Tom Moody has backed the BCCI for giving a Test recall to KL Rahul and believes that the KXIP skipper, who has Down Under experience under his belt, can end up having an outstanding red-ball career. Moody noted that Rahul, who averages 34 in Tests, is an all-format player who oozes class.

Former Australian skipper Greg Chappell has heaped praise on young Western Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and has termed the youngster the best talent he has seen emerge out of Australia since Ricky Ponting. Chappell advised Australia to pick Green before Western Australia ‘break’ him.

Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has come down hard on the BCCI for beating around the bush with regards to Rohit Sharma’s fitness, after the board omitted the opener from the Australia tour owing to ‘injury’. Gavaskar’s comments come on the back of Rohit hitting the nets for Mumbai.

The BCCI, today, named the squads for the tour of Australia and in what came as an utter shock, the board decided to omit MI’s Suryakumar Yadav for the three-match T20Is. SKY has been a star-performer in IPL 2020 and the Twitterati expressed their bafflement over the unjust omission.