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All-rounder Wiaan Mulder struck a fine hundred and in the process helped South Africa equal a unique record — three batters scoring their maiden Test hundreds for the first time in the same Test in 75 years — as the visitors tightened their grip on the second Test against Bangladesh in Chattogram on Wednesday. Mulder scored an unbeaten 105 off 150 balls on the second day of the match and joined Tony de Zorzi (177) and Tristan Stubbs (106) as the third South African batter to reach three figures in the match, helping the visitors post a mammoth 573/6 declared in their first innings. De Zorzi, Stubbs, and Mulder scored their maiden centuries in their… Read More »1st Time In 75 Years: South Africa Batters Make History vs Bangladesh

The Israeli army said Wednesday it had killed the deputy head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi, in a strike in the Nabatieh area of south Lebanon. “In an intelligence-directed strike, the Israeli air force struck and eliminated Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi, deputy commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces, in the area of Nabatieh,” the army said in a statement, adding that Shahadi had previously run Radwan operations in Syria and overseen “terror attacks in southern Lebanon”.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday said that South African Gary Kirsten ended his tenure as Pakistan white-ball head coach as he made “some breaches” of his contract with the Board. However, it was widely reported that Kirsten, who guided India to 2011 World Cup triumph, resigned following a rift with the Pakistan Cricket Board after the coaches were stripped of their powers in selection matters. Kirsten has so far not made any comments to give his side of the story. Naqvi said Kirsten had ended the contract with the Board and it was not the other way round. “He (Kirsten) broke his contract with the PCB and made some breaches. He ended the contract… Read More »Serious Allegations Against Kirsten By PCB. Naqvi Says, “He Broke…”

Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman is expected to be included in the central contracts and also get a call-up to the national white-ball squad as the country’s cricket board has decided to let him off with a reprimand for his breach of the players code of conduct. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) source told PTI that a committee would be formed soon to look into the reply sent by Fakhar to the show cause notice to him over his tweet on Babar Azam. In the show cause notice the board asked Fakhar to submit a reply or face disciplinary action. The dashing left-handed opener was then dropped from the central contracts list for 2024/25 and was… Read More »Pakistan Cricket Board Set To Let Off Fakhar Zaman With Reprimand

Assistant coach Abhishek Nayar brushed away the concerns about India’s current predicament in reaching next year’s World Test Championship final by asserting that the team hasn’t been narrow-minded about what has been happening after their recent results. Despite suffering back-to-back defeats against New Zealand, India still sit at the summit of the WTC standings with a 62.82-point percentage. Despite India’s dominance at this point in time in WTC, the pathway to feature in London next year has become a tricky affair. The Rohit Sharma-led side needs to taste victory in their remaining six Tests of the cycle, with five of those being against Australia in next month’s Border Gavaskar Trophy. India has made it to… Read More »Nayar Reveals “Pretty Simple” Appraoch As Ind Eye 3rd Consecutive WTC Final