Veteran Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc joined the elite list of players who scored 50 or more runs and picked up a five-wicket haul in a day-night Test match. The ace player achieved this milestone on Day 3 of the second Ashes Test between Australia and England at the Gabba on Saturday
Starc delivered another age-defying performance, his sixth five-wicket haul in pink-ball Tests, the most by any bowler and taking his tally of pink-ball Test wickets to 87, the highest by any bowler in history, with teammates Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins (43 each) as his distant rivals, havin
Cummins had missed the first Test due to lower-back issues, and Steve Smith took the captaincy armband in his absence. Cummins was seen bowling with the pink ball at Silverwater's Cricket Central, getting himself with a weapon that demolished Team India last summer during the Border-Gavaskar
Currently, Taijul Islam has 248 Test wickets in 57 matches and 102 innings. The left-arm spinner has scalped 17 fifers and two ten-fers. He surpassed Shakib's tally of 246 scalps in 71 games and 121 innings, along with 19 five-wicket hauls and two ten-fer.
Mitchell Starc and Ben Stokes produced historic spells on the opening day of the Ashes Test in Perth, becoming the first pair since 2005 to take five-wicket hauls on Day 1 of a Test match. Starc claimed 7-58 to bowl England out for 172, before Stokes hit back with 5-23 to leave Australia str
The 28-year-old had an all-timer World Cup campaign, which erased the pain of the heartbreaking nine-run loss to England in the 2017 final, as part of which Deepti succumbed during a shocking batting collapse from 191/3 to 219 while chasing 229. In this tournament, she scored 215 runs in sev
Deepti secured the 'Player of the Tournament' award in CWC 2025, scoring 215 runs in seven innings at an average of 30.71 and a strike rate of 90.33, with three fifties and a best score of 58 and topping the wicket-taking charts with 22 scalps in nine innings at an average of over 20. She ca
The 31-year-old is off to a great start in the Sheffield Shield for South Australia, having already picked up two five-wicket hauls in two matches and having bagged 13 wickets at an average of 14.69.
India's pace bowling mainstay Jasprit Bumrah's riveting five-wicket haul on Kolkata's surface against South Africa, which was destined to assist spinners, wasn't due to any magic but a result of consistency and staying patient in Test cricket.
The 31-year-old put his critics to rest in the opening Test of the two-match series against South Africa at Kolkata's Eden Gardens on Friday with a sizzling five-wicket haul. Riding high on uneven bounce and a hint of reverse swing, Bumrah removed Aiden Markram, Ryan Rickelton, Tony de Zorzi
India ripped off South Africa for just 159 in their first innings on Day 1 of the first Test at the Edens Garden on Friday. Jasprit Bumrah was the star of the show with his five-wicket haul as India dominated South Africa on Day 1 of the first Test in Kolkata.
Deepti delivered one of the all-time great World Cup campaigns, scoring 215 runs in seven innings at an average of 30.71 and a strike rate of 90.33, with three fifties and a best score of 58 and topping the wicket-taking charts with 22 scalps in nine innings at an average of over 20, with a