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Captain Scott Edwards showed calmness and got the crucial winning run to help the Netherlands edge past UAE by three wickets
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly is not ready to give up on injured India's star pacer Jasprit Bumrah turning up in Australia
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New Delhi: India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Thursday ruled out of the T20 World Cup with a stress fracture, dealing a massive blow to the team’s chances in the ICC event. A BCCI official told PTI that Bumrah has a stress fracture and could be out of action for months. “Bumrah is not […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: Ever since he walked into the national side after a successful Indian Premier League season last year, Suryakumar Yadav has been an untameable beast because of his ability to have a go at bowlers from the very first ball. His ability to hit the ball all over the park and find gaps, his admirable […]
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Mumbai: India on Monday announced their 15-member squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, with fit-again Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel, making their comeback. India’s squad for the World Cup in Australia is largely along expected lines and have only few changes from the fifteen, who took part in the recently concluded […]
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Pune: Former India captain and legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar reckons it’s good to have Sunrisers Hyderabad’s left-arm pacer, T. Natarajan, in contention for making a comeback into the squad in the run-up to Men’s T20 World Cup later in the year in Australia. After missing out on the second half of IPL 2021 due to […]
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Dharamsala: A reinvigorated India will look to pocket their second series win in as many weeks and build on the gains made from a drastic change in their batting approach in the second T20 International against Sri Lanka here on Saturday. India were forced to look in the mirror after their early exit from the […]
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Lucknow: With the number of claimants increasing heading into T20 World Cup, there will be no let-up in India’s willingness to experiment or their intensity in the three-match T20 series against Sri Lanka, beginning here on Thursday. Coming off a 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies, the in-form Indians will look to do an encore […]
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Kolkata: Finding the perfect combination can be tricky and there is no set formula, but India head coach Rahul Dravid says he and skipper Rohit Sharma are pretty clear about the team for the T20 World Cup in Australia in less than eight months’ time. The former captain, who took over from Ravi Shastri after […]
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New Delhi: All-rounder Hardik Pandya will skip the Ranji Trophy starting on February 10 to focus on his India comeback in white-ball cricket. Kedar Devdhar was named skipper of the Baroda team on Monday. Vishnu Solanki was named Devdhar’s deputy as the Baroda Cricket Association announced a 20-member squad ahead of the first phase of […]
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Dubai: A clinical unbeaten knock from Mitchell Marsh (77 not out off 50 balls) along with a crucial half-century by David Warner (53 off 38 balls) and a superlative spell by Josh Hazlewood (3/16) powered Australia to win their first Men’s T20 World Cup trophy, defeating New Zealand by eight wickets in the final at […]
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Hyderabad: This edition of the T20 World Cup will have new winners. With two-time finalists Australia and first-time finalists New Zealand taking on each other, it will be a repeat of 2015 one-day World Cup final where Michael Clarke-led Australia defeated Brendon McCullum-led Kiwis for the trophy. The cricketing rivalry between these two neighbouring nations […]
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Dubai: The feistiness of Australia will clash with the tactical shrewdness of a perennially understated New Zealand when the Trans-Tasman rivals battle for their maiden T20 World Cup trophy here on Sunday. Considering how both Australia and New Zealand won their respective semifinals against fancied opponents, one can expect another dramatic finish at the “Ring […]
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Hyderabad: Perhaps few would have predicted a New Zealand-Australia summit clash at the start of the T20 World Cup in the UAE. India, the pre-tournaments, fell on the wayside while England and Pakistan were stopped in the semifinals paving the way for a Trans-Tasman rivalry on the desert on Sunday. The two semifinals provided a […]
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Dubai: Australia reached the final of the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup after beating Pakistan by 5 wickets in a thrilling second semifinal of the tournament at the Dubai International Stadium, here on Thursday. With this win, Australia will now face New Zealand in the final, scheduled to be played on Sunday. Fantastic fifties […]
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Abu Dhabi: A valiant knock from Daryl Mitchell (72 not out off 47 balls), along with an explosive cameo from James Neesham (27 off 11 balls) powered New Zealand to beat England by five wickets in the first semi-final of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday. […]
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Dubai: Pakistan seem primed to win their second title but it will take a special effort to upstage a tenacious Australia, which is peaking at the right time, in the second semifinal of the T20 World Cup here on Thursday. Pakistan have turned it around following their first-round exit in 2016. The Babar Azam-led side […]
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Abu Dhabi: Title favourites but injury hit England will bank on their X-Factor players to upstage a remarkably consistent New Zealand in the first semifinal of the T20 World Cup here on Wednesday. England were the pre-tournament favourites and played like one for the majority of the Super 12 stage. However, their loss in the […]
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Hyderabad: It is ironic ever since the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) started in 2008, India have never won the T20 World Cup. The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team clinched the T20 World Cup in 2007 in South Africa but after that the Indian side returned empty-handed. On the other hand, Pakistan, who don’t have a […]
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Dubai: Fine performances with bat and ball saw India sign off from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with a nine-wicket win over Namibia in their final Super 12 match at the Dubai International Stadium here on Monday. It meant that Virat Kohli finished his T20I captaincy career on a high. It also indicated that […]
