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News The duo put on a match-winning unbeaten stand of 94 off just 32 balls to get Deccan Gladiators’ campaign off to a winning start “To bat with someone like him just gives you so much confidence and freedom to just go and try and express yourself.” Those were the words of 25-year-old Tom Moores,

India captain Rohit Sharma on Friday lauded the application of his players under pressure situations and attributed the T20 series win over New Zealand to “team effort”. India on Friday defeated New Zealand by seven wickets to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The series-win came just after their Super 12 exit

News The three-year broadcast deal with state television broadcaster PTV was signed in 2020 A landmark cricket broadcast deal that was expected to fetch in excess of USD 200 million for the Pakistan Cricket Board is understood to be cancelled. The PCB has opened a new tender inviting bids for new media rights for home

India captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday admitted that the win against New Zealand in the first T20 International did not come easy in the end but said the players would learn from the experience. India bungled towards end before recovering in time to fashion a five-wicket win over New Zealand in Rohit’s first match as

As a 15-year-old playing local club cricket, Azeem Rafiq was pinned down in a car and had red wine poured down his throat. Soon after arriving at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, he and other players from Asian backgrounds were subjected to racist treatment and offensive language such as being told to “sit over there near

David Warner was dropped from SRH’s playing XI during IPL 2021© Instagram SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) assistant coach Brad Haddin revealed that the decision of dropping Australian batter David Warner during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 was not related to cricket. After having a below-par outing in the IPL 2021, Warner was adjudged as Player

Report Williamson’s brilliant 85 in vain as New Zealand lose second straight global limited-overs final Australia 173 for 2 (Marsh 77*, Warner 53) beat New Zealand 172 for 4 (Williamson 85, Hazlewood 3-16) by eight wickets This has been a tournament of tricky, two-paced pitches, and as a consequence it has recorded the lowest scoring

BCCI Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled to take place on December 4© AFP The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will be updating its members on the T20 World Cup 2021 held in UAE, the National Cricket Academy and domestic season in its upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM), scheduled to take place on

News Faragher steps down despite denying alleged incident from 2017 Essex have announced the resignation of John Faragher as chair with immediate effect, following an allegation of racist language used at a board meeting in 2017. Faragher denies the claim made against him but stepped down following a meeting of the Essex board on Thursday

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News Despite lean run with the bat and semi-final exit, skipper wants to lead side at next year’s T20 World Cup Eoin Morgan has insisted that he will stay on as England’s limited-overs captain despite his lean run with the bat and their defeat to New Zealand in Wednesday night’s T20 World Cup semi-final in

With BCCI announcing the Team India squad for its upcoming home T20I series against New Zealand, there were plenty of surprises in the roster. There was no Virat Kohli in the squad with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player rested for the series. Rohit Sharma was named captain with KL Rahul as vice-captain. Kohli stepped

Ravi Shastri signed off from his four-and-a-half-year tenure as India’s men’s head coach as an “emotional, but a very proud man”, labelling his side “one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game” and underlining the toll that non-stop touring in biosecure conditions had taken on him and his players. Since his

Babar Azam praised his teammates after Pakistan’s fifth straight win in the T20 World Cup.© AFP Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Sunday said their aim in the T20 World Cup semifinals is to maintain the remarkable momentum of the group stage where they were the only undefeated side. Pakistan beat Scotland by 72 runs for

News Sluggish chase against Bangladesh proves costly, but Boucher proud of team’s revival Too few runs, scored too slowly in the early stages of the T20 World Cup cost South Africa a place in the semi-finals, according to coach Mark Boucher. He called their victory over England, and elimination on net run-rate, a “bitter pill

T20 WC: Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer expects more from his side in big events.© Twitter Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer on Friday reckoned that his country cannot just be happy by merely competing in a few Super 12 games of an ICC event as the establishment needs to be brave and push themselves a bit further.

News West Indies captain keen to continue despite struggling during failed title defence West Indies’ white-ball captain Kieron Pollard has insisted that he has no intentions of retiring from international cricket after his side were knocked out of contention for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. Pollard was among the West Indies seniors who

T20 WC: Michael Gough breached the tournament’s bio bubble a a few days ago.© Twitter English umpire Michael Gough was on Wednesday withdrawn from the ongoing T20 World Cup by the ICC after he breached the tournament’s bio bubble a a few days ago. The 41-year-old was placed in six day isolation after he left