Author: Staff Reporter

India spinner Kuldeep Yadav added another feather to his cap on Friday during the Super Four match against Sri Lanka. The left-arm wrist-spinner set a new record for the most wickets taken in a single T20 Asia Cup edition. So far, across six matches, Kuldeep has claimed 13 wickets. The previous record was held by the UAE’s Amjad Javed, who took 12 wickets from seven matches in the 2016 edition of the tournament. India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar ranks third on the list, with 11 wickets from five matches in the 2022 edition. Kuldeep reached the milestone with the wicket of…

India captain Suryakumar Yadav won hearts during the Asia Cup Super Four match against Sri Lanka with a kind gesture. After the match in Dubai, he approached young spinner Dunith Wellalage and offered him some words of encouragement. The moment quickly went viral online. Wellalage, who is just 21 years old, had recently lost his father. During the match against Afghanistan on September 18, Wellalage’s father suffered a heart attack back home, which sadly resulted in his passing. The following day, Wellalage returned home for the family rituals before rejoining the team ahead of the game against Bangladesh. In a…

Sri Lanka head coach Sanath Jayasuriya has expressed his disappointment after Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the final of the Asia Cup 2025. Speaking at the press conference, the former Sri Lanka captain said that if his team shows consistency, then they have a bright future. “Apart from that Bangladesh game, I’m fairly satisfied, though disappointed not to reach the final,” Jayasuriya said at the press conference. “We have the batting and bowling quality. The key is to execute plans according to the conditions and the opposition. If we do that consistently, this team can go very far.” India…

Sri Lanka opener Pathum Nissanka smashed his maiden T20I century against India in the last match, as his team bowed out of the Asia Cup 2025 after losing three games on the bounce. Chasing a challenging target of 203, Sri Lanka lost their first wicket with just seven runs on the board. Nissanka stitched together a crucial partnership of 127 runs off 70 balls with Kusal Perera, which provided much-needed stability to the Sri Lankan innings. While the partnership was ongoing, it looked as though Sri Lanka would win the match comfortably. It was the third-highest partnership for Sri Lanka…

India U-19 defeated Australia U-19 by 167 runs in the third and final ODI to complete a 3-0 clean sweep of the Youth ODI series. Vedant Trivedi and Khilan Patel were the heroes for India. Ayush Mhatre won the toss and opted to bat first. The team got off to a poor start, losing both their star players — Mhatre and Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who had made headlines during the IPL — early in the innings. However, Vihaan Malhotra and Vedant Trivedi steadied the ship with a 69-run partnership that brought much-needed stability. After Vihaan’s dismissal, Rahul Kumar joined Vedant, and…

Indian opener Abhishek Sharma continues to shine in the Asia Cup. He became the first player to score more than 300 runs in a single edition of the T20 version of the tournament. After the innings against Sri Lanka, he went past Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan, who held the previous record of 281 runs made in 2022. The 24-year-old is in great form and he has now matched Rohit Sharma and Rizwan’s record of seven successive 30-plus scores in T20Is. In the final Super Four clash, Abhishek scored 61 runs from 31 balls, which included eight boundaries and two maximums, at a…

The Sri Lankan team is preparing for the upcoming ICC Women’s ODI World Cup2025. No Sri Lankan women’s team has ever made it to the semi-finals of an ICC tournament. Captain Chamari Athapaththubelieves that this time they can create historybefore she retires. In Colombo, Athapaththu said she is confident of her team’s chances. “More than in the other tournaments, I’m pretty relaxed in this one. The youngsters have been performing — Harshitha Samarawickrama, VishmiGunaratne, and Kavisha Dilhari, are all batting well. So more than other times, I’m able to relax a bit,” Athapaththu said. These young players showcased their talent…

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan reckons that India could have tried a young pacer in place of Jasprit Bumrah against a relatively weaker side like the West Indies in the upcoming Test series. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Pathan further said the series would have presented an ideal opportunity to groom a new fast bowler. “It seems like a missed opportunity not to play a young fast bowler in these two Tests, but that’s the team’s current direction,” Pathan said on his YouTube channel. “If I were a selector or manager, I would have surely tried to give a young…

The cricket world witnessed an unexpected exchange this week between former India batter Mohammad Kaif and star pacer Jasprit Bumrah. Kaif had shared his observations on Bumrah’s bowling pattern during the Asia Cup 2025, which did not sit well with Bumrah. What began as a simple observation has now become a trending topic of debate on social media, with both Kaif and Bumrah publicly defending their viewpoints. The issue started a day earlier when Kaif pointed out that, under Suryakumar Yadav’s captaincy, Bumrah had been bowling three overs during the powerplay — something he didn’t do when Rohit Sharma was…

India batter Karun Nair is disappointed after being dropped for the upcoming home Test series against the West Indies. The Indian squad for the West Indies series was announced on Wednesday, and Karun’s name was missing. Young left-hander Devdutt Padikkal, who recently scored a century in the unofficial Test against Australia A, has returned to the side. “Yes, I did expect the selection,” Karun told the Times of India. “I don’t know what to say. No words. I don’t have many comments to make. It’s very difficult for me to answer. You should probably ask the selectors what they are…