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Atlanta CNN — It’s the year of The Big Dumper. With a hot and humid night making perfect conditions for the long ball, Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh won the 2025 T-Mobile Home Run Derby, defeating Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero in the finals. His prize? In addition to the classic trophy featuring two criss-crossed silver baseball bats, Raleigh received a gaudy bejeweled championship chain emblazoned with the words “Derby Champ.” Affectionately nicknamed for his prodigious posterior, Raleigh is living the dream. He is already close to record pace for home runs in a season, had his father…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES, 2025 Hermann (file pic) top-scored with 45 in the chase. ©Sportzpics Other captains’ noses would have been put out of joint by one of their players forgetting their names. Rassie van der Dussen, not so much. So Rubin Hermann would have been in the clear after he said: “I knew coming in, the partnership that myself and… I forgot who was batting with me. I can’t remember, it’s such a blur. But I knew that partnership was the most important one of the game.” Hermann was talking to reporters at Harare Sports Club on Monday after his…
BANGLADESH CRICKET Taijul Islam has developed the knack of incorporating pace variations into his bowling © AFP Bangladesh’s leading left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has thrown his hat for Test captaincy. He has insisted that if offered the job, he is ready to take up the role. Since Najmul Hossain Shanto stepped downfrom the role following his rift with the board after he was removed as ODI captain, many names have been floating in the air to fill the void left by the most successful longer-format captain of the country. If statistics are taken into account, Shanto is surely the most…
Road to 400: Mitchell Starc’s milestone wickets It was in trademark Mitchell Starc fashion that he sealed his place among Test cricket’s fast bowling greats. A big inswinger into the pads of right-hander Mikyle Louis amid a scintillating career-best display on day three in Jamaica that saw him claim the fastest five-wicket haul in Test history from just 15 balls. It was a dismissal witnessed countless times before, and fittingly it saw the destructive left-armer become just the second Australian fast bowler to take 400 Test wickets in the same match he also became the second paceman to reach 100…
Hosts in front after three Tests courtesy of tense 22-run win after dramatic fifth day England have beaten India by 22 runs on a final day of simmering tension and high drama in the third Test at Lord’s to move 2-1 up in the series with two Tests to play. Shoaib Bashir ended the hour-long resistance of Mohammed Siraj to seal victory, India’s No. 11 playing a defensive stroke before the ball trickled down the face of his bat and rolled on to the stumps, dislodging a single bail, as he watched on in horror. As the England players celebrated,…
INDIA’S TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Bashir sustained a fracture while attempting a catch off his own bowling. © Getty England offspinner Shoaib Bashir has been ruled out of the remainder of England-India Test series after sustaining a fracture to a finger in his left hand. He is set to undergo surgery for the same later this week. Bashir sustained the injury on Day 3 of the third Test while attempting a caught-and-bowled chance off Ravindra Jadeja in the 78th over of India’s first innings. He subsequently left the field and did not return for the remainder of the innings. Bashir…
Mitchell Starc took the fastest five-wicket haul in Test match history as Australia secured a clean-sweep in their third Test against a woeful West Indies, who were dismissed for 27 in their second innings – the second-lowest innings score in history.Starc removed John Campbell, Kevlon Anderson, Brandon King, Mikyle Louis and Shai Hope in 15 balls before tea, giving up just two runs in the process. His lbw against Louis also brought up his 400th Test wicket, making him only the fourth Australian to achieve the feat, in his 100th Test match. Starc then returned to take his sixth wicket…
Day 3 Wrap | Australia steamroll Windies as quicks make history Mitchell Starc has become the fourth Australian to take 400 wickets amid the fastest five-wicket haul in Test history that sunk West Indies to the second lowest score ever recorded in Test cricket. Scott Boland also took a hat-trick as the Windies capitulated to 27 all out on day three at Sabina Park in Jamaica, just one more than the 26 New Zealand managed against England in 1955. Starc took three wickets in his first over after West Indies were set 204 to win the day-night series finale in…
Wicket No.1 Brendon McCullum c Warner b StarcGabba, December 2011 Making his Test debut alongside David Warner and James Pattinson, Starc made an impressive, if self-admittedly somewhat inconsistent, start to his career. Presented with his Baggy Green by Richie Benaud, Starc – on as first change – saw his second delivery jag back to smash into the body of Kiwi legend Brendon McCullum. The wicket came at the end of his fifth over: back of a length and angling in to McCullum, he cut it straight to Warner at point. He would later add Jesse Ryder in much the same…
TRI-SERIES IN ZIMBABWE, 2025 Linde (file) picked up 3 for 10 from his three overs. © AFP South Africa beat Zimbabwe in the tri-series opener at the Harare Sports Club in Harare by five wickets and 21 balls to spare. After an all-round bowling performance restricted the hosts to 141 for 6 despite a valiant fifty from skipper Sikandar Raza, debutant Rubin Hermann (45) and Dewald Brevis (17-ball 41) eased the South Africans to a comfortable victory. The returning Brian Bennett began the Zimbabwean innings with a boundary to third-man. But after the openers were troubled by the pace of…