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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will eye its first win of the ongoing T20 tri-series when it hosts Pakistan at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Thursday. The UAE is coming off back-to-back defeats, against Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cannot afford another reverse if it wants to have an outside chance of qualifying for the final….
South Africa will look to pocket the three-match series when it faces England in the second One-Day International at Lord’s in London on Thursday. The Proteas blew England away in the series opener, with left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj and medium pacer Wiaan Mulder dismantling the host by picking seven wickets between them. The English batters,…
North Zone: Ankit Kumar (c), Shubham Khajuria, Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sandhu, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Kanhaiya Wadhawan; (Standbys: Shubham Arora (wk), Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Ravi Chauhan, Abid Mushtaq, Nishunk Birla, Umar Nazir, Divesh Sharma). Central Zone: Dhruv Jurel (c) (wk), Rajat Patidar, Aryan Juyal,…
“Stay hungry, stay foolish,” Steve Jobs had famously uttered in his Stanford University commencement speech in 2005. Tamil Nadu’s teen batter Andre Siddarth, 19, emphasised the first part of the phrase, speaking to Sportstar at the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) High Performance Centre on Tuesday. “You need to be hungry. I can’t be satisfied. For…
Zimbabwe all-rounder has claimed the top spot in the latest ICC ODI rankings for all-rounders after strong performances in the two-match series against Sri Lanka in Harare. Raza struck a quickfire 87-ball 92 in the opener and followed it up with an unbeaten 59 even as Zimbabwe lost both matches. His efforts helped him surpass…
After being handed a 0-2 defeat in the ODI leg, Zimbabwe will want to bounce back when its three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka gets underway at the Harare Sports Club on Wednesday. The Sikandar Raza-led side lost all its four matches in the tri-series involving South Africa and New Zealand in July after beating…
India and Royal Challengers Bengaluru batting superstar Virat Kohli has opened up about the June 4 stampede during his franchise’s Indian Premier League (IPL) victory celebrations in Bengaluru, saying “nothing in life really prepares you for the heartbreak” of 11 deaths on what should have been the happiest day for his side. The tragic incident…
India and Royal Challengers Bengaluru batting superstar Virat Kohli has opened up about the June 4 stampede during his franchise’s Indian Premier League (IPL) victory celebrations in Bengaluru, saying “nothing in life really prepares you for the heartbreak” of 11 deaths on what should have been the happiest day for his side. The tragic incident…
Welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE Score from the first ODI between England and South Africa taking place at Headingley in Leeds. England and South Africa will lock horns in a three-match One-Day International series, starting at Headingley in Leeds on Tuesday. The Harry Brook-led English side defeated West Indies 3-0 at home in its last ODI assignment in June, while…
Former New Zealand all-rounder Craig McMillan was on Tuesday appointed as the batting and fielding coach of the White Ferns ahead of the Women’s ODI World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka from September 30. The 48-year-old, who played 55 Tests and 197 ODIs primarily as a batter scoring more…
