Pakistan beat a resurgent West Indies in a thrilling finish by nine runs to win the second Twenty20 international in Karachi on Tuesday, taking an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. For the home team Mohammad Rizwan top-scored for a second match running with 38 to help Pakistan get to 172-8 before keeping the
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Delhi’s dismal show in the domestic season continued as they finished a dreadful fifth among six teams after losing to Saurashtra by four wickets in their last group C league match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Tuesday. Saurashtra by virtue of being group toppers with an all-win record and 20 points qualified for the quarter-finals
England captain Joe Root on Tuesday backed Jack Leach and Rory Burns to bounce back from dismal Ashes performances, as star all-rounder Ben Stokes declared himself fit to carry the fight to Australia. Root refused to rule out selecting spinner Leach in Thursday’s pink-ball Test in Adelaide, even though he conceded 102-1 from 13 overs
Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan after scoring fifty© AFP Mohammad Rizwan and Haider Ali struck fiery half centuries as Pakistan thumped West Indies by 63 runs in the first Twenty20 international in Karachi on Monday. Rizwan smashed a 52-ball 78 with 10 boundaries — his 12th half-century and 11th this year — while Haider scored a career-best
The BCCI has formed a committee for the differently abled cricketers of the country, paving the way for them to play under the Board’s aegis. In April this year, the BCCI Apex Council had decided to recognise the Differently Abled Cricket Council of India (DCCI) as the only body to promote cricket among physically challenged,
Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid worked together during the T20I series against New Zealand.© Twitter Since the T20 World Cup exit, there’s a lot that has happened in Indian cricket. The team has a new coach now and also a new full-time limited-overs captain. Last week, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton suffered a heartbreak at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday as he missed out on a record eighth F1 world championship title after a dramatic end to the race. With Hamilton leading comfortably in the final few laps of the season-ending race, Nicholas Latifi of Williams crashed towards the end. This
Venkatesh Iyer smashed 151 with the bat and took two wickets with the ball as he helped Madhya Pradesh beat Chandigarh by five runs in a Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Rajkot on Sunday. Venkatesh, who is seen as a India prospect to fill in the Hardik Pandya slot across white-ball formats,
As Yuvraj Singh celebrates his 40th birthday on Sunday, India batter Shubman Gill extended his greetings to the former cricketer. Gill and Yuvraj, who announced his retirement from all formats of the game in 2019, share a great camaraderie as both can be seen often commenting on each other’s social media posts. Taking to Koo,
Three West Indies players, along with a non-coaching member of the team management, have tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the start of their tour of Pakistan. The three players, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell and Kyle Mayers, returned positive tests in Karachi. The West Indies squad had arrived in Pakistan on Thursday. The Caribbean side is slated
David Warner shared the face-swap video on Instagram on Saturday.© Instagram Having recently helped Australia win their Ashes opener against England, David Warner took to Instagram to post a hilarious morphed video of Indian actor Allu Arjun. In the video, from upcoming movie Pushpa‘s newly-released music video Eyy Bidda Idhi Naa Adda, the Aussie opener replaced famous
England captain Joe Root said Saturday his team must fix their fielding and batting to get back into the Ashes series, while defending the decision to leave Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad out of the first Test. A dominant Australia humbled England by nine wickets to win the opener convincingly at Brisbane inside four days,
Aus vs Eng 1st TestDay 4live Australia vs England 1st Test Day 4 Live:Joe Root and Dawid Malan will look to continue the good work and put the pressure right back on Australia on Day 4 of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane. Australia would like to believe they are still in
With his tenure as Team India’s head coach ending after the 2021 T20 World Cup, Ravi Shastri has opened up about the opposition he faced when he had applied for the coach’s job after the end of his stint as Team Director in 2016. Shastri has had three stints with Team India with his first
Controversy erupted on Day two of the ongoing first Ashes Test between Australia and England at the Gabba on Thursday as Ben Stokes’ no-ball denied the visitors a crucial wicket of David Warner, who was batting on 17 at that time. It was later revealed that Stokes had overstepped each of the previous three deliveries,
Australia vs England 1st Test Day 3 Live© AFP Australia vs England 1st Test Day 3 Live: Australia are in complete control of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane. They are already 196 runs ahead with three wickets in the bank, one of them being the well-set Travis Head, batting on 112. England,
Rohit Sharma will take charge of India’s ODI team from the South Africa series© AFP Former India cricketer Atul Wassan feels Virat Kohli has realised that he cannot lead Team India in all three formats. Opening batter Rohit Sharma was named India’s full-time ODI captain on Wednesday and Wassan reckons it is a good move
Rohit Sharma has been appointed as India’s captain in ODIs and T20Is.© AFP Former India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha revealed how the great Adam Gilchrist had spotted leadership qualities in Rohit Sharma when he had just started to play at the highest level. Ojha’s comments came after Rohit on Wednesday was named as India’s ODI