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Will Smeed hit a brilliant 94 as Somerset completed a record Vitality Blast Finals Day chase to beat Hampshire by six wickets at Edgbaston on Saturday.Chasing 195 for victory, Somerset’s Smeed (94 off 58 balls) hit 14 boundaries to help his side get within touching distance before his captain Lewis Gregory (18no) hit a six over square leg to claim victory. Gregory shared a match-winning 18-run partnership with Sean Dickson (33no) to get Somerset over the line with six balls to spare, posting 195-4 after winning the toss and electing to field. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL An India-Pakistan cricket match is always a blockbuster but emotions will run even higher in Sunday’s Asia Cup clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who engaged in a four-day military conflict earlier this year. Even before the clashes in May, which nearly escalated into a full-blown war, bilateral cricket ties had been suspended. The arch-rivals now play each other only in multi-team tournaments. Political relations have deteriorated further since the clashes, with several former Indian players urging the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to boycott what will be the first meeting between the teams…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Phil Salt hit the highest score and quickest century by an England batsman in a T20 international as the hosts hammered South Africa by 146 runs to level their three-match series at 1-1 during a record-breaking evening at Old Trafford on Friday. Opening batsman Salt’s astounding 141 not out was the cornerstone of England’s mammoth 304-2. It was the first time in a T20 international between two Test-playing nations a side had reached 300, with India having come closest previously, scoring 297-6 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad in 2024. South Africa, faced with a colossal chase, unsurprisingly…
Sri Lanka won against Bangladesh with ease in their first Twenty20 International (T20I) encounter of the men’s Asia Cup 2025 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. The Sri Lankan men’s side chased down the target in just 15 overs after restricting the Tigers to 139 in the first innings. Sri Lanka skipper Charith Asalanka had won the toss in Abu Dhabi and elected to bowl in their first match of the Asia Cup. Bangladesh made one change to their playing eleven from their victory over Hong Kong, as left-arm pacer Shoriful Islam came in for the right-arm Taskin Ahmed. Bangladesh skipper…
Pakistan batter Saim Ayub said on Saturday that the team was not just focusing on the Pakistan-India match, but winning the men’s Asia Cup. The arch-rivals will clash in a geopolitically-charged men’s Asia Cup contest in Dubai on Sunday. It will be the first cricket match between the sides since four days of military conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May. While reigning T20 world champions India are the firm favourites to retain their title, Pakistan are on a high, having convincingly beaten Afghanistan to win the final of a tri-series and Oman in the lead-up to the contest. Speaking…
Somerset secured their place in the Vitality Blast final with a steel-nerved 23-run win over Lancashire Lightning in the first semi-final at Edgbaston. Match Analysis By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay Somerset (182 for seven) beat Lancashire Lightning (159 all out) by 23 runs Put in, Somerset totalled 182 for seven with only Tom Kohler-Cadmore, 81 from 52 balls, mastering a Lightning attack led by Tom Hartley (4-0-24-1) and George Balderson (3-0-31-3). The score looked only about par but Lewis Gregory’s side defended it with enormous skill and energy. Lancashire fell short on 159 all out as…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pace bowling great Wasim Akram has urged Pakistan and India’s cricketers to ignore the noise and enjoy the game when they meet in a highly charged Asia Cup T20 match on Sunday. The Group A match in Dubai is the first clash on the cricket field between the countries since a military conflict four months ago took relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours to their lowest point in decades. India resisted calls to boycott the match between the pair, who have not played in any bilateral series since deadly attacks in Mumbai 2008 were blamed on Pakistan…
Despite being ignored last year in a second string squad, Varun staged a strong comeback into India’s white-ball squads. ©Getty He had already been asked to send his Adidas sizes. Shirt, trousers, tracksuit: all ticked off, as if the place in India’s squad was a formality. That was how sure Varun Chakaravarthy was, in July 2024, that his time had come again. India were preparing to send a second-string team to Zimbabwe after the T20 World Cup win, the kind of series built for fringe players to audition. Varun fit that mould better than most: more than 40 wickets across…
A Pakistan-India cricket match is always a blockbuster, but emotions will run even higher in Sunday’s Asia Cup clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who engaged in a four-day military conflict earlier this year. Even before the clashes in May, which nearly escalated into a full-blown war, bilateral cricket ties were suspended. The arch-rivals now play each other only in multi-team tournaments. Political relations have deteriorated further since the clashes, with several former Indian players urging the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to boycott what will be the first meeting between the teams since the recent hostilities. While…
CPL 2025 Green’s match-winning spell restricted to TKR to a par total which was chased down by the Royals © CPL via Getty Images. Chris Green’s stirring spell of bowling (3/7) helped set up Barbados Royals’ seven-wicket win over Trinbago Knight Riders. The already-qualified TKR were restricted to 166 for 8 which was chased down in 19 overs, courtesy a flying start from Quinton de Kock and Kadeem Alleyne, and finished emphatically by captain Rovman Powell. With this loss, TKR end the league stage with 12 points. Their finish in the top-two will rely on the results of Guyana Amazon…