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Indian batting looked clueless and out of depth to be dismissed for their third lowest total as England notched up a four-wicket loss in the second women’s T20I to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series in Mumbai on Saturday. On a day uncapped Indian cricketers won fat pay-cheques in the Women’s Premier

The Indian U19 cricket team celebrates after the fall of an Afghanistan batter.© BCCI Arshin Kulkarni starred with both bat and ball to enable India prevail over Afghanistan by seven wickets in their Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup match in Dubai on Friday. India skipper Uday Saharan opted to field as the three-pronged seam

Former Pakistan left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir displayed the traits that had once hailed him as one of the world’s finest demolishers of batting lineups to produce a spell of four wickets for just seven runs to wreck Chennai Braves’ batting. His spell restricted Chennai to 75 for 9 and ensured New York Strikers a five-wicket win in

File photo of RCB cricketers in action© BCCI New Delhi : Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 auction for the upcoming season, former India pacer Irfan Pathan gave tips to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the 17th season of the tournament. While speaking at Star Sports, Pathan said that after adding Cameron Green

File photo of Zimbabwe cricketer Sikandar Raza© X (formerly Twitter) Zimbabwe Cricket on Tuesday announced a 15-member squad for the three-match T20 international series against Ireland and included two uncapped players. The three-match T20I series will begin on Thursday at Harare Sports Club. Middle-order batter Brian Bennett and pace bowler Trevor Gwandu have been added

India Women will face England Women in the first of the England Women’s tour of India, three-match T20I Series 2023 on Wednesday, December 6, at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India. The match is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM IST. Both teams last played against each other in the group stage of the ICC

India wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson has been in the news after he was recalled to the team for the upcoming tour of South Africa. Samson, who last played for India during the tour of Ireland earlier this year in August, has been added to the team for a three-match ODI series against the Proteas. The 29-year-old

Former Proteas cricketer AB De Villiers opened up on Virat Kohli‘s performance in India’s upcoming tour to South Africa and said that the fans will see the best of him. While speaking on his official YouTube channel, De Villiers said that he can’t wait to see Kohli making eye contact with opposition players and being

Left-arm spinner Saika Ishque, who impressed one and all during inaugural edition of Women’s Premier League, received her maiden call-up for India as she was named in the three-match WT20I series against England starting December 6 in Mumbai. The T20 squad comprised mostly of those who were part of the Asian Games gold-winning squad in

One of the greatest batters of modern era, AB de Villiers has revealed that he was snubbed by erstwhile Delhi Daredevils after spending three seasons at the IPL franchise. Before making it big at the Royal Challengers Bangalore, the South African batting legend had three lukewarm season with the Delhi franchise, now known as Delhi

Hardik Pandya in Mumbai Indians jersey.© X (formerly Twitter) Mumbai Indians secured Hardik Pandya through an all-cash deal with Gujarat Titans. It is one of the biggest trades in the history of the Indian Premier League as Hardik has a price tag of INR 15 crore, an amount that was paid by GT when they

India vs Australia: Glenn Maxwell scored a brilliant ton.© AFP Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell equalled India skipper Rohit Sharma‘s record as he struck an unbeaten 47-ball ton to keep the series alive for Australia, helping the Baggy Greens clinch a victory in Guwahati in the third T20I against India on Tuesday. With the 47-ball hundred,

File photo of Ravichandran Ashwin Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin applauded Shreyas Iyer and said that playing spin and taking them down is the right-handed batter’s speciality. Speaking on his official YouTube channel, Ashwin called Iyer a standout performer for the ‘Men in Blue’. He also added that people don’t appreciate him much instead they ask

Veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin heaped praise on pacer Mukesh Kumar, calling him ‘Junior Shami’. While speaking on his official YouTube channel, Ashwin said that when he first met Mohammed Siraj, he thought the 29-year-old would become the junior of Mohammed Shami. However, Ashwin’s mind changed after he was Mukesh Kumar and now he felt

File image of Joe Root© Twitter England batter Joe Root has opted out of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, announced his franchise Rajasthan Royals on Saturday. “England batter Joe Root will not be taking any further participation in the IPL, it was confirmed on Saturday,” said a statement from the team. Root, one of the

French police on Friday detained Algerian international Youcef Atal, who plays for Ligue 1 football side Nice, in a probe into suspected “justification of terrorism” after he published a social media post on the Israel-Hamas war, prosecutors said. Last month the 27-year-old defender was banned for seven matches over the post, which he quickly deleted

Having been there and done that, Graeme Swann is now mentoring a group of young England spinners, who would feature in a ‘Shadow Tour’ of India next month with a couple of them in contention to make it to senior team for five-Test series, starting January 25. Off-spinner Swann claimed 20 wickets and along with

Australia thrashed Team India by six wickets to clinch the ODI World Cup 2023 title on Sunday. Playing at the iconic Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the Pat Cummins-led side bundled out India for 240. Later, they chased down the target in just 43 overs with Travis Head smashing a century. It was a big

Rohit Sharma must have felt very lonely as he walked up the long staircase of the Motera Stadium while shaking hands with whoever came in his way on the catastrophic Sunday night. A World Cup final defeat like this might have felt like a stab in the chest. He needed to quickly leave that arena.

File image of Suryakumar Yadav© AFP Suryakumar Yadav named India’s captain for five-match T20I series against Australia starting on November 23. India’s squad:Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar

The Rohit Sharma-led Indian cricket team won everything on its way to the final of the Cricket World Cup but failed in the final hurdle. A strong Australian cricket team clinched a record-extending sixth World Cup title by defeating India by six wickets. For India, their decade-long wait for a major ICC Trophy continued. After

There was an Instagram reel by a social media influencer that went viral last year, when the interviewee was asked to decipher an incomplete footage of a DRS call. Without having a look, he says “out hai sir” and then asks the interviewer to shift the focus of the photo and there stood Mahendra Singh

Thursday turned out be an another heartbreak for South Africa as Australia crushed their hopes of lifting the ODI World Cup 2023 title. The Proteas faced a shocking three-wicket defeat against the Aussies in the semi-final, which turned out to be a low-scoring thriller in Kolkata. Chasing a below-par score of 213, Australia lost kept

Travis Head starred with bat and ball as Australia set up a World Cup final clash with India after a tense three-wicket win over South Africa in Kolkata on Thursday. Chasing a tricky 213 for victory, Australia wobbled after Head hit 62 but Steve Smith (30) and Josh Inglis (28) helped the five-time champions reach

India beat New Zealand to reach the Cricket World Cup 2023 final© AFP The Cricket World Cup 2023 semifinal between India and New Zealand was steeped in controversy after several reports suggested that the hosts have changed the pitch at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai in order to assist their spinners. The reports said that

File photo of Harbhajan Singh© X (formerly Twitter) Former Indian cricket team spinner Harbhajan Singh took to social media to express his anger over a story involving him that was narrated by former Pakistan skipper Inzamam Ul Haq in an interview which has gone viral on the internet. During the interview, Inzamam said that Harbhajan was

Enjoying each other’s company in a lively dressing room atmosphere has been possible due to good results and vice-versa is also true, said skipper Rohit Sharma after yet another clinical performance that took Indian team’s victory count to nine on the bounce. India ended their World Cup league stage beating the Netherlands by 160 runs

India beat Netherlands in Cricket World Cup 2023© AFP India remained unbeaten at the end of the Cricket World Cup 2023 group stage with a commendable victory over Netherlands in Bengaluru on Sunday. Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul slammed brilliant centuries while Indian pacers continued their brilliant run of form as India won by 160

England joined the party after everything was done and dusted, finding enough reasons to smile while humiliating a demotivated Pakistan by 93 runs in their final World Cup game in Kolkata on Saturday. By virtue of winning their last two games, England finished seventh in the 10-team table and qualified for the Champions Trophy, scheduled

Calmness of Rassie van der Dussen and the fire of Gerald Coetzee helped experienced South Africa overcame a spirited resistance from Afghanistan to carve out a five-wicket win in their last league game of the World Cup in Ahmedabad on Friday. Set a target of 245, South Africa, who are already assured of a place