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Jan 1, 2025 · A s the July morning served up staple English-summer fare - grey skies, damp air and wet streets - something unusual was brewing in cricket's most traditional sanctum sanctorum, the long room at Lord's.. A cosmopolitan crowd, representing varied interests of cricket from around the world, had assembled for an event titled World Cricket Connects, organised with remarkable perseverance and ...

6 days ago · Tests: 366 Results: 215 (58.7%) This tough period, when all the teams tended to play safe, falls between the India-West Indies Test in Delhi in November 1948 and the fifth Test between India and Australia in Madras in December 1969.It was the period of Garry Sobers, the 3Ws (Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott), Neil Harvey and Len Hutton

Jan 4, 2025 · S ince the start of this decade, among bowlers who have bowled 50 or more full tosses in T20 cricket, Jasprit Bumrah has been hurt the least. In fact, bowlers will kill to have as their overall record the returns Bumrah has on the full …

May 31, 2024 · Given the International Olympics Committee has added cricket to the list of sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, Lockerbie said that city was the first big centre considered.In December 2022 he visited Woodley Park in Van Nuys, California, one of the oldest cricket venues in the country. The plan was to create a modular cricket stadium which could accommodate roughly up to 25,000 seats ...

Jan 20, 2025 · N o sport takes as many breaks as cricket does - though no other sport also runs the gamut between three hours and five days of play. Players' lunch and tea breaks we're not privy to, but the drinks break is a spectator sport. In the photo above, at the 1998 Bangalore Test, drinks are delivered to the ground via an airplane?

May 15, 2024 · N o matter who wins it, the ninth men's T20 World Cup, in June, will showcase a sport that has changed beyond recognition.Cricket has become a commercial behemoth since T20's birth in 2003, with players travelling the world on short-term contracts and associated with privately owned franchises as well as their national teams - and the changes to the game on the field have been just as marked.

Jan 22, 2025 · They raced to 279 for 2 in 30 overs, about 60 runs ahead of Australia, who were also two down around the same point. Australia had a free pass on the road of excess; South Africa showed even the badlands around it could be treated like they were a highway.

May 8, 2024 · T his interview was not planned. In 2021, the Cricket Monthly ran an interview with Afghanistan T20 captain Rashid Khan where he spoke about his life and cricket and dissected the various deliveries in his repertoire. So when Gujarat Titans presented me with an opportunity to chat to Rashid this year, in person in Ahmedabad, I wasn't sure we had enough to talk about.

Oct 10, 2024 · T his September marks 20 years since West Indies secured the most unlikely of all their five ICC global titles, when they won the 2004 Champions Trophy.. Twenty years ago is also when St Lucia's first cricketer to make the West Indies side, Daren Sammy, made his international debut in a rained-out fixture in an insignificant Natwest Tri-nation series.