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WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA 2025 Kuldeep Yadav bagged his fifth Test fifer ©BCCI Deception is essentially a skill and an art in cricket, and in his short Test career, he has mastered the art and skill of being a deceiver with the cricket ball. Kuldeep Yadav – the illusionist impresario – was in full view on Sunday morning at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The left-arm wrist spinner, now a virtual veteran in white-ball cricket and trying to make a mark in the red-ball format, made a statement on how India may have missed a trick by not deploying him…
ENGLAND TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND, 2025 Santner will resume leadership duties now that he is back. © Getty Mitchell Santner and Rachin Ravindra have returned to the New Zealand squad for the upcoming three-match T20I series against England, beginning in Christchurch on Saturday (October 18). While Santner will resume leadership duties after recovering from abdominal surgery, Ravindra is back from the facial injury that kept him out of the recent series against Australia. Squad: Mitchell Santner (C), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Jacob Duffy, Zak Foulkes, Matt Henry, Bevon Jacobs, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Rachin Ravindra, Tim…
In the Vizag nets leading into Sunday’s blockbuster World Cup clash with India, Alyssa Healy was the picture of frustration. Somewhere between dropping off her kitbags at the departures lounge at Sydney International Airport and her arrival in Delhi last month, she had misplaced her rhythm.A promising comeback from her injury-riddled 2024-25 summer for Australia A in August – which included an unbeaten century and two fifties – had filled the national skipper with confidence she was in good nick before she left Australian shores on September 10. But after arriving in India – nope, nada. It was gone. “If…
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025 Nadine de Klerk helped South Africa to an unlikely win against India © Getty “I don’t think I have seen anything like that in all my cricketing career,” South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt said after their thrilling win over India the other night. Those words, in a way, also summed up her team’s remarkable change of fortunes. After being bowled out for 69 in their World Cup opener, SA have since scripted a stirring turnaround, first chasing 232 against New Zealand with almost nine overs to spare and then stunning hosts India in a come-from-behind victory.…
Tasmania’s Young Men’s Player of the Year will be eyeing a Big Bash debut alongside Indian legend, Ravichandran Ashwin Sydney Thunder have signed Under-19 World Cup winner Aidan O’Connor until the end of KFC BBL|16. The two-year deal is the first Big Bash contract for the promising 19-year-old from Tasmania. The contract caps off an impressive couple of years for the Launceston local. Sydney Thunder’s BBL|15 squad (so far): Tom Andrews (BBL|15), Wes Agar (BBL|15), Ravichandran Ashwin (BBL|15), Cameron Bancroft (BBL|17), Sam Billings (BBL|16), Ollie Davies (BBL|15), Lockie Ferguson (BBL|15), Matt Gilkes (BBL|15), Chris Green (BBL|16), Ryan Hadley (BBL|15), Shadab…
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025 Perry sealed the game for Australia with a six © Getty Led by Alyssa Healy’s century and Annabel Sutherland’s fifer, Australia handed India their second consecutive defeat of the ongoing World Cup, overhauling the 331-run target with three wickets in hand and an over to spare. Even though it was a high-scoring contest, it was characterized by boundaries and quick runs through the early and the middle phases, which fizzled out in the death overs. For India, it was the flurry of wickets which sucked the momentum out of their innings, for Australia – who were…
ICC WOMEN’S WORLD CUP, 2025 142 by Alyssa Healy is the second-highest score against India in ODIs © Getty Stats highlights from the ICC Women’s World Cup match between India and Australia in Vizag: 331 The target chased by Australia against India is the highest ever successfully chased in a Women’s ODI match. The previous highest was 302 target chased by Sri Lanka against South Africa in Potchefstroom last year. The previous highest successful chase in the Women’s World Cup matches was 278 runs by Australia against India at Auckland in the 2022 edition. This is also the second-highest total…
Death, taxes… and Australia playing World Cup thrillers against India. This time it was Alyssa Healy’s drought-breaking century that paved the way to a world record ODI chase, as Australia reeled in a mammoth target of 331 with an over to spare in Visakhapatnam.An instant classic that swung throughout came down to the penultimate over at the ACA-VDCA Stadium. With six runs needed from the final seven deliveries and three wickets in hand, Ellyse Perry – who had earlier retired hurt due to cramp and then returned to the middle in the 45th over with her team six wickets down…
LAHORE TEST Imam-ul-Haq fell seven short of his hundred © Getty Pakistan reached a position of stability at stumps on a hard-fought Day 1 in the first Test against South Africa at Lahore. Two big partnerships, first between Imam-ul-Haq and Shan Masood, and then between Salman Agha and Mohammed Rizwan, highlighted Pakistan’s efforts. After winning the toss and opting to bat first, Pakistan suffered an early jolt with Kagiso Rabada trapping Abdullah Shafique LBW after a successful referral. Their captain Masood though started positively by striking two boundaries to get started in the first over – one through cover and…
Alyssa Healy produced a sensational century as Australia registered the highest run chase in women’s ODI history against co-hosts India at the Women’s Cricket World Cup.India had produced a superb showing with the bat themselves to total 330 all out, Smriti Mandhana top scoring with 80 from 66 balls and notching her 5000th ODI run, while Australia bowler Annabel Sutherland claimed her first ODI five-wicket haul. Skipper and opener Healy would not be denied on the night, though, as she made 142 from 107 deliveries – the sixth ODI century of her career – setting the foundation for her team-mates…