Month: January 2025

Toss Ireland chose to bat vs India Gaby Lewis, the Ireland captain, called correctly and elected to bat in their first-ever ODI on Indian soil. Ireland made three changes to their XI from the previous ODI against Bangladesh in November. Batters Laura Delany and Christina Coulter Reilly, and allrounder Georgina Dempsey got a look-in as
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South Africa’s sports minister, Gayton McKenzie, has added his voice to the growing backlash at Afghanistan’s participation in next month’s ICC Champions Trophy, comparing the Taliban regime’s treatment of women in the country to Apartheid, and saying it would be “hypocritical and immoral to look the other way”. McKenzie’s intervention comes with South Africa due
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India vs Australia: File photo of Gautam Gambhir© AFP The Indian cricket team dressing room is a place where big egos along with big names exist. During the recent India vs Australia series, there were several rumours of a dressing room rift, with an Indian Express report claiming a certain ‘Mr. Fix-It’ projecting himself as
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Fakhar Zaman is “100% certain” he will play for Pakistan again and is gearing up for the 2025 Champions Trophy, which begins on February 19 and will be hosted in Pakistan and Dubai. “A 100%, I will play for Pakistan (again),” Fakhar, 34, told the Vipers Voices podcast. “Actually, many people do not know about
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Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has termed Jasprit Bumrah the best all-format quick bowler, ever after his Player-of-the-Series performance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Bumrah took 32 wickets at 13.06 before pulling up injured midway through Australia’s first innings at the SCG in the final Test. India’s other quicks were able to secure a four-run lead,
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Players from Australia and England have called for future multi-format Women’s Ashes series to include three Test matches, although the chances of that becoming a reality are slim, certainly in the next four years. In the upcoming series, the one-off Test – a four-day match under floodlights at the MCG – will be played as
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Ben Stokes, England’s Test captain, has described himself as “the Bionic Man” after undergoing scheduled surgery on his torn left hamstring. Stokes, 33, suffered a recurrence of the injury while bowling during England’s third Test against New Zealand in December, having first torn his hamstring while batting for Northern Superchargers against Manchester Originals in the
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Richard Gould, the ECB’s chief executive, has rejected calls from a group of British politicians for England to boycott their upcoming Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan in February, saying that the Taliban regime’s clampdown on women’s rights is a matter that requires a “co-ordinated, ICC-led, response” rather than unilateral action from individual countries. England are
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