Category: Cricket

Alex Hales-inspired England put on one of the finest displays of batting in modern-day cricket to batter, bully and eventually decimate Pakistan to secure a mammoth 169-run victory and put the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series beyond the visitors’ reach with a 3-0 lead at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Tuesday (August 30). Hales’s 171 is now the best individual […]

The national selectors named Grace Harris and Nicole Bolton in the Australia Women’s squad for their upcoming limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka in September. The 14-member squad, which features as many as 12 players who were a part of the Australian contingent for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India, will play four One-Day Internationals and a lone Twenty20 International […]

In an anti-climactic finish to the second Twenty20 cricket International, wet outfield denied India chance to level the series after dominating proceedings in the West Indies innings as the match was called off due to wet outfield, here today. The match began late by 40 minutes due to technical reasons and later rain spoilt India’s chase when they were 15 […]

Salma Khatun, the 25-year-old all-rounder, has been ruled out of Bangladesh Women’s tour to Ireland, scheduled for September this year. Salma, who bowls off-spin and bats in the lower-middle-order, sustained an injury to her shoulder during a practice session about two weeks ago. Bangladesh Women are scheduled to play two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and two ODIs during their short tour. […]

Afghanistan will travel to Bangladesh for a three-match One-Day International series in September, the cricket boards of the two countries confirmed on Sunday (August 28). The tour with games scheduled for September 25, 28 and October 1 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium will see the associate nation play a bilateral series against a non-Zimbabwe full-member side for the first […]

Records tumbled in the first Twenty20 International in the USA as KL Rahul smashed the joint second-fastest century but India fell short of achieving history as West Indies secured a one-run win over India in the first Twenty20 International in Lauderhill, Florida A total of 489 runs was scored, with two batsmen scoring centuries. Evin Lewis smashed his maiden T20I […]