Cricket Updates

Skipper du Plessis hits century on Day 1, South Africa declared at 259/9 

Faf du Plessis left the ball tampering controversy behind him and produced a solid batting display against Australia in the 3rd test at Adelaide Oval.

It is a day-night test and du Plessis hits century on the first day. He remained not-out at 118 runs. 

With the help of his century South Africa declared their innings at 259/9.

Australia, in their 1st innings, scored 14 runs in 12 overs till the end of day's play.
Openers Matt Renshaw (8*) and Usman Khawaja (3*) were at the crease.

At a time Steve Smith reduced South Africa to 95/4, but du Plessis stood firm and played a brilliant innings to overcome early fall of wickets.

du Plessis was heavily booed when he came out to bat. He was found guilty of ball tampering and was fined for the same but he made it to the test.

After early fall of wickets du Plessis had a partner in Steve Cook (40) to some extent. However Mitchell Starc caught his leg before wicket in the 3rd over but replay showed Starc foot went over the line and was termed as a no ball so Cook was called back.

Cook was then dismissed by Starc in the 2nd session.
The star man of South Africa in the series Quinton de Kock failed to emulate his performance from the previous test and got out for just 24 runs.

Faf du Plessis completed his century in the 3rd session, after taking two runs off a Josh Hazlewood delivery.
It was his 6th Test century.

In reply, David Warner could not come out to bat as he was termed unfit to bat and was receiving treatment. And there was also not much time left after Proteas declared their innings.

Josh Hazlewood was the pick of the bowlers for Australia with figures of 4/68. Mitchell Starc got 2 for 78 runs.

'The accusations of ball tampering on Virat Kohli are false' - Anil Kumble

It was earlier reported by a British tabloid that Virat Kohli has tampered with the ball in the Rajkot test.

A pic of Virat Kohli surfaced where he was seen applying spit on the ball. 

But Coach Anil Kumble has denied all this accusation and said he does not believe in giving wind to such kind of stories.

It's been in rules of ICC that if a player does tamper with the ball, the opposition team or the ICC match referee had to report such incident to ICC within 5 days but as the pic came out after the Vizag test it had no point.

ICC also made it clear that according to rules there is no such case.

Yuvraj Singh reaches Parliament

Yuvraj Singh, who is set to marry his fiancé Hazel Keech, this December, reached the Parliament to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his wedding.

Yuvraj was seen outside the Parliament in a cool look with the invitation cards in his hand.

Mohali Test begins tomorrow

India are 1-0 up in the series and with the third test match starting tomorrow India will be hoping to win it to put pressure on England and take the series away from their reach.

England will also be hoping for a comeback just like they did in 2012.

Last test in Mohali just ended in 3 days when India played South Africa.
It will be interesting to see how the pitch performs this time.

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