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Friday, July 18, 2025
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Topic: World Test Championship

The post-Kohli & Rohit Test era begins. India’s young team to take on England in five-Test series

A new team under Shubman Gill begins India’s 2025-27 WTC campaign in England. With little experience in English conditions, the young side faces a tough test.

WTC final win came on a sunny day for Rainbow Nation. It’s a new chapter for South Africa cricket

The Proteas claimed an emphatic 5-wicket win over Australia in ICC World Test Championship Final at Lord's. The win couldn't have been sweeter after being written off by critics.

Ind-SA Test was shortest ever. Bad pitch, missing focus to blame? It may just have been Bazball

Indian speedsters bowled their hearts out & avoided a potential 0-2 scoreline, even as batsmen's inability to play on bouncy pitches is exposed yet again.

For every gaali Australians give us, respond with 3 gaalis—What Ravi Shastri told the boys

On the bus ride back to the hotel, MS slid into the seat next to Virat and said, ‘Look, Virat, you can chase down this total, you are that kind of a player.’

SubscriberWrites: Why can’t IPL be blamed for India’s failure at World Test Championship Finals?

The big Indian players are the backbone of this league. It gave platforms to Rinku Singh and Yashaswi Jaiswal, made them superstars and gave them lifelines in the form of big money.

‘It’s called mateship’— UK ex-politician told off for racist tweet on Australian cricket team

Former Brexit Party leader said the Aussies did not celebrate their WTC win with champagne because of Usman Khawaja.

Shubman Gill fined 15% of match fees for criticizing umpire over his dismissal in WTC final

Indian captain Rohit Sharma expressed his disappointment over the dismissal mentioning that unlike the IPL, just a few camera angles were available.

‘No intention of tinkering with technique to add ‘fancy shots’ for IPL,’ says Virat Kohli

The stalwart smashed 100 off 63 balls as the Royal Challengers Bangalore chased down their target to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets on Thursday.

India dethrone Australia’s 15-month reign as number one test team in cricket ahead of WTC final

The annual update of the official rankings dropped the results from the 2019-20 season and reflects all series completed since May 2020.

Australia qualifies for World Test Championship final, India made to wait

While India holds on to second place on the standings, they can still be overtaken by Sri Lanka if results go against Rohit Sharma's side over the coming weeks.

On Camera

Trump’s Ukraine U-turn puts Russia’s trade partners at risk. India caught in the middle

Across strategic and political circles, there is a broad consensus that India should prioritise its national interest by integrating into global defence production and supply chains.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

In setback to Pakistan, US designates LeT front as terror group for Pahalgam attack. What is TRF

India has welcomed the move, calling it a 'timely & important step reflecting the deep cooperation between India and US on counter-terrorism'.

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.