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India and Mumbai batter Shreyas Iyer, the second-most expensive player in the player auction, has been appointed captain by Punjab Kings for IPL 2025. The announcement was made on Sunday night on reality TV show Big Boss, where Iyer appeared as a guest alongside PBKS team-mates Yuzvendra Chahal and Shashank Singh. “I am honoured that…

Australian T20 legend Dan Christian has come out of retirement and to the rescue of the BBL’s injury-hit Sydney Thunder. The 41-year-old allrounder last played professionally for Sydney Sixers two summers ago and has since served as an assistant coach at Thunder. Christian has not played a professional match of cricket since Sixers’ BBL12 semi-final…

A new attendance record for a Test match in Australia has been set with more than 373,691 passing through the gates at the MCG across the five days of the fourth Test between Australia and India, surpassing the previous mark of 350,534 set in 1937. Cricket Australia [CA] confirmed early on Monday that 51,371 had…

For a bowler whose Test career is laden with breathtaking dismissals, Jasprit Bumrah‘s 200th wicket was relatively tame – Travis Head flicking straight to midwicket. Bumrah, however, got to the landmark with incredible numbers, reiterating his status as one of the greatest bowlers. In terms of bowling average, though, Bumrah is right on top of…

Timing, as they say in sport, is everything, and it was about a a year ago that Corbin and Eathan Bosch went through some of their father Tertius‘ things. Tertius had passed away in tragic circumstances in 2000, when Corbin was five and Eathan not yet two. The pair knew him only through the memories…

Perhaps Pakistan cricket only has the emotional capacity to work on one kind of mental scarring, and it had spent most of the last generation therapising to work on that. For Pakistan, it is Australia, the country they cannot seem to buy a win in; they have lost every one of their last 17 Tests…

Mohammed Shami will not be considered for the fourth and fifth Tests of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy due to swelling on his left knee. The BCCI press release on Shami’s fitness came days after India captain Rohit Sharma called on the National Cricket Academy to provide an update on the fast bowler’s progress upon being…

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