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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Ahead of the Asia Cup, Pakistan’s selectors are hesitant to revisit some former players, but with Fakhar Zaman ruled out due to injury, calls for Babar Azam’s return to the national squad have started gaining momentum. However, sources within the selection committee have stated that no formal discussion has yet taken place on the matter, and Fakhar’s unavailability for the tournament is not confirmed at this point. A review meeting will be held after the West Indies tour, where the selection committee will assess the situation. According to a PCB official, the door to the T20…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Ben Stokes said he was frustrated by England’s failure to secure a Test series win against India but refused to blame Harry Brook for his dismissal, which sparked a dramatic collapse. The five-match series finished 2-2 after India sealed a dramatic six-run win on Monday, with paceman Mohammed Siraj taking three of the four wickets to fall on the final morning. England, chasing a daunting 374 runs to win, had been cruising at 301-3 on Sunday, with Brook and Joe Root at the crease. But they buckled under pressure and lost their last seven wickets for…
THE HUNDRED – MEN’S COMPETITION 2025 Rashid Khan returned figures of 3 for 11 on his debut for Oval Invincibles © Getty Rashid Khan and Sam Curran bowled 25 dots between them in 39 deliveries and picked three wickets each to give holders Oval Invincibles a crushing win to kick-start their men’s Hundred campaign against London Spirit. After folding Spirit for just 80 runs, the Invincibles took just 69 deliveries to wrap a routine six-wicket win at Lord’s. Before Rashid or Curran had to dig their teeth into Spirit’s line-up, Jordan Clark and Jason Behrendorff got the Invincibles going with…
ASIA CUP 2025 “Rashid Khan is Afghanistan’s superstar player. He has always done it for the team. Being in form or out of form, that’s a part of game but he knows very well how to come back stronger,” Mir Mubariz © Getty Afghanistan Cricket Board official said on Tuesday that they are not losing their sleep over the form of star leg spinner Rashid Khan as they are confident he will make a comeback in the upcoming Asia Cup. ACB announced a 22-member preliminary squad led by Rashid for the upcoming Asia Cup, set to be held in the…
DUBLIN: Pakistan captain Fatima Sana (L) and her Ireland counterpart Gaby Lewis pose with the T20I series trophy at the Clontarf Cricket Club on Tuesday.—courtesy PCB DUBLIN: Pakistan women will look to kickstart a packed international calendar — featuring two white-ball World Cups — with a winning performance when they take on Ireland in the opening fixture of a three-match T20I series at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground on Wednesday. This will be the fifth bilateral T20I series between the two sides. The record so far stands even, with both Pakistan and Ireland having won two series each. However, the…
SYDNEY: A group representing Brisbane’s two Indigenous peoples lodged an application with the Australian federal government on Tuesday for the permanent protection of the site where the city plans to build the main stadium for the 2032 Olympics. The Yagara and Magandjin peoples want the inner city Victoria Park, known to them as Barrambin, to be protected for perpetuity under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act as a “significant Aboriginal area”. “Barrambin is living country, possessing sacred, ancient and significant relationships within our cultural heritage systems,” elder Gaja Kerry Charlton said in a statement on behalf of…
LISBON: Former captain Jorge Costa has died aged 53 after a cardiac arrest at the team’s training ground, FC Porto announced on Tuesday, paying tribute to “a key figure in the club’s history”. “The legendary FC Porto captain and current director of professional football, passed away this Tuesday following a cardiopulmonary arrest,” the club said in a statement. The former Portuguese international defender collapsed on Tuesday morning at the club’s training ground. He was rushed to hospital, where he died shortly after arriving, according to local media. Costa spent most of his playing career with the club, winning eight league…
In the aftermath of Tahlia Wilson’s record-breaking 2024-25 domestic season, she remembers being frequently asked, ‘You should be pretty happy with how the summer went?’ But the 25-year-old wicketkeeper-batter was already wondering, ‘How can I get better?’Wilson took all before her at the top of the order and behind the stumps for New South Wales last Women’s National Cricket League season, scoring 677 runs – the most by a Breaker in a single campaign – to be crowned the country’s top female domestic player of 2024-25. After a preseason spent refining her game, she now hopes to go even bigger…
The fifth season of England’s Hundred competition has been launched with a blizzard of sixes, mostly hit by Australians Grace Harris and Meg Lanning. Harris hit a competition record-equalling six sixes in her 42-ball 89no but was nearly upstaged by her former Australia captain Lanning, who hit five of them before being dismissed for 85 off 51 balls. Her departure sealed London Spirit’s victory over capital rivals Oval Invincibles by 17 runs. The match was the first half of a double-header at Lords to kick-off the format where both sides receive 100 balls bowled in ‘sets’ of five. It was…
Match 1 of The Hundred Mens 2025 features London Spirit (Men) vs Oval Invincibles (Men). Enjoy live streaming coverage, score updates, and a full match report with batting and bowling highlights, key turning points, and expert analysis. © Sky Sports Cricket Oval Invincibles brushed London Spirit aside with ease in the opening game of The Hundred men’s competition as they began their bid to win the title for the third year in a row. Sam Billings’s side, who lifted the trophy in 2023 and 2024, are backing themselves for a ‘three-peat’ and the manner of their victory in the competition…