pressure as successor of Haaland
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"We want to be successful and we want to win titles; that's the story," the Cote d'Ivoire international insisted. Haller's signing comes along with vast expectations as he stands for a strategy change at Dortmund. Instead of going for another promising talent up front, the 2012 German champion decided to get an experienced footballer.
Shooting World Cup: Mairaj Ahmad Khan becomes first Indian to win men's Skeet gold
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His efforts helped India stay on top of the medal standings with five gold, five silver and three bronze medals with two more days of competitions left. India also won a bronze today with the 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) women's team of Anjum Moudgil, Sift Kaur Samra and Ashi Chouksey, winning their bronze medal match up 16-06 against Austria.
ODI series highlights Indian batters' persistent problems against left-arm pacers
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Hussain's words came after India's star-studded top order of captain Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli fell to left-arm pacers for second time in as many matches during the ODI series in England. It again highlighted that India's top-order batters facing trouble and getting out to left-arm pace bowlers has been a perennial problem, which doesn't look like going away anytime soon.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes to retire from ODIs after Tuesday's match against SA
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Stokes made his ODI debut against Ireland in 2011 and has scored 2919 runs in 104 ODIs, averaging 39.44, including three centuries and 21 half-centuries, and picked 74 wickets at an average of 41.79. He captained the ODI side during last summer's 3-0 series victory against Pakistan when first-choice members were unavailable due to Covid-19 outbreak.
Don't like to be challenged; get extra motivated when batters try to hit my short-pitched deliveries: Pandya
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Pandya, who emerged 'Player of the Series' and missed the 'Player of the Match' award to Rishabh Pant, returned superb bowling figures of 4/24 in his seven overs as England were dismissed for 259 in 45.5 overs.
I am an experienced cricketer, but I am a young captain: Jos Buttler
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Buttler, who was England's top-scorer in their total of 259 with 60 off 80 balls, could have stumped Pant off Moeen Ali on 18. But the chance was missed and Pant made them pay by smacking 16 fours and two sixes to make his first ODI century.
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