India’s T20I vice-captain Shubman Gill has been cleared by the Sports Science team of the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence to play the opening T20I against South Africa on Tuesday after successfully completing his rehabilitation from a neck injury sustained during the Kolkata Test. Gill was selected in the squad subject to fitness and had t
07 December,2025 09:27 AM IST | Cuttack | PTIYashasvi Jaiswal has been the nearly man of India white-ball cricket. Despite boasting a commendable average of 36.15 and a terrific strike-rate of 164.31 in 23 matches, he hasn’t played a T20I since July 2024. The logjam at the top of the ODI tree had restricted his appearance in that format to just one until last week, when an unfortunate n
07 December,2025 08:59 AM IST | Visakhapatnam | R KaushikIn the third ODI match against South Africa, Team India emerged victorious by nine wickets at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Needing to chase a target of 271 runs, Team India's opening batsman, Yashasvi Jaiswal, registered an unbeaten century. Facing 121 balls, the left-hander smashed 116 runs, which was laced with 12 boundaries an
06 December,2025 09:06 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentIn the third ODI match against Team India, South Africa's Quinton de Kock played a knock of 106 runs. He faced just 89 deliveries and smashed eight boundaries and six maximums at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. With this, he became the seventh South African batsman to enter the elite list of players to complete 13,000 runs in the On
06 December,2025 07:04 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentIn the third ODI match against Team India, South Africa posted a total of 270 runs in 47.5 overs at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Having put to bat first, Quinton de Kock smashed 106 runs off 89 deliveries, which was laced with eight boundaries and six maximums. Fellow opening batsman, Ryan Rickelton, departed on a four-ball duck.
06 December,2025 06:53 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentIn the third ODI match against South Africa, Team India skipper KL Rahul has won the toss and elected to bowl first at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. Team India has made one change, in which Washington Sundar has made way for Tilak Varma. For Proteas, Tony de Zorzi and Nandre Burger have picked up injuries, which in turn have provi
06 December,2025 01:35 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentFormer India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has urged the Indian team management to provide Washington Sundar with “proper” role clarity, warning that the bowling all-rounder could otherwise be left “searching for who he is.” Ashwin stressed that Washington must be treated as a frontline bowling all-rounder and given a full qu
06 December,2025 09:08 AM IST | New Delhi | PTIFormer India captain and batting stalwart-turned-commentator Sunil Gavaskar has been unable to make it to Vizag for the series-deciding third ODI between India and South Africa due to the ongoing issue with flight cancellations at Mumbai airport. India’s largest airline Indigo cancelled all departures from Mumbai on Friday, further escalating
06 December,2025 08:56 AM IST | Mumbai | Debasish DattaAssistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate on Friday said a below-par performance in the preceding Test series has put a certain amount of “desperation” in the Indian team to win the ongoing ODI series against South Africa.' India lost the two-match Test rubber 0-2 to the Proteas recently, and the ODI series is now levelled at 1-1. “We
06 December,2025 08:43 AM IST | Visakhapatnam | PTISouth Africa batter Matthew Breetzke understands that India will come hard at them in the series-deciding third ODI here, but is banking on their balanced batting side to overcome the challenge. The three-match series is levelled at 1-1, and India will require a win on Saturday to avoid a second successive series defeat against the Proteas after s
06 December,2025 08:39 AM IST | Visakhapatnam | PTIThere is no more consummate driver of the cricket ball than Virat Kohli. To watch him get his left foot to the pitch of the ball, bring the bat down with a flourish and break his wrists to keep the cherry down despite his hard hands is a sight for sore eyes, an event that has played itself on loop over the last few days.But strap Kohli into a car a
06 December,2025 08:37 AM IST | Visakhapatnam | R KaushikADVERTISEMENT
