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WI V AUS, 3RD TEST Starc picked figures of 6 for 9 © AFP Stats highlights from Kingston where West Indies team touched historic lows in what was Mitchell Starc’s match of milestones. Record lows for West Indies 27 all out by West Indies is the second-lowest total in the history of Tests which spans 148 years and 2595 matches. The only lowest total is 26 by New Zealand against England in Auckland in 1955. West Indies’ previous lowest total also came at this venue – 47 against England in 2004. Lowest totals in Tests Team Score Against Venue Season…
There was talk of cutting the match ball in half, but Scott Boland is more than happy for Mitchell Starc to keep it after the left-armer sealed his spot among Test greats to lead Australia to one of their craziest Test wins. Boland became the 10th Australian man to take a Test hat-trick after Starc had demolished the West Indies top order with five wickets in his first 15 deliveries, including three in the opening over, to put Australia on course for a thumping 176-run victory in the third Test in Jamaica.Starc’s career-best 6-9 and Boland’s 3-2 rolled the Windies…
MANAMA: Pakistan’s Shahid Aftab and Mohammad Asif progressed to the knockout stages of the IBSF World Masters Snooker Championship after the league round concluded on Monday, though their paths diverged during the day’s tense encounters in Manama. Shahid, the current national champion, delivered a remarkable comeback against Kuwait’s Abdullah Alyousef to secure his place directly in the last 16. Trailing 0-2 after losing the first two frames [25-70(44), 31-53], Shahid staged a stunning recovery. He dominated the third frame with a 48 break (79(48)-6), controlled the fourth (58-13), and sealed the decider emphatically with a superb 73 break [103(73)-25]. Later,…
LOS ANGELES: Organisers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics on Monday released the first look at the Olympic competition schedule, highlighting a historic reshuffling of key events and the most ambitious sports lineup in Games history. The announcement comes as the city marks three years to go until the Opening Ceremony and celebrates a major legacy milestone: more than one million enrolments in the PlayLA youth sports programme. For the first time in nearly three decades, the Summer Olympics will return to the United States, with Los Angeles hosting for the third time after 1932 and 1984. The 2028 Games…
Atlanta CNN — It’s the year of The Big Dumper. With a hot and humid night making perfect conditions for the long ball, Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh won the 2025 T-Mobile Home Run Derby, defeating Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero in the finals. His prize? In addition to the classic trophy featuring two criss-crossed silver baseball bats, Raleigh received a gaudy bejeweled championship chain emblazoned with the words “Derby Champ.” Affectionately nicknamed for his prodigious posterior, Raleigh is living the dream. He is already close to record pace for home runs in a season, had his father…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES, 2025 Hermann (file pic) top-scored with 45 in the chase. ©Sportzpics Other captains’ noses would have been put out of joint by one of their players forgetting their names. Rassie van der Dussen, not so much. So Rubin Hermann would have been in the clear after he said: “I knew coming in, the partnership that myself and… I forgot who was batting with me. I can’t remember, it’s such a blur. But I knew that partnership was the most important one of the game.” Hermann was talking to reporters at Harare Sports Club on Monday after his…
BANGLADESH CRICKET Taijul Islam has developed the knack of incorporating pace variations into his bowling © AFP Bangladesh’s leading left-arm spinner Taijul Islam has thrown his hat for Test captaincy. He has insisted that if offered the job, he is ready to take up the role. Since Najmul Hossain Shanto stepped downfrom the role following his rift with the board after he was removed as ODI captain, many names have been floating in the air to fill the void left by the most successful longer-format captain of the country. If statistics are taken into account, Shanto is surely the most…
Road to 400: Mitchell Starc’s milestone wickets It was in trademark Mitchell Starc fashion that he sealed his place among Test cricket’s fast bowling greats. A big inswinger into the pads of right-hander Mikyle Louis amid a scintillating career-best display on day three in Jamaica that saw him claim the fastest five-wicket haul in Test history from just 15 balls. It was a dismissal witnessed countless times before, and fittingly it saw the destructive left-armer become just the second Australian fast bowler to take 400 Test wickets in the same match he also became the second paceman to reach 100…
Hosts in front after three Tests courtesy of tense 22-run win after dramatic fifth day England have beaten India by 22 runs on a final day of simmering tension and high drama in the third Test at Lord’s to move 2-1 up in the series with two Tests to play. Shoaib Bashir ended the hour-long resistance of Mohammed Siraj to seal victory, India’s No. 11 playing a defensive stroke before the ball trickled down the face of his bat and rolled on to the stumps, dislodging a single bail, as he watched on in horror. As the England players celebrated,…
INDIA’S TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Bashir sustained a fracture while attempting a catch off his own bowling. © Getty England offspinner Shoaib Bashir has been ruled out of the remainder of England-India Test series after sustaining a fracture to a finger in his left hand. He is set to undergo surgery for the same later this week. Bashir sustained the injury on Day 3 of the third Test while attempting a caught-and-bowled chance off Ravindra Jadeja in the 78th over of India’s first innings. He subsequently left the field and did not return for the remainder of the innings. Bashir…