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Pakistan opener Abdullah Shafique was given a let-off on day two of the third Test after neither Alex Carey...

Pat Cummins has received widespread praise for his inclusive and classy act to allow Muslim Usman Khawaja to partake in Australia’s podium celebration after their 4-0 Ashes win. As the Aussies went to spray champagne – a time honoured podium tradition across sports – Khawaja excused himself from the podium. Cummins made sure the bubbles […]

The unlikely script of a Gabba heist: As the Indian dressing-room emptied on to the vast stretches of the Gabba, we’d also finally reached the credits section of the most fantastical sports movie script ever written. So bizarre that it might even have been rejected by Bollywood, where hyperbole and exaggeration aren’t always looked down upon as excesses to the plot. How else do you explain what has transpired Down Under over the last five weeks or so. That exactly a month from the day a tea...

Kohli & Perry Win Big as ICC Announces Individual Awards of the Decade Here’s the list: Virat Kohli Ellyse Perry Steve Smith Virat Kohli Ellyse Perry Rashid Khan Ellyse Perry Kyle Coetzer Kathryn Bryce MS Dhoni Virat Kohli, who had scored 20,396 runs in all international cricket during the time period, which is more than anyone else, was also part of team India that won the ICC CWC 2011 and ICC Champions Trophy 2013. He was also named ICC Cricketer of the Year in both 2017 and 2018, so it was...