Tilak Varma

36 articles tagged with "Tilak Varma"

Oct 4, 2026

Shreyas Iyer lost six of his first seven T20Is as captain, and he wants the West Indies series won before India experiment

India’s T20I captain says the five-match series against West Indies comes first and changes to the XI can wait, because players unsure of their place...

Oct 3, 2026

Hasan Nawaz made 96 for Pakistan, and India’s bowlers still won the Asian Games final by 19 runs

India defended their Asian Games men’s cricket gold in Nisshin, posting 211 for 6 behind fifties from Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma and holding Paki...

Sep 15, 2026

India pick their ODI squad on Wednesday, and their vice-captain will be in Japan

The Asian Games and the West Indies ODI series overlap almost exactly, which means two India squads in two countries and a gold medal match on the sam...

Sep 10, 2026

South Zone never batted again, and East Zone have the Duleep Trophy for the first time in 13 years

Ishan Kishan’s 270 put the final out of reach inside three days, and East Zone batted out the rest of it to take the title on first-innings lead.

Sep 8, 2026

Shami bowled 11 overs for 17 runs, and South Zone are 267 short of avoiding the follow-on

East Zone lead the Duleep Trophy final by 466 with two days left in Chennai, and Tilak Varma is the last recognised batter South Zone have left.

Sep 8, 2026

Karun Nair was left out twice in a week, and he scored a hundred somewhere else

A selection row has opened up at the Duleep Trophy final in Chennai, where South Zone’s coach and their most decorated batter have given different acc...

Sep 4, 2026

Padikkal and Siraj are in South Zone’s squad, and East Zone have Shami and Mukesh Kumar

India’s player of the series in Sri Lanka and one of his Test team-mates were added to South Zone’s squad on Friday. The Duleep Trophy final starts at...

Sep 3, 2026

Laxman takes India to the Asian Games, and Gambhir stays home for the West Indies ODIs

India will run two coaching set-ups this month, with VVS Laxman leading the Asian Games squad in Japan while Gautam Gambhir stays back for the West In...

Sep 2, 2026

Tilak Varma was not out twice, and South Zone play East Zone in Chennai on Sunday

South Zone’s captain finished the semi-final unbeaten in both innings. The Duleep Trophy final against East Zone starts in Chennai on 6 September.

Sep 2, 2026

North Zone lead by 139 with three wickets left, and a draw still sends South Zone through

The second Duleep Trophy semi-final goes to a final day in Bengaluru on Wednesday. South Zone’s first-innings lead of 117 means North have to win the...

Aug 31, 2026

Sooryavanshi broke a 57-year-old Duleep Trophy record, and both first innings finished on 266

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 92 made him the youngest player to score a Duleep Trophy fifty, and East Zone still could not get past Central Zone’s total. Ti...

Aug 29, 2026

India’s Asian Games dressing rooms are tents, and the washrooms are 500 metres away

A BCCI official’s complaint about the cricket venue in Nisshin turned into a weekend of reports that India might travel with a second-string side. An...

Aug 27, 2026

Two Duleep Trophy semi-finalists have not played a match yet, and both of them were in last season’s final

Central Zone and South Zone were seeded straight into the last four, while East Zone and North Zone reached it by winning quarter-finals that could no...

Aug 22, 2026

The Duleep Trophy starts on Sunday, and two of the six zones are already in the semi-finals

India’s red-ball season opens on 23 August with two quarter-finals in Bengaluru, while Central Zone and South Zone wait a week for their reward for la...

Aug 2, 2026

Four Duleep Trophy squads are in, and the quarter-finals run into India’s Colombo Test

South Zone made Tilak Varma captain this weekend, leaving North and North East as the only zones yet to name a side. The opening quarter-finals sit on...

Jul 27, 2026

Sooryavanshi answered one question in Harare, not the one England asked

A record fifty and an 81 on a slow pitch settled the temperament question about India’s 15-year-old. The short-ball problem Jofra Archer exposed is st...

Jul 26, 2026

India retake the No.1 T20I ranking from England on a rounding error

Two weeks after England’s 4-0 win pushed India off a place they had held since 2022, the same 268-268 tie has broken the other way.

Jul 25, 2026

Kishan’s 81 sets up a 90-run win as India seal the Zimbabwe T20I series

India recovered from 29 for 2 to post 219 for 5 in Harare, then bowled Zimbabwe out for 129 to take an unassailable 2-0 lead with a match to spare.

Jul 13, 2026

Mohammad Kaif slams India’s ‘confused’ management after the England whitewash

Former India batter Mohammad Kaif has questioned the team’s decision-makers after the 4-0 T20I loss in England, singling out the in-and-out handling o...

Jul 12, 2026

Buttler and Brook flatten India as England complete a 4-0 T20I sweep

England piled up 257 for 3 at Southampton and won the final T20I by 56 runs to take the series 4-0, knocking India off the top of the men’s T20I ranki...

Jun 28, 2026

Ireland edge India by one run to complete a historic 2-0 sweep

India’s much-changed side were bowled to a halt a single run short at Stormont, handing Ireland a thrilling one-run win and a first ever T20I series v...

Jun 28, 2026

India aim to level the series at Stormont after a historic Ireland defeat

Beaten by Ireland for the first time ever, Shreyas Iyer’s new-look India must win the second T20I at Stormont to avoid losing the two-match series.

Jun 24, 2026

Iyer takes charge as India open their Belfast tour without the injured Reddy

Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy era begins in Belfast this week, with India playing two T20Is against Ireland before the England leg. They travel without the...

Jun 20, 2026

Iyer’s new India and a record-breaking teen: the T20I side bound for England

Shreyas Iyer takes over as T20I captain and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi becomes the youngest player India have ever picked, as a new-look squad p...