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CPL 2025 Jason Holder celebrates after winning the game for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots © CPL via Getty Images. Jason Holder scored 38, added a crucial 55-run stand with Kyle Mayers and then returned to pick four wickets to end his team’s losing run in CPL 2025. St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots posted 174 for 8 and then proceeded to defend it – by 12 runs – against the Barbados Royals. The Patriots were on a slippery slope early in the innings after the Royals asked them to bat. Evin Lewis, Rilee Rossouw and Mohammad Rizwan were dismissed inside…
ZIMBABWE V SL Hasaranga picked up a hamstring injury in July © AFP Wanindu Hasaranaga isn’t part of the Charith Asalanka-led 16-member Sri Lanka squad for the two-match ODI series in Zimbabwe. Hasaranga, who picked up a hamstring injury during the T20I series against Bangladesh in July, was subsequently ruled out of the ODIs against Bangladesh and has now been sidelined for the 50-overs matches against Zimbabwe as well. The squad features the return of 25-year-old top-order batter Nuwanidu Fernando, who last played an ODI in early 2024 against New Zealand. Pavan Rathnayake, the uncapped 22-year-old top-order batter, has also…
Lahore: One thing Nolberto Solano is very clear about is that being head coach of Pakistan’s football team is no bed of roses. Things didn’t come easy for him as a player, he says. And he doesn’t expect them to be any better for him as coach. That’s what has brought the Peruvian former Newcastle United cult hero to football’s backwaters in Pakistan. The sport in the country has seen little progress due to a decade-long institutional crisis in the Pakistan Football Federation. There have been some highs, notably Pakistan’s historic victory over Cambodia in 2023 — the first time…
TAIPEI: Taiwanese Olympic champion boxer Lin Yu-ting will undergo compulsory gender testing ahead of the world championships in Liverpool next month, her coach told AFP on Thursday. Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif were embroiled in a gender row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they both won gold medals in different weight classes. World Boxing said on Wednesday that women wanting to compete at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool would have to undergo “mandatory sex testing” under its new policy that took effect the same day. “They announced that everyone must submit, so we will submit as well,”…
LONDON: Leeds United enjoyed a triumphant return to the Premier League with a home victory over Everton at Elland Road this week, but Saturday’s trip to north London to face Arsenal could prove a reality check for Daniel Farke’s side. Their clash at Arsenal is one of several intriguing fixtures on the second weekend of the top-flight season which kicks off on Friday with Chelsea at West Ham United. Manchester City will aim to build early momentum as they face Tottenham Hotspur at home on Saturday while champions Liverpool travel to Newcastle United in the final offering on Monday. It…
See all the official squads for this year’s women’s ODI World Cup in India and Sri Lanka as they are announced Australia Alyssa Healy’s squad is expected to be announced on Friday, September 5 Bangladesh: TBC England Squad: Nat Sciver-Brunt (c), Em Arlott, Tammy Beaumont, Lauren Bell, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Heather Knight, Emma Lamb, Linsey Smith, Danni Wyatt-Hodge Nat Sciver-Brunt leads the team that includes former skipper Heather Knight, who is on the comeback trail from injury. England have opted for four specialist spinners in the squad, including a return…
ASIA CUP 2025 Shreyas Iyer failed to make the cut in India’s squad for Asia Cup 2025 © Getty Shreyas Iyer’s omission from the Indian team for the Asia Cup has triggered a deafening uproar, particularly on social media, which is abuzz with memes, cryptic posts and direct criticism. So much so, even his father, Santosh Iyer, questioned Ajit Agarkar’s selection committee decision. Even R Ashwin and Irfan Pathan have joined the chorus, asking how both Iyer and Yashasvi Jaiswal could be ignored. Those, indeed, seem fair and legitimate posers considering the rules of the Asia Cup. The Asian Cricket…
ASIA CUP 2025 Indian Government has green-lit the cricket team’s participation in Asia Cup © AFP The Government of India has drawn a firm distinction between bilateral and multilateral cricketing ties with Pakistan, making it clear that the national team will participate in the upcoming Asia Cup despite the growing clamour for boycott and withdrawal. But there will continue to be no bilateral engagement with Pakistan. “India’s approach to sports events involving Pakistan reflects its overall policy in dealing with that country,” the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs said in a statement on Thursday (August 20). “So far as…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA 2025 Marnus Labuschagne was dismissed for 1 in the first ODI © Getty Mark Waugh doesn’t hold back generally. But he sounded extra agitated the other night on commentary as Australia fell in a heap against Keshav Maharaj in Cairns. He lamented about how some in the Australian middle-order looked like they’d never faced quality left-arm spin before. To be honest, you couldn’t blame him. It was a pretty inept display of batting albeit on a surface that did grip and turn more than expected. Maharaj kept landing the ball on the perfect length, targeting…
A remarkable 10-ball hitting barrage from Sam Curran and Jordan Cox turned the game on its head and drove Oval Invincibles towards a crucial win against table-topping rivals Trent Rockets in The Hundred.Chasing 171 to win, the Invincibles were beginning to feel the pressure at 70-2 with 102 needed for victory from just 40 balls. Ten legal balls, one strategic timeout and six sixes later they had sailed to 121-1, with just 51 more required from the last 30. It was a scarcely believable spell of sustained hitting, from Curran in the main, that thrilled the Kia Oval crowd and…