Arjit Kumar - Friday, Aug 01, 2025Left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz took three wickets in one over as Pakistan made a brilliant comeback and defeated West Indies by 14 runs in the first T20 International cricket match. After being invited to bat first, Pakistan scored 178 runs for six wickets, thanks to Sam Ayub's 57 runs off 38 balls, who was adjudged the best player of the match. In reply, the West Indies team could only score 164 runs for seven wickets despite a good start. The second and third T20 matches between these two teams will be played in Lauderhill on Saturday and Sunday.
Karun Nair hit his first half-century of the series and played a key role in taking India to 206/6 at stumps and handling the innings in this challenging phase. Nair is still unbeaten on 52, along with Washington Sundar, who played a brilliant innings by scoring 19* off 45 balls.
Chahal said, "I was tired of my life. Every day I cannot experience the same thing. Same things. Same worries. Crying for two hours. Sleeping for 2-3 hours, and still the same thing was happening. I thought it was better that it ends. This used to happen for 1-2 days in a month. 40-45 days, this time it continued even when I took a break from cricket. I only had thoughts, some people do this."
Australia Champions failed to chase down a target of 187 runs against South Africa Champions in the second semi-final of the World Championship of Legends. After winning the toss and opting to bat, AB de Villiers of South Africa Champions could not repeat his form from the previous game and got out quite early but JJ Smuts and Morne van Wyk made it feel like his dismissal did not matter. They started collecting boundaries at the end of the powerplay and continued to bat well for many overs after that. Both batsmen scored individual half-centuries but things started to change in the second half of the innings. After Smuts got out, the incoming batsmen could not get going and Van Wyk played a brilliant innings of 76 runs.
England fast bowler Chris Woakes is suspected to have dislocated his shoulder during the fifth Test against India at the Oval, dealing a major blow to the home team's hopes of winning the series.
“I wish Kuldeep had played in Manchester (fourth Test), Lord’s (third Test) and Birmingham (second Test) as well. Without a good spin bowler, it will be difficult to bowl teams out on the fifth day of a Test. On a pitch that had a little bit of turn, there was no good spinner,” Ganguly said at an event at Bisco Farm, according to The Hindu
Shubman Gill set the record for most runs in a Test series by an Indian captain by scoring 737* against England in 2025. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's 732 runs against West Indies in the 1978/79 series. Virat Kohli's name is prominently included in this list, who scored 655 runs against England in 2016/17, 610 runs against Sri Lanka in 2017/18 and 593 runs against England in 2018.
