The England cricket team is a formidable outfit in white-ball cricket, but some of their performances in Test cricket in 2021 have been dire to say the least. India dominated the English in Test series at home and away (one Test remains to be played) while Australia are handing them another beating in the ongoing
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Ashes 2021-22 3rd Test, Australia vs England Score Updates: England look to stay alive in the series.© AFP England are taking on Australia in the Boxing Day Test knowing they must fix the mistakes that have blighted their tour or lose the Ashes series. After a nine-wicket thumping in Brisbane and then crashing by 275 runs in Adelaide,
Head coach Rahul Dravid didn’t let the world in on his preferred playing XI for the opening Test against South Africa but said Indian players have been “professional” when it came to handling “difficult conversations” about their places in the side. As India geared up for the ‘Boxing Day’ Test against one of the most depleted
Christmas, which is celebrated on December 25, is one of the most famous festivals in the world. People, irrespective of which country they are from, and which religion they belong to, come together to celebrate a day full of joy and happiness. The sporting fraternity too is often seen extending its greetings to the world
Barring Joe Root, England’s other batters have struggled for runs.© AFP England are staring down the barrel as Australia are enjoying a 2-0 lead going into the Boxing Day Test match in the Ashes. The Joe Root-led side will have to play out of their skins in order to claw their way back in the Test
Virat Kohli will play his 98th Test when India take on South Africa in the first Test in Centurion.© AFP Virat Kohli will be looking to get back to scoring big runs in Test cricket when he leads India out against South Africa in the first match of the series at Centurion on Sunday. Kohli
SA vs IND: Shreyas Iyer will be hard to ignore for the first Test in Centurion.© AFP Ex-Team India cricketer Wasim Jaffer took to social media and gave his suggestions in relation to the Indian cricket team’s composition for the South Africa Test series, ahead of the first match from December 26 at the SuperSport
Eoin Morgan will captain the England for the West Indies T20I series.© AFP Eoin Morgan will captain England’s five-match T20 tour to the West Indies next month under stand-in coach Paul Collingwood. With the Ashes Test series in Australia set to end just four days before the first clash between the sides in Barbados, Collingwood
Harnoor Singh scored a century© Twitter/ACC Harnoor Singh struck a fine hundred before the Indian bowlers ran through the opposition to complete a 154-run rout of UAE in their opening U19 Asia Cup match on Thursday. Put in to bat, India put up 282 for five, courtesy Harnoor’s 120 off 130 balls and skipper Yash Dhull’s
File picture of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami.© AFP The first Test of the three-match series between India and South Africa is set to start from Sunday at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. The Indian team is already in South Africa and has been training hard ahead of the much-awaited series. Indian pacers Jasprit Bumrah
Tom Latham was named as New Zealand captain for the Bangladesh Test series after regular skipper Kane Williamson was ruled out with an elbow injury, New Zealand Cricket announced on Wednesday. In another major development, wicketkeeper-batter Devon Conway returned to the squad after recovering from an injury that kept him away from the India tour.
The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is keen to have former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar as the ‘mentor’ for its Ranji Trophy team in the upcoming season, which begins in January. The move comes after domestic giants Mumbai performed miserably in both the white-ball tournaments — Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy — under
Tim Southee weighed in on Virat Kohli’s role only as a batter or fielder for Team India.© AFP New Zealand pacer Tim Southee has been playing international cricket for more than a decade. He comes in with an experience of playing all formats for his country and different franchises all around the world. Even in
Himachal Pradesh rode on a stroke-filed 99 by Prashant Chopra as they stunned Uttar Pradesh by five wickets to storm into the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Tuesday. First, despite a 76 by Rinku Singh, UP could only manage 207/9 as the Himachal bowlers, led by pacer Vinay Galetiya (3/19), ripped apart the opposition
Former England batter and coach David Lloyd on Tuesday announced his retirement from commentary. Lloyd was employed with Sky Sports and he was popularly known as ‘Bumble’ by his colleagues. While announcing his decision, Lloyd said that the commentary box feels a little emptier following the departure of David Gower, Ian Botham and Michael Holding.
Australian men’s cricketers Alex Carey and Wes Agar and women stars Ashleigh Gardner and Maitlan Brown put their cooking skills to test as they competed in a “Big BBQ Bash Challenge”. Wicketkeeper-batter Carey and pacer Agar can be seen sporting the jersey of their Big Bash League (BBL) team Adelaide Strikers while Gardner and Brown
Australia batter Steve Smith Australia stand-in skipper Steve Smith on Monday had some words of advice for his English counterpart Joe Root, who has had troubles with the captaincy in the ongoing Ashes. Jhye Richardson scalped five wickets in the second innings as Australia defeated England by 275 runs in the second Ashes Test. With
Australia beat England by 275 runs to win the second Ashes Test at Adelaide on Sunday and take a 2-0 series lead going into Sunday’s Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. Here, AFP Sport looks at what we learned from the day-night clash: Selection blunders The sight of paceman Ollie Robinson bowling off-spin with his sunglasses