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Cricket has witnessed some extraordinary transformations. Fast bowlers have reinvented themselves as batters. Ordinary-looking players have developed into world-class all-rounders. Talented youngsters have taken years to understand what international cricket demands of them. But few transformations have been quite as remarkable as that of Tillakaratne Dilshan. For
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Imagine two children growing up in the same city. One spends their afternoons playing cricket on a neighborhood street, using a plastic ball and whatever objects are available for wickets. The other attends tennis lessons at a private academy, plays golf with family friends on weekends, and accompanies their parents
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Bangladesh cricket has produced louder stars. Players whose sixes filled highlight reels. All-rounders who dominated multiple formats. Captains whose personalities became inseparable from the national team. Mominul Haque built his reputation differently. Leave outside off stump. Get behind the ball. Punish anything too full. Work the spinner through the
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Three hours. That, according to Mohammad Rizwan, was how long he believed investigators would need his mobile phone. Instead, weeks later, the former Pakistan white-ball captain says he still does not have it back. The device has now become the central object in an increasingly complicated dispute involving Rizwan,
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Fearless with the bat. Lightning behind the stumps. Relentless as a captain. That was Brendon McCullum. Born in Dunedin on September 27, 1981, the former New Zealand captain celebrates his 45th birthday today. His career produced bigger innings, faster hundreds and more spectacular sixes than most cricketers could dream of,
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Steve Smith’s Test career does not follow the usual shape we associate with an all-time great batter. Most elite Test batters spend their early years learning, rise toward their peak in their late 20s or early 30s, enjoy several dominant seasons, and then gradually decline as age catches
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Dean Elgar has spent most of his career doing the part of batting that modern cricket increasingly tries to escape. Leaving balls. Taking blows. Surviving movement. Making fast bowlers come back for another spell. Turning an ugly 35 into something more valuable than a beautiful 20. Now one of the
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Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d’Or winner who became one of English football’s most celebrated players, managers and personalities, has died at the age of 75 following a battle with cancer. Keegan died on July 20, 2026, surrounded by his wife and daughters. His family described him
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For cricket fans who watched international matches during the late 2000s and early 2010s, Hot Spot was once one of the most recognizable parts of the Decision Review System. A black-and-white thermal replay would appear on screen, and a bright white mark on the bat, pad, glove, or
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Cricket has lost one of the rare figures for whom the word legend never felt sufficient. Sir Garfield St Aubrun “Garry” Sobers, the Barbados-born West Indies icon widely regarded as the most complete cricketer the game has known, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 89. His
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Norway’s emphatic 5–0 victory over Israel in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier produced one of the national team’s most memorable sporting nights in years. Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick, passed 50 international goals and moved Norway significantly closer to its first World Cup appearance since
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Ben Stokes ended his international career as one of the most influential, dramatic, and versatile cricketers of the modern era. He produced unforgettable innings, delivered crucial bowling spells, took spectacular catches, captained England through a radical transformation, and repeatedly appeared at the center of cricket’s biggest moments. Yet one