Category: Sports

Immediately after their unbeaten run at the Cricket World Cup was ended by Pakistan, New Zealand’s players were joking and laughing in their changing room. It wasn’t that they took Pakistan lightly or failed to give their best effort. Far from it. It was just time to enjoy the gratification of going down swinging, to accept […]

World Cup winner Krishnamachari Srikkanth has praised India captain Virat Kohli for his record-breaking feats but says the rest of the batting line-up needs to get its act together. Unbeaten India are cruising towards the semi-finals, with five wins from six games plus one washout. “To reach 20,000 (international) runs quicker than any man before […]

The first lesson Babar Azam learned from his coach was to play the first and last ball of a match, and he showed he had not forgotten that advice during his brilliant hundred against New Zealand. Babar’s 10th one-day international century at Edgbaston on Wednesday — his eighth in a winning cause — has led […]

West Indies are two wickets down as they chase a target of 269 runs posted by India in the match between the two sides at Old Trafford, Manchester on Thursday. The side stood at 29-2 after the lapse of 10 overs. Chris Gayle and Shai Hope were both dismissed by India’s Mohammad Shami. Sunil Ambris […]

Pakistan kept themselves in the running for a World Cup 2019 semi-finals berth with a six-wicket win over New Zealand on Wednesday. Here are the five key takeaways from the game: 1) Good toss to lose After the debacle against India, Sarfaraz Ahmed could never have chosen to field first — not so soon and not in a […]

Jason Holder and his West Indies lineup need to beat two-time champions India at Old Trafford today to keep alive a slim chance of reaching the Cricket World Cup semifinals. Unbeaten India is coming off an 11-run win over Afghanistan and is unlikely to be caught off guard again after that surprisingly narrow result, and […]

Twenty-seven years and a generation apart, Pakistan’s World Cup bears striking similarities with their 1992 campaign — when they started slowly but ended up lifting the trophy in Melbourne. An identical sequence of wins and losses, and other eerie parallels, have struck a chord with millions of fans who believe that Pakistan could be set to […]

All-rounder Jimmy Neesham is confident that New Zealand’s defeat against Pakistan in Birmingham on Wednesday will not derail their World Cup bid. The 2015 runners-up lost by six wickets to a resurgent Pakistan, on the back of a brilliant unbeaten 101 by Babar Azam and three wickets from teenage paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi. Neesham led […]

Pakistan were 112-3 after 26 overs as they chased a target of 238 runs set by New Zealand in the World Cup clash between the two sides at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Babar Azam (45 off 53 balls) and Haris Sohail are currently batting for Pakistan after Mohammad Hafeez (32 off 50 balls) was dismissed by […]

West Indies batting legend Brian Lara was given the all-clear and discharged from a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted because of chest pains. “He was discharged at 12pm (local time). His condition is normal,” hospital spokesman Parag Dhurke told AFP. Lara was rushed to hospital on Tuesday in India’s financial capital […]