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The one-off Test between Bangladesh and Afghanistan is poised for a thrilling climax, with Bangladesh needing seven wickets to secure victory and Afghanistan requiring another 347 runs to pull off a remarkable chase of 479 in Abu Dhabi.
India’s two spinners now sit first and sixth in the ICC women’s T20I bowling rankings, two days before a semi-final whose opponent was still being decided on Tuesday night.
South Africa made 205 for 5 in Windhoek and had Zimbabwe 61 for 7 in reply. The last three wickets added 96, which was the best part of Zimbabwe’s day and nowhere near enough.
UAE beat Indonesia by six wickets in Dubai on Friday to stay alive in Group B. Indonesia were 1 for 2 after two deliveries and never recovered.
Matt Fisher sent England’s selectors a clear reminder of his skills by taking a career-best 6-25 against his former county to turn a quite remarkable County Championship match against Yorkshire on its head at the Kia Oval.
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu produced a stunning bowling performance, claiming seven wickets for just five runs against Indonesia in the Women’s Asia Cup T20 (AFP)
Chamari Athapaththu produced a night to remember as Sri Lanka crushed Indonesia in their Women’s Asia Cup clash in Dubai on Wednesday, with the veteran all-rounder rewriting the record books with a stunning seven-wicket haul and a hat-trick.Athapaththu was almost unplayable, ripping through the Indonesian batting line-up with figures of 3.3-0-5-7. Her spell combined control,…
India’s Ravindra Jadeja (ANI Photo) Ravindra Jadeja has been a mainstay of India’s Test team for more than a decade, but former India wicketkeeper-batter Deep Dasgupta believes the time has come for the team to start looking beyond the veteran all-rounder in the longest format.Jadeja aged 37, finished India’s recent two-Test tour of Sri Lanka…
At 19, an Indian leg-spinner walked into Test cricket against perhaps the most intimidating batting side of his age and produced something the game had never quite seen. Across two innings in Madras, he bowled 54.3 overs, conceded 136 runs and took 16 wickets. Viv Richards, the great destroyer of bowling attacks, fell to him…
In 2026, the number of Indian pacers capable of frequently breaching the 150kph mark on the speedometer is considerable – Umran Malik, Mayank Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Ashok Sharma. But the emergence of these pacers has been decades in the making. Long before the Zaheer Khan-Ashish Nehra era, when pacers began bowling consistently…