Axar Patel

First Test, Green Park, Kanpur (day three of five) India 345 all out & 14-1: Iyer 105, Gill 52; Southee 5-69, Jamieson 3-91 New Zealand 296 all out: Latham 95, Young 89; Patel 5-62, Ashwin 3-82 India lead by 63 runs. Axar Patel took 5-62 as India's spinners put in...

The home side suffered a setback, however, with Shubman Gill's late dismissal as they finished day three on 14-1 at Kanpur's Green Park Stadium. Kyle Jamieson bowled Gill for one and troubled Cheteshwar Pujara who remained unbeaten on nine. Opener Mayank Agarwal was on four not out with India 63...

The win was India's biggest over New Zealand in T20Is as they dominated from the off against the T20 World Cup finalists with skipper Rohit (56 from 31 balls) and Ishan Kishan (29 from 21) taking 69 runs from the opening powerplay to set the tone. While wickets fell at...

Seam bowler Shardul Thakur has replaced left-arm spinner Axar Patel in India's 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup. Thakur was maned as a reserve when India announced their preliminary squad last month but has now been added to the main group, with Axar joining Deepak Chahar and Shreyas Iyer on the standby list.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 13 (ANI): The All-India Senior Selection Committee after a discussion with the team management has added Shardul Thakur to the main squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup. All-rounder Axar Patel, who was part of the 15-member squad will now be on the list of standby...

Delhi Capitals spinner Axar Patel has tested positive for Covid-19 and been put into isolation before the start of the Indian Premier League. The 27-year-old was instrumental in Tests for India against England in March, taking four five-wicket hauls. The IPL is due to start on Friday despite a surge...

Three Tests, three successive heavy England defeats and four five-wicket hauls for Axar Patel. It was perhaps fitting England's final batting collapse on a chastening tour of India was, once again, at the hands of India's newest spin sensation. Never before has an Indian spinner enjoyed such a productive debut...

England 205 (Stokes 55; Axar 4-68) & 135 (Lawrence 50; Ashwin 5-47, Axar 5-48) India 365 (Pant 101, Sundar 96*) England's series defeat in India was sealed with one final, abject batting collapse on the third day of the fourth Test in Ahmedabad. Needing 160 to make India bat again,...

Over recent months the prime minister has attempted to characterise the leader of the opposition, not entirely convincingly, as “Captain Hindsight”. Perhaps the nickname would stick better to the leader of England’s cricket team, who came out for the start of the fourth Test, won the toss, and promptly announced his best team for the third match of the series.

Ashwin took 3-26 and 4-48 - including his 400th Test wicket - as India rolled England for 112 and 81 to win the pink-ball third Test inside two days and move 2-1 up in the four-match series with one game to play. Off-spinner Ashwin (823 rating points) has leapt four...

Third Test, Ahmedabad (day one) England put in a feeble batting display to crumble to 112 all out at the hands of a dominant India on the first day of the third Test in Ahmedabad. The tourists completely surrendered the advantage of winning the toss in the day-night Test, succumbing...

England went into the day-night third Test in Ahmedabad buoyed by the prospect of the pink ball helping their seamers. But come the end of the opening day this optimism had melted away, their batsmen having endured yet another collapse to spin that means India are again the team in full control.

England crumbled to 112 all out in the first innings of the day/night third Test against India, dismissed for their lowest total in the country before the LED lights in Ahmedabad had even taken over. Joe Root opted to face up first in uncertain batting conditions but saw his side...

In all the noise about India’s most crushing defeat of England on home soil, of Ravichandran Ashwin’s miracles with bat and ball, of England’s rotation policy, of Moeen Ali, of the state of the wicket, of Virat Kohli’s on-field expressiveness, of Rishabh Pant and Ben Foakes, one man’s debut rather slipped under the carpet. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel, lean and lanky, with an air of Ravi Shastri about the moustache, marked his Test debut with five wickets in the second innings and the prize of dismissing Joe Root twice.

It was always coming and when it arrived it did so with little fanfare. India needed just 34.2 overs on the fourth morning to confirm victory in the second Test against England at Chennai. By inflicting a 317-run defeat on their opponents, the hosts square the series 1-1, returning some telling blows of their own after receiving a few last week in the opening match. The result was confirmed just past 7am in the United Kingdom, in time for England supporters to enjoy some rigorous post-mortem with their cornflakes and coffee. There will no doubt be plenty, especially considering this...

India vs England | Series details and how to watch here. England were staring down the barrel of a heavy defeat as Ravichandran Ashwin's century left them chasing a world record 482 in the fourth innings of the second Test. At close of play on day three, England were reduced...