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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…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF PAKISTAN 2025 75 of the 90 overs on Day 1 were bowled by spinners ©Getty It isn’t often South Africa deploy a spinner in the first 10 overs of a Test. Spin from both ends is even more unusual, and rarer still in the opening hour of the match. But there Prenelan Subrayen stood at the top of his run, ready to bowl the sixth over. And there, at the other end before the 11th, stood Simon Harmer. The XI also includes Senuran Muthusamy, and Keshav Maharaj would surely also have got a game but for…
Speaking at the occasion, Raj said, “It is a true honour and privilege to have a stand named after me at Vizag.” “Vizag has always held a special place in my journey. It is where I spent countless hours honing my skills, learning the game, and growing into the cricketer and person I am today. To see how far women’s cricket has come fills me with immense pride. “My deepest appreciation goes to the ICC and its Chairman, Mr. Jay Shah, for their continued efforts in championing the cause of women’s cricket with such conviction. The game today is thriving,…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA 2025 Jayden Seales was fined 25 percent of his match fee © BCCI West Indies pacer Jayden Seales was fined for breaching the ICC code of conduct during the ongoing Test match against India in Delhi. Apart from copping a fine of 25 percent of his match fee for the breach, Seales was also handed his second demerit point in a 24-month period with the first coming against Bangladesh in a Test match last December. The incident occurred on the opening day of the Test in the 29th over of the Indian innings. Seales had…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA, 2025 Both Campbell and Hope kept India at bay in the final session. © BCCI John Campbell and Shai Hope led a strong, defiant fight back in the final session on Day 3 in Delhi after India enforced follow-on. Kuldeep Yadav picked his fifth Test fifer that helped India bundle out West Indies for 248 in much better batting conditions. India then chose to send them out again and even made a couple of inroads before the third-wicket pair came together to keep the fight going. For the first time in six Tests across their…
AFGHANISTAN VS BANGLADESH Mushtaq Ahmed believes that Bangladesh need to be better when they are facing spin © Getty Bangladesh’s spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed said that their batters need to play the ball rather than playing Rashid Khan, who had wrecked through their batting line-up in both the ODIs to help them clinch the three-match series with one game in hand. Rashid, who picked four wickets in the opening game of the series, grabbed a five-fer (5 for 17) in the second ODI on Saturday to give Afghanistan an 81-run win. “I think they are playing Rashid, not the…
Former England international guides Queensland home in tense last-over victory Queensland Fire v ACT Meteors | WNCL Lauren Winfield-Hill stopped the ACT Meteors from pulling off a major WNCL upset as the former England international’s unbeaten century sealed a dramatic final-over win for Queensland in Brisbane. When the Fire slumped to 6-105 chasing ACT’s 8-277, the post-Katie Mack era looked set to begin in fine style for the unfancied Meteors. Winfield-Hill’s maiden WNCL ton sinks Meteors But from No.7, Winfield-Hill (101no from 87) restored order as she spearheaded a remarkable comeback, lifting the hosts to a two-wicket victory off the…
Rohit Sharma rated Scott Boland as Australia’s best quick last summer. Australia’s coach insists England should take heed Andrew McDonald warned England against thinking they have Scott Boland’s measure, reminding them the captain of Australia’s most recent home Test opponents found him harder to face than the Big Three. Boland looks certain to take on a more prominent role in this summer’s five-Test campaign as uncertainty lingers over when fellow quick Pat Cummins will return from a back stress injury. The 36-year-old, who took three wickets in Victoria’s Sheffield Shield opener, has admitted to giving the 2023 Ashes considerable thought in…
AFGHANISTAN VS BANGLADESH Rahmat Shah is the first Afghan batter to score 4000 ODI runs © Getty Afghanistan batter Rahmat Shah is unlikely to feature in the series-concluding third ODI against Bangladesh due to a calf injury. Rahmat, who retired hurt after sustaining the injury, returned to the crease in a heroic attempt to bat after Afghanistan had lost their ninth wicket in the second ODI but he could stand at the crease for just one ball. Afghanistan team physio Nirmalan Thanabalasingam ran to Rahmat as he was unable to stand and later the right-handed batter was taken out of…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF NAMIBIA, 2025 De Kock made just 1 in his comeback game. ©Getty And just like that in Windhoek on Saturday, Quinton de Kock had some idea how Donald Bradman must have felt more than 77 years ago at The Oval. Bradman took guard in what became his final Test innings, in August 1948, needing four runs to become the first – and to date the only – player to retire with an average of 100. The world was watching, or would have been had cricket been available on almost every screen near you like it is…