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Vikrant Gupta has revealed that the newly appointed skipper Sachin Tendulkar threatened and warned that he would end Sourav Ganguly’s career and send him back home after the Barbados Test loss. He also recalled how Sachin doubted himself after the Test series and contemplated quitting.

West Indies has announced a 14-man squad for the England series in July and included the likes of Chemar Holder, Raymon Reifer, Nkrumah Bonner and Jermaine Blackwood. While the side named 11 reserve players, Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul have declined to travel to England.

Renowned commentator Ian Smith has labelled the legendary Sir Viv Richards as a revolutionary and has opined that the flamboyant right-hander would have been a monster in modern-day T20 cricket. Smith stated that Richards would have garnered more money than ‘Stokes and Cummins combined’.

Ishant Sharma revealed that teammate KL Rahul had told him that he’d jump off a balcony if the former scored a century in the Test against Windies in Jamaica last year. Ishant, in that Test, ended up posting his highest Test score, scoring an immaculate 57 batting alongside newcomer Hanuma Vihari.