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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan’s ODI squad is set to depart from Karachi on Thursday for the United States, where they will begin their white-ball tour against the West Indies. Star batter Babar Azam will be part of the traveling group, marking his return to international cricket for the first time since April this year, when he played against New Zealand. Other key players traveling include Naseem Shah, Mohammad Rizwan, and Abdullah Shafique. Babar, however, is not part of Pakistan’s T20I plans at the moment. His last appearance in the shortest format came in December 2024 against South Africa. Mohammad…
INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE Pandit served as head coach of KKR for three seasons © Sportzpics Kolkata Knight Riders have parted ways with head coach Chandrakant Pandit after three seasons. Pandit came on board in August 2022, filling in the vacancy following Brendon McCullum’s appointment as the new England Men’s Test head coach. The former India keeper-batter was at the helm when KKR, under the leadership of Shreyas Iyer, lifted the trophy in 2024 after a decade. “Mr. Chandrakant Pandit has decided to explore new opportunities and will not continue as Head Coach of Kolkata Knight Riders,” the franchise said in…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan has decided to oppose the proposed two-tier system in Test cricket, taking a stand against the growing dominance of elite cricketing nations. Recently, the International Cricket Council (ICC) formed an eight-member working group, headed by Sanjog Gupta, to explore the possibility of restructuring the World Test Championship. The group includes key figures such as England Cricket Board CEO Richard Gould and Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg. They are expected to present their recommendations to the ICC Board by the end of the year. The proposal seeks to divide the current nine-team format into two divisions…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The West Indies cricket team has been fined 10% of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate during the fourth T20 International against Australia, played on July 26 in St. Kitts. The fine was imposed under Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which deals with minimum over-rate offences. Teams are fined five percent of their match fee for every over they fail to bowl in the given time, after considering any time allowances. In this case, the West Indies were found to be two overs short. West…
Australia secured an 8-0 rout of West Indies on their tour of the Caribbean after following a 3-0 victory in the Test series with a 5-0 sweep in the T20 internationals.Australia eclipsed West Indies’ 170 all out with three overs to spare to win the final T20 by three wickets in St Kitts and Nevis as Mitchell Owen (37 off 17 balls) top-scored. There were contributions throughout the middle order after the tourists had slipped to 25-3, with Cameron Green hitting 32, Tim David 30 and Aaron Hardie an unbeaten 28.Seamers Ben Dwarshuis (3-41) and Nathan Ellis (2-32) had earlier…
Round 12 of the Rothesay County Championship 2025 kicks off on July 29 with Day 1 action from Divisions One and Two. Follow live cricket streaming, score updates, and match reports for all ongoing fixtures as the four-day contests begin. Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division 1 Round 11 Day 1: July 29–August 1 Durham vs Surrey, Rothesay County Championship Division One ECB Reporters’ Network supported by Rothesay Surrey 182-5 (Patel 58, Lawrence 68*) v Durham 153 (Ackermann 51; Worrall 4-31) Fifteen wickets fell on the opening day of the vital Rothesay County Championship at the Banks Homes Riverside…
NEW ZEALAND TOUR OF ZIMBABWE Santner is set to become New Zealand’s 32nd Test captain © Sportzpics New Zealand Test captain Tom Latham has been ruled out of the first Test against Zimbabwe with a shoulder injury. White-ball skipper Mitchell Santner will lead the team in Latham’s absence, becoming New Zealand’s 32nd men’s Test captain. Latham suffered the injury while fielding during a T20 match for Birmingham earlier in the month and has not recovered sufficiently in time to make it to the XI for the Test that starts on Wednesday (July 30). He will though remain with the squad…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Australia completed a dominant 5-0 clean sweep over West Indies in the T20I series, chasing down a target of 171 in just 17 overs during the fifth and final match held in St. Kitts on July 28. Tim David and Mitchell Owen led Australia’s powerful batting display, smashing a total of seven sixes between them to take the game away from the hosts. The series featured the second-highest number of sixes ever hit in a bilateral T20I series, reflecting the batting dominance on display. Aaron Hardie finished the chase calmly after Akeal Hosein’s tight bowling briefly…
DOMESTIC CRICKET South and West Zone teams have been directly seeded into the semifinals. (File pic) © Getty The Duleep Trophy, now back in its inter-zonal format, will be held in Bengaluru from August 28 to September 15. The matches will be played at the Centre of Excellence grounds and the tournament will follow a knockout format. Six zones – South, Central, West, East, North, and North-East – will participate in the competition, which has reverted to the inter-zonal structure after a one-season gap. South and West Zone teams have been directly seeded into the semifinals. The two quarterfinals -…
Match Wrap | Perfect tour complete as Aussies sweep WI Captain Mitch Marsh flagged opportunity as a key theme ahead of Australia’s five-match T20 series against West Indies – which kicked off a stretch of 19 games building up to next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. Missing star opener Travis Head and the pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood, who were all rested following the Test series, Australia still romped to their first ever five-nil series sweep in the T20 format.It was Australia’s third series sweep in their past four bilateral campaigns…