Preview It’s too early for either team to panic but whoever loses will be in a difficult position for the rest of the group stages Big picture South Africa and West Indies will hope the worst is out of the way after poor batting displays saw them lose their tournament openers. South Africa’s under-par 118
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Big picture Well, how do you top that then? How do you get back to the grind after an achievement that will almost certainly define this tournament for Pakistan, regardless of what happens hereon in? Beating India might not bring its own trophy, but for a significant chunk of Pakistan supporters, getting that monkey off
News The 2022 season will likely include 74 matches and not follow the home-and-away format This will not be the first time the IPL will comprise 10 teams – that already happened a decade ago. The BCCI is likely to revert to the format used in 2011, which scrapped the simple home-and-away model, and included
News Head coach admits “game-awareness was not at its best” on the day they folded for 55 against England West Indies head coach Phil Simmons has called for greater application and game-awareness from their batting line-up after they folded for 55 – their lowest total in T20 World Cups and third lowest overall – in
News The quick bowler’s first delivery set the tone against South Africa in a superb powerplay display After all the talk about which of Australia’s Test match quicks would miss out in their T20 World Cup opener against South Africa, the trio of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins played together in the format
News The opener, who was New Zealand’s top run-scorer in the last edition of the tournament, feeling ‘not too bad’ at the moment New Zealand opening batter Martin Guptill has had a rough time in the UAE, managing only 126 runs in nine T20 innings at an average of 14 and strike rate of 104.13.
News India’s captain conceded that Pakistan’s powerplay bowling had left them too much catching up to do After India suffered their first defeat to Pakistan in World Cups, losing by ten wickets, Virat Kohli admitted that his side was outplayed. In response to India’s 151 for 7, Pakistan rattled off the target in 17.5 overs
News ‘I am looking forward to seeing my mates and being on the field with them. I’m ready for Australia’ Ben Stokes will return to cricket after a four-and-a-half month break in the first Test of the 2021-22 Ashes, in a major boost to England’s hopes of winning in Australia for the first time in
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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,
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