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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The World Test Championship (WTC) 2025-27 began with Bangladesh facing Sri Lanka in their series opener at Galle. Meanwhile, two heavyweights — England and India — kickstarted their campaigns with the first Test of a five-match series at Headingley in Leeds. England produced a remarkable performance in the series opener, chasing down their second-highest total in Test history — 371 runs — to register a five-wicket win. The victory was set up by a brilliant 149 from opener Ben Duckett and an unbeaten 53 by veteran Joe Root, who anchored the chase in the final session.…
CNN — Former San José State University star Chandler Jones died Sunday at the age of 33 following a road accident in Los Angeles, according to a medical examiner report. Jones was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday and an investigation is currently underway, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. The report states Jones suffered blunt traumatic injuries while on the freeway in Los Angeles. According to CNN affiliate KCAL, police say Jones was hit by a car. CNN Sports has reached out to the California Highway Patrol for comment. After starring at Bishop…
MLC 2025 Orcas have lost all four games this season. © MLC Seattle Orcas find themselves in a queasy territory. In the aftermath of their fourth straight defeat on Sunday, Heinrich Klaasen acknowledged the urgency of getting “on a roll” if the team’s playoff hopes are to stay alive. Four defeats in four has had a deflating effect on the team that finished bottom of the table in 2024 too. They’re still not out of the running for the playoffs and have a chance to script a dramatic climb up the table, but like Klaasen opined, any such inflexion point…
CNN — Teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout continued his record-breaking streak on Tuesday when he surpassed his own 200m Australian national mark. The 17-year-old finished first with a time of 20.02 seconds – shaving two hundredths of a second off the previous record he broke in December last year – at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Gout entered the straight slightly behind Cuba’s Reynier Mena but produced a remarkable burst as the pair approached the finish line to get himself ahead. In what was Gout’s first senior race abroad, he finished 0.17 seconds ahead of Mena while…
Shai Hope returns to the Test squad after last featuring in the format in December 2021 ©Getty “Like a breath of fresh air” is how Shai Hope describes to Cricbuzzthe West Indian Test dressing room that he’s returned to for the first time in three-and-a-half years. The stylish Bajan right-hander last donned the whites in December 2021 in Galle. Only three members apart from himself still remain in the current Test squad. Three Bajans, the ageless Kraigg Brathwaite, new captain Roston Chase and left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican. It was the classy batter’s 38th Test and would be his last for…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL England pulled off a sensational chase of 371 runs to defeat India by five wickets in the opening Test of the five-match series at Headingley on Tuesday, thanks to a brilliant century by opener Ben Duckett. The home side began the final day at 21 without loss and built a solid platform through openers Duckett and Zak Crawley. The pair added 188 runs for the first wicket, putting England in a strong position to chase the massive target. Duckett was the main aggressor, scoring a quickfire 149 off 170 balls, which included 21 fours and one…
CNN — Former world No. 1 Andy Murray says he is confident his statue at Wimbledon, set to be unveiled at the 150th edition of the championships in 2027, will be an improvement on the infamous terracotta warrior made for him at the 2011 Shanghai Masters. “I thought I was better looking than that,” Murray quipped when unveiling the statue, which was built for his victory at the 2010 tournament. It is just one of a number of less than flattering statues to be unveiled in honor of athletes over the years, with Dwyane Wade’s bronze sculpture outside the Miami…
England pulled off their second-highest run chase in Test cricket to beat India in thrilling fashion in the first meeting at Headingley, while the visitors became the first side to lose a Test despite scoring five centuries – so here’s how we rated the players from both sides… England player ratingsZak Crawley – 6Batting: 4 and 65 Crawley could make a compelling case for a higher score, given he played his part in the 188-run opening partnership to kick off England’s stunning run chase, but just the 65 of those came off his bat in the Ben Duckett-dominated stand.Crawley got…
The Unicorns have won five in a row. ©MLC The pre and post game tunnel walk rituals in the NBA serve as a fashion ramp for players to sport their individuality, sense of style and multi-million dollar brand endorsements ranging from shoes to jewellery. Over time it has transformed itself into being one of the league’s inherited rhythms. While the cricketing world hasn’t made a spectacle of those tunnel walks, the San Francisco Unicorns, on a high of riding a five-match winning streak, are disrupting that space in their own right. With stand-in captain Matt Short leading the charge by…
MLC 2025 Shubham Ranjane scored 70 in his team’s win © Sportzpics Texas Super Kings returned to winning ways with a clinical performance that saw them brush aside LA Knight Riders by 52 runs. Even though chasing sides have done well in Dallas this season on what’s been a high-scoring venue, LAKR stuttered in the run chase of 197 right from the start as they eventually ended up with just 144/7. Opting to bowl first, LAKR actually made a top start even though Faf du Plessis began by smashing three boundaries off the first four balls he faced. The in-form…