The start of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy is little over two weeks away and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in a race against time to have venues ready for the multi-nation tournament. Renovation work is still underway in Lahore and Karachi but the hosts are optimistic of being ready for the tri-series, involving…
NEW DELHI: Shikhar Dhawan was a key member of India’s victorious 2013 Champions Trophy squad under Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s leadership. The stylish southpaw was named Player of the Tournament after scoring 363 runs in five matches at an astonishing average of 90.75, including two centuries and a fifty. A veteran of 167 ODIs, 34 Tests,…
Nathan Lyon. (Pic Credit – X) NEW DELHI: Veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon believes Australia’s Test team is still on its path to achieving greatness in the longer format, emphasising that their ultimate goal remains ahead of them.Australia started their tour of Sri Lanka with a dominant victory, securing an innings-and-242-run win in the series opener…
NEW DELHI: England captain Jos Buttler praised Abhishek Sharma for his incredible 54-ball 135 in India’s 150-run victory in the fifth Twenty20 International in Mumbai. He called the record innings one of the best displays of “clean ball striking.” With 13 sixes, the most in an innings for any Indian player, and the second-fastest T20I…
NEW DELHI: India’s newest power-hitter, Abhishek Sharma, has learned early on that self-belief and fearlessness are crucial to increasing the likelihood of a favorable outcome in a sport as unpredictable as T20 cricket, where a batter is destined for more failures than successes. The Punjab batsman hasn’t been on the international scene for a full…
NEW DELHI: As India crushed England by 150 runs to win the T20I series 4-1, there were a handful of celebrities watching the match at the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.Apart from Indian film superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan, there was also superstar Aamir Khan who was present at the…
NEW DELHI: English all-rounder Sam Curran is having a stellar season in the ongoing International League T20 (ILT20) with Desert Vipers, who have dominated the league stage. The Vipers have secured the top spot even before the other three playoff spots are confirmed, setting themselves up as strong contenders for the title.Curran has been in…
NEW DELHI: India’s head coach, Gautam Gambhir, praised his team for using “high-risk, high-reward cricket” to win the series against England 4-1 while laying out the plan to routinely score 250-plus runs in Twenty20 Internationals.The previous three Twenty20 Internationals between India and England demonstrated the country’s philosophy of playing aggressive cricket regardless of the circumstances….
NEW DELHI: The Dubai Capitals defeated the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders by an incredible 26 runs on Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, thanks to David Warner‘s brilliant batting, which sent them into the ILT20 Season 3 playoffs. The Dubai Capitals secured their playoffs berth with the victory, making them the fourth and final…
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Ahead of the opening ODI against England, Indian cricketers Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and others landed at Nagpur airport on Sunday night.On February 6, India will take on England in a three-match ODI series. With the exception of…
