The Latest Breaking News from Holkar Stadium

INDORE: The irony was palpable here at the Holkar Stadium on Friday as it was expectedly Australia who booked their berth in the World Test Championship Final with a comprehensive nine-wicket win inside three days.

NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) -- cricket's global governing body on Friday rated the pitch at Holkar Stadium in Indore as 'poor'. The third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy played in Indore finished in two days and a session on a rank turner.

Matthew Kuhnemann takes a maiden Test five-wicket haul as Australia bowls India out for just 109 runs after lunch, before earning a 47-run lead with six wickets in hand on day one in Indore.

NEW DELHI: After watching wicket-keeper Kona Srikar Bharat sweating it out behind the wickets mainly practicing for spin bowlers, one can easily gauge how the pitch is going to behave in the third India-Australia Test starting at the Holkar Stadium in Indore on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Australia's stand-in skipper Steve Smith doesn't look surprised at all as he reckons Indore pitch to be another rank turner on the eve of the third Test against India at the Holkar Stadium on Tuesday.

INDORE: For the second consecutive day here at the Holkar Stadium, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill went toe to toe in the batting nets, practising for long durations against net bowlers, regular bowlers and throwdown experts.

INDORE: The Holkar Stadium pitch is bald as a cue ball at the extremities, and on this day there are two rather odd-looking rectangular patches around the left-hander’s off-stump at either end, as if two bar-code stamps have been abruptly yanked off at these places.

INDORE: A video, which went viral after India's 90-run win over New Zealand in the third ODI at the Holkar Stadium, showed India skipper Rohit Sharma venting his frustration at Shardul Thakur after the pace bowling all-rounder conceded back-to-back boundaries by bowling short balls to the night's centurion, Devon Conway.

INDORE: The only complaint that you can have with Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, who represent the bright present and future of Indian cricket, after the third ODI against New Zealand at the Holkar Stadium on Tuesday is that they couldn't carry on after their sparkling centuries.