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Nearly 14 months after he last played an international game, veteran seamer Mohammed Shami on Saturday returned to the Indian team for the upcoming five-match T20I series against visiting England. The 34-year-old Shami’s last outing for India was the 2023 ODI World Cup final against Australia at Ahmedabad on November 19, after which…
Bangladesh have left their experienced duo of Litton Das and Shakib Al Hasan out of the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 squad. Bangladesh released a statement to announce the 15-member squad for next month’s highly-anticipated tournament. The high-profile axing of players comes on the back of Litton’s dry run of form. In the ODIs,…
Jasprit Bumrah unlikely to be fit in time for Champions Trophy start© BCCI/Sportzpics The cost of ‘overusing’ Jasprit Bumrah in the search of wickets on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy seems to have hurt India’s chances of winning the Champions Trophy. The pacer had to pull out during the 5th and final Test against Australia…
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Speculations are running rife as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) contemplates the best roster for the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan and UAE. Plenty has been said about the spin bowling unit for the Indian team, with the likes of Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi,…
File image of Saim Ayub.© AFP Pakistan batter Saim Ayub on Saturday completed his assessments with orthopaedic surgeons in London for his ankle injury, but it will require a week to know if he can play in the next month’s ICC Champions Trophy. Saim was examined by two noted orthopedic surgeons in London,…
England’s upcoming Champions Trophy cricket match against Afghanistan should go ahead despite calls for a boycott over the Taliban’s treatment of women, according to a senior British government minister. A group of more than 160 British politicians have called on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to refuse to play Afghanistan in…
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Venues in Pakistan have been under construction for a long time© X (Twitter) The Pakistan Cricket Board has rubbished speculations that the ICC Champions Trophy will be moved out of the country due to delayed construction work at three stadiums that will host the event, starting February 19. The venues in Pakistan organising…
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Gautam Gambhir was KKR’s mentor in 2024© BCCI/Sportzpics In a rather surprising development, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Varun Chakravarthy seems to be high up in the race for a spot in Team India’s ICC Champions Trophy 2025 squad. With the deadline to announce the provisional squad on January 12, reports have suggested…
Pakistan Cricket Board officials arrive to visit the Gaddafi Stadium upgradation work in preparation for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025, in Lahore. FIle | Photo Credit: AP The Pakistan Cricket Board has rubbished speculations that the ICC Champions Trophy will be moved out of the country due to delayed construction work at three stadiums…
South African sports minister Gayton McKenzie is the latest entity to raise his voice against the participation of Afghanistan in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy, comparing the Taliban regime’s treatment of women in their nation to the old Apartheid regime in the rainbow nation and added that the Afghans playing the…