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Pakistan crushed New Zealand with Harish Rauf’s deadly bowling

15Apr

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Pakistan crushed New Zealand with Harish Rauf’s deadly bowling

Lahore | Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 88 runs in the first match of the five match T20 series. Batting first after winning the toss, Pakistan scored 182 runs in 19.5 overs. Fakhar Zaman 47 and Saim Ayub 47 played good inning for Pakistan. Matt Henry took 3 for 32, Adam Milne and Ben Lister took 2-2 wickets. Chasing a target of 182 runs, New Zealand's batting disintegrated in front of Pakistan's deadly bowling and the whole team was reduced to just 94 runs. From Pakistan, Harish Rauf took 4 wickets for 18 runs. Mark Chapman played an inning of 34 runs for New Zealand. Harish Rauf was given man of the match for his brilliant bowling. Brief Scores: Pakistan: 10/182 over 19.5, Fakhar Zaman 47, Saim Ayub 47, Matt Henry 3/32, Ben Lister 2/30, Adam Milne 2/51 New Zealand: 10/94 over...

IPL – 2023: Home ground, Scored 212 runs, still Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated by Lacknow Super Giants

11Apr

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IPL – 2023: Home ground, Scored 212 runs, still Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated by Lacknow Super Giants

Bengaluru | Royal Challengers Bangalore got disappointed with 1 wicket loss at the hands of Lucknow Super Giants at their home ground in the 15th and very exciting match of IPL-2023. With the help of Virat Kohli 61, Faf Du Plessis 79 not out and Glenn Maxwell 59 not out, Royal Challenger Bangalore made a strong score of 212 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, at a time when five wickets of Lucknow Super Giants returned to the pavilion at a score of 105 runs, then Royal Challengers Bangalore were easily moving towards victory. Marcus Stoinis also returned to pavilion after scoring 65 runs in 30 balls, but Niklas Pooran Played a fiery innings of runs, scored 62 off just 19 balls and turned the match towards Lucknow Super Giants. Mohammad Siraj made the match ve...

IPL 2023: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings and tasted victory

10Apr

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IPL 2023: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings and tasted victory

Hyderabad| Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings to register their first win in IPL 2023. Batting first, Punjab Kings scored 143 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Shikhar Dhawan's batting was the center of attraction during the Punjab Kings innings, where wickets kept falling from one end, while Shikhar Dhawan played an unbeaten inning of 99 runs in 66 balls. Shikhar Dhawan also hit 12 fours and 5 sixes during this innings, he also shared an unbeaten 55-run partnership with Mohit Rathi for the last wicket. Mayank Markande took 4 wickets for 15 runs while bowling deadly for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Marco Jansen dismissed 2 players for 16 runs and Umran Malik dismissed 2 players for 32 runs. An easy target of 143 runs was achieved by Sunrisers Hyderabad by losing 2 wickets in 17.1...

Rinku Singh’s sixes stopped Gujarat Titans’ victory chariot, KKR defeated Gujrat Titans

10Apr

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Rinku Singh’s sixes stopped Gujarat Titans’ victory chariot, KKR defeated Gujrat Titans

Ahmedabad | Rinku Singh hit five sixes in the last 5 balls of 20th over to seal a thrilling 3-wicket win for Kolkata Knight Riders to deny Gujarat Titans their third straight win. Kolkata Knight Riders needed 29 runs to win in the last over, Umesh Yadav took 1 run on the first ball of Yash Dayal, now 28 runs were required from the last five balls to win, at such a time Rinku Singh took his own state player and sent the last five balls of Yash Dayal, out of the boundary for sixes, giving Kolkata a seemingly impossible victory. Earlier, captaining in the absence of Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to bat first. Gujarat Titans scored 204 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in allotted 20 overs. Vijay Shankar, who became the basis of Gujarat Titans' strong score, played an unbeat...

IPL 2023 : RCB scattered like cards in front of KKR spinner trio

7Apr

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IPL 2023 : RCB scattered like cards in front of KKR spinner trio

Kolkata | Shardul Thakur's stormy innings of 9 fours and 3 sixes on the home ground at Eden Gardens, 68 runs in just 29 balls and brilliant bowling by the spin trio, KKR easily defeated RCB by 81 runs and registered first victor in IPL-23. Apart from Shardul Thakur for KKR, Gurbaj scored 57 and Rinku Singh scored 46 runs. KKR scored a mammoth score of 204 for the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Chasing 204 runs, RCB team which registered an easy win over Mumbai Indians in the first match, could not stand in front of KKR's spin trio and the whole team returned to the pavilion for just 123 runs, Varun Chakraborty took 4 for 15, Sunil Narine took 2 for 16 runs and young leg-spinner Suyash Sharma took 3 wickets by giving 30 runs. For RCB, only Faf du plessis 23 and Virat Kohli 2...

South Africa created history by chasing 258 runs in T20 cricket against West Indies

27Mar

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South Africa created history by chasing 258 runs in T20 cricket against West Indies

Quinton de Kock's maiden T20I century helped South Africa in defeating the West Indies by 6 wickets, proving to be dwarf to the biggest target in T20 cricket. For the first time, more than 500 runs were scored in a T20 match on the pitch of Supersports Park. A total of 517 runs were scored in this match in which 35 sixes were hit by both the teams. Johnson Charles played a stormy innings for the West Indies, scored a century in 39 balls including 11 sixes, which was the second fastest innings in the history of T20 cricket. The SuperSports Park pitch proved to forget for both sides bowlers, Kagiso Rabada being the only bowler to concede less than 10 runs per over. West Indies innings The West Indies lost the wicket of Brandon King early, followed by Johnson Charles and Kyle Mayers, w...

India lost the ODI series against Australia

23Mar

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India lost the ODI series against Australia

Chennai | A poor performance by the batsmen saw India lose the Chennai ODI by 21 runs and as well as lost the ODI series by 2-1. After winning the toss, the entire Australian team could not stand in front of the excellent bowling of Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav and got reduced to 269 runs in 49 overs. Travis Head (33) and Mitchell Marsh (47) made a great start for Australia and shared a 68-run partnership for the first wicket, Hardik Pandya sent Travel Head, Steve Smith and Mitchell Marsh to the pavilion in a span of 17 runs and got Indian team back in the match. Although none of the Australian batsmen were able to play big innings, Australia achieved a respectable score of 269 runs. Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav took 3-3 and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets. Chasing target of 269 r...