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BENGALURU : Australia will take a late call on Glenn Maxwell's participation in their World Cup game against Bangladesh after the all-rounder batted through severe cramps to script an improbable win over Afghanistan, bowling coach Daniel Vettori said on Friday.
With Pakistan facing an early exit from the Cricket World Cup 2023, former India batter Virender Sehwag took a dig at the Babar Azam-led side. Pakistan face England in a must-win game at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday. However, with New Zealand currently occupying the fourth and final semi-finals spot after their win over Sri Lanka on Thursday, Pakistan need a huge win over England to push them out on net run-rate. If Pakistan bat first and score 300, they need to bowl England out for 13. They need to maintain a margin of 287 runs if they score more than 300 runs in Kolkata.
Chief Selector Pramodaya Wickramasinghe on Friday alleged that Sri Lanka's disastrous show at the ongoing ODI World Cup was a result "of a conspiracy from outside". The Sri Lankan cricket team returned home early Friday morning from India after their five-wicket loss in the last group stage match against New Zealand in Bengaluru. Pressed for reasons for the poor performance, Wickramasingha, a member of the World Cup-winning 1996 team, said: "give me two days to disclose everything about it. This was the result of a conspiracy from outside.
SA vs AFG, Cricket World Cup Live: South Africa look to bounce back from the humbling they suffered against India as they take on Afghanistan in their Cricket World Cup match in Ahmedabad. While the Proteas have already qualified for the semi-finals, Afghanistan need a 438-run win against South Africa to push New Zealand out of fourth place on net run rate, which seems highly unlikely. The Proteas will take on Australia in the second semi-final next Thursday, with India most likely to square against either New Zealand or Pakistan on Wednesday. (Live Scorecard | Points Table)
Makram Daboub may be struggling to prepare his Palestinian team for the start of 2026 World Cup qualification but he takes some comfort, for now at least, that his players stuck in Gaza are safe. The national soccer team’s head coach wanted to include Ibrahim Abuimeir, Khaled Al-Nabris, and Ahmed Al-Kayed in a training camp in Jordan ahead of World Cup qualifying games against Lebanon next Thursday and Australia on Nov. 21. But they were unable to make it out of Gaza because of the Israel-Hamas war, now in its second month. “So far they are fine,” Daboub told The Associated Press. “Many of their relatives have died, however, as a result of the bombing.” Two players from Gaza, Egypt-based Mohamed Saleh and Mahmoud Wadi, are expected to join the Palestinian team in Jordan. Daboub, who is from Tunisia, acknowledged it will be difficult for players to focus on football while many have families in danger. “With the death and destruction in Gaza, the players are in a difficult psychological state,” Daboub said. But for Susan Shalabi, the vice president of the Palestine Football Association, there’s no question that the players and the people want the games to go ahead. “This is a people that wants to be heard and seen by the rest of the world, wants to live normally like everyone else, so people care about their national team,” Shalabi told The AP. “It represents the yearning to be recognized as a free and sovereign nation.” The Palestine Football Association became a full member of FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, in 1998 and has had some success at the regional level.
SEVILLE, Spain: Italy and Canada booked their tickets to the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup on Thursday with 3-0 wins over Germany and Poland respectively as defending champions Switzerland crashed out.
Afghanistan were a whisker away from boosting their Cricket World Cup semi-finals hopes, but Australia's Glenn Maxwell won the game single-handedly for Australia. Chasing a target of 292, Australia were 91/7 at one stage. They were so close, yet so far as Maxwell hit an unbeaten 201 to pull off one of the most unbelievable run-chases in the history of the tournament. Maxwell stitiched an unbeaten 202-run partnership with captain Pat Cummins, who scored just 12 runs off 68 balls during the epic stand.
All-rounder Ben Stokes never considered quitting the World Cup early to expedite his planned knee surgery, despite England's upcoming Test tour to India in two-and-a-half months. "Going home would have been "the easy way out," he said. Stokes announced before England's 33-run defeat to Australia in Ahmedabad last week that he will have surgery later this month to address the chronic left knee problem that has forced him to play as a specialist hitter since the beginning of July. He anticipates that his rehabilitation will take between five and seven weeks, leaving him with a short turnaround before his Test team's January journey to India. The first of five Tests kicks off on January 25 in Hyderabad.