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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Topic: Test cricket

Melbourne Test: Australia beat India by 184 runs, lead Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1

Brief score: Australia 474 & 234 vs India’s 369 & 155. Set 340 to win on 5th day, India were bowled out after tea while Yashasvi Jaiswal fought a lone battle, scoring 84.

Shoulder bump first, now stare down. New episode in Virat Kohli’s brush with Australia controversies

Incident happened when Kohli, who got out on 36 runs, was caught behind off Scott Boland. As fans were booing & making remarks, he gave them a stern stare before being escorted away.

Shubman Gill’s childhood coach Ghavri has a simple piece of advice. ‘Occupy crease & adapt to conditions’

Former Indian cricketer & coach Karsan Ghavri is confident about his ward coming out of the batting slump. He just has to put up that one big partnership or individual score, he adds.

Are Virat, Rohit & Co clueless before left-arm spin? Struggles of Indian batters ages old

Left-arm spinners are tricky for right-handed batters because of the natural variation—some deliveries turn sharply across the face of the bat while others come on with the angle.

Sunil Gavaskar on disadvantages of cricketers taking frequent breaks. ‘Very difficult to win after’

Former India captain also questions head coach Gautam Gambhir's role after 3-0 loss to Kiwis as well as tactics of home team during the three Test match series.

Our take on Chandrachud’s retirement, terror attacks in J&K, and LAC patrolling agreement

ThePrint view on the most important issues of the week.

Ben Stokes doesn’t get Islamabad reporter. Pakistanis charge English captain of overreacting

Pakistanis refused to let the English have the last laugh. One X user said, “Ben Stokes is me trying to understand the British English accent.”

Greater Noida stadium defeated the Afghanistan vs New Zealand Test. There’s a lesson here

The rain covers borrowed from Arun Jaitley stadium reached only on the evening of day two. The Test may join the list of rare games abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Royalty by blood, Anshuman Gaekwad exuded class, elegance on and off cricket ground

Baroda great was a proud man & he carried it on his sleeve, says ex-India cricketer Kiran More. 'He always maintained his dignity; he always interacted with people with adab.'

Inswing, outswing, reverse swing, reverse-reverse swing & more. James Anderson had it all

A fast bowler playing for 22 years & performing so consistently to be able to take 700 wickets would have sounded like fiction until Anderson did it, Tendulkar said it in March.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.