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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken fresh steps to reduce injuries among fast bowlers by focusing on fitness, diet, and technical skills. According to sources, the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore will be the main center for this program. Coaches and experts at the academy will work on improving the bowling actions and overall skill development of the players. The plan is led by Director of High Performance Aaqib Javed and includes customised fitness routines, special diet plans, and focused training in fielding, batting, and bowling. The aim is to help fast bowlers stay…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Prasidh Krishna finished with figures of 4/62 ©Getty Today was the day they’d warned about. India took the light roller in the morning, hoping to preserve a bit of juice in the pitch for their bowlers, and lost their four remaining wickets in 28 minutes, across just 34 deliveries. Then England wheeled out the heavy roller, not to tame the menace, but to smooth the stage for their own. How would India’s 224 stack up against a philosophy? On the 22nd day of the series, Bazball arrived in all its unruly glory. The word -…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND 2025 “That’s just who I am when I’m bowling” – Prasidh © Getty Prasidh Krishna sought to downplay his verbal exchange with Joe Root on the second day of The Oval Test. Not one to react to sledges usually, Root shot off an angry response when Prasidh tried to chirp with him during the second session of play. However, the India fast bowler brushed off the incident as banter but conceded that he was surprised Root took the bait. England’s batting stalwart walked out to the crease with the team in a strong position at 129/2…
PITCH PLEASE! Bangladesh recently beat Pakistan 2-1 at SBNS, but the win drew criticism © Getty Bangladesh Cricket Board officials said on Friday that they never requested the grounds committee to prepare a low and slow wicket at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Nazmul Abedin, chairman of BCB’s cricket operations, insisted that the SBNS wicket was not satisfactory. Bangladesh recently beat Pakistan 2-1 at SBNS, but the win drew criticism. Many felt it was largely due to the hosts winning the opening two games on a pitch that hardly allowed batters to play their shots. They were exposed in the…
BULAWAYO: New Zealand captain Mitch Santner said a “great collective performance” enabled the Black Caps to beat Zimbabwe by nine wickets on the third day of the first Test here at the Queens Sports Club on Friday. But while the bowlers had excelled, he said the batting could have been better. Led by fast bowler Matt Henry, New Zealand bowled out Zimbabwe for 149 and 165 and needed only eight runs to win after taking a first innings lead of 158. Henry was named player-of-the-match, taking nine wickets for 90 runs across the two innings. “There was more in it…
EUGENE: Reigning 100m world champions Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles cruised through their opening heats at the US Track and Field trials on Thursday as they build towards the defence of their global titles at September’s World Championships. Both Richardson and Lyles have already booked their tickets to Tokyo due to their status as reigning champions, but are using this week’s meeting at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, to hone their form. The charismatic Richardson finished ninth at the Prefontaine Classic at Eugene earlier in July in a modest time of 11.19 sec. But the 25-year-old Texan indicated she is…
SINGAPORE: China’s Qin Haiyang celebrated “a miracle” second gold at the world championships in Singapore on Friday, on the eve of a blockbuster showdown between Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh. Flying Dutchwoman Marrit Steenbergen stunned Mollie O’Callaghan to win the 100m freestyle, while Olympic champion Kate Douglass posted the second-fastest 200m breaststroke in history to win gold. Roared on by a large number of screaming Chinese fans, world record holder Qin touched the wall in 2min 07.41sec in a nailbiter of a men’s 200m breaststroke final. The 26-year-old won the 100m breaststroke earlier in the week but he celebrated his…
Fifteen wickets have fallen on the second day of the final Test as England and India battle it out for supremacy at the Oval India roared back into contention on an exhilarating second day of the final Test as their seamers restricted England to a 23-run lead after the hosts had threatened to run away with the match, and the series. After mopping up India’s brittle tail in less than 30 minutes at the Oval on Friday morning, openers Zac Crawley and Ben Duckett raced to 0-92 in 12 overs in a blistering return of Bazball tactics.However, continuing the back-and-forth…
Yorkshire boosted their survival hopes in Division One with an innings-and-128-run thrashing of Sussex.Matt Milnes made an immediate impact for Yorkshire as soon as he came to the crease. Daniel Hughes and Danial Ibrahim had made fifties to give Sussex hope of batting out the final day in Scarborough, but Milnes dismissed both overnight batters in his first couple of overs. The 31-year-old seamer was the pick of the Yorkshire attack with 5-31 as Sussex added just 80 runs on the fourth day, all out for 195 and only Fynn Hudson-Prentice offering resistance with an unbeaten 52.Victory for Yorkshire takes…
Bavuma is unlikely to be involved in South Africa’s next major challenge, the T20 World Cup, but he feels the fallout from the WTC win will leap the divide between formats ©Getty Something gleamed backstage at CSA’s awards in Johannesburg on Thursday night. It lay still and untouched in the darkness while, out front, the party was starting. Around 500 people, many of them dressed to comply with the evening’s theme of “gloriously glittering”, were abuzz with the excitement of finally – after 27 years – having something to celebrate. Proceedings started with South Africa’s national anthem, then suddenly there…