England’s 74-run victory over Pakistan on a lifeless Rawalpindi track will rank among its greatest Test victories away from home, captain Ben Stokes said on Monday. “It’s a great place to be, and I think it’s up there with one of England’s greatest away Test match wins,” Stokes said at the presentation ceremony. Having a bloke who’s played nearly 180 …
Former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who holds the record for most Test and ODI runs as well as most centuries across the two formats, pipped former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara as the greatest men's Test batsman of the 21st century in a poll. Both Kumar Sangakkara and Sachin Tendulkar are icons of the game but the vote, the winner …
No one moved from their seats as Pant cut, drove, and paddle-swept to make a statement to his detractors while gifting India one of their finest overseas wins during the dying moments of the final session with an off-driven boundary. Brisbane: An Indian cricket team saddled with broken bones and battered bodies showed a never-seen-before zeal to retain the coveted …
The psychological scars of 300 years of colonialism and 40 years of disappointments had been washed away by the indomitable spirit of 11 young men, a determination to overturn history and the magic of a genius who wrought miracles over 22 yards with a polio-afflicted bowling arm. While the wicket looked slower than he would have liked given his team’s …
)
)