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With time running out and a number of plans yet to fall into place for India to fly to South Africa, the BCCI is left with no choice now but to sit across the table with Cricket South Africa (CSA) and reschedule the series.

Alex Carey looks poised to replace Tim Paine as Australia's wicketkeeper for the Ashes against England and is set to make his Test debut, as more bad weather Wednesday wrecked preparations for both teams.

Team India has made its preference for turning tracks clear, so there might be a surprise in store when the team turns up for practice on Wednesday afternoon and checks out the surface for the second Test against New Zealand, scheduled to be held from December 3-7 at the Wankhede Stadium.

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has put a hold on the selection meeting for the upcoming tour of South Africa. TOI has learnt that the board is awaiting clearance from the government before going ahead with the tour. South Africa has been identified as 'at-risk country' after the emergence of the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.

All remaining players - capped and uncapped - will now be available for the two new franchises that have come into the IPL - Lucknow and Ahmedabad - to invest in. The same retention policy - three Indians and an overseas player or two Indians and two overseas players, with a mix of uncapped players at Rs 4 crore each - will be available to the new teams.

England are beaming with the return of Ben Stokes for the Ashes but few players could be happier than spinner Jack Leach, who sees the pugnacious all-rounder as his own ticket back into the Test set-up.

India A pacers grabbed five wickets as South Africa A reached 233 for seven on the opening day of the second unofficial Test here on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma will continue to don RCB, CSK and MI jerseys respectively as the BCCI revealed the list of 27 players, who have been retained by the existing eight franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL), on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming mega-auction for the 2022 edition.

Royal Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday retained their former captain Virat Kohli while Mumbai Indians predictably retained India's T20 captain Rohit Sharma and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah ahead of the IPL mega auction.

Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has not retained star openers David Warner and Jonny Bairstow ahead of the mega auction of the upcoming season. All the eight IPL franchises will reveal the list of their retained players later tonight. SRH thanked all the players ahead of the event on Tuesday.

Shakib Al Hasan is fit and will return to the Bangladesh squad for the second Test against Pakistan in Dhaka next week, his side said on Tuesday.

West Indies made a steady start in reaching 69/1 after bowling out Sri Lanka for 204 before rain forced an early end to day two of the second Test on Tuesday.

India batters Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana held on to their third and sixth spots respectively while allrounder Deepti Sharma was also steady at the fifth position in the latest ICC women's ODI rankings released on Tuesday.

BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal on Tuesday said India's tour of South Africa remains on schedule provided the situation doesn't aggravate in the rainbow nation after a new COVID-19 variant was detected there.

The Indian senior team will compete in three Tests starting December 17, followed by as many ODIs and four T20 Internationals. Virat Kohli and his men are scheduled to land here by December 9 but there have been some concerns about the tour due to the Omicron variant's discovery in the region which has led to travel restrictions by several countries.

The Rahul Dravid era of coaching in Indian senior men's cricket began with an emphatic 3-0 series win in the T20I series vs New Zealand. That was followed by a draw in the first Test against the Black Caps. The hosts looked like they were going to win the encounter in Kanpur, before the Kiwi tailenders and bad light combined to deny them a win. Despite a few hiccups, individual player form etc, Team India overall ticked most of the boxes on a track that was not a rank turner.

Perth's hopes of hosting the fifth Ashes Test were in serious doubt Tuesday after Western Australia's premier said players and broadcasters must quarantine for 14 days on entering the state.

Basking in the glory of becoming India's third highest Test wicket-taker, Ravichandran Ashwin has revealed that he feared his career would not survive the chaos unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Ashwin, who took his 419th wicket in his 80th Test to surpass Harbhajan Singh (417), said he thought his career was at "crossroads" after India's New Zealand tour early last year.

Pakistan's Abid Ali fell nine runs short of a second consecutive century as the visitors chased down a target of 202 on Tuesday to win the first Test in Chittagong by eight wickets and take the lead in the two-match series against Bangladesh.

New Zealand's Indian-origin spinner Rachin Ravindra, who played a pivotal role in helping his side draw the first Test against India, said he was quite nervous about how the game would pan out as far as his bowling was concerned.

Not all draws are memorable but Rachin Ravindra will certainly remember his debut after helping save New Zealand in the first Test against India.

Former India skipper Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday lauded New Zealand for managing to survive on Day 5 of the first Test against India to walk away with a draw.

Former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener has said that he will be stepping down as Afghanistan cricket team head coach after December 31.

India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has said that surpassing Harbhajan Singh's tally of 417 Test wickets is a "wonderful milestone". Ashwin on Monday had surpassed Harbhajan Singh to become the country's third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. Ashwin scalped the wicket of Tom Latham (52) to go past the milestone.

Ravichandran Ashwin has gone past Harbhajan Singh's record of 417 Test wickets. He has taken 23 less Tests than Harbhajan to become India's third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. The toil to get to the landmark on Monday on a rather benign Green Park pitch saw him showcase every component from his repertoire. But Ashwin and Indian spinners had just low bounce to work with.

England's Jos Buttler believes the team that deals best with the disrupted preparations and distractions around a "unique" Ashes series will have the best chance of walking away with the spoils.

Debutant Rachin Ravindra impressively held fort for New Zealand to pull off a dramatic draw against India on the final day of the Kanpur Test. The left-handed allrounder played out 91 deliveries for his unbeaten 18, while last man Ajaz Patel faced 23 balls to score 2 not out - the duo negotiated 52 deliveries in all - before bad light ended play 12-13 minutes ahead of scheduled close.

The existing eight franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have reached the deadline to submit their respective lists for player retention. The BCCI will make the names of retained players public on Tuesday afternoon and pave the way for the two new teams to start signing players ahead of the mega-auction.

Joe Root is confident that England can do "something special" in the Ashes, despite rain again ruining their preparations Tuesday, and said they won't be distracted by upheaval in the Australian camp.

India coach Rahul Dravid on Monday drew attention to the manner in which Ravichandran Ashwin has "grown" and "evolved" into a champion off-spinner, who has now become the country's third highest wicket-taker in Tests.

Sri Lanka's openers started strong against the West Indies after rain stopped play until after tea in the second Test at Galle on Monday. Match officials extended play after the hosts won the toss but stopped half an hour early with bad light after just 34.4 overs.

India failed to bowl out New Zealand on a deteriorating track on Day 5 of the first Test but skipper Ajinkya Rahane praised his players saying they tried their best and couldn't have done anything different.

He has always been different from the rest and India's new head coach Rahul Dravid proved it once again by giving Green Park's groundstaff, led by Shiv Kumar, Rs 35,000 for preparing a sporting pitch for the first Test against New Zealand.

India batter Shreyas Iyer said that he is satisfied with the overall performance of the team, but the victory would have been like the 'icing on the cake'.

England captain Joe Root said Monday he stood by his statement that he could not recall witnessing any instances of racism at Yorkshire as English cricket grapples with the fallout from the scandal.

Openers Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique each hit an unbeaten fifty to put Pakistan in a commanding position in the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong on Monday.

Two Indian-born cricketers, Ajaz Patel and Rachin Ravindra, showed remarkable resilience under fading light and on a deteriorating track to defy India's famous spinners, eking out a thrilling draw for New Zealand in the opening Test on Monday.

Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh congratulated Ravichandran Ashwin as the latter surpassed to become the country's third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.

Some will unveil their core, while others might just go with a clean slate when the deadline to retain players ends on Tuesday for the eight existing IPL franchises.

India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Monday surpassed Harbhajan Singh to become the country's third highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.

Former India pacer Irfan Pathan lauded batter Ishan Kishan and calls him a 'solid hitter', who can have a good cricketing career for at least ten years.

Josh Inglis may have been born and raised to the age of 14 in England but the 26-year-old says there will be no split loyalties if he gets the chance to keep wickets for Australia in the upcoming Ashes series.

Cricket's oldest rivalry pitting Australia against England always throws up on-field rancour, but the upcoming Ashes series has been engulfed by controversy before a ball is even bowled.

Ashley Giles, the managing director of England men's cricket team has said that the side is hoping that the discovery of the COVID-19 Omicron variant does not affect anything in the upcoming Ashes.

Cooped up in a bio-bubble while a new COVID-19 variant causes panic all across here, the India A cricket team will take on South Africa A in the second unofficial Test from Tuesday with some senior side aspirants hoping to make an impression.

Stiffness in the neck did not allow India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha to take the field on day five of the first Test against New Zealand here on Monday.

England's Ben Stokes feared it "might be the end" after he almost choked on a tablet while alone in his hotel room ahead of the Ashes.