Rahul Dravid will be under the microscope on Thursday as he takes up the skipper's duties for the first time in international cricket, against Zimbabwe at Rajkot

Big-hitting Delhi batsman Virender Shewag and Tamil Nadu off spinner Aashish Kapoor have been named to the Indian team for the final two games of the one-day series against Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe came back more than once, if not actually from the dead, then as nearly so as makes no difference, to pull back a one wicket victory and reduce the series margin to 2-1

Jodhpur's Barkatullah Khan Stadium, named after a former Rajasthan Chief Minister, becomes India's latest ODI venue on Friday when the hosts take on Zimbabwe in the third of the five match one-day series

Saurav Ganguly's 16th ODI hundred coerced Zimbabwe into submission to give the hosts a 2-0 lead in the series at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera

The Indians will have shed any sense of complacency that lurked within them as the scene adjourns to the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Motera for the second of the five match one-day series against Zimbabwe on Tuesday

Madhya Pradesh pegged back Gujarat to 255/9 on the opening day of their Cooch Behar Trophy pre-quarter final at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Friday

A century by one-drop Kashinath Khadkikar helped hosts Maharashtra to 301/7 at stumps on the opening day of their Cooch Behar Trophy prequarter final game against Karnataka at the Nehru Stadium in Pune on Friday

Andy Flower capped a magnificent Test series with an unbeaten 232 at Nagpur, only the eighth double century by a visiting batsman in India and the first in 14 years

This season's edition of the Cooch Behar Trophy enters its climactic knockout phase from Friday in Pune

A 99 run unbroken stand between Rohan Gavaskar and Srikant Kalyani helped Bengal recover to 193/3 on the opening day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy clash against Assam at Maligaon

Bihar were in firm control of their East Zone Ranji Trophy match against Tripura at the Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur after Nikhilesh Ranjan and Tariquer Rehman compiled an unbroken 161 run second wicket stand

Baroda were on the brink of a crushing innings victory over Saurashtra in a West Zone Ranji Trophy game at the Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground in Baroda

Half centuries from Parag Das and Rajesh Bora helped Assam to a useful 272/9 on the opening day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy clash against Bengal at Maligaon

An unbroken 56 run ninth wicket stand between Vijay Prajapati and Rajiv Dutta lifted Tripura to 213/8 on the first day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy clash with Bihar at the Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur

Jammu & Kashmir stormed into the knockout phase of the Ranji Trophy with a four wicket triumph over Himachal Pradesh in their final North Zone league tie at the Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu

Kerala beat Karnataka comfortably by ten wickets in their Ranji Trophy South Zone clash at the Nehru Stadium in Kochi to complete only a second victory against their northern neighbours in 46 encounters in the competition

Andhra managed to hold off Tamil Nadu's desperate quest for the first innings lead, closing at 228/9 on the final day of their South Zone Ranji Trophy match at the Guru Nanak College ground in Chennai

Punjab completed a fifth successive drubbing in the North Zone Ranji Trophy league, their latest victim being Delhi which succumbed by 199 runs inside three days at the capital's Harbax Singh Stadium

Karnataka were facing the prospect of a crushing defeat at the hands of Kerala in a Ranji Trophy South Zone clash at the Nehru Stadium in Kochi