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ASIA CUP 2025 Kuldeep Yadav registered figures of 4/7 © Getty India kickstarted their Asia Cup title defence in emphatic fashion by hammering UAE in Dubai on Wednesday (September 10). In a game that didn’t even last 20 overs in total, India picked up a 9-wicket win after their bowlers set it up by dismantling UAE for just 57. Where was the game won? The powerplay difference Parameters UAE India Score 41/2 60/1 Run rate 6.83 13.33 4s/6s 6/1 4/5 UAE Powerplay – Jittery UAE pin hopes on Waseem Phase score – 41/2 [RR: 6.83, 4s/6s: 6/1] With India opting…
Sportspersons should never be expected to carry the weight of what happened five months ago, and they should not be required to do the bidding of their governments on a cricket field. Around three years ago, Shaheen Shah Afridi sat on the periphery of an ICC Academy training ground in Dubai when the Indian team arrived at the venue. The images that followed would warm billions of hearts around the world. Shaheen’s right-leg was in a brace, a consequence of an ill-fated dive in Galle, Sri Lanka, that ruled him out of cricket for four months. He helped himself off…
India men’s captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and elected to bowl first against the United Arab Emirates in their first encounter of Asia Cup 2025 in Dubai on Wednesday. The 17th edition of the Asia Cup kicked off with the Group ‘B’ match between Afghanistan and Hong Kong, where Azmatullah Omarzai hammered a 20-ball fifty as his team beat Hong Kong by 94 runs in the opening match on Tuesday. Pakistan and India meet on September 14 in the most-awaited match of the T20 tournament, which serves as a build-up for next year’s T20 World Cup in India and…
Kuldeep Yadav returned figures of 4-7 to lead holders India to a crushing nine-wicket win over hosts United Arab Emirates in their opening match of the men’s Asia Cup 2025 on Wednesday. Kuldeep struck three times in one over with his left-arm wrist spin as tournament favourites India skittled UAE for a paltry 57 in 13.1 overs after they elected to field first in the T20 in Dubai. India romped home to victory in 4.3 overs after left-handed opener Abhishek Sharma hit 30 off 16 balls and vice-captain Shubman Gill stood unbeaten on 20. But it was the bowlers who…
BCB ELECTIONS The upcoming BCB presidential election will be different from the ones contested in the past. © Getty The drama that is unfolding with each passing day surrounding the upcoming Bangladesh Cricket Board election is another indication that cricket is not beyond politics. The Bangladesh Cricket Board had recently announced a three-member Election Commission to conduct its Board of Directors Election 2025, scheduled on the first week of October. The commission will be responsible for carrying out and finalizing the election process in line with the board’s constitution and regulations. Senior Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Mohammod Hossain has been…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Azmatullah Omarzai hammered a 20-ball fifty as Afghanistan thrashed Hong Kong by 94 runs in the opening match of the Asia Cup on Tuesday. Afghanistan elected to bat first in Abu Dhabi and posted 188-6 with opener Sediqullah Atal playing the anchor role with an unbeaten 73. His fifth-wicket partnership of 82 with Omarzai, who hit 53 off 21 balls including two fours and five sixes, proved key for Afghanistan in the Group B fixture. Afghanistan’s bowlers then combined to keep Hong Kong down to 94-9. Temperatures early on touched 40 degrees celsius but it was…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Coach Sourav Ganguly splashed out a record 16.5-million rand ($941,000) to land big-hitting Dewald Brevis for his Pretoria Capitals franchise in the SA20 auction in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The former India captain won a bidding war against former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming, who wanted Brevis for the Joburg Super Kings. The price paid for Brevis eclipsed the record of R14-million ($798,000) which took South African T20 international captain Aiden Markram to Durban Super Giants just minutes earlier. Markram was the first player to breach the R10-million barrier for the tournament, which will be played from…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott demanded improvement from his team after an unsteady batting performance in Tuesday’s Asia Cup victory against minnows Hong Kong in Abu Dhabi. Afghanistan were 95-6 in 13 overs before dropped catches allowed them to post a match-winning total of 188-6 after electing to bat in the tournament opener. Opener Sediqullah Atal topscored with 73 but was spilled three times, including in the very first over. “We were a bit fortunate with a few dropped catches that sort of let us off. We need to make sure we improve on a…
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ASIA CUP, 2025 Parvez Hossain Emon has proved central to Bangladesh’s batting resurgence in the PowerPlay © Getty After nearly two years of transition, Bangladesh arrive at the 2025 Asia Cup with a largely settled squad and the momentum of three consecutive T20I series wins. The UAE hasn’t traditionally been a happy hunting ground for them – despite the similarity in conditions back home – and their biggest challenge now is to convert that recent confidence into tangible success in a multi-nation tournament – perhaps even the first trophy after three previous runner-up finishes in the continental championship. Bangladesh’s struggle…