INDvENG: Ashwin becomes 14th player to play 100 Tests for India
India head coach Rahul Dravid presented a special memento to Ashwin on the occasion of his 100th Test match
India head coach Rahul Dravid presented a special memento to Ashwin on the occasion of his 100th Test match
Bharat has managed to notch up mere 92 runs in four innings in the ongoing series and is yet to register a fifty in 12 Test innings of his career.
Pujara has scored 20,013 runs at an average of 51.98 in 260 first-class matches. In this format, he has tallied 61 hundreds and 78 fifties; his highest score is 352.
Heaping praises on explosive southpaw Rinku Singh’s finishing skills, India head coach Rahul Dravid said that performances in the series against Afghanistan and the IPL will determine the players’ selection in the T20I World Cup squad.
India's first assignment under Rahul Dravid as the head coach of the India national cricket team will be against South Africa in an all-format tour starting December 20 following the ongoing Australia tour of India.
It is not as if the format-specific captains will cease to matter but they are also likely to have had it driven home already that the coach of the team ~ think back to Anil Kumble, before Shastri ~ is not to be taken for granted by anyone within the squad and eventuality left undefended by the cricket board.
On Monday, with India's final T20 World Cup encounter against Namibia, the trio of head coach Shastri, bowling coach Bharat, and fielding coach Sridhar concluded their stint.
The development took place on the sidelines of the final of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League on Friday night.
Just before Dhawan and his peers flew into Sri Lanka, the hosts had, playing unbelievably poorly, lost limited-overs series to Bangladesh and England, which had Ranatunga saying that it was time his compatriots stopped watching the national team’s matches.
Many years ago, when someone had asked then New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, after an international match in Mohali, to pick one India player he would love to have in his team, he had said without batting an eyelid: "Rahul Dravid."
