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DHAKA: Bangladesh on Sunday named batsman Najmul Hossain Shanto captain for the third One-day International against New Zealand and brought several senior players back. Mushfiqur Rahim, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, and Shoriful Islam would join Najmul for the must-win contest at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday. New Zealand are leading the three-match series 1-0 thanks to …

INDORE: India batsmen Shub­man Gill and Shreyas Iyer scored centuries to lay the platform for a 99-run win over Australia in their rain-hit second One-day International in Indore on Sunday that sealed a 2-0 series victory ahead of the World Cup. A revised victory target of 317 in 33 overs following a rain interruption left Australia facing a daunting task …

India claimed the first world record of the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday as hosts China snapped up more gold medals and 15-year-old skateboarder Hinano Kusaki triumphed for Japan. The Indian trio of Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil and Aishwary Tomar blew away the field with a new world-best 1,893.7 points to win the men’s 10m air rifle team event on …

There’s a reverential hush from the respectful crowd as Pakistan’s Sadia Iqbal opens the bowling to Bangladesh’s Shathi Rani in the Asian Games women’s bronze medal match in Hangzhou. The sound of leather on willow echoes around the purpose-built cricket ground, which until recently was full of sunflowers. The atmosphere is more village green than the fever pitch of, say, Lahore’s Gaddafi …

With just a few days left for the World Cup, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday raised concerns regarding “extraordinary delays” in the issuance of Indian visas for the national team with the International Cricket Council (ICC). “We have written to ICC raising our concerns about inequitable treatment towards Pakistan and reminding them of these obligations towards the World Cup,” …

DHAKA: Ish Sodhi became the first New Zealand spinner to claim six wickets in a One-day International, guiding the Black Caps to an 86-run victory in the second match of their three-match series in Bangladesh. Sodhi contributed a crucial 35 with the bat as well to go with his career-best 6-39 as New Zealand registered their first victory in Bangladesh …

NEW DELHI: India have become only the second team in men’s cricket history to occupy the number one spot across all three formats after defeating Australia in the first ODI on Friday. The Indian team moved past arch-rivals Pakistan to take the top position in the One-day International rankings as a result of their latest victory, just before they host …

LAHORE: Team director Mickey Arthur will join Pakistan cricket squad on Sept 30 in Hyderabad where the green-shirts will play their opening match of the ICC World Cup against the Netherlands on Oct 6. The Babar Azam-led Paki­stan are scheduled to play their first warm-up of the mega event in Hyderabad on Sept 29 against New Zealand. The South Africa-born …

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and Asian Games organisers are examining the issue of three Indian athletes unable to join the games in China due to a visa problem, acting OCA President Raja Randhir Singh said on Sunday. “OCA is looking into it, definitely,” as well as organisers and the government, Singh told a press conference in the eastern …

In-form Sri Lanka, fresh from a stunning Twenty20 series victory in England, beat Pakistan by six wickets on Sunday to reach the women’s cricket final at the Asian Games and set up a clash with India. Pakistan never got going on a difficult batting surface affected by days of rain at the Zhejiang University of Technology ground in Hangzhou, and …