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Kazi Salahuddin, the long-serving president of the South Asian Football Federation, has for long envisaged a club championship for the region. His long-cherished dream of his is on the cusp of reality but perhaps even he wouldn’t have thought that women footballers from the region would beat their male counterparts to it. However, with the strides the women’s game has made in South Asia, it is instead the SAFF Women’s Club Championship, which kicks off in Nepal from Friday, that will herald the start of a tournament for clubs in the region. “I believe this was the right time to…
There were two telling contributions to the Gabba’s opening day by batters with Yorkshire roots. It remains to be seen which one could yet prove match-defining Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One In the scheme of things, Joe Root’s drought-breaking Australian century may end up being rivalled as this Test’s most telling contribution by a batter with Yorkshire roots. This was surely not how Josh Inglis envisaged making his first impact on the rivalry between his country of birth and the one he now represents with pride. Alex Carey told the ABC it was “one of…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One Twelve years, 13 days and exactly 1,000 runs on from his first Test outing in Australia, the seemingly ageless Joe Root at last conquered his final run-scoring frontier. Throughout an opening day where Australia seemed to make the right inroads at the right times until a disastrous final 40 minutes, Root stood tall for England, carving out a superb unbeaten 135 that will cement his legacy as one of the finest batters his country has produced. It was fitting that it happened at the Gabba, where Root played his maiden…
Joe Root finally scored his maiden Test century in Australia on his fourth Ashes tour to guide England from a precarious 5-2 to 325-9 at stumps after a pulsating first day of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane on Thursday. Mitchell Starc became the most successful left-arm fast bowler in history as he claimed 6-71, but the opening sessions of the day-night contest were dominated by Root, who scored a masterful 135 not out. Number 11 Jofra Archer thrilled the travelling army of fans as he smashed a career-best unbeaten 32 off 26 balls with two sixes to provide some…
The countdown to the first 48-team World Cup begins in earnest on Friday as the draw for the 2026 finals takes place in Washington, with Donald Trump set to dominate much of the attention. The most logistically complex World Cup in history will be held across North America from June 11 to July 19, with 16 more teams added to the global showpiece, up from the 32 nations involved in Qatar in 2022. Friday’s ceremony, at the Kennedy Center on the banks of the Potomac River, will be a star-studded event but Trump will take centre stage. FIFA president Gianni…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day One After almost a fortnight of giddy anticipation, day one of this second NRMA Insurance Ashes Test lived up to the hype, as England’s batting giant Joe Root and Australia’s most diminutive fielder Josh Inglis produced a pair of unforgettable moments under the Gabba lights. It was another wild, see-sawing day, the third in as many through this Ashes series so far, during which both sides held the upper hand before England seized a late, dramatic advantage via an unbroken 61-run 10th wicket stand that took the score to 9-325. In…
India are all in a spin after losing a scarcely believable 20 coin tosses in a row in one-day internationals — at odds of more than a million-to-one. Stand-in captain KL Rahul admitted he was flummoxed at the run of bad luck that goes all the way back to the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad, when Rohit Sharma was in charge. “I’ve been practising, but clearly it’s not working,” said Rahul after losing the flip again in the second one-day international against South Africa in Raipur on Wednesday. The odds against losing 20 consecutive coin tosses are 1,048,576 to…
Big centuries by Tom Latham and Rachin Ravindra put New Zealand firmly in control of the first Test against the West Indies with a lead of 481 at stumps on day three in Christchurch on Thursday. The pair put on 279 for the third wicket before Latham was out for 145. Ravindra followed soon after for 176. At stumps, Will Young was 21, Michael Bracewell was on six and New Zealand were 417-4 to go with their 64-run first innings lead. “If you asked what a perfect day looked like it would probably look something like that,” Ravindra said after…
Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said Thursday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani great as the leading left-arm pace bowler in Test history. Starc’s six-wicket haul on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane gave him 418 Test wickets, four more than Wasim. “Wasim’s still a far better bowler than I am,” said Starc. “So as far as I’m concerned, he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly he’s right up there with the best bowlers to ever play the game. “It’s nice to be spoken of up around that, but…
Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc said Thursday he could not be compared with Wasim Akram after he surpassed the Pakistani great as the leading left-arm pace bowler in Test history. Starc’s six-wicket haul on day one of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane gave him 418 Test wickets, four more than Wasim. “Wasim’s still a far better bowler than I am,” said Starc. “So as far as I’m concerned, he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly he’s right up there with the best bowlers to ever play the game. “It’s nice to be spoken of up around that, but…