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INDIA WOMEN’S TOUR OF ENGLAND 2025 Danni Wyatt-Hodge stroked a 37-ball 56 © Getty A thrilling final over at Edgbaston saw England scrape past India by five wickets in a consolation win. It was England’s highest successful T20I chase at home but India claimed the five-match series 3-2. Chasing 168, the hosts found themselves needing six runs in the last over. Arundhati Reddy bowled a superb first three balls, dismissing Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones while conceding only one run but Sophie Ecclestone and Paige Scholfield held their nerve to take England over the line, sealing the win off the…
MLC 2025 Can MINY see through their miracle turnaround to completion? © MLC After having lost six out of their first seven games, MI New York have reached the final of Major League Cricket 2025. Nicholas Pooran, the captain of MI New York, isn’t quite sure how his team reached the final, but he knows one thing for sure: MI New York are somehow in the final game for the second time in three seasons, with a shot to become champions again. Up against them are defending champions Washington Freedom, a team that not only thoroughly dominated the league stage…
“There are concerns still” and “more questions that answers” over England following their 3-2 T20I series defeat to India, according to Sky Sports’ Charles Dagnall.England won two of the last three matches under stand-in skipper Tammy Beaumont, including a last-ball thriller in the final dead rubber on Saturday at Edgbaston, after a groin injury to captain Nat Sciver-Brunt. Image: England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt missed the final three T20s against India after suffering a groin injury in the second game Pressed for his ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ from England’s series defeat, Dagnall named Sciver-Brunt as one of the latter – along with…
Pink ball makes it a ‘completely different game’: Smith The nighttime session of third Frank Worrell Trophy Test has added a new element to a series already in fast forward, with Steve Smith revealing he was “trying to throw the kitchen sink at it” when dismissed shortly after the floodlights took over in Jamaica. Amid a challenging day of batting against a pink Dukes ball offering considerable seam movement as well as spin, Smith said Australia’s approach to batting under lights was to “get on with it”. Australia lost their final seven wickets in 18.3 overs in the final session…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 At the series’ halfway point, everything seemed caught in this looping rhythm: deadlocks, small jabs, visual echoes ©Getty And then, on the 13th day of the series, the niceties wore thin. England and India couldn’t be separated, not on the scoreboard, not on the field. First-innings scores locked at 387 each. Series level at 1-1, one raised finger on either side, as if the scoreline itself had a gesture. Except by stumps, that finger wasn’t just a number anymore, it was Shubman Gill and Zak Crawley pointing at each other in a flashpoint finish, on…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Gill was unhappy with Crawley pulling away twice before a delivery from Bumrah in the first over of England’s second innings © Getty At the close of a simmering third day at Lord’s, Tim Southee accused Shubman Gill of double standards, as tempers frayed in the evening light. India’s captain was drawn into a fiery moment with England opener Zak Crawley, fuming as Crawley twice pulled away from his stance with Jasprit Bumrah ready to bowl. The cameras lingered on Gill, mouthing expletives in Crawley’s direction, frustration spilling into full view. When Crawley called for…
LORD’S TEST Pant was run out for 74 while trying to put Rahul back on strike © Getty KL Rahul admitted that the timing and nature of Rishabh Pant’s dismissal at the stroke of lunch on the third day of the Lord’s Test was “not ideal” for India’s push to claim ascendancy. The visitors had begun the day 242 runs behind England’s first-innings score, but Rahul and Pant, through their 141-run stand, had cut the deficit to 140 before trouble struck. In the last over before the interval, Pant was run out for 74 while trying to put Rahul back…
Day 1 Wrap | Under pressure under lights: Pink ball talks in Kingston Australia’s decision to leave out Nathan Lyon for the first time in 12 years appears a sound one after all 11 wickets fell to pace on the opening day of their first day-night Test abroad. Australia hit out in the final session under lights in Jamaica as Cameron Green (46) and Steve Smith (48) led them to 225 all out after opting to bat first, before milestone man Mitchell Starc, playing his 100th Test, left West Indies 1-16 at stumps. Australia got their wish to unleash their…
KARACHI: Pakistan is set to review the security situation in India before taking a call on sending its hockey teams to the neighbouring country for the Asia Cup and Junior World Cup to be held later this year, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Saturday. According to the PTI, a top official of the Pakistan government has said that the national team will not be sent to India if there are security threats to them. Pakistan are scheduled to participate in the Asia Cup being held in Rajgir, Bihar, from Aug 27 to Sept 7, for which the Pakistan…
INDIAN batter Rishabh Pant plays a shot during the third Test against England at Lord’s on Saturday.—Reuters LONDON: K. L. Rahul scored a century while Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant pitched in with crucial fifties as India posted 387 on day three, equalling England’s first innings, with their third Test hanging in the balance at Lord’s on Saturday. An injury to Shoaib Bashir blunted England’s pace-spin attack strategy when India looked vulnerable with five wickets down after losing Pant and Rahul in quick succession, before Jadeja steadied their innings with his third fifty-plus knock in a row. England openers Zak…