Indian cricket fans were left in shock when the skipper Virat Kohli announced that Ravichandran Ashwin will not be the part of playing squad in the first Test match against West Indies, instead his place has been filled with Ravindra Jadeja.

Chasing 203 to win, KXIP needed 27 runs off the final over. Ashwin came to the crease and hit Umesh Yadav's first delivery for a six. Hitting the second ball with a hope of same result, he was caught on the boundary line by Virat Kohli, who reacted in a rather animated manner.

Ravichandran Ashwin clinched a five-wicket haul as India bowled out Sri Lanka for 183 runs in the first innings to take a massive lead of 439 runs at lunch on the third day of the second cricket Test here on Saturday.

This year’s Indian Premier League will miss some stars. Earlier, Murali Vijay and L Rahul were out of the tournament and now premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin added to the list. Ashwin will be out of the action for six weeks due to sports hernia.

The battle lines are drawn and between India cricket captain Virat Kohli and Aussies. It will be a four-Test series between India and Australia.

Virat Kohli and boys, romped Bangladesh to claim their sixth Test series win at Hyderabad. In the process, Virat has surpassed Ricky Pointing to have 19 unbeaten Test under his belt. In the fifth day, Indian required 7 wickets to win the one-off Test match, which they did in 100 overs.

For the first time two Indian bowler have captured the top rankings in the ICC’s latest Test ranking for bowlers. Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are in the first two places with 887 points and 879 points respectively.

India may have sealed the ongoing Test series by 3-0 but Alaister Cook is not letting the fever go down that easily, he has attacked R Ashwin's over verbal spat with James Anderson to spice up the last Test match to be played in Chennai from Friday.

Virat Kohli led Team India and its spinner Ravichandran Ashwin remained on top of the latest ICC Test rankings for cricket teams and bowlers. India took the first spot with 115 points, following them was their arch rival team Pakistan with 111 points.