Stand-in South African captain Neil Brand said on Saturday the two-Test series against New Zealand has handed his group of unheralded players a ‘massive opportunity’ to become first-choice internationals. Brand is among eight uncapped players in an overhauled 15-man tour squad preparing for the first Test starting in Mount Maunganui on Sunday. Nearly all of … Read more
Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews put on a record 232-run fourth-wicket partnership on Saturday to leave Sri Lanka in firm control on day two of their one-off Test against Afghanistan in Colombo. Sri Lanka were leading by 212 runs with four wickets in hand at stumps, with Mathews sent back on the final ball for … Read more
Johannesburg [South Africa], February 4 : Joburg Super Kings clinched the last remaining SA20 season two playoff positions miraculously at the Wanderers on Saturday evening. The Super Kings were handed a lifeline earlier in the day when Pretoria Capitals silenced Newlands when they beat MI Cape Town by four wickets with just two balls remaining. … Read more
In Pakistan there is a saying, you shake a tree and a quartet of fast bowlers would fall. In the Shah household in the Jandol Mayar area of the Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, the adage almost became a reality. Naeem, fourth among the Shah brothers, played the tape ball cricket tournament … Read more
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], February 4 (ANI): England batting legend Alastair Cook lauded star Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah for his magnificent six-wicket haul in the second Test against Three Lions, saying that he changed the course of the game single-handedly and “ripped the heart out of England batting line-up”. Bumrah’s six-fer was the biggest highlight … Read more
saof the end of Day 2, India is leading the match against England in the 2nd Test by 171 runs with a score of 28/0 in the 2nd innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal is unbeaten on 15 runs from 17 balls, and Rohit Sharma, the captain, is unbeaten on 13 runs from 13 balls. The match is … Read more
The speculations over the “personal reason” behind Virat Kohli’s absence from the first two Test matches against England ended on Saturday after close friend and former South Africa captain AB de Villiers revealed that the India star and his wife Anushka Sharma are expecting their second child. The revelation soon sparked questions over whether Kohli … Read more
Everyone in Irish rugby can at last smile again. It has been a long four months since the agonising defeat in the World Cup quarter-final, but this win was an almost perfect return to French soil to take charge of a Six Nations for which they are now significant favourites. There was plenty to like … Read more
An uninvited guest made an unexpected appearance during the one-off Test match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan on February 3, Saturday. In a bizarre incident, a monitor lizard entered the Sinhalese Sports Club in Columbo. The play was briefly halted in the 47th over when the lizard crawled its way to enter the field by … Read more