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Following Pakistan’s impressive win over India in their T20 World Cup 2021 match in Dubai on Sunday night, fans of the Green Shirts broke out the proverbial keg, while press and pundits from the other side of the border dissected the Virat Kohli-led side’s humbling defeat. Analysts, commentators and newspapers from India acknowledged that Babar Azam’s men were far superior on the night, and …

LONDON: Liverpool swept to a stunning 5-0 win at arch rivals Manchester United as Mohamed Salah’s hat-trick and Paul Pogba’s red card condemned the hosts to one of the darkest days in their history, while West Ham United beat London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Ten years after Manchester City’s infamous 6-1 victory at Old Trafford, Liverpool inflicted one of …

SHARJAH: As Afghanistan prepared for their opening match in the T20 World Cup against Scotland, captain Mohammad Nabi played a straight bat on Sunday to the inevitable questions on politics. “Everyone knows that back home in Afghanistan there’s a lot happening and everything from the last few months,” he acknowledged in the press conference ahead of the game in Sharjah …

SHARJAH: Brilliant knocks from Charith Asalanka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa rallied former champions Sri Lanka to a five-wicket victory over a sloppy Bangladesh side in their bad-tempered opening T20 World Cup’s Super 12 match on Sunday. Chasing an imposing target of 172, the 2014 champions saw Asalanka (80 not out) and Rajapaksa (53) lead them to victory for a fourth successive …

In sports and everything, unless it’s a law or a principle, nothing lasts forever. Dominant teams, serial winners, unbeaten players — all eventually meet their match or are caught on their off day someday. For disappointed Pakistani fans to think their team would never beat India in a World Cup match was wrong. And for Indians fans to think their …

A “brave” question in the news conference brought some moments of amusement for India captain Virat Kohli in an otherwise chastening night for his team, who were thrashed by arch-rivals Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday. India went into the Dubai blockbuster with a 12-0 record in World Cup matches against their neighbours but Pakistan ended that streak with a …

One thing Pakistan has an unlimited supply of is cricket analysts. The nation obsessed with the bat-and-ball sport boasts millions who think they are the biggest fans and know everything there is to know about it. Ahead of the Pakistan-India blockbuster, Dawn.com decided to test the knowledge of such diehards as talk is cheap. So if you think you have a comprehensive …

Fans of India and Pakistan called for “peace” and more cricket between the two Asian giants ahead of the blockbuster clash at the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday. The arch-rivals will lock horns in Dubai in one of the biggest games of the tournament with an expected television audience of up to one billion people. But matches between the two …

ABU DHABI: Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade combined in a crucial 40-run stand to help Australia beat South Africa by five wickets in a low-scoring thriller in their opening Super 12 clash in the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday. Stoinis and Wade held their nerve superbly during an unbroken sixth-wicket stand to take Australia past their 119-run target with the …

SHARJAH: Sri Lanka have already made their mark in the Twenty20 World Cup with commanding wins in the preliminary round and will go into their Super 12 contest against Bangladesh on Sunday with a slight edge, the team’s captain Dasun Shanaka has said. The island nation, who won the 2014 edition of the tournament, stamped their authority over the game’s …