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MLC 2025 A win will take MI past Seattle Orcas at fourth on the basis of their already superior NRR © MLC Over the last 48 hours, MI New York’s otherwise dwindling MLC 2025 campaign found a new lease of life. They’ve lingered in the must-win category for a while now due to a groggy start, but their win over fellow strugglers LA Knight Riders on July 3 followed by Seattle Orcas’ defeat on July 4, has given them reason to believe and keep up their top-four pursuit. Nicholas Pooran’s side has won just two games this season but could…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Bangladesh have announced their 16-member squad for the upcoming three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka, making five major changes from their last series. One of the biggest surprises is the omission of former T20I captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, who has been left out of the squad entirely. Shanto, who stepped down from captaincy earlier this year, played just one match across Bangladesh’s last two T20I series against the UAE and Pakistan. His form in 2024 has been disappointing, averaging only 18.84 with the bat in 21 T20Is, scoring just one half-century. This marks a clear drop…
Ashes rivals Kate Cross and Alana King equally shared four wickets to set Lancashire Thunder up for a convincing rain-affected Vitality Blast win over Essex Eagles at Emirates Old Trafford, keeping their Finals Day hopes alive. Summary Lancashire Thunder 55-2 v Essex Eagles 47-7, Vitality Blast. Lancashire win by eight wickets DLS Lancashire 5 points, Essex 0 points Runrate England seamer Cross and Australia leg-spinner King struck twice apiece in the space of 10 legitimate balls in the sixth and seventh overs of what turned out to be an eight-over Essex innings as they slipped to 38 for six and…
MLC 2025 A win will give TSK a chance to finish in the top-two © Sportzpics All the off-field drama aside, the Shimron Hetmyer-powered late surge in the tournament, coupled with equally dismal performances by MI New York and Los Angeles Knight Riders, has ensured that Seattle Orcas stay in the fray for a berth in the playoffs despite a five-match losing streak at the start to the season. A batting collapse for Orcas on Friday night ensured that it not only ended their three-match winning spree, but also kept the league phase hooked to more drama in its last…
India’s six‑match white‑ball cricket tour of Bangladesh next month has been postponed to 2026, both cricket boards said on Saturday. The series, including three one-day and three T20 matches, had been due to start on August 17 in Dhaka. Political relations between India and Bangladesh have turned frosty since a mass uprising last year in Dhaka toppled the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have “mutually agreed to defer” the series, the statement read. It said the decision was made “taking into account the international cricketing commitments…
DIPLOMATIC TENSIONS India was set to play 3 ODIs and 3 T20I in Bangladesh © Getty The India tour of Bangladesh has been called off, definitively and officially. The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCCI) have confirmed this on Saturday (July 6). Cricbuzz reported about the inevitability of the tour cancellation on July 5. The BCCI and the BCB said the six-match white ball tour has been deferred by more than 12 months. “(We) have mutually agreed to defer the white-ball series, three ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals, between Bangladesh and India in…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF ZIMBABWE, 2025 Wiaan Mulder will captain South Africa for the first time © Cricket South Africa A new captain. A different spinner. A side who are now even further from their strongest XI than they were a game ago. Yet South Africa will still be heavily favoured to beat Zimbabwe when the teams meet again on Sunday (July 6). They will do so at the same ground where they completed their hammering of the home side by 328 runs on Tuesday. Keshav Maharaj, who led them to that triumph, won’t be around because of a groin…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Karachi—long hailed as the nursery of Pakistan cricket—now faces the alarming prospect of being sidelined. Despite boasting a record 21 titles, Karachi’s team is on the verge of being excluded from the upcoming Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the first time in history. The PCB has once again decided to revamp the domestic cricket structure, this time reducing the number of teams in the premier first-class tournament from 18 to just 8. According to the new plan, the top 6 teams from last season’s points table will qualify automatically, while the remaining 2 slots will be filled by…
Pakistan on Saturday achieved a 2-1 victory over Kyrgyzstan in their qualifying match for the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup, bringing them one step closer to qualifying for the tournament. The national squad was drawn in Group ‘D’ of the qualifiers in Jakarta alongside Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan. Pakistan lost their first match of the campaign to Chinese Taipei 8-0 on June 29, but beat hosts Indonesia 2-0 in their second group match this week. Mariam Mahmood scored her first international goal in the very first minute of the match. “Layla Aliya won possession at the…
Pakistan were knocked out of the qualifiers for the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup on Saturday despite a 2-1 victory over Kyrgyzstan, as Chinese Taipei scored the most points in their group. The national squad was drawn in Group ‘D’ of the qualifiers in Jakarta alongside Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan. Pakistan lost their first match of the campaign to Chinese Taipei 8-0 on June 29, but beat hosts Indonesia 2-0 in their second group match this week. Mariam Mahmood scored her first international goal in the very first minute of the match. “Layla Aliya won possession…