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Moeen Ali: āIāve been a little bit disappointed by the food in Lahore. Karachi was really niceā
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Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow's partnership is worth 179 in exactly 20 overs - which is more than England have made four of the last five times they've batted first in a T20 international
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Deafening noise in Karachi for Babar Azam's hundred and his winning boundary. Some stunning shots in an unbroken 203-run opening partnership with Mohammad Rizwan to square the series
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Ravi Shastri's voice is booming around The Oval. IPL final being shown live on the big screens while England and West Indies are frustrated by rain
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šµš° Touring Pakistan has been a real privilege. Thanks to everyone who made it an unforgettable experience
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Rachin Ravindra watched the final of the 2019 World Cup in a bar in Bangalore, aged 19. Four years later, he has a 82-ball century in the opening game of the 2023 World Cup
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We may never see another T20 bowler quite like Jasprit Bumrah. Rightly named player of the tournament after spearheading India's phenomenal attack to the title
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India win the first innings 48-41 on boundary countback
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England arrive in Karachi for their first tour since 2005. Everyone made it past the Movenpick swimming pool (made famous by Alex Carey) without slipping in
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Anshul 'AK' Kamboj is wearing 47 on his India debut today: one of the great cricketing shirt name/number combos
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Phil Salt has scored more runs for England at Gaddafi Stadium tonight than he did in seven games for Lahore Qalandars here in PSL 2022 š§
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ICC rankings still donāt consider Jos Buttler - average 48, strike rate 150 over the last three years - to be one of the best dozen T20I batters in the world. Go figure
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Jasprit Bumrah becomes the first India player to take a wicket in the men's T20 World Cup since Virat Kohli
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England were docked 8 points for a slow over-rate and gained 4 for clinging on at the SCG - so would be better-placed in the World Test Championship if they'd forfeited all five Tests and stayed home
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The first IPL player younger than the league itself hits the IPLās second-fastest hundred. Vaibhav Suryavanshi, take a bow
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Liam Livingstone becomes the highest-paid Englishman of the IPL 2022 auction after a five-way bidding war
CSK, KKR, Gujarat, Punjab and SRH all in for him. Ends up at Punjab for Rs 11.5 crore (Ā£1.125m)
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Strong argument presented by Broad to convince Stokes to review:
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
The š½š²šæš³š²š°š start to the day! š
#EnglandCricket | #Ashes
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Dinesh Karthik and Stuart Broad announced as part of the commentary team for Sky's coverage of England vs India ODIs and T20Is
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Haris Rauf has been bowling on a different level to the rest of Pakistan's attack in this series. Ability to bowl a genuine offcutter at 86mph/139kph is ridiculous
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Jacob Bethell, opening the batting with Virat Kohli and facing Mitchell Starc, flicks the fourth ball of his IPL career off his pads for six, then whips his fifth for four. Special talent
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Asif Ali faces three balls in the innings and hits two of them for six. Fair to say the crowd in Karachi aren't entirely sold on Pakistan's method when setting a total
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England players with IPL 100s:
Kevin Pietersen
Ben Stokes (x2)
Jonny Bairstow
Jos Buttler (x5)
Harry Brook
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Delhi Capitals' last two bowling innings:
vs Gujarat Titans - 89/10 (17.3 overs)
vs Sunrisers Hyderabad - 89/0 (4.1 overs)
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England's results in men's white-ball cricket this year: LLWLLLLLLL. Played 10, lost 9. Thrashed in India, now humbled in Pakistan. Surely game over for Jos Buttler's captaincy
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Ben Stokes' second-innings scores in this series:
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33 (Lord's)
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Hard to imagine an RCB team of old winning a knockout match with neither Kohli nor an overseas batter contributing
Credit to Mike Hesson & his team for prioritising a strong attack and excellent scouting of domestic players - and to Rajat Patidar for an all-time great IPL knock
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Incredible turnaround by RCB: qualification from this position must be among the craziest achievements in IPL history
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Incredible atmosphere in Lahore as Pakistan close out another tight win and take a 3-2 lead. This series keeps on giving
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Tim David has faced 98 balls at Wankhede Stadium in the IPL, and has hit 21 of them for six
The King of Marine Drive
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Jos Buttler: āWeāre all very excited to be here. Itās great to be back as an England cricket team after a long timeā
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Travis Head: centuries against India in a World Test Championship final and a World Cup final, five months apart. Incredible achievement
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Incredible drama. Mohammed Siraj would be a deserving choice for player of the series: 23 wickets and the last fast bowler standing after 25 days
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Buttler was shouting ātwo more until Shamiā when India were four down yesterday - and it ended up being three more, after his demotion
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35-ball fifty from 20-year-old Will Smeed on PSL
The depth of talent in Englandās white-ball batting is insane
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India good value for a drawn series but England should look back at this as a huge missed opportunity: they were 301 for 3, needing 374 to win the series, then lost 7 for 66. Still no series win over India - or Australia - since Alastair Cook's retirement
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Seismic moment in T20 history: R Ashwin becomes the first batter retired out in the IPL
Had come in at No. 6 to add stability after a collapse. Runs off to give Rajasthan's finisher Riyan Parag 10 balls at the death
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āI will only play for RCB until my retirementā says Kohli as he steps down from the captaincy. Has he just retained himself?
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Trent Boult, employed by Mumbai Indians for two months of the year to play for MI Emirates and MI New York, has three wickets in four balls againstā¦ Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede
Cricket is in a strange spot
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Harry Brook has now scored more Test runs in Pakistan (763 and counting in 6 innings) than in England (761 in 21 innings)
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"RCB, RCB" chants from the crowd at the Chinnaswamy. England have done their best impression of them
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Rashid Khan's ubiquity in T20 leagues means we forget how much he has been through. Lost both parents in the last three years, looked frazzled tonight with everything going on back home - and yet still turned in a clutch, match-winning performance. A hero
theguardian.com/sport/2021/jā¦
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KL Rahul (532) is the first opening batter to finish a Test series in England with 500-plus runs since Graeme Smith (714) in 2003
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Multan may have lost the PSL final but winning 10/12 games in a league with a draft system (designed to ensure competitive balance) is still a great achievement, especially as defending champs
Would love to see some T20 leagues implementing multi-game finals series in future
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Just twigged: Fleming has picked Pujara so that he can't tune up for the WTC final against NZ with a stint in county cricket. 4D chess
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Joe Root spent 283.5 out of the first 285.1 overs of this Test on the field. Incredible resilience and stamina by a player who has never missed a Test match through injury across his 12-year career
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Just imagine walking out to bat down this tunnel with a full house in for the IPL/T20WC final. Incredible
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18 months since England were set 273 to win off 75 overs against New Zealand at Lord's and shook hands at 170 for 3 off 70
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Pakistan an incredibly likeable team right now, fun to watch and seem like a great bunch of guys
And how good for Namibia - Rashid Khan passed on some advice to Loftie-Eaton after their game vs Afg and very cool to see both squads interact like this
Pakistan Cricket
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With every passing game at this World Cup, Afghanistan getting thrashed by Bangladesh in Dharamshala becomes harder to fathom
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RCB spend over a quarter of their purse on Smriti Mandhana in the first lot of the #WPLAuction, INR 3.4 crore from a budget of 12 crore - the equivalent of a men's franchise spending 25.5 crore on a player
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KKR shelling out Rs 12.25 crore on Shreyas Iyer must be bad news for Eoin Morgan's hopes of an IPL contract: Iyer likely to captain and KKR's remaining budget has already taken a major hit
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Phil Salt and Liam Livingstone are only the second and third Englishmen to feature in the winning playing XI in an IPL final, after Moeen Ali (twice with CSK)
Salt only arrived back in India this morning after flying home to be at the birth of his child
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Most Test hundreds for an opener in England since 2018
4 - KL Rahul
3 - Ben Duckett
2 - Rory Burns, Zak Crawley
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Outrageous 49-ball hundred from Jason Roy in his first game of the PSL season despite quarantine and jetlag
Making a target of 205 look like small fry against an attack including Shaheen Afridi, Rashid Khan and Haris Rauf
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Sam Curran at the death in this #T20WorldCup
vsš¦š« : 10 balls, 2 runs, 4 wickets
vsāļø: 6 balls, 6 runs, 2 wickets
vsš³šæ: 12 balls, 14 runs, 1 wicket
vs š±š°: 12 balls, 10 runs, 0 wickets
Overall: 40 balls, 32 runs conceded, 7 wickets
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Josh Little makes his IPL debut for defending champions Gujarat Titans tonight in front of ~100,000 people in Ahmedabad
He becomes the first active Ireland international to play in the IPL
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Shubman Gill's live Test average has just ticked past 40 -- where it will probably be for the vast majority of his India career
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Asif Ali lost his 2-year-old daughter in 2019, and his long-term mentor Dean Jones last year. If anyone deserved thatā¦
espncricinfo.com/story/pak-vā¦
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Hereās the Dharamsala outfield ahead of England vs Bangladesh tomorrow ā rated āaverageā by the officials on Saturday
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Jasprit Bumrah in a league of his own: 78mph offbreak crashes into Phil Salt's leg stump and puts England in a world of trouble chasing 172
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England have conceded 500+ three times in the McCullum era: Trent Bridge (2022), Rawalpindi (2022) and Multan (2024). They've won all three
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There have been eight individual men's T20 hundreds for England. Phil Salt has scored four of them
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Not sure how anyone is meant to play the ball that Kuldeep Yadav just bowled to Jos Buttler. Gasps from the Lucknow crowd as it's replayed on the big screen
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Pakistan vs England gets the finale everyone wanted: a Sunday-night decider in front of a full house in Lahore
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The retiring Eoin Morganās contribution to English cricket nicely summed up by Rob Key: āIt will be wrong to think Eoinās legacy was just winning the World Cup in 2019; it is far greater than thatā
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Just roll that through for me? Flat line, flat line, flat line
It was definitely not Cristiano Ronaldoās goal, say adidas, who have used the 500Hz IMU sensor inside the match ball to show there was no contact. Images attached @MailSport
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Chennai Super Kings have already used 17 players in IPL 2025 - more than they did in the entirety of the 2015 and 2021 seasons. They've also picked each of their seven overseas players at least once in their first four games
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Daren Sammy: "As my mother always said, you've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything"
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England went to India in March with a full-strength T20 team and Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Liam Livingstone and Tymal Mills played 0 games between them
Their combined figures today: 14-0-72-8
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James Anderson (Test debut: June 2003) left out for England's West Indies tour by a selection panel of Paul Collingwood (Dec '03), Andrew Strauss (May '04) and James Taylor (Aug' 12)
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Most runs in Ashes 2023
362 (405 balls) - Zak Crawley
359 (927 balls) - Usman Khawaja
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26 years laterā¦ Englandās 1996 World Cup squadās gift is still on display at Carpet Palace in Lahore
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Two best T20I sides in the world, series decider, Saturday night at the world's biggest cricket stadium. Should be an incredible spectacle - just missing a crowd (and Bumrah)
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Aaron Finch to Richard Illingworth over stump mic: "Happy to take any ideas if you know how to hit that"
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Is Shubman Gill really going to go through the whole of his 130-Test career without a bat deal?
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The first Test in Multan is into its 250th over... Joe Root has spent eight balls off the field so far
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England have taken 10 wickets in 15 out of 15 Test innings since Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes took over
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Matt Roller
Not sure if it was picked up on TV but Dahani was so sure Khushdil would take that catch he set off on his usual celebration, thumping his chest and all
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Great nugget from Tymal Mills on his BBC podcast with Mark Wood: Alex Hales played golf on Thursday morning, shot his best-ever round, then headed down to Adelaide Oval and hit 86* in a World Cup semi-final
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Hardik Pandya has touched 90mph/145kph and found extra bounce from back of a length. He's a cheat code for India if he's fit and firing: a genuine allrounder, their fastest bowler while batting at No. 5
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What a night for Harry Brook
- 100 not out off 55 balls
- Subbed off at half-time
- Feet up in the dugout next to Brian Lara
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4 hundreds for Buttler in his last 23 T20 innings
In each of them he has played out at least one bowler and attacked the rest:
Rashid Khan (vs SRH)
Hasaranga and Theekshana (vs SL)
Bumrah (vs MI)
Narine (vs KKR)
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Nicholas Pooran's T10 career:
17 innings
584 runs
232 balls
53.09 average
251.72 strike rate
38x4
60x6
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Fitting for Virat Kohli to bring up his record 50th ODI hundred by charging back for a second run: testament to his fitness and professionalism at 35
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Yashasvi Jaiswal broke one of the IPLās longest-held records on Sunday, beating Paul Valthatyās highest score by an uncapped Indian batter
I remember watching Valthaty in 2011 but had no idea what happened next, so tracked him down to find out
espncricinfo.com/story/when-ā¦
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