Enjoy them, celebrate them, watch them soar. For any Indian cricket fan over 30 will tell you: it’s been a long time coming.
As 2018 winds down, India end the year as the most successful team across formats over the course of the year. They won 35 of the 53 matches they played in 2018 (and lost just 15). England and Pakistan were joint-second with the same win-loss ratio of 1.93 – both played 46 matches each and won 29 and lost 15.
Quite often, especially in overseas wins, individual brilliance has played a major role but this victory was a combined effort where almost every player made a key contribution. Here is Cricketnext's report card of the Melbourne Test.
There was plenty of action on the first day of the eighth round of the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 as Wasim Jaffer continued to score big for Vidarbha as he notched 56th career ton, Krunal Pandya rescued Baroda with maiden century, while Punjab bundled out Kerala cheaply.
A nervous Cameron Bancroft's return from his nine-month ban for ball-tampering did not go to plan Sunday when he was out to the third ball he faced in the Big Bash League.
There was rain, there were thunderstorms, the clouds played hide & seek but in the end all India needed were two good deliveries on the final day and it took them all of 4.3 overs to produce them and wrap up proceedings at Melbourne Cricket Ground to take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match Test series on Sunday.
Former England skipper Alastair Cook has been given a knighthood in the New Year's Honours. He is now the first English player since former all-rounder Ian Botham to receive a knighthood.
Sri Lanka's young batting maestro Kusal Mendis cemented a stellar year by passing 1,000 runs in 2018 but the occasion was tempered by his untimely dismissal in the second Test against New Zealand on Saturday.
Patience is a virtue in life, but in looking to win Test matches, it is a necessity. And only one team had enough of it to push their case on a pitch in Melbourne that continues to defy prediction. Hanging on by the skin of their teeth, Australia took the match into a final day, but you had to admire the manner in which India’s bowlers operated after putting enough on the board to set Australia a notional target of 399.
Australia were skittled out for 151 in reply to India's 443 for 7 (decl) in their first innings. Pat Cummins then dismantled the Indian batting order but the visiting side somehow managed 106 for 8 (decl) in their second essay, stretching the overall lead to 399 runs.
He regretted that financial losses due to corruption has touched Rs 70 lakh crore which was due to tax evasion by corporates and corruption at various levels.
Silver lost Rs 25 to Rs 39,225 per kg on low demand from industrial units and coin makers. While, traders attributed the marginal gains in prices of the yellow metal to overseas firm. trend.
Earlier this week, the government announced changes to the foreign direct investment policy for the ecommerce sector, which would end discounts and cashback offers that online platforms with foreign investment like Flipkart and Amazon were offering.
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