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A GREAT CAREER The first Test against Bangladesh will be Mathews’ last in the format. © AFP Months after Dimuth Karunaratne called it quits from Test cricket, Angelo Mathews is set to follow suit after the first Test against Bangladesh in Galle, beginning Tuesday, June 17. That leaves a significant void in the Sri Lankan batting line-up, and perhaps marks the beginning of a new era with the commencement of the fourth edition of the World Test Championship. Mathews, who in 2013, became the youngest to lead Sri Lanka in Tests, will now bow out as their third-highest run-scorer in…
South Africa shed their unwanted tag as nearly men with a decisive five-wicket win over Australia in the World Test Championship final on Saturday. Victory, secured by Aiden Markram’s superb hundred, with South Africa captain Temba Bavuma making a valuable fifty, ended years of tournament heartache for the Proteas following multiple failures at the one-day international and T20 World Cups. Match Summary South Africa vs Australia, ICC World Test Championship Final South Africa 138/10 (57.1 ov) & 282/5 (83.4 ov) Australia 212/10 (56.4 ov) & 207/10 (65 ov) Result – South Africa won by 5 wickets SCORECARD Below we look…
Oakmont, Pennsylvania CNN — Bogey, bogey, bogey, par, bogey, bogey. It’s a helluva way to start the most important round of your life. In the span of about two hours on Sunday, J.J. Spaun looked like a golfer in complete freefall. It looked like the magic touch from his first three rounds at Oakmont Country Club had completely abandoned him. On the second hole, it appeared as though the crowd was watching the golf gods forsake him in real time when his approach shot bounced once, hit the flag stick and then rolled 50 yards away from the cup. “I…
The season may have only just wrapped up with Hobart Hurricanes taking out their maiden title in KFC BBL|14, but list managers have already turned to focus to how their club is shaping up for next season. The inaugural Player Movement Window has been and gone with seven players finding a new home for BBL|15 during the 10-day period. The league’s contracting embargo was lifted in late March, meaning clubs can now sign further domestic players to their list for next season. Sydney Sixers and Adelaide Strikers are also able to sign a maximum of one overseas player prior to…
MLC 2025 San Francisco Unicorns stole a win from the jaws of defeat. © BCCI Xavier Bartlett’s blazing unbeaten 25-ball 59 powered San Francisco Unicorns to a stunning 3-wicket win over MI New York in California. Reduced to 108 for 6 in the 13th over, Unicorn chased down the 183-run target with five balls to spare handing MINY their second successive loss of the campaign. Put in to bat, MINY’s innings was powered by Quinton de Kock’s 38-ball 63. Agni Chopra, Monank Patel and Nicholas Pooran failed to make a mark, but de Kock ensured that MINY had a strong…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Glamorgan have signed Pakistan all-rounder Imad Wasim as a replacement for Australian cricketer Hayden Kerr, who has been ruled out of the ongoing 2025 T20 Blast due to injury. Kerr picked up the injury during Glamorgan’s recent home match against Surrey, bringing an early end to his campaign with the Welsh side. In response, the team acted quickly to bring in Imad, an experienced player in the T20 circuit who has featured in almost 400 professional T20 matches across the globe. Born in Swansea, Imad is returning to familiar surroundings. He has played 130 international matches…
Jofra Archer’s draft nomination offers tantalising prospect for clubs willing to punt on 30-year-old firebrand’s availability and fitness England quick Jofra Archer has put himself in the mix for a return to the Big Bash League, officially nominating for this week’s overseas player draft. Archer used the BBL to launch himself to international superstardom with the Hobart Hurricanes in 2017-18, playing two seasons in Tasmania that netted 34 wickets at an average of 23.26 and economy of 7.72. Whether clubs will take a punt on drafting the 30-year-old this summer remains to be seen. Archer has nominated for the draft…
CNN — Caitlin Clark says that she always dreamed of playing in the WNBA – and dreamed of playing in front of big crowds – but the seismic transformation she has inspired in women’s basketball has still taken her by surprise. “Being on the magnitude it is,” she told CNN Sports recently, “is kind of hard to imagine.” During the Indiana Fever’s first game of the new season in May, the excitement levels were at a fever pitch. Journalists covering the game against the Chicago Sky compared the energy both inside and outside of the packed 17,000-seat arena to a…
Jake Fraser-McGurk returned to form with a blazing 38-ball 88 against LAKR ©MLC Within the span of just 12 months, cricket has offered young Jake Fraser-McGurk a whirlwind preview of the highs and lows that define a professional career. It’s as if the game has injected him early with the antibodies needed to endure the long journey of petals and pricks that every cricketer must walk. From the heady highs of a breakout 2024 IPL season, where he lit up the stage and captured instant fame in a cricket-mad nation, to the proud moment of earning his Australia cap in…
MLC 2025 Noor Ahmad returned figures of 4 for 25 © MLC After having picked up a nervy win over MI New York, Texas Super Kings made it two in two in MLC 2025 following a resounding win over LA Knight Riders on Sunday (June 15) in California. It was a collective effort with both bat and ball as they beat LAKR comfortably by 57 runs. After being asked to bat first, TSK did get off to a jittery start with Faf du Plessis failing to impress again. Batting on 2 off 8 at one point, he did try to…