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When does it start? Tuesday, September 16! NSW and Tasmania will launch the men’s domestic summer at Cricket Central in Sydney. The Blues are fresh off a 3-0 sweep of Victoria in three one-day pre-season matches at the same venue last week and will be seeking their first points of the new campaign against a strong Tasmania side likely to feature Australian allrounders Beau Webster and Mitch Owen. Queensland and Victoria kick off their season the following day at Brisbane’s Allan Border Field, which will also host the Vics and Tasmania on Friday. Reigning champions South Australia and Western Australia…
As we celebrate 20 years of T20 internationals in this year’s Kit Week, take a stroll down memory lane to enjoy the weird and wonderful playing kits the Australian teams have sported in the game’s rock-and-roll format. 16. Gun metal grey Australia’s first men’s T20 international on home soil was at the Gabba against South Africa in early 2006 and they didn’t wear green or gold. They wore a strip that was marketed as “gun metal grey” and the kits featured the nicknames of players, rather than their surname. ‘Marto’ (Damien Martyn) top-scored with 96 while we also saw ‘Roy’ (Andrew…
ASIA CUP, 2025 Salman Agha and his men face a tough test come the Asia Cup © AFP Mike Hesson is no stranger to taking bold calls; some that even led to the burning of national blazers. He is at it again, in his latest role with the Pakistan national men’s team, where as the head coach, he moved past the veteran pair of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam, to revive the team’s fortunes – or rather, to bring them up to pace – in the shortest format. In a way, it’s an extension of the larger plan that Pakistan…
LAHORE: Pakistan captain Fatima Sana and head coach Mohammad Wasim voiced optimism over their side’s preparations for the upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup, stressing a spin-oriented strategy and collective harmony as central to their campaign. The World Cup, to be hosted under a hybrid model across India and Sri Lanka, will see all of Pakistan’s fixtures staged in Colombo, with political tensions ruling out travel between the two neighbours. Pakistan open their immediate run-in with a three-match ODI series against South Africa in Lahore from Sept 16, following the conclusion of a training camp at the National Cricket Academy and…
LONDON: Chelsea were hit with 74 charges by the Football Association on Thursday after the London club were accused of breaching regulations covering football agents, intermediaries and third-party investment in players spanning more than a decade. The FA did not elaborate on the charges but Chelsea said the matters were ‘self-reported’ by the club after the change in ownership in May 2022. “The conduct that is the subject of the charges ranges from 2009 to 2022 and primarily relates to events which occurred between the 2010-11 to 2015-16 playing seasons,” the FA said in a statement. At the time, the…
CARDIFF: Marco Jansen and Corbin Bosch took two wickets apiece as South Africa beat England by 14 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in a rain-marred first T20 in Cardiff on Wednesday. Bad weather reduced what should have been a 40-over contest at Sophia Gardens to just 12.5 in total. England chasing a revised 69 in five overs for victory, finished on 54-5 as they failed to keep pace with a daunting run rate of nearly 14 an over against a quality attack. Jansen (2-18) and Bosch (2-20) did the bulk of the damage in an England innings where only Jos…
ASIA CUP 2025 Hesson is in charge of the limited-over sides. © Getty In cricket, there is no clash bigger than India vs Pakistan. No contest that draws more eyeballs, none that generates more buzz and none that invoke stauncher emotions. So on the eve of Pakistan’s opening encounter of the Asia Cup against Oman, it was only natural that the prevailing discourse was not about their upcoming game but about the one that follows. In fact, so much was clear when Pakistan’s Head Coach, Mike Hesson, addressed the media ahead of Pakistan’s first game. While there’s no denying that…
ASIA CUP 2025 Litton Das struck a 39-ball 59 © Getty Litton Das led from the front with an unbeaten half-century as Bangladesh got off to a winning start in the 2025 Asia Cup. Hong Kong came up with a much better performance with the bat compared to their outing on the opening night against Afghanistan but Bangladesh still got the job done with almost three overs left. Where was the game won? The middle overs difference Parameters Hong Kong Bangladesh Score 67/1 71/0 Run rate 7.44 7.89 4s/6s 4/3 5/0 Hong Kong Powerplay – Bangladesh take early control Phase…
ASIA CUP, 2025 Oman will bank on Jatinder Singh’s experience to steady their new-look side © Getty The last 12 months for Oman have been nothing short of a roller-coaster ride. Their squad holds a new look to it from the one that took part in the T20 World Cup last year with only three players remaining from that 15-man squad. A pay dispute between Oman Cricket and its players over the distribution of the prize money received from the mega event led to the walkout of 11 players at the start of the ACC Men’s T20 Emerging Teams Asia…
DULEEP TROPHY 2025 Kumar Kartikeya picked up four wickets. © Sportzpics Kumar Kartikeya and Saransh Jain spun Central Zone into a commanding position on the opening day of the 2025 Duleep Trophy final against South Zone at the BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground in Bengaluru. On a surface that offered plenty of assistance to the spinners, the duo shared nine wickets between them to bowl South Zone out for just 149. In reply, Central Zone’s openers made steady progress to reach 50 without loss at Stumps. Put in to bat, South Zone got off to a sedate start as the…