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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL England captain Ben Stokes proclaimed “pain is just an emotion” as he insisted he will do everything in his power to feature as a fully-fledged all-rounder in this week’s series decider with India. The fourth Test at Old Trafford, which ended in a draw on Sunday, was a personal triumph for Stokes as he became just the fourth England cricketer after Tony Greig, Ian Botham and Gus Atkinson to score a hundred and take five wickets in the same Test. Stokes, 34, is also now only the third man in Test history to have scored 7,000…
AUSTRALIA TOUR OF WEST INDIES 2025 Ben Dwarshuis returned figures of 3 for 41 © Getty Australia rounded off their Caribbean tour with yet another victory after clinching the final T20I in St Kitts. Having already blanked the West Indies 3-0 in the Tests, Australia continued their domination in the T20Is as well, culminating in a 5-0 whitewash after their middle order trio of Cameron Green, Mitchell Owen and Tim David delivered again in a run chase of 171. For his remarkable consistency throughout these five games, Green was named the player of the series. Australia had the perfect start…
Match Wrap | Perfect tour complete as Aussies sweep WI Australia have cruised to their first ever five-nil series sweep in the T20 format with a three-wicket victory over West Indies in the fifth match in St Kitts. Contributions from Mitch Owen (37), Cameron Green (32), Tim David (30) and Aaron Hardie (28no) saw Australia complete their eight-game Caribbean tour unbeaten with wins in all three Tests and five T20 internationals. Ben Dwarshuis (3-41) earlier did the damage with the ball to keep West Indies to 170 all out before Hardie’s unbeaten knock took Australia to their target with three…
KARACHI: A five-day pre-series training camp for the Pakistan women’s cricket team begins on Tuesday at the Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre, as the side looks to fine-tune preparations ahead of their upcoming Twenty20 International series in Ireland, the country’s cricket board announced on Monday. Under the supervision of head coach Mohammad Wasim, the camp will continue till August 2 and focus on skill development in batting, bowling and fielding. Players will also feature in intra-squad T20 practice matches before the team departs for Dublin on August 3. This marks the final phase of preparations following a 27-day conditioning camp…
KARACHI: A five-day pre-series training camp for the Pakistan women’s cricket team begins on Tuesday at the Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre, as the side looks to fine-tune preparations ahead of their upcoming Twenty20 International series in Ireland, the country’s cricket board announced on Monday. Under the supervision of head coach Mohammad Wasim, the camp will continue till August 2 and focus on skill development in batting, bowling and fielding. Players will also feature in intra-squad T20 practice matches before the team departs for Dublin on August 3. This marks the final phase of preparations following a 27-day conditioning camp…
SINGAPORE: Canada’s Summer McIntosh claimed her second title in two days at the world championships in Singapore with victory in the women’s 200 metres individual medley on Monday, while Chinese 12-year-old sensation Yu Zidi just missed out on a medal. McIntosh, who won 400 freestyle gold on Sunday, was pushed hard by Alex Walsh in the middle portion of the race but surged ahead in the final lap to touch the wall in two minutes and 6.69 seconds, with the American taking silver in 2:08.58. “Going in tonight, my goal was to get my head on the wall first, so…
The visiting English will meet the Prime Minister’s XI between the first and second Ashes Tests The Prime Minister’s XI will play England in a novel two-day pink-ball fixture before the day-night Ashes Test, it was confirmed today. The match is the first time an England XI will play a multi-day match against the PM’s XI in what has until recently typically been a one-day affair. The PM’s XI broke with tradition in the 2022-23 summer when it played against a four-day game against the touring West Indies. That day-night match was the first PM’s XI fixture to use the…
‘World-class’ Zampa the first Aussie bowler to 100 T20I matches Despite the plethora of franchise tournaments that now populate cricket’s global calendar, Adam Zampa has always strived to put his country above all else and fittingly today he becomes the first bowler to notch a century of T20s for Australia. Having regularly pushed through niggles like he did with back spasms during Australia’s run to the 50-over World Cup crown in 2023, Zampa also bases his tournament schedule around those that would best prepare him to represent his country. He skipped last year’s Indian Premier League to prioritise his preparations…
ZIMBABWE WOMEN TOUR OF IRELAND, 2025 Prendergast scored her third half-century of the white-ball series © Getty With a comfortable four-wicket win in the second ODI in Belfast on Monday (July 28), Ireland completed a 2-0 ODI series sweep over visitors Zimbabwe following their 3-0 whitewash in the T20Is. Batting first, Zimbabwe could muster only 178 before being shot down at the start of the final over. Ireland, led by Orla Prendergast’s unbeaten 67 and skipper Gaby Lewis’s 44, overhauled the modest target with more than 11 overs to spare. Zimbabwe opted to bat but suffered another top-order collapse to…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL England have strengthened their pace attack for the final Test against India by adding all-rounder Jamie Overton to the squad. The fifth and last match of the series will be played at The Oval, starting Thursday. The 31-year-old Overton has played only one Test so far, which came against New Zealand in 2022. In that game, he impressed with both bat and ball, scoring 97 runs and taking two wickets. His selection was confirmed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Monday. Overton becomes the sixth specialist fast bowler in England’s 15-member squad, joining…