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Days after completing an ODI series win over England, South Africa claimed the rain-shortened T20 opener in Cardiff South Africa have won a rain-shortened first T20 international by 14 runs after England failed to chase down a revised target of 69 off five overs in Cardiff. England’s batters tried to slog pretty much every delivery to the boundary on Wednesday but could only manage 5-54 at Sophia Gardens.Rain initially reduced the match to a nine-overs-per-side contest and the Proteas, after being put into bat, made 5-97 before another heavy shower arrived in the Welsh capital, further truncating the game. Captain…
Will Sutherland added to Australia A squad for second red-ball match against India A in Lucknow Australia A have suffered another blow ahead of their multi-format tour of India with allrounder Aaron Hardie sidelined with a shoulder injury. With fellow West Australian Lance Morris and Queenslander Callum Vidler already withdrawn from the four- and one-day series respectively with back injuries, Hardie becomes the latest to be ruled out after injuring his left shoulder at state training last Friday.Victorian allrounder Will Sutherland, who was already part of the Australia A squad for three 50-over matches that follow in Kanpur, has been…
England fell to a 14-run defeat to South Africa in a farcically short first T20I against South Africa ravaged by rain in Cardiff.Persistent downpours delayed the start of the game by two hours and 20 minutes, leaving only a nine-overs-a-side contest possible. Aiden Markram (28 off 14 balls) and Donovan Ferreira (25 not out off 11) powered South Africa to 97-5 in 7.5 overs before another deluge brought their innings to a premature halt.England were set a revised target of 69 from five overs, but their chase never ignited after Phil Salt fell to the first ball.Jacob Bethell managed seven,…
ASIA CUP 2025 Bangladesh will be favourites in their contest against Hong Kong © Getty Litton Das, the Bangladesh skipper, indicated that they are not losing their sleep over run-rate as they prepare to take on Hong Kong in their Asia Cup opener at the Sheikh Abu Zayed Stadium on Thursday. The question of run-rate came up for discussion after Afghanistan earned a 94-run win over Hong Kong. This single factor could prove handy going forward in case three teams find themselves level on points at the end of the group stage. Litton warned of that approach backfiring if they…
MLC 2026 The final will be held on July 18, 2026. © MLC Major League Cricket (MLC) has confirmed that its fourth season will run from June 18 to July 18, 2026, continuing with the same month-long June-July window adopted in 2025. The league will once again feature 34 matches involving six teams, timed to avoid clashes with major global competitions such as The Hundred. This announcement comes at a time of renewed public tension between MLC’s owners, American Cricket Enterprises (ACE), and USA Cricket (USAC), which recently sent and then withdrew a termination notice of its 50-year commercial agreement…
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…