It turns out that one of the worst things you can do as an opposing captain is to question the morals of the England openers. Accused of breaking the Spirit of Cricket at Lord’s, Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett responded by doing their best to break the spirit of India.

Indian shooters, like most Olympic athletes in the country, are accustomed to being the poor cousins of their cricket counterparts but a new franchise-based league wants to change that.

In a day that combined valiant grit and unrelenting dominance, Ben Stokes and England’s openers flipped the script of

The Ben Stokes-led English side will also host New Zealand and Pakistan in two Test series next year, while Harry Brook's white-ball team will welcome Sri Lanka apart from India in ODIs and T20Is

Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar praised Virat Kohli's captaincy while reviewing the performance of the Shubman Gill-led team on Day 2 of the Manchester Test.

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Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett both fall just short of scoring a century after being caught late on day two of the fourth Test against India at Old Trafford as England close on 225-2, leaving them 133 runs behind India's first innings score of 358.

Fast bowler Akash Deep will be unavailable for the fourth test against England in Manchester, India captain Shubman Gill said on Tuesday, with right-arm quick Anshul Kamboj likely to make his debut. India drafted Kamboj into the squad on Monday with Nitish Kumar Reddy ruled out of the rest of the tour with a knee injury and fellow seamer Arshdeep Singh unfit for the next test.