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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Former Pakistan fast bowler Umar Gul on Wednesday hit out at the national team following their loss in the ODI series against the West Indies, saying the side lacks the quality all-rounders that once made Pakistan a dominant force. Speaking on state television after the series, Gul drew sharp comparisons between the current squad and teams from the past. “There is a big difference between this team and the ones we had before. Back then, our all-rounders were established and that’s why we dominated,” he said. Gul pointed to players such as Abdul Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood,…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL New Zealand fast bowler Jacob Duffy has been named as Mohammad Amir’s replacement in the Northern Superchargers squad for the remainder of The Hundred 2025 men’s competition. The franchise confirmed the news on its official social media channels, sharing a photo of Duffy wearing the Superchargers jersey. “Jacob Duffy will permanently replace Mohammad Amir for the rest of The Hundred,” the team stated. Amir had joined the Superchargers as a partial replacement earlier in the tournament and featured in two matches. During his short stint, the left-arm pacer claimed one wicket and scored 11 runs. The…
BANGLADESH CRICKET Representative Image: The committee has conducted over 60 interviews to fulfil its fact-finding mandate © Getty The fact-finding committee of the Bangladesh Premier League is expected to submit its preliminary report to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) by August. Earlier in February, the BCB announced that an independent inquiry body would be formed to support the board and the BCB Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) with integrity issues and investigations after several corruption allegations were reported in the media. Later, the BCB formed a three-member committee headed by former justice of the appellate division, Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and included…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Australia fast bowler Scott Boland said on Wednesday that the hosts will be unfazed by any England aggression when the Ashes rivals clash later this year. England’s thrilling home series against India ended in a 2-2 draw this month and was notable for several feisty encounters between the two sides. Boland, speaking 100 days out from the first Ashes Test in Perth, said he had enjoyed watching England and India battle it out. He shrugged off the prospect of Ben Stokes’s England being similarly confrontational during the five Ashes Tests. “They can do whatever they want…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar on Wednesday launched a scathing critique of the national team following their heavy defeat in the ODI series against the West Indies, warning that the batting line-up will continue to be exposed whenever they face fast bowling friendly conditions. Speaking on a programme after the match, Akhtar also questioned the role of white-ball head coach Mike Hesson, saying that while the New Zealander is a capable T20 coach, his approach to the 50-over format is puzzling. “Mike Hesson is a good T20 coach, but I don’t know what qualities he…
PLANS FOR THE WC Maxwell wants to bowl with the new ball in the PowerPlay during next year’s T20 World Cup © Getty Glenn Maxwell is aiming for a bigger role with the ball in the T20 World Cup next year, especially in the PowerPlay. Not averse to the challenge in recent years, Maxwell bowled two overs each with the new ball in the last two T20Is against South Africa. “I think in the subcontinent you might be able to get a little bit more out of it as a spinner early on,” Maxwell told reporters in Cairns on Thursday…
THE ASHES, 2025-26 At 36, Boland believes he has gotten better. © Getty Two years ago, when England and Australia last met in the Ashes, Scott Boland played just two of the five Tests and managed only two wickets. The 2-2 Ashes draw in England was dominated by three other Australian quicks – Mitchell Starc (23 wickets), Pat Cummins (18) and Josh Hazlewood (16). Since then, Boland has played four Tests and taken 27 wickets. Thinking back to those hard days in Birmingham and Leeds, when the returns didn’t match the effort, the 36-year-old believes his skills and self-belief have…
Glenn Maxwell is increasing his bowling inside the Powerplay with an eye towards next year’s T20 World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka in February. Maxwell is no stranger to bowling with the fielding restrictions in place, perhaps most famously taking the wicket of Rohit Sharma inside the Powerplay in the 2023 ODI World Cup final. The allrounder bowled two Powerplay overs in each of the BKT Tyres T20 matches against South Africa in Darwin. But tellingly, Maxwell had bowled only five Powerplay overs in total in this format between the 2022 T20 World Cup and this…
MEN’S HUNDRED 2025 Meredith finished with a spell of 4/9 in his team’s win © Getty Riley Meredith, Chris Green and David Payne combined to pick up all ten wickets as Welsh Fire finally opened their account with a 25-run win over Manchester Originals. Unlike the last-ball thriller in the first game on Wednesday (August 13), this match saw Originals surrender in meek fashion immediately after Jos Buttler fell following a fighting fifty. Meredith struck very early in the run chase by picking up both the openers in the space of three deliveries. For the first dismissal though, he had…
A fly-in-fly-out winter split between Victoria and Queensland was not on Tess Flintoff’s bingo card for 2025, but safe to say the allrounder has lapped up every opportunity that has accompanied her first national contract. Flintoff was something of a surprise addition to Cricket Australia’s contract list for 2025-26 – the Victorian has long been earmarked as a potential international player, but it had been a decade since the Australian women’s selectors last handed a contract to an uncapped player.But having identified a need to boost their pace depth, and with a six-month break between tours meaning the majority of…