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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pat Cummins says he will do whatever it takes to play the Ashes against England starting in November, with the Australian skipper prepared to “take a few risks” with a back injury that has sidelined him. The 32-year-old pace spearhead has been ruled out of upcoming white-ball series against New Zealand and India with “lumbar bone stress”, casting a shadow over Australia’s Ashes preparations. He has not bowled since their Test tour of the West Indies in June-July, restricted to just light gym duties with no date set for a return. The first Ashes Test starts…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Marnus Labuschagne has gone “back to the drawing board” in a bid to regain his Australia spot for the Ashes, boosted by knowing he was once the top batsman in the world. The long-time number three in Australia’s batting order was dropped from the Test tour of the West Indies in June-July after a sustained lean spell. The 58-Test veteran, known for endlessly tinkering with his technique, said it had been an opportunity to “step back mentally” and reassess his approach. “There’s an analogy — you can try and bash yourself through the wall or you…
Still only 17, Gout is already one of the most exciting prospects in global athletics, earning comparisons with Jamaican great Usain Bolt and training with Adidas stable-mate Noah Lyles in Florida. Teen sprinter Gout Gout will make a much-anticipated world championships debut in Tokyo this month as he marks an early milestone in a career Australia hopes will peak with Olympic gold at Brisbane 2032. Still only 17, Gout is already one of the most exciting prospects in global athletics, earning comparisons with Jamaican great Usain Bolt and training with Adidas stable-mate Noah Lyles in Florida. All this while juggling…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan’s cricketer, Haider Ali, has been cleared in an alleged rape case after the Greater Manchester Police determined that there were not enough evidence against the emerging batter to back up the allegations levelled by a British-Pakistani girl, local media reported on Wednesday. Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) sources confirmed to Geo News exclusively that the case against Ali has been closed due to insufficient evidence to support the allegations. Ali was represented by criminal law expert Barrister Moeen Khan. The batter had been under investigation after a British-Pakistani woman accused him…
INDIA CRICKET BCCI had floated tenders for the sponsorship on Tuesday © AFP The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has raised the valuation for sponsoring the Indian cricket team, setting a new base price higher than what Dream11, the outgoing sponsor, had been shelling out. According to industry sources, the new reserve price, it is understood, is INR 3.5 crore for bilateral matches and around INR 1.5 crore for multilateral fixtures, particularly in the ICC and ACC competitions. These figures, talked about in the market, are slightly higher than the current rates of INR 3.17 crore for…
The French women’s team have been barred from the boxing world championships because the results of their gender tests were not delivered on time, the French Federation (FFBoxe) said on Thursday. World Boxing said last month women wanting to compete in the event in Liverpool that starts on Thursday would have to undergo mandatory genetic sex testing under its new policy. Such tests have been banned in France since a law was passed in 1994, save under strict conditions, so the French federation had to wait till they reached England in order to proceed with them. The five-member team underwent…
RETIREMENT NEWS Amit Mishra last played an international in 2017 but was active in the IPL and domestic circuit © Getty Veteran legspinner Amit Mishra has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, bringing the curtains down on a professional career that spanned more than two decades. Mishra, 42, played his last international in 2017 but remained an active presence in domestic cricket and the IPL, most recently turning out for Lucknow Super Giants in 2024. He ends with 22 Tests, 36 ODIs and 10 T20Is for India, collecting 156 international wickets. On his Test debut in 2008 in…
Neeraj Chopra does not usually worry about distance as long as he gets on the podium but the poster boy of Indian athletics knows he may have to throw beyond the 90 metres mark if he is to defend his javelin world title in Tokyo this month. A mop-haired Chopra became India’s first track-and-field athlete to win Olympic gold in the Japanese capital four years ago, and has since added a Diamond League trophy, world championships gold and a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Games. In November last year, the 27-year-old brought in three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny as…
Neeraj Chopra does not usually worry about distance as long as he gets on the podium but the poster boy of Indian athletics knows he may have to throw beyond the 90 metres mark if he is to defend his javelin world title in Tokyo this month. A mop-haired Chopra became India’s first track-and-field athlete to win Olympic gold in the Japanese capital four years ago, and has since added a Diamond League trophy, world championships gold and a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Games. In November last year, the 27-year-old brought in three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny as…
Reigning champion Jannik Sinner marched into the US Open quarter-finals Wednesday as Amanda Anisimova avenged her Wimbledon thrashing by Iga Swiatek to set up a last-four clash with Naomi Osaka. World number one Sinner swept aside 10th seed Musetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Italian men’s quarter-final in Grand Slam history. “It was a great performance, very solid. I started the match very well,” said Sinner, who faces Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals on Friday. Auger-Aliassime has won two of three previous meetings but Sinner thrashed him for the loss of just two games in Cincinnati…