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England will open their 2026 World Cup bid against Croatia in Dallas on June 17, while the latest meeting of Brazil and Scotland at the tournament will take place in Miami, FIFA confirmed on Saturday. The complex nature of the first-ever 48-team World Cup being played all across North America meant that world football’s governing body needed an extra day to set venues and kick-off times following Friday’s draw. Thomas Tuchel’s England, who are fourth in the current world ranking, will play Croatia at 3:00 pm local time at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, just outside Dallas. They will therefore…
Virat Kohli on Saturday said a free mind helped him push limits after his stellar batting led India to a 2-1 ODI series victory over South Africa on Saturday. The 37-year-old amassed 302 runs including two centuries and one fiftyin three matches to dispel any doubts over his enduring quality as a top-order batter. Kohli capped off the series with an unbeaten 65 off 45 balls in the deciding ODI in Visakhapatnam as India bossed their chase of 271 to win with 61 balls and nine wickets to spare. “Honestly, playing the way I have in the series is the…
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s maiden one-day international century trumped Quinton de Kock’s 23rd as India clinched the series from South Africa by nine wickets on Saturday.The victory, somewhat bizarrely, also saw India win a toss for the first time in two years and 21 ODIs dating back to the 2023 Cricket World Cup semi-finals. Jaiswal’s unbeaten 116, beside Rohit Sharma’s 75 and Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 65, powered India to the target of 271 with 10.1 overs to spare. They won the series 2-1 after losing the Test series 2-0. The teams start a five-match Twenty20 series on Tuesday in Cuttack. Twitter This…
England’s batters have held “no discussions” about the repetitive nature of their Ashes dismissals and will stick to their principles, says assistant coach Marcus Trescothick.The tourists slumped to 134-6 in their second innings on day three of a Brisbane Test they look likely to lose after being rolled for 172 and 164 during their two-day defeat in the series opener at Perth. Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley were caught and bowled by Australia’s Michael Neser after unsuccessfully driving on the up in the day-nighter at The Gabba, with dismissals to that shot totting up following similar failings at Optus Stadium…
You can come out from behind the sofa now, England fans.A “gruesome” third day – to use Sky Sports’ Michael Atherton’s word – for Ben Stokes’ tourists at The Gabba ended with them six wickets down in their second innings, trailing by 43. There was another loose drive-induced batting collapse following the meltdown in Perth that cost England the first Test, with Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley the guilty parties in Brisbane. Score summary – Australia vs England, second Ashes Test England 334 all out after 76.2 overs in first innings (elected to bat): Joe Root (138no off 206 balls),…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day Three Going off body language alone, one watching Mitchell Starc trudge off the sun-kissed Gabba in its golden hour could have been mistaken for thinking he had just made a duck. Starc had just put together his highest Test score in almost a decade, but his eyes did not even glance towards the raucous Gabba Troopers giving him a standing ovation. Into the changerooms went Australia’s superhuman speedster; his bowling boots were back on within the hour. Two days earlier, Starc was asked how it felt to have become the left-arm…
The dust of the city coated everything – the flags, the crisp new doboks, the hopeful faces of fathers shepherding their children. After 18 years, this was Karachi’s welcome: not a red carpet, but a gritty testament. The National Games had come home. The city, in its quintessential fashion, demanded a pilgrimage. For the first Games on its soil after 18 years, it offered an obstacle course of its own making – cranes standing like sentinels over diverted roads that formed labyrinths of progress. But through the grit and the detours, they came. A river of colour, athletes from every…
Mitchell Starc made a late-career bid for all-rounder status when he scored a half-century and grabbed two wickets under the Gabba floodlights to push Australia to the brink of victory at the close of day three of the second Ashes Test on Saturday. Tailender Starc made 77 in a sparkling 141-ball knock to help Australia to a 177-run lead before working his magic with the pink ball as England staggered to 134 for six at stumps, still 43 runs short of making Australia bat again. Ben Stokes and Will Jacks were both four not out, tasked with restoring a shred…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day Three If England are to somehow extricate themselves from the hole in which they find themselves just five days into this Ashes campaign, they will need to overcome a series of worryingly familiar concerns that emerged across a Saturday of suffering at the Gabbatoir. Slowly, and then more steadily, the echoes of England tours to have gone belly-up Down Under began to surface. The signs had been there on day two in Brisbane, when five catches were dropped and their pace attack – so menacing so briefly in Perth – fluffed…
England stumbled towards a 2-0 series deficit as they closed day three of the second Ashes Test on 134-6 in their second innings, still trailing Australia by 43 runs.Any faint England hopes rest on another memorable captain’s contribution from Ben Stokes – four not out overnight – after the tourists’ top order again subsided under lights in the day-night Test at The Gabba. With Australia resuming the third day on 378-6, 44 ahead on first innings, Mitchell Starc top-scored with 77 to continue his remarkable series and stretch the hosts’ advantage to 177 when they were finally bowled out for…