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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan started their three-match ODI series against the West Indies with a confident five-wicket victory at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba on Friday. The win was set up by half-centuries from captain Mohammad Rizwan and debutant Hassan Nawaz, along with a crucial unbeaten partnership from Hassan and Hussain Talat. Chasing 281, Pakistan lost opener Saim Ayub early for just 5 runs, dismissed by Jayden Seales in the third over. Abdullah Shafique then joined Babar Azam to add 47 runs for the second wicket, but his innings ended on 29 when he was dismissed by…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2025 Who will earn bragging rights at the end of this T20I series? © Getty The capital of Northern Territory is called Darwin because John Clements Wickham, the captain of the Beagle – the British ship that turned up at the top bit of Australia in September 1839 – had served as first lieutenant on an earlier voyage of the same vessel. Also aboard for that trip, which lasted from December 1831 to October 1836, was one Charles Darwin, the naturalist whose research and theories would exert an outsized influence on our understanding of the…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Hasan Nawaz made a dream start to his international career, scoring an unbeaten 63 on debut to help Pakistan beat the West Indies by five wickets in the first ODI at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba on Friday. The 22-year-old became only the 14th Pakistani batter to score a fifty or more on ODI debut, ending a six-year wait since Abid Ali’s hundred against Australia in 2019. Chasing 281, Pakistan got off to a poor start when Saim Ayub was dismissed for five by Jayden Seales in the third over. Abdullah Shafique (29) and…
Australia A v India A | Second T20 Alyssa Healy has continued her successful return to the middle, hitting a swashbuckling 70 as Australia A thumped India A by 114 runs in the second T20 in Mackay. Fresh off a rapid 27 in the opening game at the Great Barrier Reef Arena, Healy went bigger on Saturday finding the boundary 12 times in her 44-ball innings, laying the foundation for Australia A’s 4-187. Her senior Australia teammate Kim Garth (4-7) then set the tone with the ball, taking three wickets in the Powerplay including knocking over the stumps of India…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2025 Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head recently had successful stints in the IPL while opening the batting © Getty Australia’s T20I skipper Mitchell Marsh has confirmed that he will be opening the batting alongside Travis Head in the format for now. Marsh was Australia’s No.3 in the format since 2021 and the move also paid off with the allrounder putting in a man of the match performance in the T20 World Cup final that year. While he has continued to bat in that position in the next two editions as well, the 33-year-old is all…
Hasan Nawaz made a triumphant one-day international (ODI) debut, going 63 not out on Friday to power Pakistan over the West Indies by five wickets in their ODI series opener. Nawaz and Hussain Talat formed a sixth-wicket partnership of 104 not out to rally the visitors in the day-night affair, with game two on Sunday and the concluder on Tuesday. West Indies went 280 all out with Evin Lewis leading the way on 60 from 62 balls with three sixes and five fours while Shai Hope added 55 and Roston Chase contributed 53. Needing 281 to win, Pakistan got 53…
THE HUNDRED Ferguson picked up three wickets. © Getty Lockie Ferguson rattled Birmingham Phoenix with the ball before a flying start from Tom Banton helped set up a comfortable victory for Trent Rockets to start off their season at Edgbaston. Phoenix suffered a bruised start as they fell to 12 for 3 and no attempts of recovery – led by Liam Livingstone – proved sufficient as they were restricted to just 122/6. In response Banton hit three fours and as many sixes in his 29-ball stay and was backed up further by Rehan Ahmed (25 off 16) and Max Holden…
Trent Rockets kicked off their campaign in The Hundred men’s competition with an effortless victory over the Birmingham Phoenix at Edgbaston on Friday night.Phoenix finished their innings with 122-6 but it never looked enough, and David Willey’s Rockets side were led to a comfortable six-wicket victory by a strong bowling effort spearheaded by Lockie Ferguson (3-20) and a chase fronted by Tom Banton (42 from 29). Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Joe Root was bowled out of Trent Rockets first The Hundred fixture by his England coach Tim Southee! Meerkat Match Hero, Lockie Ferguson, said:…
Ellyse Perry has steered her Birmingham Phoenix side to victory over Ash Gardner’s Trent Rockets at Edgbaston A women’s Hundred clash with a distinct Australian flavour has ended with Ellyse Perry’s Birmingham Phoenix defeating Ash Gardner’s Trent Rockets by 11 runs at Edgbaston. Perry reckoned she had enjoyed having breakfast with her five fellow Aussies – two teammates and three opponents – in Birmingham on Friday morning before the great allrounder put friendship aside to play a key role in the afternoon in steering her side to victory. Perry, who looked in sharp form after a month playing alongside her…
Trent Rockets kicked off their campaign in The Hundred men’s competition with an effortless victory over the Birmingham Phoenix at Edgbaston on Friday night.Phoenix finished their innings with 122-6 but it never looked enough, and David Willey’s Rockets side were led to a comfortable six-wicket victory by a strong bowling effort spearheaded by Lockie Ferguson (3-20) and a chase fronted by Tom Banton (42 from 29). Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Joe Root was bowled out of Trent Rockets first The Hundred fixture by his England coach Tim Southee! Meerkat Match Hero, Lockie Ferguson, said:…