South Africa posted 489 on the board in the first innings, on a pitch which offered less help to the Indian bowlers. The visitors batted 151.1 overs as India failed to get wickets at regular intervals in the ongoing second Test at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati.
Opener Phula Saren played a match-winning knock. She scored 44 runs off 27 balls, including four boundaries. Her innings helped India chase down the 115-run target in the 13th over. Saren's magnificent performance earned her the Player of the Match.
Mushfiqur Rahim is the only Bangladesh cricketer to amass 6000 or more runs in Test cricket. The right-handed batter has amassed 6510 runs in 100 Test matches at an average of 38.75, along with 13 centuries and 28 half-centuries.
The last time India won a Test match after conceding 400-plus while fielding first was against England in Chennai in 2016. India responded with 759/7d to England's 477 after a magnificent knock from Karun Nair, who smashed 303*. In the second Innings, England were bundled out for 207 runs as
South Africa's Marco Jansen hit seven sixes in a blistering 93 against India in Guwahati, breaking the record for most sixes by a visiting batter in a Test innings in India. He also matched the South African record for most sixes in a Test innings.
After securing a dominating 217-run win in the second Test against Ireland at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh whitewashed the visitors 2-0. Mushfiqur Rahim won the Player of the Match on his 100th Test, whereas Taijul Islam was named Player of the Series.
In the match that ended on late Saturday night, the multi-time Premier League champions conceded a goal by Harvey Barnes, his second, in the 70th minute, which proved to a match-winning strike.
The opening Test between Australia and England ended in just two days, making it the shortest Test in the Ashes since 1921. The Ben Stokes-led England were in a good position at the start of Day 2, but ended on a losing note after Australian opener Travis Head played a match-winning 123.
The month of November and another Travis masterclass. Living up to internet memes about him bashing teams with blue jerseys, most notably India and England, the left-hander saw blue and piled up a 69-ball century, the second-fastest in Ashes history to help Australia chase down an easy targe
Australian skipper Steve Smith praised Travis Head's match-winning hundred against England in the first Ashes Test, calling it "out of this world" and said it was a day where "everything went his way".
With the FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 heading into the home stretch before the opening match-day, Belgium became the second team to arrive in Madurai, on Saturday