Australia won a thrilling Ashes opener by two wickets at Edgbaston on Tuesday as captain Pat Cummins’ six-smashing 44 not out and Usman Khawaja’s patient 65 combined to give England’s “Bazball” cricket revolution a lesson from Down Under. Cummins hit two sixes and four fours, and he shared a match-winning ninth-wicket partnership of 55 with…
Birmingham : England managed to survive Day-3 with a lot help from the heavens, as persistent rain brought an early halt to play for the day. This after Scott Boland and Pat Cummins made short work of the English opening pair on Day 3 of the ongoing first Test match of Ashes 2023 at Edgbaston. At the…
Weeks after the infamous IPL brawl that broke out between Virat Kohli and Naveen-ul-Haq, the latter has opened up about the controversy in an interview. The Afghanistan bowler said that he had earlier been provoked by the star batter, leading to the spat on the field. During the 18th over of the match between Lucknow…
Birmingham : Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon struck again in the second session to help Australia further dominate England on Day 1 of the ongoing first Test of Ashes here at Edgbaston on Friday. At the tea break, England’s score read 240/5 as the duo of Root (66*) and Bairstow (33*) fought back after Australia delivered…
Vriitya Aravind was only 10 when he first had a chance to learn the art of cricket from Jimmy Adams, the former West Indies batsman whose epic partnership with Brian Lara helped the Windies stage a stirring fightback in the 1999 Test series against Australia. Fourteen years after that famous Test battle, Adams was at…
Dubai : Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin retained his top spot as a Test bowler in the ICC Test Rankings for bowlers in men’s cricket, despite missing out on the ICC World Test Championship against Australia at The Oval, informed ICC on Wednesday. Ashwin finished as India’s leading wicket-taker and overall third-highest wicket-taker behind South Africa’s Kagiso…
Dubai: Srilanka born Indian star Dev Joshi picked up by Fujairah Kings in upcoming first season of GBL-T20. His last-minute entry in GBL shocked the entire gulf region. Dev is easily the most penetrative and successful new-ball bowler Fujairah Kings have had, he swings and seams the ball with skill- sources said. He has been…
Apart from tabling a big-money deal, the Saudi club had private jets on standby for Messi in Paris and his father in Barcelona, ready to fly the duo to Riyadh to finalise the deal Football superstar Lionel Messi’s next home is now known with the Argentine headed to the United States for his American bow….
Novak Djokovic reached his seventh French Open final in dramatic and controversial circumstances on Friday when world number one Carlos Alcaraz suffered serious cramping which torpedoed his challenge. Djokovic, 36, triumphed 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 to become the oldest man in 93 years to reach the championship match where he will be bidding for a…
Since the incomparable Don Dradman left the game in 1948 with an other-worldly Test average of 99.94, cricket has seen several great batsmen. Garry Sobers, Ken Barrington, Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Kumar Sangakkara and Jacques Kallis…the list goes on. But none of the great batsmen that scored at least…
