Dominant centuries from Travis Head and David Warner helped Australia thrash a tired England by 221 runs Tuesday in the third and final one-day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to sweep the series 3-0. After a six-wicket loss in Adelaide and a 72-run defeat in Sydney, England’s long tour ended with a crushing defeat
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India win three-match T20I series 1-0© AFP India clinched the three-match T20 series against New Zealand 1-0 after the third and final game ended in a tie via Duckworth-Lewis method following rain interruption on Tuesday. India bowlers produced a brilliant show to bowl out New Zealand for 160 after the hosts decided to bat. Chasing
AUS vs ENG, 3rd ODI Live: Australia score 355/5 in 48 overs© AFP Australia vs England, 3rd ODI Live Updates:Travis Head and David Warner played knocks of 152 and 106 respectively as Australia posted a total of 355/5 in 48 overs. The match has been reduced to 48 overs per side due to rain that
File image of Nicholas Pooran© AFP Nicholas Pooran, the captain of the West Indies at the 2022 T20 World Cup, stepped down from the white ball captaincy of the former world champions on Monday. Pooran cited “the enormous disappointment of the T20 World Cup” as the reason behind the decision. At the 2022 T20 World
Pacer Riley Meredith has received a call-up into Australia’s squad for the third ODI against England in Melbourne as a replacement for star bowler Mitchell Starc. Starc will stay back in Sydney to rest ahead of the first Test against West Indies next week. Ashton Agar will not be part of the final ODI. Agar
The second T20I between India and New Zealand saw Suryakumar Yadav deliver his best once again, scoring a 49-ball 51 en route an unbeaten knock of 111. Seeing Surya bamboozle kiwi bowlers with his bat, even Indian cricket great Virat Kohli took to Twitter to laud the batting stalwart for the purple patch he is
Shaheen Afridi injured himself in T20 World Cup final© AFP Pakistan’s top fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi is unlikely to return to international cricket until April 2023, effectively ruling him out of the five Tests at home against England and New Zealand. Afridi who was given rest because of a knee injury suffered another setback
Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi took to social media on Sunday to announce that he underwent an appendectomy. Shaheen had injured his knee after landing awkwardly during the T20 World Cup final earlier this month. The lanky pacer, however, said that he was feeling better after the surgery, and urged everyone to pray for him. “Had
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The first T20I between India and New Zealand got abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain in Wellington on Friday. The two teams meet each other once again, this time at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, for the second T20I of the three-match series. While both the teams will be looking for
File photo of Mandeep Singh.© BCCI Punjab skipper Mandeep Singh led from the front with a gritty 90 to guide his team to a 26-run win over Madhya Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Mumbai on Saturday. In a low-scoring affair at the Wankhede Stadium, Mandeep steered Punjab to 232 with other contributions coming
AUS vs ENG, 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: Australia post 280/8 in 50 overs© AFP Australia vs England, 2nd ODI Live Updates:Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne played knocks of 94 and 58 respectively as Australia posted 280/8 in 50 overs against England in the 2nd ODI of the three-match series at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Nepal on Friday won the One Day International (ODI) series against United Arab Emirates (UAE), the first International series that the Himalayan Nation has ever won on home ground. Nepali cricketers Ashif Sheikh and Gyanendra Malla scored half-centuries in the nail-biting game to defeat UAE by six wickets in the title decider on Friday running
Former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly, on Friday called for making sports an integral part of school education in the country as it can improve their life skills. In a video message before World Children’s Day on November 20, Ganguly who is also also an ex-captain of
The Pat Cummins-led Australia had a perfect start to the ODI series against England as they won the first match of the series by six wickets. England’s Dawid Malan hit a stylish 134 as England made 287-9, but it never looked enough on a flat batting track that offered nothing for the bowlers. Australia were
A depleted Delhi, without the services of seasoned pros Shikhar Dhawan and Ishant Sharma, slumped to their second successive defeat, losing to Karnataka by four wickets in a low-scoring Group B match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Thursday. Batting first at the JU (Salt Lake) ground, Delhi were bundled out for 159 in 45.4
An old photo of Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan together© Twitter Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan have been one of the most successful brother duos in Indian cricket. Both were part of the Indian cricket team which won the 2007 T20 World Cup. Yusuf was also part of the Indian team which win the 2011
Australia vs England, 1st ODI, Live Updates: Dawid Malan hits century© AFP Australia vs England, 1st ODI, Live Updates: Dawid Malan smashed a ton to drive England to a comfortable position against Australia in the first ODI of the three-match series. Later, Adam Zampa dismissed Malan for 134. Earlier, Zampa scalped the wickets of Jos Buttler