Babar Azam, Pakistan’s star batter, is on the cusp of a historic achievement in T20 cricket, aiming to break the record for the fastest player to reach 11,000 T20 runs. The current record is held by Chris Gayle, who achieved the milestone in 314 innings during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in December 2017. Now, […]
Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has announced his retirement from Test and Twenty20 cricket. The top all-rounder made the announcement in a press conference today, Thursday, ahead of the Kanpur Test against India. However, he will retire after the home Test series against South Africa in October. He said he played his last T20 match […]
Despite high hopes of sealing their place in the Super Eight stage of the tournament and ending their group campaign with a fourth successive win, South Africa's top order failed to dominate the bowling although opener Reeza Hendricks provided some stability to the innings with a 49-ball 43 (five fours, a six). Nepal bowlers looked […]
Before this match, there were rumours that 'Shakib's game is over.' This news must have reached the team. However, talking about this, Rishad Hussain said that the team has not been affected by the outside noise. He said, “We have not lost faith in Shakib Bhai at all. We all know what Shakib Bhai has […]
After losing badly to Afghanistan in their first match, and hence getting into a winning position, the Black Caps never developed any momentum and could only manage 136 for nine. After this defeat, New Zealand needs a miracle to advance from the group stage. If Afghanistan beats Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the Kiwi team […]
Due to such flop shows in consecutive matches, his rating points have dropped to 208. Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza (210) also has better rating points than Shakib, who is not playing in the T20 World Cup. Despite Shakib's drop, Tauhid Hridaya and Mustafizur Rahman have made big gains in the latest rankings. Hridaya, who scored 40 […]
Earlier, Bangladesh restricted South Africa to 113 for 6 with Taskin's 2 for 19 and support from Tanjim after Proteas skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and opted to bat first. South Africa were struggling at 23/4 at one stage but Klaasen and David Miller, who was celebrating his 35th birthday, put on 79 runs […]
Proteas captain Aiden Markram said his team had crossed the psychological barrier with the win over the Dutch side after their previous big defeat. “We knew they were always going to come up against us,” Markram said. “It's a game of cricket, after all. The history before this game was obviously that they had beaten […]
Their only previous meeting in official international action came in the 2018 qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe for the 2019 50-over World Cup, where then-captain Jason Holder's unbeaten 99 led West Indies to a six-wicket win in Harare. Teams: West Indies – Rovman Powell (captain), Brandon King, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran, Roston Chase, Sherfane Rutherford, Andre […]
The United States is co-hosting the tournament with the West Indies, with the 16 group stage matches to be held at three US venues – South Florida and New York and Dallas. The USA are in good form after their surprise 2-1 T20 series win over Bangladesh and are favourites against Canada, over whom they […]
Mustafizur started aggressively in the next over and dismissed Jahangir for 18 runs off 20 balls. America could not recover from this double blow and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Rishad Hussain bowled tight in the middle overs and gave only seven runs in the allotted four overs. Mustafiz gave the best performance of […]