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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Two Pakistani players have made notable moves in the latest ICC Men’s Test Rankings following recent performances, with spinner Noman Ali and Test vice-captain Saud Shakeel leading the way. Noman Ali has climbed two spots to secure the fourth position in the ICC Test bowling rankings, entering the top five with 806 points. Meanwhile, Saud Shakeel has moved up one place to break into the top 10 among Test batters — now ranked ninth — continuing his rise as a key figure in Pakistan’s red-ball setup. However, not all ranking updates were positive for Pakistan. ODI…
Several thousand supporters were at the main airport in Johannesburg on Wednesday to welcome home World Test Championship winners South Africa. Temba Bavuma captained the Proteas to a five-wicket triumph over long-time rivals Australia at Lord’s last Saturday to end a 27-year major trophy drought. He and coach Shukri Conrad were the first to greet cheering supporters, with both holding the Mace they received for being crowned champions. Each player then carried a bouquet of flowers while shaking hands with some supporters, hugging others and signing autographs. Opening batter Aiden Markram recovered from a first-innings duck to hit 136 in…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL England’s star batter Joe Root is on the brink of breaking several historic records as he prepares for the highly anticipated five-match Test series against India, set to begin on June 20 at Headingley, Leeds. The 34-year-old recently reached the remarkable milestone of 13,000 Test runs during England’s one-off Test against Zimbabwe. Now, Root is just a few steps away from surpassing three of the game’s biggest legends — Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, and Jacques Kallis — on the all-time Test run-scorers list. Root, who has played 153 Test matches for England, has scored 13,006 runs…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL As the curtain fell on the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023–2025 cycle with South Africa clinching their historic maiden ICC title, several individual performances stood out across the two-year cycle. While the Proteas scripted history with their win over Australia in the final at Lord’s, it was England’s Joe Root and Australia’s Pat Cummins who dominated the charts with the bat and ball, respectively. England’s Joe Root topped the run charts with a phenomenal 1,968 runs in 22 matches at an average of 54.66. His WTC campaign featured 7 centuries and 7 fifties, with a…
CNN — Former NFL wide receiver Henry Ruggs III has apologized to the family of the woman he killed in a fatal 2021 DUI crash on Tuesday. In 2023, Ruggs was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the crash that killed a 23-year-old woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog in November 2021. Let out temporarily on special release, the 26-year-old spoke at Hope for Prisoners – an event for former and current prisoners – expressing his regret for what happened almost four years ago when asked what he would say to…
MLC 2025 Can MI New York finally get off the mark? © MLC After two losses in two games, the only positive outcome so far for MI New York and Seattle Orcas is that they aren’t placed as poorly as Los Angeles Knight Riders, who have had that one additional loss to suffer. However, if the campaign doesn’t fall on track by Wednesday evening, one of those will find themselves there. The good news however is that, if rain gods permit, one of the two teams will finally get a much-needed win against their names. While Orcas and MINY have…
CNN — Luis Guevara, a 19-year-old minor league player for the Baltimore Orioles, has died as a result of the injuries suffered during a “vessel incident,” according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC). The FWC told CNN Sports in a statement that Guevara was involved in an accident off Lido Key in Sarasota County on Sunday. The FWC told CNN that investigators found four people were thrown into the water as a result of two jet skis colliding “head-on.” Two passengers sustained minor injuries while Guevara and another were taken to the hospital. The Orioles minor league infielder…
2026 WOMEN’S T20 WORLD CUP The tournament will kickstart on June 12. © Getty Hosts England are set to play the opening encounter of the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup against Sri Lanka, as per the schedule released by the England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday. The 33-match tournament is set to kickstart at Edgbaston on June 12, with the final to be played on July 5 at Lord’s. The 12 teams participating in the tournament will be split in two groups of six each, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the semifinals, both of…
England will begin the home Women’s T20 World Cup in 2026 with a game against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston.The host nation – looking to win the tournament for the first time since the inaugural edition, also on home soil, in 2009 – will take on Sri Lanka in the opening match from 6.30pm on Friday June 12. Nat Sciver-Brunt’s side then face further Group 2 fixtures against two qualifiers (on June 16 and 20) as well as West Indies (June 24) – the side that knocked them out of the 2024 T20 World Cup in the group stage – and…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has unveiled his ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 Team of the Tournament ahead of the official announcement, notably excluding any Pakistani players from his XI. Known for his sharp cricketing insights, Latif shared his team on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), selecting South Africa’s trophy-winning skipper Temba Bavuma as captain and South African wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne behind the stumps. For the opening slots, Latif has picked India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal and Australia’s Usman Khawaja. Jaiswal was India’s top scorer in the WTC cycle, amassing 1,798 runs at an average…