On a frustrating day for the Australian cricket team in the ongoing third Test on Tuesday, captain Pat Cummins shone bright with four wickets as he surpassed legendary Garfield Sobers and New Zealand's Daniel Vettori to become the third-highest wicket-taker as a skipper in Tests. The Australian skipper dismissed the entire Indian middle-order which included the likes of Rishabh Pant, …
Kraigg Brathwaite has broken Gary Sobers’ record for most consecutive Test matches for the West Indies. Desmond Haynes, Brian Charles Lara, Rohan Kanhai, Sir Viv Richards and Courtney Walsh also feature in the list. Former England captain Alastair Cook holds the overall record after he played 159 Tests from May 2006 to September 2018. Most successive Test matches for the …
Leaving Joe Root speechless after smashing a match-altering century against England, premier batter Ollie Pope extended his free-scoring run on Day 4 of the 1st Test against India at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Reaching new heights in his much-promising red-ball career, England's Pope played a stellar knock against Team India to rewrite Test history on Sunday in Hyderabad. Ollie Pope …
Garfield Sobers and Everton Weekes played international cricket together for just four years; donned the whites in 19 Tests. So, as the news of Weekes’ demise broke on Wednesday, it took Sobers some time to come to terms with the fact that his ‘old friend Everton’ was no more. “He did a tremendous job with Barbados in terms of coaching, …
