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LONDON: Joe Root should step down as England Test captain following his side’s series loss to the West Indies, former skipper Michael Vaughan told the BBC. Root’s position is under the spotlight after a 1-0 series defeat which came on the back of a woeful 4-0 Ashes thrashing by Australia. That extended England’s poor run to four successive Test series defeats. …

LONDON: The head coach is gone. The director of the team is gone. The captain might go soon after just one win in 17 Tests over the past 14 months. The English cricket team is in disarray, with what can only be described as its winter of discontent capped by a 10-wicket loss to the West Indies on Sunday that …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Monday that the West Indies will tour Pakistan in June to play three ODIs in Rawalpindi which were postponed due to Covid-19 cases in the tourists’ squad during their visit last year. “Rawalpindi will host the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League matches against the West Indies at the Pindi Cricket Stadium …

PORTO: With a spot on the line for what could be his fifth and final World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo needs to avoid an upset like the one that ended Italy’s hopes of making it to the tournament in Qatar. Portugal face a winner-take-all game on Tuesday against North Macedonia, the team that shocked Italy last week to keep the four-time …

LAHORE: Pakistan will continue their ICC ODI Super League campaign against a depleted Australian side at the Gaddafi Stadium here on Tuesday with the visitors losing two of their players on the eve of the first of the three-One-day Inter­national series. Australia, already without key players due to different reasons, have been dealt by an injury to seasoned all-rounder Mitchell Marsh while …

Australian cricketers Josh Inglis and Ashton Agar have tested positive for Covid-19 in Pakistan ahead of four white-ball internationals in Lahore over the next week, leaving the tourists facing a potential player shortage. Wicketkeeper Inglis tested positive on Monday, while spinner Ashton Agar and team physio Brendan Wilson failed tests on Tuesday. All other players and staff tested negative, Cricket …

Pakistan won the toss and elected to field against an understrength Australia in the first one-day international on Tuesday. Fast bowler Nathan Ellis and legspinner Mitchell Swepson will make their ODI debuts for Australia after the visitors’ white-ball squad was hit by coronavirus infections. Left-arm spinner Ashton Agar was ruled out of the three-match series after a COVID-19 test returned positive …

ST. GEORGE’S: West Indies clinched the Botham-Richards Trophy with an emphatic 10-wicket victory over England in the deciding Test of the series on day four at the Grenada National Stadium on Sunday. Chasing a token target of 28 in their second innings after earlier dismissing England for 120, West Indies reached it without loss, captain Kraigg Brathwaite hitting the winning …

WELLINGTON: Aust­ralia will play the West Indies and South Africa will play England in the semi-finals of the Women’s Cricket World Cup after the makeup of the top four was finally decided on Sunday on the last ball of the last match in the league stage. Mignon du Preez hit the winning run from the final ball of the final …

LAHORE: For someone who’d once bowled with Australia’s feared three-pronged bowling attack of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood during a nets session, missing out on making his Test debut against them must have felt like a blow. But Haris Rauf is backing himself to perform in the three-match One-day International against Australia which begins with the first game …