September 28, 2023
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The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to offer a monumental three-year central contracts deal - as opposed to the usual 12 month duration - to 25 men's team cricketers, which will run from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Despite the length of the contracts, players will be set for annual reviews and performance-based promotion and demotion in categories. The contracts - which will be common for both red-ball and white-ball players - offers the chosen 25 a big increment...

September 28, 2023
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Atlantic Conference The Somerset Cavaliers held their nerve to come up trumps in both of their do-or-die encounters against the New England Eagles and New Jersey Stallions, joining The Philadelphians into the Super 8s from the Eastern division. Sunny Patel held fort for the Cavaliers with a skillful 35 off 22 deliveries on a challenging wicket at the Glenville Cricket Ground, propelling the Cavaliers to 139. Young leg spinner Yasir Mohammad set the cat amongst the pigeons with an incisive 3...

September 28, 2023
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The first ever Men's T20 International in Asian Games competition between Nepal and Mongolia saw several of the long standing records in the format broken. Nepal's day in the sun 314/3 by Nepal is the highest total ever in T20 cricket surpassing 278/3 by Afghanistan against Ireland in Dehradun in February 2019, which was later matched by Czech Republic who made 278/4 against Turkey in Ilfov County later in August that year. 273 runs The victory margin of 273 runs by Nepal happens to be the biggest...

September 28, 2023
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Nineteen-year-old Kushal Malla's 34-ball hundred, now the fastest T20I hundred, headlined Nepal's memorable and massive 273-run win over Mongolia in their Asian Games fixture in Hangzhou. Some of the other records that went down included the highest team total (314/3) in T20 cricket and the first over the 300-run mark, the fastest T20 fifty (9 balls) by Dipendra Singh, and the largest victory margin in T20 cricket. The innings began relatively sedately as Kushal Bhurtel and Aasif Sheikh were both dismissed before the 8-over...

September 28, 2023
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The first ever Men's T20 International in Asian Games competition between Nepal and Mongolia saw several of the long standing records in the format broken. Nepal's day in the sun 314/3 by Nepal is the highest total ever in T20 cricket surpassing 278/3 by Afghanistan against Ireland in Dehradun in February 2019, which was later matched by Czech Republic who made 278/4 against Turkey in Ilfov County later in August that year. 273 runs The victory margin of 273 runs by Nepal happens to be the biggest...

September 28, 2023
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Former Bangladesh skipper Tamim Iqbal revealed on Wednesday (September 27) that he asked the top officials of the Bangladesh Cricket Board to not consider him for the upcoming World Cup after he was asked to skip or bat down the order in their opening game against Afghanistan. In a video message on his official Facebook page after he was excluded from the World Cup-bound squad, the veteran batter said that he didn't want to be part of what he called a "dirty game"...

September 28, 2023
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Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan said on Wednesday that he wants to retire from all formats after the 2025 Champions Trophy. Shakib also insisted that he won't lead the side after the 2023 ODI World Cup. "As far as international career is concerned, what I see at this moment it is up to 2025 Champions Trophy that is the ODI format. The T20 format is up to 2024 World Cup and that's it. As far as Test goes, may be sooner,...

September 28, 2023
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There appears to be some jostling, confusion, claims, and counterclaims regarding the venues for next year's World Cup in the Caribbean. Conde Riley, the president of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA), one of the members of Cricket West Indies (CWI), has asserted that he possesses documents designating Barbados as the host for the final of the 2024 Twenty20 World Cup, a claim that was promptly dismissed by top CWI authorities. "Yes, that's correct...

September 28, 2023
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Afghanistan pace bowler Naveen-ul-Haq is all set retire from ODIs after the forthcoming ICC World Cup in India. starting on October 5. The right-arm quick is back in the ODI side after a gap of two years. Naveen missed the two-match T20I series against Bangladesh due to knee injury and went to England to have a minor knee operation but the pace bowler told Cricbuzz on Wednesday (September 27) that he is planning to quit ODIs on the advice of a physician as that...

September 27, 2023
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Batting performances Rob Keogh smashed an unbeaten 147-ball 154 on the counterattack after Northamptonshire slipped to 95/4 at one point. Coming in at No. 5, Keogh single-handedly lifted the team to 279 by the end of the day's play, with the next best being a mere 32. Having slipped to 18/3 after opting to bat, Lancashire were rescued first by a 167-ball 113 from Josh Bohannon, even as George Bell (40) and George Balderson (54) stitched together useful stands along with him. But another middle order...