Alastair Cook on Monday became the first England cricketer to cross the 10,000-run mark in Test cricket, and the youngest overall, beating Sachin Tendulkar’s record set in 2005 by five months at the age of 31 years, five months. Tendulkar – Test cricket’s leading run-scorer – was 31 years, ten months 20 days old when he scored his 10,000th run […]
» Read moreSunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner has praised seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, calling him a world-class bowler. “Obviously Bhuvi [Bhuvneshwar Kumar] is in and out of the Indian team, but he is a world-class bowler. With the new ball as an opening batsman I would like to come up against him on a wicket like this because he sets the tone from […]
» Read moreSunrisers Hyderabad found a finisher in Bipul Sharma, known better for his spin skills. The left-hander matched his left-handed Australian partner, David Warner, and eliminated Gujarat Lions from the Indian Premier League with a stunning four-wicket victory at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Friday. Warner’s tactical handling of the chase, pacing his innings and marking his bowlers to maul, snatched […]
» Read moreEngland captain Alastair Cook won the toss and chose to bat in the second test against Sri Lanka on Friday, resisting the temptation to put the tourists back in after their batting failures in the first game. By replacing injured all-rounder Ben Stokes with Chris Woakes, England made just one forced change in their team. Sri Lanka made two changes […]
» Read moreSanjay Bangar, former India all-rounder, has been appointed as India’s head coach for the Zimbabwe series, the Board of Cricket for Cricket in India announced on Thursday (May 26). Bangar has previously worked with the national team as one of the assistant coaches and is currently the head coach of Indian Premier League franchise Kings XI Punjab. The BCCI have […]
» Read moreIndia’s Test captain and numero uno batsman Virat Kohli has been named as ‘Third Most Marketable Sportsperson’ in the world ahead of football superstar Lionel Messi , world No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic in a latest survey published by magazine ‘SportsPro’. Kohli is ranked behind NBA’s ‘Most Valuable Player’ Stephen Curry and Juventus’ French international Paul Pogba. Incidentally, Kohli is […]
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