Report Shaheen Shah Afridi set the tone for the night with a fiery opening spell in which he claimed both India openers Pakistan 152 for 0 (Rizwan 79*, Babar 68*) beat India 151 for 7 (Kohli 57, Afridi 3-31) by ten wickets In their 13th attempt in World Cups, Pakistan finally managed to beat India,
Month: October 2021
T20 WC: Shaheen Shah Afridi jolted India with two quick wickets.© Twitter An elated Pakistan skipper Babar Azam spoke highly of left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi in the post-match presentation after registering a historic 10-wicket win against India in their T20 World Cup 2021 opening match in Dubai. Shaheen took the game by storm when
Report Mushfiqur Rahim’s unbeaten 37-ball 57 had spurred Bangladesh on to a daunting 171 in the first innings Sri Lanka 172 for 5 (Asalanka 80*, Rajapaksa 53, Shakib 2-17) beat Bangladesh 171 for 4 (Naim 62, Mushfiqur 57*) by five wickets For once, it was Sri Lanka’s batters who bailed their bowlers out. It wasn’t
News Maxwell took 1-24 in the win over South Africa after Ashton Agar was omitted but Marcus Stoinis believes Agar will be called upon in the tournament Marcus Stoinis believes every member of Australia’s squad will likely play at some stage of the T20 World Cup, after Ashton Agar’s shock axing for their tournament-opening win
News Head coach also shows faith and confidence in Finch and Warner after Saturday’s performance Australia scraped through their opening encounter after an outstanding bowling performance and some critical cameos with the bat from Steven Smith, Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade. They made a bold decision to leave out both Agar and Richardson, who had
News India captain also believes pitches for T20 World Cup will be better for batting than they were in IPL Hardik Pandya, who didn’t bowl a single ball in IPL 2021 across both legs in India and the UAE, is still not fit enough to bowl. Virat Kohli, however, has said that India value his
News “These sorts of games, we just have to bin it and move on. I don’t think any sort of panic will come into the camp.” Kieron Pollard said it was “unacceptable” for an international team to be bowled out for 55 like his West Indies side were in their T20 World Cup opener against
News Bangladesh head coach expects Mahedi Hasan, Afif Hossain and Nurul Hasan to become key players for the team Russell Domingo, the Bangladesh head coach, expects his side to bank on their familiarity of the opponents as well as the conditions when they take on Sri Lanka in their first T20 World Cup Super 12s
News The seamer, who has taken 297 first-class wickets, played one Test for Australia in 2016 South Australia seamer Joe Mennie, who played one Test, has announced his retirement from state cricket so he can return to his family in the UK. Mennie, 32, missed the entire 2020-21 Australian season due to the pandemic travel
News “If you lose players then world cricket is not going to be better off. So there has to be a balance in the future” India captain Virat Kohli has said that while trying to “cover up” for the amount of cricket lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities must be mindful that cricketers aren’t
T20 WC: India and Pakistan will face each other in Dubai on October 24.© AFP The Super 12 stage of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 will feature India and Pakistan in a high-octane clash on October 24 in Dubai. Both teams will aim to open their accounts with a win and carry the
News “I think they’ll show what they’ve got in the World Cup. I had a big belief that our team could go a long distance.” If you count the practice matches Sri Lanka played before the tournament began (and perhaps you shouldn’t count them), they have won seven T20 matches in a row. They were
Report Adil Rashid takes 4 for 2 as England bowl West Indies out for 55 and complete the chase inside nine overs England 56 for 4 (Buttler 24*) beat West Indies 55 (Rashid 4-2, Moeen 2-17) by six wickets There was no thriller in the repeat of the 2016 T20 World Cup final, as West
Big picture When these teams met in the warm-up 11 days ago, neither Bangladesh nor Sri Lanka might have imagined they’d be playing each other again so soon. But after Bangladesh’s shock loss to Scotland and a withdrawn ICC press release later, they two teams have wound up in the same Super 12s group. Any
Report Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade added 40 to take Australia home, after Aiden Markram and David Miller briefly arrested South Africa’s slide with the bat Australia 121 for 5 (Smith 35, Stoinis 24*, Nortje 2-21) beat South Africa 117 for 9 (Markram 40, Hazlewood 2-19, Zampa 2-21) by five wickets A wicket off the
News There are three pacers and two spinners in the 12 named on the eve of the match Pakistan have announced a 12-man side for their first group game of the T20 World Cup 2021, against India, in Dubai. It sees Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mohammad Wasim and Mohammad Nawaz sitting out, and means Pakistan will go
Preview Pakistan will have to overcome a side with better personnel, and with their preparations having been hit Big Picture You could go with Albert Einstein reminding you madness is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You could try a variant of Richard Feynman’s famous quote about quantum
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News Mahela Jayawardene returns home after successful consultancy spell with team Maheesh Theekshana is unlikely to be risked in Sri Lanka’s first Super 12s fixture against Bangladesh on Sunday after picking up a side injury during the eight-wicket win against Netherlands in Sharjah. Theekshana, the mystery spinner, took two wickets for three runs in his
News Rain washed out the second semi-final and as a result Knights advanced ahead of North West on a higher net run rate The only Division 2 team to qualify from the group stage, South Western Districts (SWD) ended their run in the last eight with the biggest margin of defeat in the knockouts. Things
Preview South Africa have won nine of their last 10 matches coming into the tournament, while Australia have lost their last four T20I series Big picture Neither side has a great record in the T20 World Cup and a first-up loss could have huge ramifications in what has become a stacked Group 1. Based on
News The teams will have to be based in any two cities out of Ahmedabad, Cuttack, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Indore and Lucknow Lancer Capital, whose principal is Avram Glazer, a member of the family that owns a majority stake at Manchester United football club, is one of the 22 business entities to have picked up bid
Big picture Five long years ago in Kolkata, time stood still for England’s white-ball cricketers against West Indies. The final of the 2016 World T20 culminated in such an extraordinary expression of wrought, raw power, as Carlos Brathwaite seized his moment against Ben Stokes, that it might have been the undoing of a more callow
Ryan ten Doeschate played in 33 ODIs and 24 T20Is for the Netherlands.© Twitter Netherlands all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate on Friday announced his retirement from international cricket after his side failed to qualify for the Super 12 stage of the T20 World Cup. The 41-year-old played in Netherlands’ previous first round match against debutants Namibia
Report Charith Asalanka replaces Dinesh Chandimal, with Sri Lanka already having qualified for Super 12s Sri Lanka won the toss and decided bowl first against Netherlands in Sharjah. Captain Dasun Shanaka, whose side has already qualified to the group stage, said they wanted to assess the conditions ahead of the Super 12s. “In the next
News Captain Kieron Pollard denies that his team has a psychological edge over England as they go into a re-match of the final from five years ago West Indies’ squad got together and relived Carlos Brathwaite‘s ‘remember the name’ assault that delivered them their last world title more than five years ago, but that victory
News A total of 1000 fully vaccinated spectators to be allowed, and it will “serve as a trial run for the safe return of spectators to stadiums” A total of 1000 fully vaccinated spectators will be allowed at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo for the women’s ODI series between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in November. This
News Captain Temba Bavuma says South Africa could field three frontline spinners, but will take call on the morning of the match The world’s top-ranked T20I bowler, Tabraiz Shamsi, will play the Men’s T20 World Cup Super 12 opener against Australia after passing a fitness test following an injury scare earlier in the week. Shamsi
News Captain says Australia will “go with seven specialist batters, four specialist bowlers, plus the allrounders.” Australia captain Aaron Finch admits that long-held plans for the 2020 version of the T20 World Cup “have gone out the window” as they are set to name just four specialist bowlers for their tournament opener against South Africa
News Senior India player thrilled with the way the lower-middle order has been contributing for the past two-three series To outperform the Australian quicks on their home soil was among India’s standout achievements on their recently concluded tour of the country. That is the view of Smriti Mandhana, who also singled out the lower-middle order’s
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