Shoaib Malik blasted a quick-fire 49 as Pakistan powered to an 84-run rout of Scotland in the second Twenty20 international on Wednesday
New Zealand's Amelia Kerr created history on Wednesday when broke a record that was set even before she was born, scoring a double hundred against Ireland at Dublin. Kerr’s unbeaten innings makes her only the second woman to score a double hundred in ODI cricket.
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Just under 15 months ago, with Virat Kohli nursing an injured shoulder, it was Ajinkya Rahane that led India to a series victory over Australia in Dharamsala. One of the catalysts for that success was a debutant. Kuldeep Yadav’s contentious selection may or may not have contributed to Anil Kumble losing the coaching job, but there’s every chance that the Rahane-Kuldeep combination will once again be seen at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday for a Test that marks Afghanistan’s entry into the big league.
South African cricket went into a state of shock recently with the retirement of AB de Villiers from all forms of international cricket. But Bavuma is looking at this development as an opportunity to make the no.4 spot in the Test line-up his own.
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As we build up to the historic clash in Bengaluru, Cricketnext takes a look at five key clashes that are expected to headline the contest.
No longer a certainty in the shorter formats, India's stand-in Test captain Ajinkya Rahane said he will talk to the national selection committee in order to get a clearer picture about his mode of preparation for the upcoming Test series in England.
Sri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews will miss the rest of their West Indies tour after he left for home due to personal reasons, while fast bowler Lahiru Gamage was ruled out with an injury.
If there had been more players like Pietersen, Test cricket’s fortunes wouldn’t have declined. As much as he loved winning, he understood that sport at its zenith is also about transmitting joy, about making people dream. “And last but most definitely not least, when you are at the crease; when you have played yourselves in; when you decide to take the attack to the bowlers, commit yourselves fully,” he told the listening Afghan players. “Not just to attack. But to entertain.”
Afghanistan's teenage spin sensation Mujeeb Ur Rahman praised his Kings XI Punjab captain and India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, calling him a mentor.
CricketNext takes a look at the 5 players from the Afghanistan outfit who would look to make it a match to remember for the new boys on the Test block:
Ahead of their ODI series which kicks off at The Oval on Thursday, Australia and England have agreed to a pre-game handshake on Australian skipper Tim Paine's request.
Former England captain Kevin Pietersen on Tuesday suggested various methods like day-night Tests, equal pay, marketing and innovation and cheaper tickets to reinvigorate Test cricket.
New Zealand cricketing great Richard Hadlee has undergone surgery for bowel cancer but is expected to make a full recovery, his wife Dianne said Wednesday.
Pakistan halted Scotland's giant-killing heroics with a 48-run victory over the minnows in a Twenty20 clash in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday received the Polly Umrigar Award for being the best international cricketer for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons at the annual BCCI awards.After much fuss between BCCI and CoA, as to who would deliver the coveted 6th Pataudi Memorial Lecture, finally former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen carried out the duty on Tuesday, in Bengaluru.
Britain's planned exit from the European Union is expected to result in restrictions on EU workers coming to the country, which could create further recruitment difficulties for the NHS.
Chennai-born Suryadevara, 39, has been GM's vice president of corporate finance since July 2017. She will report to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mary Barra, 56, who has been head of the automaker since 2014.
The company will instead serve sparkling wines also from Australia, alongside more British-brewed wheat beers, at its near 900 pubs across the UK and Ireland.
The incident also sparked outrage on social media, with several Iranians starting a campaign to boycott Nike products.
The two Qantas jets were about 20 nautical miles apart in distance and 1,000 feet apart in altitude when QF94, flying from Los Angeles to Melbourne, was affected earlier this week, the airline said in a statement
The Shanghai native, who asked that her full name be withheld, misled friends and family with a macho facade but eventually, depressed by her identity crisis, underwent gender-reassignment surgery in 2015.
Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sister's school on a busy thoroughfare in the teeming eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan's cultural capital, in May 2016.
National broadcaster ABC published a leaked photo of the 2007 incident and cited a defence source as saying it was more a "twisted joke" than evidence of genuine neo-Nazism.
Pompeo said Washington remained committed to the "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearisation of North Korea, after the joint statement from the US-North Korea summit in Singapore drew criticism for lack of detail on the key issue.
Meghan Markle, who married the monarch's grandson in a glittering ceremony at her Windsor Castle home last month, will travel by the Royal Train to northwest England for a day of events.
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According to Trump’s own State Department, Kim’s regime holds between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners in forced labour camps, facing torture and forced starvation.
William Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that in Russia, even people who believe they are too unimportant to be hacked can be targeted.
The raccoon’s saga began about two days ago when the brown, masked critter was spotted stranded on a ledge of the office tower.
Iloputaife said he was on vacation when the press release bearing his picture was released and was informed by a neighbour that he was a crime suspect on his return home.
The driver was identified as Ahmad el Boutari. His taxi licence, required to drive for Uber in New York City, has been suspended as the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission were investigating the incident.
The president's tweet, delivered a few hours after Air Force One touched down outside Washington, was reminiscent of his February 2017 Twitter rebuke in which he called several leading news outlets "the enemy of the American people."
Outagamie County District Attorney Melinda Tempelis said in court Monday that Brianna Gussert, who was unable to walk, talk or care for herself, suffered a "slow death."
The move by Apple, the latest in an ongoing clash with law enforcement, comes amid reports of growing use of a tool known as GrayKey which can enable police to bypass iPhone security features.
The United States hopes to achieve "major disarmament" by North Korea within the next 2-1/2 years, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, seeking to give assurances after a summit this week that Pyongyang will eventually give up its nuclear weapons.
Since Sunday, when both Italy and Malta refused to let them dock, some 629 migrants, including 11 children and seven pregnant women, have been in the central Mediterranean aboard the Aquarius.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was asked by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to review its decision of last year through which it rejected MML's registration bid.
Kim on Tuesday pledged to work towards the "complete denuclearisation" in return for security guarantees from the US as he and Trump wrapped up a historic summit in Singapore.
The Chinese government officials and the Dalai Lama or his representatives have not met in formal negotiations since 2010. The US has encouraged both sides to engage in meaningful and direct dialogue, without preconditions, to lead to a settlement that resolves differences.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar, who is heading a three-judge bench hearing Musharraf's appeal against his 2013 disqualification by the Peshawar High Court, warned that if the former president does not show up in court by 2 pm on Thursday, a decision would be taken in the case according to law.
Dmitry Peskov said that the summit had helped reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The two top judges of Malaysia are the latest in the line of bureaucrats to step down amid allegations of corruption in Najib Razak's regime
The 36-year-old Bamba, who most recently appeared in "Black Panther," is one of 700,000 "Dreamers" -- immigrants brought illegally to America as children who were protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
A political science student at Cambridge University, confronted the man for his comments towards the woman, only to be hit with an outburst of racial abuse.
The World Cup kicks off in Russia on Thursday as years of preparations dogged by diplomatic scandals give way to a month of action on the field in football's global showpiece.
Russia's football team has failed to chalk up a single victory in eight months but things could be about to improve -- according to a supposedly clairvoyant cat who predicted a win for the side in the first World Cup match.
Whilst there are many dreams about watching India play at the World Cup itself, there is one Indian footballer, an 11-year-old girl called Nathania John K who will rub shoulders with the Brazilian team led by Neymar. A footballer herself, Nathania is an ardent Lionel Messi fan, is understandably elated and overjoyed at being afforded the chance of becoming the first Indian girl to be the ‘Official Match ball carrier’ in Russia. She will have her moment in the spotlight when Brazil captained by Neymar play Costa Rica on June 22nd in their second group E match in St Petersburg.
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