India have retained the ICC Test Championship Mace after finishing on top of the Test rankings with 116 points, it was announced on Monday (April 1). India will be awarded one million dollars for the third year in a row while New Zealand finished second with 108 points. India lost the series in South Africa…
New Zealand have called off their Under-19 tour to Bangladesh with mutual agreement between the boards, who believe an age-group team travelling to Bangladesh post the Christchurch shooting which the visitors’ cricketers escaped marginally would be insensitive and inappropriate. The five-match youth one-day tour was that was scheduled to begin on April 16, was called…
The 2019 Indian Premier League game between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur rekindled the “Spirit of Cricket” debate with Ravichandran Ashwin running out Jos Buttler for backing up too far at the non striker’s end. While looking to deliver the fifth ball of his final over, Ashwin stopped in his delivery stride, with the side-on view appearing to…
Gerard Pique may have retired from playing for Spain in 2018 but he was still in international action on Monday. The Barcelona defender, a World Cup and European Championship winner with Spain, played for Catalonia in a friendly against Venezuela. Catalonia are not recognised by football governing bodies Fifa or Uefa so the match does…
Ricky Skerritt, the former Windies team manager, has been appointed president of Cricket West Indies, it was announced on Sunday (March 24). Skerritt acquired the required number of votes at the Annual General Meeting and beat Dave Cameron 8-4 to secure the win. Kishore Shallow also won his contest by the same margin to beat…
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman says he regrets not making a late defensive switch after Germany scored a last-minute winner in their Euro 2020 Group C qualifying game in Amsterdam. Nico Schulz’s goal ensured Joachim Low’s side gained revenge over their hosts, who had scored two late goals against Germany in November to reach the Nations League finals.…
Up until 17 overs in their defence of 181 – and for a total of first-37 overs in their IPL 2019 season opener – Sunrisers Hyderabad had done most things right apart from calling correctly at the toss. David Warner lit up IPL in his comeback game like he was never gone, setting SRH up for…
ZURICH (Reuters) – Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo is facing disciplinary action for his celebration after one of the three goals he scored in last week’s 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. UEFA said the Portuguese would face a hearing on Thursday for “improper conduct” during the last-16 second leg match, where Juventus…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side’s nerve is “not in doubt” as they survived a scare to win 2-1 at Fulham and go top of the Premier League. James Milner scored a late penalty after a mix-up between Alisson and Virgil van Dijk gifted Ryan Babel an equaliser to Sadio Mane’s opener. The Reds…
Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick of the highest quality as Barcelona avenged their defeat by Real Betis earlier in the season to move 10 points clear at the top of La Liga. His first was a 20-yard free-kick before he converted Luis Suarez’s backheel pass with a toe-poked strike. The pick of the bunch was…
This was the day they’d been yearning to play for, for quite a while. After Mohammad Nabi earned himself a PSL contract with the Quetta Gladiators in 2016, paving the way for several of his compatriots to barge into the best T20 leagues around the world, he stated in an interview with Cricbuzz that the…
Anything you can do, I can do better. A night after Cristiano Ronaldo recorded a magnificent hat-trick to propel Juventus past Atletico Madrid and into the Champions League quarter-finals, his old nemesis Lionel Messi followed suit with a decisive contribution of his own to send Barcelona past Lyon. In a sense, Messi even managed to surpass Ronaldo by…
