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Australia vs West Indies First Test: Day 1 Report

Debutant Shamar Joseph gave the West Indies some hope after taking two top-order wickets during Australia's reply to the visitors' first innings total of 188 in the opening Test in Adelaide We ...

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Allen's Record 137 Gives New Zealand Series-Clinching Win Over Pakistan

New Zealand sealed their T20 series against Pakistan with two games to spare Wednesday on the back of a record 137 off 62 balls by opener Finn Allen at University Oval in Dunedin. New Zealand ...

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Zimbabwe Record First T20 Win Over Sri Lanka

Zimbabwe celebrated Tuesday after winning their first T20 international against Sri Lanka in dramatic fashion to square the three-match series in Colombo. Chasing a target of 174, Zimbabwe required 20 ...

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3rd T20I: Finn Allen's Record 137 Gives New Zealand Series-Clinching Pakistan T20 Win

New Zealand sealed their T20 series against Pakistan with two games to spare Wednesday on the back of a record 137 off 62 balls by opener Finn Allen at University Oval in Dunedin. The Black ...

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Mathews Shines As Sri Lanka Pull Off Last Ball Win Against Zimbabwe

Sri Lanka pulled off a thrilling three-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a last ball thriller in the first Twenty20 international in Colombo on Sunday. Requiring six runs off the last two balls, tail-ender ...

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India Crush Afghanistan In 2nd Game To Clinch T20I Series

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shivam Dube smashed half-centuries as India thrashed Afghanistan by six wickets in the second Twenty20 international in Indore on Sunday to clinch the three-match series. I ...

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New Zealand Beat Pakistan By 21 Runs In Second T20I

Pace bowler Adam Milne claimed four wickets as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 21 runs in the second Twenty20 international Sunday to take a 2-0 series lead. The tourists threw away a strong position in ...

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Tim Southee Hits Milestone As New Zealand Beat Pakistan In First T20

Tim Southee became the first player to 150 wickets in Twenty20 internationals, leading New Zealand's "nasty fasties" to a 46-run win over Pakistan in their series opener in Auckland. Veteran seam ...

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Former Nepal Cricket Captain Sandeep Lamichhane Sentenced To 8 Years For Rape

A court in Nepal on Wednesday sentenced former cricket captain Sandeep Lamichhane to eight years in prison for rape. Lamichhane, 23, was once the poster boy for cricket in Nepal and the leg spinner ...

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Cameron Green To Play Against West Indies, Matt Renshaw Recalled For Australia

Australian allrounder Cameron Green will start the first Test against the West Indies, selectors said Wednesday, but who replaces David Warner as opener remains to be seen. Warner bowed out of the fiv ...

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'Dream Come True': Australia's David Warner Retires From Test Cricket

Australian opener David Warner drew the curtain Saturday on his 112-Test career with a swashbuckling 57 against Pakistan, leaving his home Sydney Cricket Ground to a standing ovation. The polarising 3 ...

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Dream Come True: Australia's Warner Retires From Test Cricket

Australian opener David Warner drew the curtain Saturday on his 112-Test career with a swashbuckling 57 against Pakistan, leaving his home Sydney Cricket Ground to a standing ovation. The polarising 3 ...

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Glittering And Controversial, Warner Ends Test Career

Australian opener David Warner played the last of his 112 Tests to end a glittering and controversal career against Pakistan in Sydney on Saturday. AFP Sport looks at five memorable Warner moments sin ...

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AUS vs PAK: David Warner Goes Out Swinging As Australia Sweep Pakistan Series

Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets with David Warner scoring a pulsating 57 in his farewell Test match in Sydney on Saturday to sweep the series 3-0. Warner, playing in his 112th Test, was dismi ...

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Josh Hazlewood Has Pakistan Reeling After Jamal's 3rd Test Heroics

Josh Hazlewood claimed three wickets in an electrifying over to bowl Australia into a potential winning position over Pakistan in an absorbing third Test in Sydney on Friday. Paceman Hazlewood ripped ...

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David Warner 'Pleased And Relieved' After Missing Test Caps Found

David Warner was reunited on Friday with his missing "baggy green" Test caps after the veteran Australian cricketer issued a public plea. The opening batsman said on the eve of his 112th and final Tes ...

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Five Shortest Tests In Cricket History

India's victory in the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town on Thursday broke many records, most notably becoming the shortest completed Test match in the history of the game, lasting jus ...

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India In Control After Wickets Tumble In 2nd Test

India hold a good chance of levelling the series with South Africa after 23 wickets fell on the first day of the second and final Test at Newlands on Wednesday. ...

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Australia vs Pakistan 3rd Test Day 1 Report: Pakistan Fight Back From 96-5 To 313

Gritty Pakistan clawed back from looming disaster to finish with 313 on the back of fighting half-centuries from Mohammad Rizwan, Agha Salman and Aamer Jamal on the first day of the third Test agains ...

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India vs South Africa 2nd Test Preview: Elgar Bids To Bow Out On Winning Note

Dean Elgar will bid to bring the curtain down on his Test career by skippering South Africa to victory in the second and final Test against an India side who are likely to make at ...

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Australia Unchanged For Warner's Farewell Test, Pakistan Leave Out Shaheen

Australia vs Pakistan Third Test Preview: Australia opted Tuesday against playing a second spinner in the final Test against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground, naming an unchanged line-up for Dav ...

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David Warner Retires From One-Day Cricket Ahead Of Test Farewell

Dynamic Australian opener David Warner called time Monday on one-day international cricket ahead of his farewell Test against Pakistan this week, but kept the door open to play the 2025 Champions Trophy if needed. ...

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New Zealand Win Third T20 To Square Series With Bangladesh

New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner took four wickets as they beat Bangladesh by 17 runs in a rain-affected third and final Twenty20 international on Sunday to draw the series 1-1. ...

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Polarising Warner Draws Curtain On 12-Year Test Career

David Warner exits Test cricket this week as one of the best openers the world has known, but his exploits will forever be overshadowed by the role he played in the notorious ball-tampering scandal of ...

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