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Sydney Test: Renshaw, Warner's fireworks power Aussies to 365-3 at st
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], Jan.3 (ANI): Openers Matt Renshaw and David Warner struck scorching centuries to fire Australia to a first-innings score of 365-3 at stumps on the opening day of the third and the final dead-rubber Test of the three-match series against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Grou
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Keaton Jennings not fussed about facing Proteas
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Jan.1 (ANI): England opener Keaton Jennings has insisted that he is not concerned about the possibility of facing his fellow South Africans in the four-match Test series to be held in July.
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Hamstring injury rules Guptill out of B'desh T20s
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], Dec.31 (ANI): New Zealand opener Martin Guptill has been ruled out of the upcoming T20 series against Bangladesh due to a hamstring strain.
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Azhar Ali achieves career-best sixth spot in ICC Test rankings
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], Dec.31 (ANI): Pakistan opener Azhar Ali has moved up ten places to his career-best sixth spot in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen even as top-ranked Australian skipper Steve Smith has finished the year-end rankings with a personal best in terms of rating points.
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Focus remains on making my way back to Pak squad: Shahzad
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Dec.28 (ANI):Pakistan out-of-favour opener Ahmed Shahzad has said that he will leave no choice before the national selectors but to include him in the ODI squad for the upcoming Australia series with a string of great performances in the domestic cricket.
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2nd Test: Warner's 144 help Aussies stage strong reply against Pak on
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Dec.28 (ANI):Opener David Warner struck a scorching century and Usman Khawaja well-supported him as Australia reached 278-2 at the end of the third day's play of the second Test against Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Wednesday.
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Women's SAFF Championship: India rout Afghanistan 5-1 in opener
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Siliguri [India], Dec.28 (ANI):The Indian women's football team kicked off their South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2016 campaign in style as they crushed Afghanistan by a whopping 5-1 margin in the Group B opener at the Kanchenjunga Stadium here last evening.
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Azhar `one of the best batsmen Pak ever had`: Riaz
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Dec.27 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz has heaped praise on Boxing Day Test centurion Azhar Ali, saying the opener is `one of the greatest batsmen` the country has ever produced.
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Warner unfazed by Test form slump
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], Dec. 25 (ANI): Explosive Australian opener David Warner, who has been suffering from a poor run in Test cricket, has expressed confidence that his form in the longest format of the game will soon return.
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Australia vs Pakistan: Ex-chief selector calls on team to be fearless
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Dec. 21 (ANI): Insisting that Pakistan were capable of defeating Australia in the day-night series opener in Brisbane, former chief selector Haroon Rashid has called on the team to learn quickly and be 'fearless' in the upcoming two matches.
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Didn't put any extra pressure on myself, says triple centurion Karun
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai [India], Dec. 19 (ANI): 25-year-old middle-order batsman Karun Nair, who on Monday scripted history by becoming the second Indian batsman to score a triple hundred in the Chennai Test after former opener Virendra Sehwag, said he was happy to score the runs as he made the most of the
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Pressure of getting double hundred got to me, admits Lokesh Rahul
Updated : 8 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai [India], Dec. 18 (ANI): India opener Lokesh Rahul, who fell agonisingly short of his maiden test double century in the ongoing Chennai Test against England, on Saturday said it did hurt as he missed the chance of reaching the milestone, before admitting that the pressure of getting a
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