It was a combination of rain along with a 213 run unbeaten&nbsp;stand between Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson that helped New Zealand save the 2nd Test in Hamilton. Both Taylor and Williamson cracked centuries that prevented the visitors to win the match and level the series. Courtesy the draw, New Zealand&nbsp;jumped to the 3rd spot in the World Test Championship with 60 points while England remains 5th with 56 points. The 1st Test of the series was won by New Zealand.&nbsp;

It was a combination of rain along with a 213 run unbeaten stand between Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson that helped New Zealand save the 2nd Test in Hamilton. Both Taylor and Williamson cracked centuries that prevented the visitors to win the match and level the series. Courtesy the draw, New Zealand jumped to the 3rd spot in the World Test Championship with 60 points while England remains 5th with 56 points. The 1st Test of the series was won by New Zealand.

India thrashed New Zealand&nbsp;in a convincing 6 wicket win in Auckland on Friday to take a 1-0 lead in the 5-match T20 series.&nbsp;Though a target of over 200 is always tricky, but the batsmen rose to the occasion as India never looked in trouble during their run chase. Interestingly, it was India's 4th successful chase of over 200 in T20s, the most by any side in the world. Chasing 204, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli gave the visitors a solid start. Even though India lost both of them in quick succession, Shreyas Iyer finished the job with an unbeaten 29-ball-58. The 2nd T20 will be played at the same ground on Sunday.

After thrashing the Kiwis in the opening T20 in Auckland, the men in blue will be hoping to extend their lead to 2-0 on Sunday when they play New Zealand in the 2nd of the 5-match series. The Indian batting attack looks strong with&nbsp;KL Rahul&nbsp;and Shreyas&nbsp;Iyer&nbsp;providing the necessary backup for an already accomplished batting side. In the bowling department, Jasprit Bumrah looks like he is back to his old self. His economical figures in the 1st T20 choked the Kiwis but that couldn't prevent the hosts from scoring a 200+ total. Expect yet another run fest in Auckland as the short boundaries along with a flat wicket will help the batsmen cross the fence with ease.

Pakistan Cricket Board has threatened to boycott the&nbsp;2021 T20 World Cup if India withdraws from the 2020 T20 Asia Cup which is being held in Pakistan. PCB's&nbsp; Chief Executive Wasim&nbsp;Khan dismissed reports that the country has given up the rights to hold the Asia Cup in September this year and added that Pakistan's cricket team won't take part in the&nbsp;T20 World Cup next year hosted by India. Media reports that emerged last week suggest that BCCI&nbsp;hasn't moved from its decision to not play in Pakistan.&nbsp;
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England's&nbsp;vice-captain Ben Stokes has issued an apology after the camera picked up a heated exchange between him and a fan&nbsp;on&nbsp;Day 1 of the 4th and final Test between South Africa and England. Expressing regret, the English star tweeted that he was subject to repeated abuse from the fan, but his reaction was unprofessional and he apologized to the young fans around the world for his foul language.&nbsp;

Defending champions India took their winning streak at the Under-19 World Cup to 3 matches as they thrashed New Zealand by 44 runs on Friday. In a rain-affected 23-overs a side game, India ended up with 115 for no loss courtesy an unbeaten half-century each by Yashsasvi Jaiswal and Divyaansh Saxena. Chasing a Duckworth&ndash;Lewis&nbsp;method revised target of 192, Kiwi batsmen looked clueless against the Indian spinners. 4 and 3 wickets by Ravi Bishnoi and Ankolekar&nbsp;respectively meant that New Zealand were bowled out for 147. India have now staged a quarter-final clash with Australia on Tuesday.

Former India fast bowler Ajit&nbsp;Agarkar&nbsp;has applied for the national selector's job&nbsp;and is reportedly the front runner to become the new&nbsp;chairman of selectors of the men's team. He is likely to succeed&nbsp;former boss MSK&nbsp;Prasad as his 5-year tenure ended this month.&nbsp;The BCCI had set January 24th as the deadline to apply for the post and along with Agarkar,&nbsp;Nayan Mongia, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Chetan Sharma and Rajesh Chauhan have also applied for the selectors role.&nbsp;

It was not long ago that the Indian team was struggling to groom a solid number 4 batsman and their search has certainly ended with Shreyas Iyer.&nbsp;After 3 quick wickets in the Auckland T20, India looked in trouble but Iyer walked in and snatched victory for his side with a blistering 58 not out off just 29 balls.&nbsp;It was the second consecutive time when Shreyas stood tall for the men in blue. Before this knock he had also guided India to victory with a fiery 44 in the series decider vs Australia last week.&nbsp;The 25-year-old Mumbai batsman has been in sublime touch and has scored&nbsp;517 runs in his last 16 innings&nbsp;at an average of over 43 in&nbsp;both ODIs and T20s combined. Clearly, ever since&nbsp;Shreyas Iyer&nbsp;made his place permanent in the team, gone are the days&nbsp;when the much-hyped Indian batting line-up used to crumble if the top 3 didn't perform.

India need 204 runs to win the first T20 vs New Zealand

2018 Australian Open champion and former World number 1 Caroline Wozniacki's&nbsp;career ended with a defeat on Friday as she lost her to&nbsp;Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the 3rd round. Jabeur&nbsp;won the match 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 to progress to the 4th round. Wozniacki's&nbsp;career saw her winning 30 WTA&nbsp;titles and a solitary slam in 2018. She had announced that the Australian Open would be her last tournament as she announced her retirement.&nbsp;

1st T20: Virat Kohli wins the toss, elects to bowl first vs New Zealand

Former Pakistan cricket captain &amp; now Prime Minister Imran&nbsp;Khan made a cricket analogy at Davos&nbsp;to push his nation's case in economic&nbsp;growth. Speaking at a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Imran&nbsp;said that his side would quash India in cricket and hockey despite&nbsp;India being seven times of Pakistan's size. He claimed that his nation was always rich in human and natural resources but corruption derailed its growth.&nbsp;Imran&nbsp;led Pakistan to win the Cricket World Cup in 1992 and is considered one of the best captains to lead the men in green.&nbsp;

A lower&nbsp;pay cheque&nbsp;for women cricketers as compared to their male counterparts may bother some women players but not Smriti&nbsp;Mandhana. In a promotional event on Wednesday, the star Indian opener said that the revenue which they get is through men's cricket and it's unfair on their part to ask for the same pay. The 23-year-old added that the day women's cricket started getting revenue, she will be the first person to say that they need the same pay but not right now. Male cricketers in the top bracket of BCCI's central contract&nbsp;are entitled to an annual remuneration of Rs 7 crore, while women cricketers in the highest bracket get Rs 50 lakh&nbsp;for the same period.

Prithvi Shaw and Sanju Samson who replaced an injured Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan&nbsp;in India's&nbsp;ODI and T20 teams respectively celebrated their senior team call-ups with match-winning performances for India A. New Zealand&nbsp;A were bowled out for just 230 in the first unofficial ODI, after which Shaw took his side off to a flying start with a 35-ball-48. Samson too chipped in with 39 off just 21 balls as India A thrashed the hosts by 5 wickets in less than 30 overs. With Shaw and Samson in fine touch, the team management would be licking their lips&nbsp;ahead of their Kiwi challenge.&nbsp;

Virat Kohli and company landed in Auckland on Tuesday as their full-fledged New Zealand&nbsp;tour starts with the 5-match T20 series from Friday. Post the shortest format, India will also play 3 ODIs and 2 Tests against the Kiwis. Take a look at some of the pictures shared by the members of the Indian cricket team on arrival.

Opener Prithvi Shaw and wicketkeeper-batsman&nbsp;Sanju Samson have been named as replacements for an injured Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan&nbsp;for the New Zealand&nbsp;tour. Where Samson will replace him in the 5-match T20 series, Shaw got his maiden India call-up for the 3 ODIs. This is a great opportunity for&nbsp;Prithvi&nbsp;Shaw who is in good form and also smashed a 100-ball-150 in the 2nd practice game against New Zealand&nbsp;A last week.&nbsp;A shoulder injury during the 3rd ODI&nbsp;vs Australia had forced Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan&nbsp;out of the New Zealand&nbsp;tour.&nbsp;

A shoulder injury has forced Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan&nbsp;out of the New Zealand&nbsp;T20 series. The 5-match T20 series starts on Friday and the team left for Auckland on Monday without Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan. The 34-year-old picked up the injury while fielding during the 3rd and final ODI&nbsp;vs Australia in Bengaluru&nbsp;on Sunday. The selectors haven't named a replacement yet as this is the 2nd injury for Dhawan&nbsp;in less than 3 months time.&nbsp;

India hardly broke a sweat in their second outing at the 2020 Under-19 World Cup and thrashed Japan by 10 wickets in a one-sided encounter. Their 2nd consecutive win of the tournament means that the boys in blue&nbsp;are now just a step away from booking a place in the super league stage. Put into bat, Japan were rolled over&nbsp;for just 41, which is the joint second-lowest total in Under-19 World Cup history.&nbsp;Ravi Bishnoi&nbsp;was the star of the game and picked up 4 wickets for just 5 runs. India chased down the target in the 5th over without any hiccup. The defending champions next take on New Zealand on Friday.

In a major blow to Team India, senior-most fast bowler Ishant&nbsp;Sharma has been ruled out of the 2-match Test series in New Zealand&nbsp;starting 21st February.&nbsp;The 31-year-old twisted his right ankle while bowling&nbsp;during Delhi's&nbsp;Ranji Trophy game against Vidarbha on Monday and&nbsp;limped off the ground with the help of support staff before being&nbsp;sent for an MRI&nbsp;scan. What makes Ishant's&nbsp;injury even more concerning is the fact that he was in good rhythm&nbsp;and was the joint highest wicket-taker in India's last Test series against Bangladesh.

Injury concerns for India keep mounting as after Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan&nbsp;hurt his shoulder, his Delhi teammate&nbsp;and India's senior-most fast bowler&nbsp;Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;injured his ankle badly during their&nbsp;Ranji Trophy game against Vidarbha on Monday. The 31-year-old twisted his right ankle while bowling and&nbsp;limped off the ground with the help of support staff before being&nbsp;sent for an MRI&nbsp;scan. What makes Ishant's&nbsp;injury even scarier is that it happened just days before the announcement of India's squad for the 2-match Test series in New Zealand.

India bowl out Japan for 41 in the under-19 World Cup

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