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Grace Harris’s game-changing 2-7 followed by Megan Schutt’s four-fer and unbroken century opening stand helped Australia post a statement 10-wicket win, ending Sri Lanka’s unbeaten run in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2023, in Gqeberha on Thursday (February 16). Despite a promising start from their openers, Sri Lanka were tied down to a lowly 112/8 after Harris’s…
Ahead of his 100th Test match in Delhi against Australia, India’s No. 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, the 13th Indian to get to the landmark, recollected some of the most challenging knocks and bowlers that he’s faced over his 13-year career. Without sticking to just a couple, Pujara preferred to identify a few knocks that were close…
Australia have given themselves the luxury of some more time as they weigh up the inclusions of Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green for the Delhi Test starting on Friday (February 17). The two players, both recovering from their respective finger injuries, were notable absentees in Australia’s defeat at Nagpur and with the visitors seeking a quick…
One of Ravi Shastri’s tallest achievements as a coach was to prepare a worn-out Indian team to stand up to a marauding Australian pace attack at the Gabba in 2021. He impelled the players to fight on and Cheteswhar Pujara’s batting in that Test epitomised India’s resistance. Pujara stood intransigent, battered, bruised, taking blow after blow on…
Led by Ben Duckett’s brisk 68-ball 84, England made a quick start to the first Test against New Zealand, heading to Tea at 134 for 2 at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui on Thursday. The hard-hitting southpaw crunched 14 boundaries en route to his fifth Test half-century. Put in to bat, England struggled early on,…
Deepti Sharma became the first Indian, male or female, to reach 100 T20I wickets as she set up India’s six-wicket victory against the West Indies in Cape Town on Wednesday (February 15). On a wicket aiding the slower bowlers, Deepti finished with excellent figures of 3 for 15 from her four overs to restrict the…
Nigar Sultana’s 50-ball 57 proved too little in the end as Australia cruised to a comfortable 8-wicket win at St George’s Park, on Tuesday. Georgia Wareham’s 3 for 20 played a pivotal role in limiting Bangladesh to 107 for 7 – the lowest score in a completed innings so far in the ongoing T20 World…
It was a curiously anti-climactic scene as Scotland claimed the inaugural CWC League 2 title with a comprehensive win in Kathmandu on Wednesday, knocking over the Namibians for just 154 before George Munsey struck a 61-ball century to lead the Scots to a 10-wicket victory in just 22.1 overs. This extends their lead over their opponents to…
Shreyas Iyer has been declared fit ahead of the second Test against Australia in Delhi, the BCCI confirmed on Tuesday (February 14). As a result, the middle-order batter will join the squad in New Delhi after getting clearance from the BCCI Medical Team. Iyer has been sidelined for close to a month with a back…
Alick Athanaze, the captain of the Windward Islands, and Barbados pace bowler Akeem Jordan have earned their maiden call-ups to West Indies’ 15-member squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against South Africa, starting in Centurion on February 28. Athanaze, who first came into prominence in the Under-19 World Cup played in New Zealand in…
