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DULEEP TROPHY 2025 Rahul and Siraj are among contracted players excluded from the South Zone squad. © Getty The South Zone selectors have chosen not to follow the BCCI’s directive to include centrally contracted players in their Duleep Trophy squad. KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Sai Sudharsan and Prasidh Krishna – already absent from the squad – are unlikely to be added to it for the inter-zonal red-ball championship. The BCCI had issued its advisory by email to state associations over a month ago, but South Zone officials have opted not to act on it. Sources from the zone…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF ENGLAND 2025 Keshav Maharaj and David Miller have returned to the T20I side © Getty David Miller, Donovan Ferreira and Keshav Maharaj have been recalled to South Africa’s T20I squad for next month’s white-ball tour of England. All-rounder Marco Jansen (thumb) and fast bowler Lizaad Williams (knee) also return from their respective injuries and feature among the five changes to the squad that recently played Australia. Kagiso Rabada, who missed the ODI series in Australia due to inflammation in his right ankle, has been named in both the white-ball squads and is expected to be available…
US President Donald Trump announced Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will be held in Washington on December 5 — and then jokingly asked if he could keep the golden trophy for himself. The draw for the 48-team football championship will be held at the Kennedy Center in the US capital, where Trump recently installed himself as chairman in what he called a war on “woke” culture. “It’s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports,” Trump, flanked by FIFA chief Gianni Infantino, said as he made the announcement in the Oval Office of the White House.…
Northern Superchargers cemented their place in the top three of The Hundred Women’s 2025 with a dominant win over Oval Invincibles, driven by Alice Davidson-Richards’ maiden half-century and Phoebe Litchfield’s stylish cameo. Match Analysis An inspired performance in the field from Manchester Originals held off the Superchargers in one of the games of the tournament. In front of a bumper crowd of 11,952 – a record for the women’s competition at Emirates Old Trafford – the home side held their nerve and took their catches to clinch a potentially season-defining victory. Defeat here to the high-flying Superchargers would have put the…
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was in buoyant form despite finishing fourth in the 100m at the Brussels Diamond League, saying she was focused on ending her illustrious career in a “magnificent way” at the Tokyo world championships. The 38-year-old Jamaican sprint legend timed 11.17 seconds in Brussels on Friday, just edged off a podium featuring Americans Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Sha’Carri Richardson — the world champion, and Briton Daryll Neita. While Fraser-Pryce — the third-fastest woman of all time in the 100m with 10.60 — has struggled this season to hit the speeds she once did, she was in bullish mood when looking…
Sianna Ginger further enhanced her reputation as a player to watch with a crucial century on day three of the ‘A’ red-ball game in Brisbane Australia A v India A | Four-day match | Day 3 Sianna Ginger hit her first century for Australia A, before Raghvi Bist went big again as India A built a significant lead on day three of the four-day ‘A’ game in Brisbane. India A were 8-260 at stumps on Saturday afternoon, with Joshitha VJ and Titas Sadhu unbeaten on nine and two apiece, leading the hosts by 254 runs with a day left to…
After 18 long years of wait, RCB did the unthinkable in 2025! ©BCCI In the first part of an in-depth interview on RCB’s maiden IPL triumph, Director of Cricket Mo Bobat tells Cricbuzz about the benefit of the franchise’s struggles in 2024, the process of appointing Rajat Patidar as captain, and how they approached the mega auction ahead of the 2025 season. Mo, before we get to the cricket, it would be remiss not to speak about the day after the final, the stampede at Chinnaswamy during the victory celebrations… Cricket and the IPL is so much about passion and…
INDIA SELECTION Ojha is set to replace S Sharath from the South Zone © Getty The BCCI has advertised for positions in the men’s and women’s selection committees. It seeks to induct two new selectors into the Ajit Agarkar-led men’s committee and four into the women’s committee. September 10 is the deadline for applications. The BCCI has not specified which candidates will be replaced or which zones the new members will represent. However, it is learnt that the two new members in the men’s committee will come from the South and Central zones. S Sharath, from the South, has completed…
LAHORE: On the sidelines of the Pakistan Open MMA Championship on Friday, Omar Ahmed, the president of the Pakistan Mixed Martial Arts Federation, outlined an ambitious vision to establish Mixed Martial Arts as a premier sports property in the country, while detailing the significant systemic hurdles that stand in its way. A former kickboxer, Omar spoke candidly about the challenge of attracting advertisers in a market dominated primarily by the game of cricket. “Our purpose is to create a sport property in Pakistan,” Omar told Dawn. “At the moment, Pakistan Super League [PSL] is the only sports property of Pakistan.…
LAHORE: The six-member Coaching Affairs Committee formed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) last month to interview and recommend new coaches has seen little involvement from its designated members, with only one actively carrying out the task alongside officials not part of the committee. The committee — announced on July 16 — includes Director High Performance Aqib Javed, Director Domestic Abdullah Khurram Niazi, Director HR and Administration Abdul Faisal Malik, Pakistan men’s head coach Mike Hesson, Head of Coaching Education Shahid Aslam, and GM Academies Imran Abbas. However, sources told Dawn that only Shahid Aslam has been conducting interviews, joined…