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News “If he wants to make a name for himself, he needs to keep producing these knocks” Nitish Rana has received a glowing endorsement from Dinesh Karthik after he saw Kolkata Knight Riders through in a tricky chase against Delhi Capitals on Tuesday. Rana, who has dropped back into the middle order for Knight Riders

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News Knight Riders allrounder may have picked up a hamstring niggle after his exertions in the game against Chennai Super Kings Early indications are that Kolkata Knight Riders’ allrounder Andre Russell may have picked up a hamstring niggle following his exertions in the game against the Chennai Super Kings on Sunday. It was the 17th

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News This is Sindh’s first win over Southern Punjab in four games Sindh 179 for 5 (Manzoor 84, Anwar 29*, Naseem 1-28) beat Southern Punjab 175 for 7 (Yamin 43, Zeeshan 34, Hasnain 2-40) by three wickets A 49-ball 84 from Khurram Manzoor helped get Sindh off to a winning start, triumphing over Southern Punjab

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News Fast bowler says her comeback after having a pre-cancerous mole removed is the kind of performance “you would dream of” Lea Tahuhu admits it was touch-and-go as to whether she would be able to play any part in New Zealand’s tour of England after undergoing foot surgery. On Tuesday in Leicester, fast bowler Tahuhu

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Pakistan toured England for three ODIs and three T20Is in July © Getty Images England’s scheduled tour of Pakistan for two T20Is in mid-October has been cancelled, the ECB have announced. England’s men and women were due to play T20I double-headers in Rawalpindi on October 13 and 14, with the women’s team staying on for

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Report Command performance from spinners capitalises on Threlkeld’s 70 not out Thunder 185 (Threlkeld 70*) beat South East Stars 130 (Jones 5-33) by 55 runs Left-arm spinners Hannah Jones and Alex Hartley produced bewitching spells as Thunder ended their Rachael Heyhoe Flint campaign with a 55-run win over South East Stars at Beckenham. Former England

One of the biggest reasons behind Delhi Capitals’ march to their maiden IPL final last season was the performance of its bowlers. DC had one of the most well-rounded bowling attacks in the tournament with both pacers and spinners doing their job with elan. The Indian spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin (13 wickets) and Axar

Sourav Ganguly hailed Virat Kohli and thanked him for his displays as T20I captain.© Instagram BCCI President Sourav Ganguly hailed Virat Kohli for being a “true asset” to Indian cricket, after the 32-year-old announced that he would be stepping down as Team India’s captain from the shortest format of the game after the ICC T20

News The next set of hearings will resume on October 18 Cricket South Africa’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings are due to resume on October 18, seven weeks after they were initially supposed to, and more than three months after the process began. That means CSA won’t have the final report by ombudsman, advocate

After making their respective arrangements — with assistance from the BCCI — to get Indian players from UK to the UAE for the second half of the Indian Premier League, the eight franchises have decided to pool in and get the players currently participating in the Caribbean Premier League and the Sri Lanka-South Africa series

News The BCCI president had earlier been quoted saying he wanted the match to be a standalone event The replacement match for the now-cancelled Manchester Test should be continuation of the five-match England-India Test series and not a one-off Test, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has clarified. India could not field a team in the series-decider

James Anderson said he hoped to get another chance to play at Old Trafford.© AFP Veteran England pacer James Anderson has lamented the cancellation of the fifth and final Test against India at Old Trafford that was scheduled to start on Friday. Taking to Instagram, Anderson said he hoped to get another chance to play

News Markram replaces Malan at Kings as bubble fatigue, demanding winter prompt English withdrawals Several of England’s all-format players have withdrawn from this year’s IPL as a result of bubble fatigue and in anticipation of a long winter. Jonny Bairstow, Chris Woakes and Dawid Malan have joined Jos Buttler in confirming their withdrawals. Jofra Archer