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CNN — In a pivotal Game 5, the Oklahoma City Thunder were able to fend off a late-game comeback attempt from the Indiana Pacers to take a 3-2 lead in the series and move to within a game of the NBA championship after a 120-109 win Monday night. History will tell you that when the NBA Finals are knotted at 2-2, the winner of Game 5 goes on to win the series nearly 75% of the time – a fact that was surely on the minds of both teams and definitely wasn’t lost on the fans in attendance in Oklahoma…
BANGLADESH’S TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2025 Miraz was missing from the team’s training session on the eve of the Test series opener. © Getty Bangladesh is keeping their fingers crossed regarding the availability of in-form allrounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz for the two-match Test series opener at Galle, scheduled to begin on June 17. Bangladesh head coach Phil Simmons had said the team was hoping that Miraz will train with the team during their last training session ahead of the Test, after having skipped the previous training session due to a fever. However, doubts were raised regarding his availability as the…
Perth Scorchers have pulled off one of the signings off the WBBL off-season, luring Katie Mack away from the Strikers Perth Scorchers have pulled off a signing coup ahead of Weber WBBL|11, luring Katie Mack away from Adelaide Strikers on a two-year deal. Mack, one of Australia’s leading uncapped batters, has joined the Scorchers after six seasons at the Strikers, where she was a rock at the top of the order scoring 1896 runs across her 87 matches in blue.The 31-year-old right-hander will bolster a Perth batting line-up already boasting Australia star Beth Mooney and New Zealand’s Sophie Devine. Perth…
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday named 60 U-19 men’s cricketers for a Skills Assessment camp starting at the Inzamam-ul-Haq High Performance Centre in Multan on Wednesday. Thirty cricketers will participate in each of the first and second phases. The players in the first phase will undergo match-based skill assessment from June 18 to 23 while the second phase will run from June 25 to 30. Additionally, 10 players who have previously represented Pakistan U-19s and are eligible to feature in the 2026 ICC U-19 World Cup will be called up in the third phase of the camp. The…
STOCKHOLM: Swedish double Olympic pole vault champion Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis increased his own world record again on Sunday, clearing 6.28 metres to the delight of the home crowd at the Stockholm Diamond League meet. With victory in the event already guaranteed, Duplantis broke the world record for the 12th time as he sailed over the bar at the first attempt to improve on his 6.27m effort at Clermont-Ferrand in February. The 25-year-old ripped off his shirt in celebration and raced down the track in front of jubilant spectators at the Olympic stadium built for the 1912 Games. “It’s a magical…
LAHORE: Newly-appointed Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Director High Performance Aaqib Javed said a comprehensive plan has been implemented to run cricket academies across the country, with tangible results expected within six months. Speaking to reporters here at the LCCA Ground on Monday — the opening day of a skill development programme for the senior men’s national team, Aaqib said the National Cricket Academy’s revival had started, with different programmes planned for not only the men’s side but the women’s team and the age-group outfits, promising that the step would start bearing fruit within the next six months. Fifteen players have…
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday named 60 U-19 men’s cricketers for a Skills Assessment camp starting at the Inzamam-ul-Haq High Performance Centre in Multan on Wednesday. Thirty cricketers will participate in each of the first and second phases. The players in the first phase will undergo match-based skill assessment from June 18 to 23 while the second phase will run from June 25 to 30. Additionally, 10 players who have previously represented Pakistan U-19s and are eligible to feature in the 2026 ICC U-19 World Cup will be called up in the third phase of the camp. The…
Ellyse Perry has locked in her long-term future in magenta, with a new deal that will see her at the Sixers until at least WBBL|13 Ellyse Perry has reconfirmed her commitment to the Sydney Sixers, re-signing with the WBBL club for another three seasons. Perry, 34, was the Sixers’ first-ever signing back in 2015 and the legendary Australia allrounder has been one of the competition’s dominant figures with bat and ball since.Her re-signing is another key step for the Sixers as they seek success in a new era under former Australia coach Matthew Mott. Perry has captained the club since…
Cricket has gone and won something big. How might that change its relationship with South Africans? ©Getty It was April 23, 1992, long enough ago for apartheid still to be the law of the land in South Africa. For Nelson Mandela to have been out of prison for just more than two years but not yet elected president. For ordinary black and brown South Africans to hope – to expect, even – that a better life was imminent. But it was not long enough ago for South Africa to remain banished from international cricket, part of the punishment for whites…
Australia are preparing to embrace the unknown on their first Test tour of the Caribbean in a decade as they seek to kick off the new World Test Championship cycle with an away series win. After going down to South Africa in the 2023-25 WTC final on Saturday, Pat Cummins’ side head to the West Indies on Wednesday where just four players remain from their last Test visit in 2015 – Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Steve Smith.While Australia has toured for white-ball series since, almost half of the 16-man Test squad – Sam Konstas, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron…