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CNN — After months of speculation, Aaron Rodgers finally signed a deal to become the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback last week and set up another fascinating chapter in his Hall of Fame career. The 41-year-old inked a one-year, $13.6 million dollar contract with the Steelers in an attempt to bring Super Bowl success back to a franchise which has gone 16 years without a Vince Lombardi Trophy and 14 years since their last appearance in the season-ending game; coincidentally, it was Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers who beat the Steelers in their last Super Bowl appearance in 2011. On…
West Indies have rung the changes in naming a 16-player Test squad to face Australia, recalling white-ball skipper Shai Hope, calling up three uncapped players and moving on from veteran seamer Kemar Roach. Hope’s return, on the back of some strong performances in limited-overs cricket, effectively replaces wicketkeeper-batter Joshua Da Silva, who has been omitted from the squad. Da Silva is coming off a strong domestic season that saw him score three hundreds in eight games at an average of 48.92. Nor was there a place for highly rated left-handed middle-order batter Alick Athanaze in the first Test squad since…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 The openers put on 120 for the first wicket. © Getty Led by Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith’s blazing half-centuries, England cruised to a 37-run win in a high-scoring encounter against West Indies, in the third T20I at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, and completed yet another series whitewash. Put in to bat, Smith and Duckett continued their good run at the top and blazed away to a 120-run stand in only 53 deliveries. Duckett took down Akeal Hosein in the third over, hammering a couple of boundaries and a six, before Smith took…
BANGLADESH IN SRI LANKA, 2025 Najmul wants to be abreast with the changing times © AFP Bangladesh began their preparation for the upcoming two-match Test series against Sri Lanka at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Monday in a different environment, if not anything else. Leading up to the series, the most talked about issue is whether football is taking over cricket in terms of popularity, with all eyes fixed on Bangladesh’s AFC Asian Cup Qualifier game against Singapore, scheduled at the National Stadium on June 10. Since the arrival of English Premier League star Hamza Chowdhury, who is currently…
INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE, 2025 RCB’s wait for a title finally came to an end © BCCI/IPL Royal Challengers Bengaluru, IPL champions. The 17-year-long wait was brought to an end by the Rajat Patidar-led side as RCB successfully defended their 190/9 against Punjab Kings in a six-run victory. Krunal Pandya, who has experienced the highs of an IPL title win thrice before and was the catalyst in 2017, put on yet another star turn with a championship-winning spell through the middle-overs (2-17) that left PBKS behind in chase. Where the game was won: In a game of small margins, PBKS fell…
Bears spinner Jake Lintott has signed a new contract extension at Edgbaston – and said he wants to repay the Club’s faith in him with more wickets and a Vitality Blast trophy. Lintott has agreed a one-year extension to his current deal which will keep him at the Club until at least the end of the 2026 season. The leftie wrist-spinner has been one of Bears’ leading T20 wicket takers in recent seasons. He’s struck 18 times in the last campaign – only Danny Briggs (29) had more success with the ball – and was Bears’ top Blast wicket taker…
Stuart Broad has been at South Africa’s training sessions in the build-up. ©Getty Rabada versus Hazlewood, Jansen versus Starc, Maharaj versus Lyon. If you didn’t know better you would have thought the WTC final between South Africa and Australia at Lord’s this week was a bowlers only affair. Maybe, with five of the top 10 ranked bowlers in the world in the squads, most of the pre-final buzz was bound to be about the bowlers. But four of the leading 10 batters are also here, not that anyone seems to have noticed given how much discussion has centred on the…
YANGON: With every passing game, Stephen Constantine is drifting further away from his goal of steering Pakistan to the 2027 AFC Asian Cup. A 1-0 loss to Myanmar at the Thuwunna Stadium on Tuesday means Pakistan remain winless and pointless after two Group ‘L’ matches in the final round of qualifying for Asia’s elite tournament. A double-header against Afghanistan follows in October and their next opponents, who were playing Syria in the other group game later in the day, would be licking their lips at the prospect of competing against a side that gave a toothless display against Myanmar, especially…
TITLE, AT LAST! Virat Kohli was in tears after his first IPL title win © BCCI Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bengaluru finally ended their 17-year-long wait to get their hands on the coveted IPL trophy in 2025. In the afterglow of the the title-victory, Kohli spoke to the broadcasters about his immediate feeling, having AB de Villiers around and where it ranks in his illustrious career for him… First thoughts on the title win… This win is as much for the fans as it is for the team. It’s been 18 long years. I’ve given this team my youth,…
FINED File Photo: Ravichandran Ashwin © AFP Ravichandran Ashwin has been fined 30 per cent of his match fee for an incident during the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) match between Dindigul Dragons and Tiruppur Tamizhans on Sunday (June 8) night in Coimbatore. The former India all-rounder was seen expressing dissent at an on-field umpiring decision after being adjudged lbw to R. Sai Kishore, despite the ball appearing to have pitched outside leg stump. “There was a hearing conducted by the match referee after the game,” a TNPL official told Cricbuzz. “Ashwin was fined 10 per cent for showing dissent…