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Ajinkya Rahane was struck on the index finger of his right hand off a Pat Cummins bouncer while batting on Day Two of the marquee clash. He immediately felt pain and the physio rushed on the field immediately for treating the injured finger, which Rahane had previously fractured in his playing career.

The BCCI shared the picture of the side hitting the ground running at the iconic venue. "Hello from the Oval," it said in a tweet. On May 25, the BCCI had said via its official Twitter handle that Indian team members like Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur along with head coach Rahul Dravid and other support staff members had.

The India women's team has been without a head coach since Ramesh Powar was moved to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in December 2022. The side then had Hrishikesh Kanitkar joined as its batting coach and reached the semifinals of the T20 World Cup earlier this year in South Africa without a head coach.

Last year, BCCI secretary and ACC chairman Jay Shah had made it clear that the Indian team will not travel to Pakistan for the Continental championship and demanded that the event be moved to a neutral venue. Pakistan, on the other hand, has even threatened to boycott the ODI World Cup, which will be played in India in October-November.

The 34-year-old Rahane, who was out of the India team since the Cape Town Test against South Africa last year after an extended run of low scores, recently made his comeback to the Indian side after being named in the side for WTC final courtesy his spectacular form in the ongoing IPL 2023.

The BCCI has announced the Indian squad for the World Test Championship Final scheduled to begin on June 7 at Kennington Oval against Australia. Senior India batter Rahane made his India comeback on the back of a stellar show in the Ranji Trophy and followed it up with a brilliant run in the IPL for Chennai Super Kings.

Qualifier 1 to be played among the top two teams in points table will be held on May 23 at the M. A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. It will be followed by the Eliminator played between third and fourth-ranked teams in the table on May 24 at the same venue. Playoffs action will then shift to the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad who will host Qualifier 2 to be played between the winner of the eliminator and loser of Qualifier 1 on May 26.

A report in the Australian newspaper 'The Sydney Morning Herald' said that the Saudi Arabian government is planning to set up the world's richest T20 league in the Gulf region and they have proposed plans regarding the same to the owners of the IPL teams.

In the petition moved in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court, Tammanah Hashmi claimed that these sportsmen and actors are playing with the present and future of youths by making them involve themselves in gambling through various online games related to the IPL.

The season will see a total of 1846 matches being played between the last week of June 2023 and March 2024, a BCCI media release said. The coveted Duleep Trophy will end on July 16, 2023 and it will be followed by the Prof. Deodhar Trophy -- to be played from July 24, 2023 to August 3. Both these tournaments will be played across six zones -- Central, South, North, East, West and North-East.