Wishing you a very happy birthday @ianuragthakur - hope you remember the old times when the ‘boys’ knew nothing but playing cricket! This is the picture from 1992 when we were part of the Punjab Under19 team that won the national Cooch Behar Trophy. Anurag scored 3 centuries that season and was unlucky to miss out on playing for India Under-19 team

Tilak Verma has won critical games for India in adverse conditions and on slightly difficult pitches.

India win and I Lose! Always against the dictum of playing a batsman at No. 8 (felt it weakens) the bowling, but it’s the No.8 batsman Nitish Reddy, to go with Tilak Verma who’ve scripted an amazing comeback win for Team India 🇮🇳 #IndvsNZ

Tough competition between India and New Zealand: who will drop more catches? #IndvsNZ

One dropped catch. And the second one taken. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi lasts 8 balls for 4. And his comeback isn’t really on the expected lines #IndvsNZ

And the winners - those who picked: Sanju, Abhishek and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (at No.3)

180 on this pitch neither easy nor difficult. It’s a slowish surface and change of pace will work for bowlers but what may give India the edge is dew; and how much #IndvsNZ #T20i

With Ishan Kishan out due to an injury, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walking into the XI, what’s the best Top 3 combination for India in the 2nd T20? * Sanju, Abhishek, Vaibhav * Abhishek, Vaibhav, Sanju * Sanju, Vaibhav, Abhishek #IndvsNZ

Many congrats @ParvinderAwana for being nominated as Junior Selection Committee chief

Lanka become the 3rd team ever to chase more than 400 in an ODI - not so surprisingly the second instance within a month #EngvsSL

Harry Brook scores ODIs quickest 200 - breaking Shubman Gill’s record made just last month!!!

Not exactly a bowler but Naman Dhir the batsman is fast making an impact in this Indian team. Sanju Samson at the top and Naman Dhir in the end getting India over the line but India need to also face upto hard questions about their T20 combination and fielding/catching #IndvsNZ #T20I

If India doesn’t find a place for Varun Chakravarthy or Kuldeep Yadav in the XI they will invariably end up conceding 220+ most of the games. Happened in India. May happen in New Zealand too. Don’t know how many times they will have their No.8 batsman taking them across the line #IndvsNZ #T20I

None of the two wicket-taking spinners - Kuldeep and Varun - playing today. Essence again on batting till No.8 #IndvsNZ

If all pre-match discussions revolve around a 16-year old boy who’s not being considered good enough to play in the XI, he must be bloody good to not just play but to rule. No player happily sits out. Not Sachin Tendulkar. Not Virat Kohli. Not Rohit Sharma. And certainly not Vaibhav Sooryavanshi - any team on this planet must be very very good when they can’t find him a place in the XI. Are India actually that invincible in T20s today?

Two of India’s best opening batsmen, the ones putting fear into the minds of rival bowlers, share their birthdays today! Wishing Virender Sehwag and Navjot Sidhu @sherryontopp @virendersehwag a very happy birthday!

Harpreet Brar picks 7 as Punjab (456) bowl Chhattisgarh out for 206. They’ve also enforced the follow-on #RanjiTrophy

Meanwhile second straight Ranji Trophy outright win for Haryana, beating Chandigarh by innings and 24 runs within two days

BREAKING NEWS: Ramesh Powar appointed National Selector, making Pragyan Ojha the Indian Chief Selector