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India captain Suryakumar Yadav said gold in 2028 on cricket’s return to the Olympics was the country’s next big aim after extending their T20 domination with back-to-back World Cup titles. Co-hosts India hammered New Zealand by 96 runs in the final in Ahmedabad on Sunday to be the first team to retain the T20 World crown and first to win it three times. It was also the first time a team have won the title on home soil, and they did it with a brand of fearless, attacking cricket. “It has been very special,” Suryakumar told reporters at a celebratory…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced a reward of Rs1.5 million for each player of the national hockey team following the team’s performance in the FIH Hockey World Cup qualifier, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. The announcement comes after the team secured a place in the upcoming hockey World Cup, marking their return to the tournament after an eight-year absence. It will be hosted jointly by Belgium and the Netherlands in August this year. Quoting a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Radio Pakistan said the team’s performance represented a “significant step towards promoting hockey in Pakistan”. The premier…
The Black Caps now turn their attention to next year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, while Santner is also looking forward to the 11th edition of the T20 World Cup that they will co-host alongside Australia in 2028. “It’s probably quite far away that I think, so we will reflect as a group tonight, over the next few days of, I guess, this tournament and what it looked like,” Santner added. “I think to make it to a final is obviously a pretty good effort from the boys and they should be very proud…
Get all the latest news and broadcast details as Tasmania and NSW face off for the Dean Jones Trophy Match facts Who: Tasmanian Tigers v NSW Blues What: Final, One-Day Cup 2025-26 Where: Bellerive Oval, Hobart When: Wednesday, March 11. Coin toss at 1.20pm AEDT, first ball at 2.05pm AEDT How to watch: cricket.com.au, CA Live app, Fox Cricket and Kayo Sports How to attend: Entry to Bellerive Oval is free Live scores: Match Centre Highlights, news and reactions after the match: cricket.com.au and the CA Live app Officials: Sam Nogajski and Phil Gillespie (field), Shawn Craig (third), Mike Graham-Smith (fourth),…
For Gambhir it also meant he became the first person to win a Men’s T20 World Cup as a player (2007) and coach (2026), with the former India batter revealing post-match the key ingredient behind the side’s success. “The plan was very simple as I am a different kind of character. Every person sees cricket differently. It’s not fair to compare what kind of a team I have made – I always believe that high risk, high reward is the only way to play a T20 format, and you don’t fear to lose a game of cricket to win a…
KARACHI Whites’ opener Abdullah Fazal plays a shot during the National T20 Cup match against Faisalabad at the Imran Khan Stadium.—Courtesy PCB PESHAWAR: Farhan Yousuf and Abdullah Fazal starred to help Lahore Whites and Karachi Whites, respectively, open their National T20 Cup campaigns with wins at the Imran Khan Stadium on Saturday. In the opening match of the tournament, Farhan hit an unbeaten half-century while Mohammad Akhlaq also scored a fifty as they lifted Lahore Whites from early troubles to chase down a 168-run target set by Peshawar. The pair came together with Lahore reeling at 48-3 by the end…
Samson didn’t play a match when part of India’s squad at the 2024 T20 World Cup and entered the 2026 event following a glut of low scores in the five-match T20I series against New Zealand. But with Abhishek Sharma struggling to find his best form, Samson found his touch to peak at the right time and help deliver India yet another t20 World Cup title. “Right after the New Zealand series, I was broke. I was completely out of my mind. I felt like my dreams had shattered. I thought, ‘OK what else can I do’?” Samson said. “But God…
More brilliance from Sanju Samson and Jasprit Bumrah turned Ahmedabad into pleasure palace for host nation Skipper Mitch Santner had hoped to break a billion hearts in the T20 World Cup final – but once again it was New Zealand cricket’s nearly men who were left crestfallen with a brutal defeat at the hands of India’s extraordinary blue machine. Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, the scene of India’s misery in the global 50-over final against Australia just two-and-a-half years ago, this time became a national pleasure palace. The favourites, lifted by Sanju Samson’s brutal batting and Jasprit Bumrah’s matchless bowling, fashioned…
“I wouldn’t mind breaking a few hearts,” said New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner on the eve of the T20 World Cup final against India in their opponents’ homeland.In the end, though, the only hearts that were broken were New Zealand’s. Again. Four World Cup finals for the Black Caps now and four defeats. Two in the 50-over arena, two in T20. They are cricket’s nearly men. A 96-tun trouncing in Ahmedabad to an all-conquering India may not be quite as galling as the “barest of margins” loss to England in a bonkers 2019 one-day international showpiece at Lord’s. Please use…
India became the first men’s side to win the T20 World Cup three times and the first to claim back-to-back titles with an emphatic 96-run victory over New Zealand continuing their white-ball dominance.India smoked 255-5 after losing the toss in Ahmedabad, with Sanju Samson (89 off 46 balls) passing fifty for the third straight match and opening partner Abhishek Sharma (52 off 21) slamming the fastest fifty of this year’s tournament, from 18 deliveries. New Zealand could muster only 159 all out in 19 overs in reply – they were 72-5 in 18.1 – as pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah (4-15)…