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Kabul: The Afghanistan Cricket Board has modified the previously imposed sanctions on three national players — Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazal Haq Farooqi, and Naveen Ul Haq —as the players relented and expressed their desire to accept the central contract offered by the board. The ACB...

Kabul: The Afghanistan Cricket board Tuesday announced an away tour to Sri Lanka home series against Ireland in UAE, taking on both teams across all three formats in February-March. The Team will first tour Sri Lanka for a one-off test, three ODIs, and three T20I...

Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to amicably part ways with its foreign coaches Mickey Arthur, Grant Bradburn, and Andrew Puttick after the senior team's poor run of form in recent times, including a forgettable World Cup campaign. A senior official of the...

London: Former England Test batter Mark Butcher feels the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) has done more harm than good to the longest format. South Africa recently named a depleted squad for the Test series in New Zealand with their top cricketers contracted to play...

Navi Mumbai: The culmination of a long and mixed home season brings the Indian women's cricket team one last opportunity to register a maiden T20I series triumph over Australia at home when the two sides square off in the series-decider here Tuesday. With the three-match...

New Delhi: The selectors have clearly gone for the status quo rather than addressing the elephant in the room by picking Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for their first T20 series in 14 months. Will it have a bearing on India's chances in another T20...

New Delhi: Medium-pacer Abin Matthew hogged the limelight with a maiden five-wicket haul as Puducherry bowlers came up with an exceptional show to orchestrate a commanding nine-wicket win over hosts Delhi in their Ranji Trophy opener here Monday. Resuming on 126/8 in their second innings,...

Kuala Lumpur: With the Paris Olympic qualification at stake, top Indian shuttlers, including HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen, will hope to begin the new season on a bright note when they start their campaign at the Malaysia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament here Tuesday. A...

Ranchi: Indian women's team is confident of booking a third successive Olympic berth and its knowledge of the conditions here will put it in good stead ahead of the eight-team hockey Olympic Qualifiers, said attacking midfielder Navneet Kaur Monday. The Indian team, led by Savita...

Johannesburg: South Africa wicketkeeper batter Heinrich Klaasen announced Monday that he will be retiring from Test cricket. Klassen steps away from the format after featuring in four Tests for South Africa between 2019 and 2023. He is the second South Africa player to retire from...