Paceman Kyle Jamieson took five for 69 as New Zealand overcame some stiff Pakistan resistance to dismiss the tourists for 297 at close of play on the opening day of the second and final test at Christchurch on Sunday.Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and elected to bat in the second test against South Africa at The Wanderers Stadium on Sunday.
Right-arm fast bowler Kyle Jamieson on Sunday picked his third five-wicket haul of his Test career as New Zealand dismissed Pakistan for 297 in their first innings of the second and final Test at the Hagley Oval. While Jamieson returned with brilliant figures of 5/69 in his 21 overs and was the star of the show, Azhar Ali starred for the visitors as he scored 93 runs and helped the team reach a respectable total in their first innings.
Live Cricket Score South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Day 1, SA vs SL at Johannesburg: Disastrous first session for Sri Lanka. From 71/1 they have been reduced to 84/5. In space of just few overs, wow. What precise bowling from Proteas. Especially Mulder who had already accounted for THREE wickets. That would be LUNCH and things are looking grim for the visitors.Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat in the second and final test against South Africa on Sunday and was forced into four changes as it seeks to level the series.
Ajinkya Rahane is brave, smart, calm and has the respect of his team, former Australia skipper Ian Chappell has said while praising India's stand-in Test captain. India registered an emphatic eight-wicket win over Australia in the second Test of the ongoing four-match series, days after suffering a humiliating loss at the Adelaide when the team got bundled out for mere 36 at the Adelaide Oval.
A 16-member squad has been announced by Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) for the upcoming three-match ODI series against Ireland, scheduled to be played in Oman. The series was scheduled to be held in United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, due to visa issues the series will be held in Oman, ACB has informed.
Rohit Sharma and four other cricketers who were videographed in a Melbourne resturant, and now are being trolled for allegedly odering food containing beef, have found support with the fans of the Mumbai Indians skipper hitting back at the trolls for targetting Rohit on Twitter
There are clouds over the fourth and final Test between India and Australia, to be hosted at Brisbane. While the Indians have made it clear that they do not wish to go to Queensland due to strict Covid rules, on the other hand the Australian team seems to have no problem with it. A source from the Indian team had told Cricbuzz, “If you look at it, we were quarantining for 14 days in Dubai before landing in Sydney and doing so for another 14 days. That means we were in a hard bubble for nearly a month before coming out. What we don’t want now is to quarantine again at the end of the tour.
Former India captain and BCCI president, who underwent angioplasty for the three blocked coronary arteries, is under constant vigil on his health situation and the treating are taking appropriate measures from time to time, a bulletin issued by the private hospital where Ganguly is admitted, said.
The Indian team's practice session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) was on Sunday cancelled due to rain and the players were forced to train indoors. In the absence of outdoor activities, the players had a gym session as they continued their preparations for the third Test starting in Sydney from January 7.
Even as Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and three other cricketers are in the dock for apparent quarantine breach in Melbourne, the cricketers now find themselves in a controversy of a different sort altogether.
While there are reports of India not wanting to go to Brisbane for the fourth Test due to hard quarantine, Australia is rather keen on travelling there and closing out the series. Just for the record, the Aussies have not lost a Test there since 1988 and India have never won there.
Steyn played in three matches in the IPL 2020 for RCB and claimed one wicket. He last played in the Lanka Premier League representing the Kandy Tuskers.
It was in early 2019 that Mayank Agarwal marked his Test debut with a fifty against Australia, away from home. He turned heads with his stellar performances in the next two years, but it's in the current series against the Aussies that he is found wanting. In the series he has just managed scores of 17, 9, 0 and 5 in the two Tests. What is more worrying is the way he is getting out repeatedly.
Sourav Ganguly Health News Live Updates: Puri sand artist Sundatsan Pattnaik has created a sand sculpture of Sourav Ganguly with a message 'GET WELL SOON' at Puri beachWhen it was announced that Chris Pine would be returning for Wonder Woman 1984, there was a mix of confusion and excitement from fans. The actor had been one of the first movie’s undoubted highlights, but not only was Steve Trevor killed off in the third act as he made a heroic sacrifice play, but even if they’d retconned it to have him survive then he’d be 66 years older, and Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk is far too handsome to be slathered in old age makeup.
However, after the blockbuster sequel was released on HBO Max and into theaters on Christmas Day, a lot of people wished the creative team had come up with something much better and a whole lot less creepy. Having wished for Steve to return via the Dreamstone, Gal Gadot’s Diana Prince gets a shock when the love of her life turns up but has inhabited another man’s body.
Once the initial surprise of seeing a dead World War I pilot assume the physical form of a random dude wears off, Diana does what anyone would do in the same circumstances by immediately brushing off the fact that Steve’s hijacked someone else’s life, presumably sent their consciousness off to purgatory and commandeered their flesh by having sex with him.
The plot point has generated more than a little backlash, but despite the questionable setup, it does yield one of Wonder Woman 1984‘s most emotionally powerful moments when Steve convinces Diana that finally letting him go is the right thing to do, and in a recent interview, Pine admitted that it was a difficult scene to shoot.
“We shot that off of Pennsylvania Avenue. We shot that that day when we did part of that huge, week-long sequence running down Pennsylvania Avenue, and her running down and then her lassoing up. We did it in stages, and we went behind this pillar and did the scene. It’s a really hard scene to do, especially when there’s a lot of other action and stuff to do in the rest of the day, and certainly really emotional for her. And Patty’s just very good about making sure we have the space to really figure out the scene and make it authentic, and then really pushing us as actors to get there, and not accepting anything less than absolute truth. It really was a credit to Gal for being so emotionally open and Patty for being such a stickler.”
Two great performances from the stars in the moment along with the sense of loss and pain marked against Diana’s desire to do the right thing give the scene plenty of impact, it’s just a shame we had to get their by such bizarre means in the first place.
Live Cricket Score New Zealand vs Pakistan, 2nd Test, Day 1, NZ vs PAK at Christchurch: Azhar Ali has smashed a solid 50 while skipper Mohammad Rizwan has stepped up again to bail Pakistan out of trouble, after the top-order failed again. They are 134-4.
