Total recall: 38th anniversary of Kapil Dev’s 175 vs Zimbabwe
TUNBRIDGE WELLS (England): Exactly 38 years ago, legendary Kapil Dev slammed an unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup to keep India in the hunt for a place in the semi-finals, after the top order batsmen had failed. Kapil hit a then world-record 175 off just 138 deliveries, embellished with 16 boundaries and…
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Shafali Verma youngest to score fifty in both innings on
BRISTOL: Debutant Shafali Verma became only the fourth player — and the youngest one — in the history of women’s cricket to hit consecutive half centuries on debut against England on Friday. The 17-year-old promising star was batting on 55 not out off 68 balls at stumps on the third day of the one-off Test…
Our playing XI was picked taking conditions out of equation:
SOUTHAMPTON: India’s fielding coach R Sridhar ruled out the possibility of a change in the playing XI after the opening day of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand was washed out, insisting that the chosen players are capable of making conditions irrelevant. The fickle English weather means that temperatures would go down and…
Shifting Landscape
The dust may have barely settled in Paris, but with Roland Garros starting late, that means there is now just a little over a week until Wimbledon commences. There is always ample buzz heading into any major, but with what has transpired over the course of the last week, there may be a little more…
Team selection doesn’t change huge amount: Tom Latham
SOUTHAMPTON: New Zealand have a few contingency plans but the abandonment of the opening day of the World Test Championship final against India due to rain is unlikely to make a huge amount of difference to their team selection, vice-captain Tom Latham said on Friday. The much-anticipated opening day of the match was called off…
One-off Test: Sridhar praises Shafali, finds shades of ‘Sehwag’; lauds
SOUTHAMPTON: Indian men’s fielding coach R Sridhar was all praise for batting sensation Shafali Verma, who has impressed one and all with her twin half-centuries on Test debut against England. In fact, Sridhar said that the whole Indian team whenever they had time off from training have been glued to the Test match and mighty…
One-off Test, Day 3: Peerless Shafali Verma leads India fightback
BRISTOL: Shafali Verma continued to amaze the cricketing world with her audacious strokeplay as she became only the fourth player in the history of women’s Tests to smash two half centuries on debut, taking India to 83 for 1 at stumps on the third day of one-off Test against England. The teenage prodigy was batting…
One-off Test, India Women vs England Women: We are still
BRISTOL: Indian opener Smriti Mandhana on Friday said that the conditions were still good for batting and with talented batter Shafali Verma going strong, her side “were in a good position” in the one-off Test against England here. India were 83 for 1 at stumps on the rain-interrupted third and penultimate day after following on,…
2nd Test: Dean Elgar leads from front as South Africa
GROS-ISLET: Dean Elgar’s five-hour occupation of the crease in compiling an invaluable 77 lifted South Africa from the depths 37 for three to the comparative comfort of 218 for five on the opening day of the second Test against the West Indies on Friday. SCORECARDElgar’s disciplined knock of 77, which spanned 237 deliveries and included…