Swashbuckling Salt spices up England's series-levelling T20I win
Phil Salt smashed a robust career-best 41-ball 88 not out to help England thrash Pakistan by eight wickets in the sixth Twenty20 international in Lahore on Friday.
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Salt sinks Pakistan as England force series decider
England's Phil Salt scored a blistering half-century as the visitors raced to an eight-wicket win over Pakistan in their sixth Twenty20 clash in Lahore on Friday to level the seven-match series at 3-3.
It's a bit better for the bowlers: Hazlewood on Australian conditions for T20 World Cup
"It's probably a little bit better for the bowlers in a lot of regards," Hazlewood told the ICC website. "The outfields are bigger, the wickets have a bit more pace, (you can) use those boundaries to your advantage, depending where you are playing on the squad sometimes there are short and long boundaries." Australia is set to host the T20 showpiece starting October 16.
'The foundations are crumbling': Council boss questioned over financial position and ability to deliver Galleries project
Wigan’s council leader was told that he should be ‘ashamed’ after questions were raised over ‘debts of £600 million’ and the authorities ability to fund the massive Galleries redevelopment. Councillor David Molyneux came under fire during the full council meeting at Wigan Town Hall this week after a Capital Programme report revealed the council had a capital financing requirement of £594 million.
Fantasy football Week 4: Start or sit Brandin Cooks, DJ Moore?
Each Friday during the 2022 NFL and fantasy football season, Eric Karabell will bring his always-reasonable perspective to highlight the biggest fantasy football storylines heading into the weekend's games.
Los Angeles Chargers: ESPN analyst has big concerns on team's 'enormous problem'
The Los Angeles Chargers might already be done for this season as a result of one crucial thing, according to ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky.
Irani Cup: Pujara and 'five openers' in focus as Saurashtra take on ROI
Cheteshwar Pujara would strive to stay relevant in the national team's scheme of things with a purposeful knock when Saurashtra clashes with Rest of India, a side that is packed with five specialist openers, in the Irani Cup clash starting here Saturday. While Madhya Pradesh are the 2021-22 Ranji Trophy champions, Saurashtra will be playing the Irani Trophy by virtue of being the 2019-20 champions as the one-off match wasn't held for successive seasons due to COVID-19.
Losing Jasprit Bumrah for T20 World Cup will be a massive blow, but Mohammed Shami can always step up: Saba Karim
Since Thursday, there have been reports of Bumrah likely to miss out on playing the T20 World Cup due to a back injury. On Friday, he was replaced by fellow pacer Mohammed Siraj for the remainder of the T20I series against South Africa, which further raised doubts over Bumrah's availability for the mega event. Shami, included as a travelling reserve for the T20 World Cup, hadn't featured in T20Is against Australia and currently against South Africa due to a positive Covid-19 test, which has since then returned a negative result on re-testing after a period of 10 days.