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After a whitewash to New Zealand last year, which marked India's first series loss at home in 12 years, India's supremacy at home received another big jolt as a cohesive, clinical World Test Championship-holding South African unit outclassed them in every department to hand the hosts their second whitewash loss in home Test series in two back-to-back years.

Former Australia captain Aaron Finch feels that hard-hitter Travis Head is best suited in the middle-order for Australia during the second Test against England in Brisbane. The second Test between Australia and England will be a pink-ball Test, starting December 4.

Throughout the Test series, Indian batters continued to struggle against a strong South African bowling attack

Rohit Rajpal, Executive Council member of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) offered an update on India's bid for the 2036 Olympics, saying by the end of next year, the world will get to know who will host the marquee sporting event.

Another year, another setback for Team India. The Indian Test team's home conditions, once an almost unbreachable fortress for 12 successive years, are not safe for them anymore as they were out-batted, out-paced, out-bounced and out-spun by ICC World Test Champions South Africa and handed their most significant Test loss ever of 408 runs, crashing to their second whitewash loss at home in back-to-back years.

The groups and fixtures for next year's ICC T20 World Cup were revealed on Wednesday. Team India has been placed in Group A with the USA, Namibia, the Netherlands and Pakistan. The defending champions will kickstart their campaign against the USA at Wankhede Stadium on February 7 and will lock horns against their biggest rivals on February 15 in Colombo.