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James Anderson and Rocky Flintoff have been signed as ‘wildcards’ for the Hundred, with the latter following his father Andrew Flintoff to Northern Superchargers.Anderson turns 43 before the tournament begins next month and will play for Manchester Originals, meaning the Lancashire veteran will continue to ply his trade at Emirates Old Trafford. England’s record Test wicket-taker was loosely attached to the Originals when the competition first launched in 2021 and will finally make his bow in the fifth edition, having originally gone unsold in the draft.He has never played any form of franchise cricket before, having also failed to win…
Not one moment, but many little ones. India trail 1-2 after Lord’s despite leading the numbers ©Getty The sight of Ben Stokes and Ravindra Jadeja in a quiet embrace at the end was poignant. Two great all-rounders from either side of the contest, each singularly trying to will his team towards a win on the final day. Between them: bruises, blunted blades, drained expressions. It wasn’t just a hug between rivals. It was an acknowledgement of how much had gone into these five days, and how fine the margins had been. India lost the Lord’s Test by 22 runs. Not…
CNN — San Antonio Spurs sensation Victor Wembanyama says he has been cleared to return to the court after recovering from a blood clot in his right shoulder. The 21-year-old, who was selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NBA draft and is widely considered one of basketball’s most exciting prospects in a generation, was forced to end his 2024-25 season early following the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis. Wembanyama underwent surgery on the issue in March, but his absence meant he missed out on being named Defensive Player of the Year, an award he was the…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan T20I captain Salman Ali Agha has confirmed that senior players Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi remain in the team’s core plans for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, set to take place next year in India and Sri Lanka. Addressing the media during the white-ball and pre-Bangladesh series camp in Karachi on Monday, Agha responded to questions regarding the future of the trio, who were left out of the squad for the upcoming three-match T20I series in Dhaka from July 20 to 24. Babar and Rizwan last featured in T20Is during Pakistan’s…
A cursory glance at the scorecard and you might wonder why Ben Stokes was named Player of the Match for the third Test at Lord’s.Scores of 33 and 44. Two wickets in India’s first innings, three in their second. No hundreds like Joe Root and KL Rahul. No twin fifties like fellow all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja. No five-for like Jasprit Bumrah. But anyone who watched will tell you that Stokes was perhaps the only option to be standing there at the presentation with the medal around his neck, talking to Sky Sports’ Michael Atherton, speaking of the “dark places” this needle-heavy…
Australia A’s lower middle order heaped more pain on Sri Lanka A on day three to set their side on course for victory in the four-day game in Darwin Australia A v Sri Lanka A | First-class match | Day 3 Liam Scott, Josh Philippe and Mitchell Perry turned the screws on Sri Lanka A on day three to put Australia A in command of the four-day game at Darwin’s Marrara Oval. After the hosts resumed on Tuesday on 4-241 in reply to Sri Lanka A’s 272 – and lost Nathan McSweeney to the day’s first ball for 94 -…
AUSTRALIA TOUR OF WEST INDIES 2025 West Indies were bundled out for 27 – the second lowest total in Test history © AFP West Indies were bowled out for just 27 on the third day at Sabina Park, the second-lowest total in the history of Test cricket, which gave Australia a big 176-run win and a 3-0 clean sweep of the series. What followed after lunch on Day 3 was scarcely believable even by the wild standards of pink-ball Test matches, as Mitchell Starc registered the fastest five-wicket haul (15 balls) and Scott Boland picked a hat-trick to tear through…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Cricket’s return to the Olympics at the Los Angeles 2028 Games is set to begin on July 12, two days before the official opening ceremony on July 14. According to the organisers, the cricket event will run from July 12 to 29, with the medal matches scheduled for July 19 and July 29. The early start dates have been referred to as ‘Minus 1’ and ‘Minus 2’ by the organisers. The competition will be divided into two phases. The first phase will take place from July 12 to 18, followed by the first set of medal…
India’s Fauja Singh, believed to be the world’s oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114, his biographer said on Tuesday. Singh, an Indian-born British national, nicknamed the “Turbaned Tornado”, died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state’s Jalandhar district on Monday. “My Turbaned Tornado is no more,” Fauja’s biographer Khushwant Singh wrote on X. “He was struck by an unidentified vehicle… in his village, Bias, while crossing the road. Rest in peace, my dear Fauja.” Singh did not have a birth certificate but his family said he was born on April 1, 1911. He…
Scott Boland could lay claim to being Australia’s unluckiest ever cricketer, after adding a Test hat-trick to a magical late-career surge since his famous 2021 Boxing Day debut. Statistically the best Test bowler in more than 100 years, Boland became just the 10th Australian man to take a hat-trick on Monday (Tuesday AEST) in Jamaica. His haul came on a record-breaking day for the tourists, who bowled West Indies out for just 27 to wrap up a 176-run win and 3-0 sweep of the Frank Worrell Trophy.Starc was the chief destroyer with 6-9 up front, but Boland again vindicated the…