India batter Jemimah Rodrigues is glad to have ended her seven-year wait for a maiden international hundred, adding that her “patience” and the way she “shifted gears” helped her achieve the milestone. Her match-winning 102 against Ireland in the second ODI in Rajkot also helped India to their highest-ever ODI total of 370. “Feels great, it was a long-awaited one, and glad I could do it for the team today,”…
This morning, Litton Das was left out of Bangladesh’s squad for the Champion’s Trophy 2025. By the evening, he was taking his frustrations – if any – out on Durbar Rajshahi at the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). He slammed his maiden T20 hundred and batted through the innings for Dhaka Capitals, finishing on 125 not out off 55 balls with ten fours and nine sixes and a strike rate of…
Opening batter Ibrahim Zadran has regained fitness to return to Afghanistan’s ODI squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE. This will be Afghanistan’s first-ever appearance in the Champions Trophy. Ibrahim, 23, has not played for Afghanistan since he slipped during practice on a slushy pocket of the ground during the Greater Noida Test, which was washed out without a ball being bowled. Zadran has worked his…
The 2025 IPL is set to start on March 21, with Eden Gardens hosting both the tournament opener as well as the final on May 25. It is also understood that the 2025 WPL will be held between February 7 and March 2. Ahead of the mega auction in November, the IPL, in an unprecedented move, had shared with the franchises the windows for the next three seasons (2025-27). For…
Between Lockie Ferguson, Ben Sears, and Will O’ Rourke, New Zealand’s mens’s side have their high-pace, high-bounce options covered. These are the kinds of bowlers that tend to find ways to trouble batters on any surface you roll out for them. But what if, in Pakistan and Dubai, through the course of the Champions Trophy, it is spin that makes the difference? We’ve seen how tournaments in Asia tend to…
Vidarbha 292 for 1 (Nair 122*, Shorey 118*) beat Rajasthan 291 for 8 (Kartik 62, Garhwal 59, Thakur 4-39) by nine wickets Vidarbha captain Nair notched up his fourth consecutive century and his fifth in the season and finished with an unbeaten 122. He tops the run charts this year with a whopping 664 runs, which is also his average as he has only been dismissed once in six innings….
Melbourne Stars 165 (Maxwell 90, Duckett 21, O’Neill 2-16, Zampa 2-23) beat Melbourne Renegades 123 (Seifert 26, Steketee 5-17, Paris 3-13) by 42 runs Glenn Maxwell produced an extraordinary innings, farming the strike and smashing ten sixes in a brilliant 90 off 52 balls, to keep Stars’ BBL season alive after they defeated Renegades in the Melbourne derby. Stars’ finals hopes appeared over at 75 for 7 after they were…
Haryana 201 for 8 (Rana 66, Vats 38, Bishnoi 4-46) beat Gujarat 196 (Hemang 54, Thakral 3-39, Sindhu 3-30) by two wickets A late collapse which saw them lose five wickets for 19 runs was not enough to prevent Haryana from beating Gujarat and advancing to the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Haryana bowled Gujarat out for 196, thanks to an all-round display, before they completed the chase in…
Confidence can go a long way, but it can be quickly over-run and Australia are well aware of both dimensions as they carry the first points of the Women’s Ashes into Tuesday’s second ODI in Melbourne. A four-wicket win led by Ash Gardner‘s all-round effort and Alyssa Healy‘s half-century in the series opener – worth two points – at North Sydney Oval gave the hosts an early upper hand. But,…
Fourteen-year-old Ira Jadhav scored an unbeaten 346 off 157 balls to launch Mumbai to 563 for 3 against Meghalaya in Alur in the Women’s Under-19 One Day Trophy. Jadhav smashed 42 fours and 16 sixes and finished with a strike rate of 220.38. Jadhav, who opened the innings, was part of a 274-run stand for the second wicket with her captain Hurley Gala, who made 116 off 79 balls. Jadhav’s…