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NETHERLANDS TOUR OF BANGLADESH 2025 Bangladesh is set to host Netherlands for a three-match T20I series © Getty Phil Simmons, the Bangladesh head coach, said that his team is hoping to play like they did in Sri Lanka as they prepare to take on Netherlands in the three-match T20Is. Bangladesh clinched the three-match T20I series in Sri Lanka after losing the opening game. He is hoping that the team would be able to carry forward that momentum. “I’m for us to continue the levels that we’ve set in Sri Lanka,” Simmons said on Friday. “Take away a little bit from…
SRI LANKA TOUR OF ZIMBABWE, 2025 Dilshan Madushanka bowled a terrific final over, which included a hat-trick © AFP Sikandar Raza’s 87-ball 92 went in vain as Dilshan Madushanka bowled a terrific final over, which included a hat-trick, as Sri Lanka secured a thrilling 7-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first One-Day International in Harare, on Friday (August 29). Defending 10 runs from the final over, Madushanka cleaned up Raza off the first ball, and then followed it up dismissing Brad Evans and Richard Ngarava off the next two balls. Blessing Muzarabani took a single off the fourth ball to…
Skipper Salman Agha hit an unbeaten half-century and fast bowler Haris Rauf grabbed four wickets as Pakistan upstaged Afghanistan by 39 runs in the tri-series opener in Sharjah on Friday. Agha hit a 36-ball 53 not out with three sixes and as many boundaries, which lifted Pakistan to 182-7 in their 20 overs. Pacers Rauf took 4-31 and Shaheen Afridi 2-21, while spinners Mohammad Nawaz (2-23) and Sufiyan Muqeem (2-25) dismissed Afghanistan for 143 in 19.5 overs before a noisy capacity 16,000 crowd at the Sharjah stadium. Afghanistan matched Pakistan with opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 27-ball 38 with a six and…
DULEEP TROPHY 2025 Auqib Nabi picked up four wickets in as many balls © Getty North Zone vs East Zone Auqib Nabi’s all-round efforts put North Zone in a strong position in their quarterfinal clash against East Zone on Day 2 of the Duleep Trophy in Bengaluru. North Zone posted a strong total of 405 despite Manishi’s 6 for 111. Nabi (5-28) then combined with Harshit Rana (2-56) to prevent East Zone’s innings from taking off as they were bowled out for 230 to concede a lead of 175. Starting the day at 308/6, North Zone lost Mayank Dagar early…
The tickets for the Men’s Asia Cup 2025 — including the much-awaited Pakistan-India clash — are now available for sale, the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) said on Friday. According to the board, the tickets are being sold starting from 40 dirhams (PKR 3,069.51) for the matches in Abu Dhabi and 50 (PKR 3,836.89) dirhams for the ones in Dubai. “Tickets for the most sought-after India v Pakistan match will initially be available in a seven-match tickets package starting at 1,400 [dirhams] (PKR 10,743.28),” the ECB announced. It said fans could buy separate (standalone) tickets for each of the remaining matches…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan says his team have no “specific targets” despite producing groundbreaking performances in recent ICC global events, ahead of a T20 international tri-series starting Friday. Rashid’s men face Pakistan in the opening game in Sharjah, with the United Arab Emirates the other side taking part in the event which serves as a warm-up for next month’s Asia Cup, also in the UAE. Afghanistan reached the semi-finals of last year’s T20 World Cup in the United States and the Caribbean, and narrowly missed out on reaching the last four at the ODI Champions Trophy…
GEARING UP Shubman Gill was recently unwell and was resting in Chandigarh © Getty Shubman Gill is headed to the National Cricket Academy’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru for a fitness test. Ahead of the Asia Cup, the India Test captain and T20I vice-captain is understood to have reached Bengaluru on Friday (August 29) evening for the mandatory assessment that all Asia Cup-bound players are required to undergo. It is not clear when exactly Gill will undergo the fitness tests at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) facility, but presumably it will be over the next…
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe is confident that all female athletes at this year’s world championships in Tokyo will have undergone gene testing, after snags left some of them scrambling to meet the September 1 deadline. Athletes who arrive at the September 13-21 global event without having being tested can complete the process in the Japanese capital. “Although the vast majority of athletes will have been tested before they get to Tokyo … if there are outstanding athletes that still haven’t been tested, we have the ability to do that in Tokyo — but that is by no means an…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Thursday announced a 16-member squad for the ACC Men’s Asia Cup 2025, which will be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from September 9 to 28 in T20I format. Left-handed batter Charith Asalanka will lead Sri Lanka, who lifted the trophy in 2022 and finished as runners-up in 2023. The major talking point is the return of star all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga. The leg-spinner had been sidelined since picking up a hamstring injury during the T20I series against Bangladesh in July and was left out of the squads for the ongoing…
BANGLADESH CRICKET Nurul Hasan last played for Bangladesh in 2023 © Getty While walking back from the press conference room after explaining his position regarding the squad for the upcoming Asia Cup, Bangladesh chief selector Gazi Ashraf Hossain seemed like he missed something. “I think I should have mentioned that it is not true that Nurul Hasan was not considered for the last three years considering he was carrying an finger injury for quite some time but now when we picked him everywhere it is mentioned that he is returning in the national set-up after a gap of three years,”…