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Harry Tector hit an unbeaten 149 to steer Ireland to a five-wicket victory over the United States in their first warm-up match ahead of the World Cup Qualifier.
Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria has slammed India batter Cheteshwar Pujara for failing in the recently-concluded World Test Championship final against Australia at The Oval, London. Pujara scored only 14 runs during India's first innings as a Cameron Green delivery cleaned him up. The following innings saw Pujara scoring 27 runs as he perished while trying to play an unorthodox shot -- an upper cut. With India needing much more than just a decent effort from their batting unit, Pujara was among the ones who failed to make it count.
Ireland suffered defeat in their second and final warm-up match ahead of the ICC World Cup qualifiers as the Netherlands claimed a two-wicket win in Bulawayo.
Ending months of speculation around Asia Cup, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Thursday announced that the tournament will be staged in a hybrid model with four games in Pakistan and nine in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17. The deadlock over the staging of the 50-over tournament was broken last week when the Jay Shah-led ACC accepted Pakistan Cricket Board's hybrid model of conducting four non-India games in Pakistan. The hybrid model was proposed as the BCCI had made it clear that it won't send its team to Pakistan due to the longstanding geo-political tensions between the two countries.
The on-field spat between Naveen-ul-Haq and Virat Kohli during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 grabbed headlines for quite some time. Experts had their own opinions about what happened during the match between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore while fans tried to find some hidden meaning in the social media activities of both cricketers. Naveen opened up recently about the incident and said that the fight was started by Kohli after the encounter and cited the punishments handed out to the two cricketers as the proof.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the World Test Championship schedule for the third cycle (2023 - 25) of the event, beginning from the Ashes contest between hosts England and Australia this month. The Indian cricket team, who finished as the runners-up on the last two occasions of the event, face a stiff away challenge against teams like Australia, West Indies, and South Africa in this cycle.
Ravichandran Ashwin is arguably one of the finest all-rounders India ever-had. Despite his heroics in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, earlier this year, he was not named in the Playing XI against the same opponent for the World Test Championship final at The Oval. However, Ashwin seemed to have moved on from the snub as the 36-year-old spinner is currently playing in the ongoing Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2023 for the Dindigul Dragons and took his side to victory over Ba11sy Trichy on Wednesday.
The manner in which Virat Kohli's captaincy stint in the Indian team ended was truly regrettable. While the talismanic batter had himself decided to leave India's T20 captaincy, he was subsequently removed as the ODI skipper. Not long after, Kohli announced the decision to step down as the team's Test skipper too. Though the decision of leaving captaincy in the longest format came from Kohli himself, former Pakistan batter Salman Butt thinks that such a situation was gradually built and the star player didn't have any other option but to quit.