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INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 It was a rare day of cricket where Jasprit Bumrah’s precision went missing ©Getty ‘Never forget leg day.’ It’s an adage fitness trainers swear by. On Thursday at Old Trafford, India had a ‘leg day’ they’ll do well to forget. It was a face – Shubman Gill’s – that told the story though. In the 22nd over of England’s innings, Jasprit Bumrah finally appeared to have found a patch. Three balls in the channel, all to Duckett, all full of menace. Two of them straightened from around the wicket and zipped past Duckett’s defence. For…
With a fractured foot, a limping gait, and zero regard for pain, Pant once again walked into legend ©Getty Rishabh Pant has done the audacious, the ridiculous, and the unforgettable often enough for it to no longer surprise. At Lord’s last week, he batted with a damaged finger and nearly dragged India back with a gutsy 74 before a run-out cut him short. At the SCG in 2021, he played through a bruised elbow to score a match-saving 97. But what he did in Manchester may have topped them all. Yesterday, he under-edged a reverse-sweep off a fast bowler onto…
DHAKA: Paceman Salman Mirza grabbed three wickets and opener Sahibzada Farhan struck an aggressive fifty in Pakistan’s consolation 74-run win in the third T20 on Thursday as Bangladesh took the series 2-1. Salman, playing only his third international, demolished Bangladesh’s top order with figures of 3-19 as the home team was bowled out for 104 in 16.4 overs in Dhaka. Sahibzada’s 41-ball 63 studded with five sixes and six fours got Pakistan off to a strong start and Hasan Nawaz clubbed 33 off 17 balls to help them to 178-7 after they were sent in to bat. Salman struck with…
DHAKA: Paceman Salman Mirza grabbed three wickets and opener Sahibzada Farhan struck an aggressive fifty in Pakistan’s consolation 74-run win in the third T20 on Thursday as Bangladesh took the series 2-1. Salman, playing only his third international, demolished Bangladesh’s top order with figures of 3-19 as the home team was bowled out for 104 in 16.4 overs in Dhaka. Sahibzada’s 41-ball 63 studded with five sixes and six fours got Pakistan off to a strong start and Hasan Nawaz clubbed 33 off 17 balls to help them to 178-7 after they were sent in to bat. Salman struck with…
It was the format that took Australia’s men’s team the longest to fully grasp but now that they have, they’ve become a dominant force in T20 cricket. Australia made a surprise surge to their first men’s T20 World Cup triumph in 2021, but never have they enjoyed such a sustained period of success in the shortest format than their current run over the past 18 months. Mitch Marsh’s side have won 19 of their past 23 matches – a winning percentage of 82.6 since the start of 2024 – which includes Australia’s longest T20 winning streak of eight matches from…
Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett have stunned India after Ben Stokes’ first five-wicket haul since 2017 A superb 166-run opening partnership between Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett has spearheaded England’s recovery on day two of the fourth Test against India. The hosts were 2-225 at the close of play, still trailing the tourists by 133 runs after an absorbing day of at Old Trafford. A gutsy half-century from the injured Rishabh Pant helped India post 358 in their first innings at Old Trafford, with England captain Ben Stokes’ first five-wicket Test haul in eight years helping see off the tourists’…
The Bulls have announced two late additions to their contracted players for the new season Queensland have made a couple of late additions to their playing squad for the upcoming season with Zanden Jeh and Hayden Kerr becoming Bulls players. It tops off a big month for the 22-year-old Jeh who was catapulted into the Australia A squad from relative obscurity having never played first-class or List A cricket. Against Sri Lanka A, the left-arm spinner performed admirably in extremely batter-friendly conditions in Darwin, taking 3-132 from 43 overs in the second four-day clash.Jeh’s appearances in both red- and white-ball…
NSW | Queensland | South Australia | Tasmania | Victoria | Western Australia New South Wales The Blues were mid-table finishers in both competitions last season, finishing fourth in the Sheffield Shield and third in the One-Day Cup. They’ve backed in their youth ahead of this season, upgrading three highly-promising rookies in Joel Davies, Lachlan Shaw and Will Salzmann. They have lost a lot of experience however, with Jackson Bird returning to Tasmania for family reasons, Moises Henriques, who retired from playing Shield cricket and Daniel Hughes all omitted from the state’s list. However NSW have made it clear that the…
INDIA’S TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Stokes completed a fifer on Day 2 to keep India to 358 in their first innings. © Getty England had a strong all-round outing on Day 2 of the fourth Test in Manchester, led by Ben Stokes’ five-wicket haul and a rapid 166-run opening stand between Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett. A limping Rishabh Pant fought his way to a gritty fifty, with support from Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar, as India added 94 runs to their overnight total before folding for 358. England’s reply was brisk and commanding, though both openers fell late in…
Zak Crawley’s spot on this winter’s Ashes tour is surely secure now.It probably was before he made 84 against India at Emirates Old Trafford on the sort of pitch he loves because England’s faith in him, publicly at least, has never wavered. While those outside the camp question a player with a Test average of 31 after more than 50 games and a penchant for nicking off cheaply, those on the inside don’t.But if there were any seeds of doubt in the minds of Messrs Stokes and McCullum as they plot how to win the upcoming series in Australia, they…