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AP — Clayton Kershaw was laboring in pursuit of his 3,000th strikeout. His pitch count soaring, he was down to the last batter he would face, needing one more swing and miss to become the 20th pitcher to reach the milestone. “It’s a little bit harder when you’re actually trying to strike people out,” he said, smiling. “I never really had to do that before.” Kershaw accomplished the feat when Vinny Capra of the Chicago White Sox took a slider for a called third strike for the final out of the sixth inning on Wednesday night. “I made it interesting.…
An action-packed KFC BBL|15 season includes historic rivalries, local derbies, and a mouth-watering BBL Final rematch With the KFC BBL|15 schedule released, here are seven takeaways out of a season league officials believe will be the biggest Bash yet. View the full fixture here Babar’s BBL debut opens season Pakistan superstar Babar Azam will make his Big Bash debut in the first match of BBL|15, when the Sydney Sixers international travels west to take on the Perth Scorchers at Optus Stadium on December 14. Having amassed 11330 runs across his T20 career, including 11 centuries at an average of 43.07,…
MLC 2025 LA Knight Riders badly need a win. © MLC The Shimron Hetmyer-fuelled recovery for Seattle Orcas has been bad news for the two bottom dwellers in MLC 2025. A slow and lethargic start to the season from MI New York and LA Knight Riders has now brought the two sides to a crucial juncture. Over the next three days, they will spar twice and look to grab four extremely crucial points to keep their campaign alive. For both of these star-studded T20 outfits, losing has become a habit this season. MI New York’s last – and only -…
The All England Lawn Tennis Club, London CNN — Pauline Eyre still remembers the “extraordinary feeling” of making her first appearance at Wimbledon aged 21, taking in the noise and the crowds as she marched onto the pristine grass courts, neat and pillowy under her feet. Eyre, however, had no intentions of hitting a serve or swiping at a forehand, nor dreamed of lifting a trophy in two weeks’ time. She even calls herself “a pretty bad junior player” who regularly lost in the first round of local tournaments. But under the looming shadow of Centre Court, she had reached…
Reuters — WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark took time out of celebrating her Indiana Fever’s Commissioner’s Cup win to call out the desire for better pay for the league’s athletes. The injured Clark didn’t play in the Fever’s win Tuesday over the Minnesota Lynx, but in the postgame celebration on Instagram livestream, she pointed out the disparity in the financial rewards for winning the Commissioner’s Cup and winning the WNBA Finals. “You get more (money) for this than you do if you’re the (WNBA Finals) champion,” Clark said to the camera Tuesday night. “It makes no sense. Someone tell (WNBA commissioner)…
MLC 2025 TSK’s big total was largely down to Donovan Ferreira’s whirlwind 37 off 9 balls © Sportzpics Texas Super Kings managed to enter the top two following an excellent win over fellow contenders Washington Freedom in a rain-affected game in Lauderhill. TSK managed to post 87/2 in their five overs – the second highest total in a five-over game – and then went on to defend it with ease to register a 43-run win that now has the top three teams on 12 points each with two games left for all of them. With Faf du Plessis out of…
Hetmyer has been named player of the match in the last three games. ©MLC After the Seattle Orcas’ fifth consecutive loss in the MLC, Shimron Hetmyer isolated himself in the dressing room for a good 15 minutes. Visibly deflated, his soft dismissal had prematurely ended a promising cameo in a chasing cause that would have arrested the Orcas’ slide. The Orcas weren’t just in disarray on the field but behind the scenes as well. Within 24 hours, their head coach was axed, and Heinrich Klaasen stepped down from captaincy midway through the tournament. For Hetmyer, it was just compounding of…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Shubman Gill scored his seventh Test hundred on Day 1 of the second Test against England at Edgbaston ©Getty At one point during the post-Lunch stupor that was the second session of the opening day at Edgbaston, Ben Stokes dramatically ushered his off-side fielders to move into catching positions. While point stayed put, mid-off, cover and extra-cover all moved in. The passage of play just before had reduced the Hollies Stand to a mild hum, but even they now perked up to the possibilities of this novelty and created a crescendo of noise as the…
Brathwaite has been a mainstay in the West Indies’ red-ball setup since he made his Test debut back in 2011 and skipper Roston Chase paid tribute to the longevity of the 32-year-old. “It’s an amazing feat, he’s the third Bajan player to do it so that’s tremendous in itself,” Chase said. “The last guy to do it (for West Indies) was Chris Gayle in 2014, so it says a lot for Kraigg. “He’s a modern-day legend and someone I look up to – I’ve played with him from under-11s. “He stated before starting his career that he wanted to play…
BIRMINGHAM: Shubman Gill played a masterful captain’s knock to rescue India with his second century of the series on the opening day of the second Test against England as the tourists finished on 310-5 at stumps here at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Gill was under pressure due to his team selection after pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was rested, but the skipper played a dogged knock and barely put a foot wrong as he wore down the England bowlers while playing confident strokes. Gill had taken 199 balls to bring up his seventh test hundred, the slowest of his career but authoritative…