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Jitesh Sharma will hope his latest India odyssey is more productive. ©BCCI On a warm April night in 2023, as RCB and PBKS players drifted into post-match huddles along the boundary in Mohali, a promising relationship was initiated. Tamil Nadu batter Shahrukh Khan approached Dinesh Karthik, and beside him walked Jitesh Sharma, just short of turning 30, with questions to ask. It came right after Jitesh had hit 41 off 27, a knock that nearly won his team the match. Karthik spoke to him briefly about their shared vocation of finishing games, and that was that. A year later, in…
Teenager Davina Perrin’s record-breaking century in The Hundred has “life-changing importance,” says Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain.Perrin, 18, broke multiple records during Northern Superchargers’ semi-final match against London Spirit at The Oval on Saturday, hitting the fastest ton in the women’s Hundred and the second fastest overall while also becoming only the second batter in the women’s competition to make triple figures after Tammy Beaumont in 2023. The teenager’s century also meant the Superchargers went past the 200 mark for the first time in the women’s competition, and went on to win the final, beating Southern Brave.”I thought that was one…
Teenager Davina Perrin’s record-breaking century in The Hundred has “life-changing importance,” says Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain.Perrin, 18, broke multiple records during Northern Superchargers’ semi-final match against London Spirit at The Oval on Saturday, hitting the fastest ton in the women’s Hundred and the second fastest overall while also becoming only the second batter in the women’s competition to make triple figures after Tammy Beaumont in 2023. The teenager’s century also meant the Superchargers went past the 200 mark for the first time in the women’s competition, and went on to win the final, beating Southern Brave.”I thought that was one…
Oscar Piastri powered to victory at an incident-packed Dutch Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, with home favourite Max Verstappen claiming second place as Piastri’s McLaren teammate Lando Norris suffered a dramatic breakdown late in the race. Piastri led from pole to chequered flag at the Zandvoort circuit in a race that saw the safety car deployed three times to stretch his lead over Norris to 34 points in the championship race. Racing Bulls’ 20-year-old French rookie Isack Hadjar finished third to become the fifth youngest podium finisher of all time. It was Piastri’s sixth Grand Prix victory of the…
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic motored into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Sunday as reigning women’s champion Aryna Sabalenka kept her title defence firmly on track. Spanish second seed Alcaraz and tennis icon Djokovic — who are on course to meet in the semi-finals — both recorded straight-sets wins on the Arthur Ashe Stadium main court. Five-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz overpowered France’s Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-4 and has not dropped a set to date at the championships. “I think my style of tennis suits pretty well the energy here in New York,” the 22-year-old said.…
THREE PEAT Will Jacks (third from left) provided the winning kick with a blistering 72 in the final. © Getty Oval Invincibles have done the Hundred three-peat. On Sunday night, they wrapped up a hat-trick of Hundred titles with a 26-run victory over Trent Rockets, riding on Will Jacks’s blistering 72 and Nathan Sowter’s game-breaking spell (3-25). Having looked set to get close to 180, they stumbled at the death to finish on 168/5 and looked set to finish runners-up for the first time, but the bowlers stepped up to avoid that. Asked to bat, Invincibles got exactly the start…
BAN V NED, 2ND T20I Bangladesh want results, not trials before Asia Cup, says senior assistant coach © BCB Bangladesh’s senior assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin said on Sunday that the team is not considering any experimentation as they prepare to face the Netherlands in the second game of the ongoing three-match T20I series, scheduled at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on September 1. Bangladesh came into the series high on confidence after wins against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and carried that form into the opener against the Dutch, clinching a comfortable eight-wicket win to go 1-0 up. With the series…
THE HUNDRED – WOMEN’S COMPETITION 2025 Northern Superchargers won the final with 12 balls to spare © Getty Annabel Sutherland’s all-round show, Nicola Carey’s unbeaten 35 and Kate Cross’s early strikes all combined to give Northern Superchargers their maiden title at the Women’s Hundred 2025, bringing curtains on Southern Brave’s near-perfect run with a crushing seven-wicket win in the rain-affected final at the Lord’s. Brave could muster only 115/6 after losing wickets in clusters, in which Sutherland prised out both the top-scorers and Cross lent the early blows – both finishing with identical figures of 2-23. The Australian later turned…
SHARJAH: Pakistan’s emerging batter Hasan Nawaz believes he is a part of the country’s “best T20 team” following back-to-back wins in the opening two matches of the ongoing tri-series in the United Arab Emirates. In the tournament being played as warm-up ahead of the Asia Cup — which starts Sept. 9 — Pakistan have started with thrashings of Afghanistan and UAE thanks to a number of players chipping in with impactful contributions. After seasoned pacer Haris Rauf and skipper Salman Ali Agha led Pakistan to a 39-run win over Afghanistan in the opener, Saim Ayub and Hasan Nawaz himself scored…
HARARE: A Pathum Nissanka century set up Sri Lanka for a five-wicket One-day International win over Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday with three balls to spare, and a 2-0 series victory. The 27-year-old right-hand opener claimed his seventh ODI ton by making 122 off 136 balls. His knock including 16 fours. He put on 90 runs for the fourth wicket with captain Charith Asalanka (71), taking the tourists to 236-4 with 33 balls remaining. Replying to a Zimbabwe total of 277-7 off 50 overs, Sri Lanka reached 278-5 to seal a second straight ODI series victory after a 2-1 win…