Big Picture: The Warne-Muralidaran trophy is back Australia’s Test series in Sri Lanka often seem to have a touch of the dramatic about them. Last time Australia were in Galle, Sri Lanka saw the greatest mass protests in the country’s history, while the teams battled out a 1-1 series. In 2016, Australia had nosedived spectacularly […]
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After being inserted for the third match in a row, England’s total of 171 for 9 looked a little light – particularly from a position of 83 for 1 in the ninth over. Ben Duckett made his first T20I fifty as an opener but the middle order was blown away by Varun Chakravarthy and it
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England U19s 299 (Farhan 90, Home 63, Mokoena 5-61, Daniels 4-49) and 275 for 8 (Rew 71*, Vaughan 44, Fonseka 43, Mason 4-97) lead South Africa U19s 319 (Rowles 90, Bulbulia 88, Farhan 4-78) by 255 runs Thomas Rew’s run-a-ball 71 helped England Men U19s to take a 255-run lead into the final day of
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Big Picture: Fearless India meet wobbly England Fifteen wins and two losses in 17 T20Is since winning the T20 World Cup last June has made India almost impenetrable in the format. This despite having to mix and match their players, owing to the cramped cricket calendar. It’s scary to imagine what they can achieve if
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Hobart Hurricanes 185 for 3 (Owen 108, Wade 32*) beat Sydney Thunder 182 for 7 (J Sangha 67, Warner 48, Ellis 3-23, Meredith 3-27) by seven wickets Mitchell Owen had a rollicking Bellerive Oval crowd in the palm of his hands and capped a breakout season with the equal-fastest BBL century as Hobart Hurricanes powered
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Lunch West Indies 163 and 129 for 5 (Greaves 5*, Noman 4-59) lead Pakistan 154 by 138 runs West Indies produced perhaps the best batting performance of the series, led by a half-century from their captain Kraigg Brathwaite, to take control of the second Test, taking lunch at 129 for 5. A 50-run opening partnership
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Toss India opt to bowl vs England Suryakumar Yadav won his second toss of the T20I series against England and decided to do the same. He opted to chase when the dew makes the pitch quicker to bat on if not significant enough to make bowling nightmarish. While he dipped into the box of white
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Tea Pakistan (Shakeel 14*, Rizwan 13*, Roach 2-15, Motie 2-42) trail West Indies 163 by 93 runs A hat-trick from Noman Ali – the first by a Pakistani spinner in Tests – saw Pakistan continue to run riot on another excessively spin-friendly wicket, dismissing West Indies for 163 in one session. The left-armer took six
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Australia win toss, bat vs England Australia have won the toss and chosen to bat first in the third and final T20I of the Women’s Ashes at Adelaide Oval. The home side is poised to enter next week’s day-night Test at the MCG with a white-ball whitewash if they can win this game, having swept
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Big Picture: England vs spin England would have felt a sense of deja vu when they were skittled for 132 in the T20I series opener in Kolkata on Wednesday. In June 2024, in the T20 World Cup semi-final in Providence, they watched Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel return combined figures of 11-0-58-6. At
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