Virgil van Dijk deflected several questions about his looming confrontation with Lionel Messi but admitted the Netherlands would be cautious in their approach against Argentina in Friday’s World Cup quarter-final.
Australia are absolutely “buzzing” after clinching their maiden T20 World Cup title and will bring that confidence into their Ashes series against England, fast bowler Pat Cummins said on Wednesday.
Next year’s Twenty20 World Cup will be held across seven venues in Australia, officials confirmed Tuesday, with Sri Lanka and the West Indies forced to play for a place in the Super 12.
As fireworks lit up the Dubai sky after Sunday’s Twenty20 World Cup final and shimmering confetti rained on the jubilant Australian team, the organisers heaved a huge sigh of relief at the safe and glitzy culmination of the showpiece event.
Australia skipper Aaron Finch won six of his seven tosses on the way to his team's maiden Twenty20 World Cup trophy and admitted it played a "big part".
David Warner came into the Twenty20 World Cup after being dropped from his IPL side but finished with 289 runs and a stand out star in Australia's maiden title victory.
Mitchell Marsh smashed an unbeaten 77 as Australia hammered New Zealand by eight wickets to clinch their maiden Twenty20 World Cup title on Sunday with captain Aaron Finch describing the achievement as “huge”.
“ These are a great bunch of guys, great support staff, and great support around the world, especially back home. Always pumped, wanted to put on a spectacle. There were some nerves around as always in a final but great to see the guys deliver.”
Former Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury called Nazmul Hassan, the current president of the board, ‘incompetent’ and blamed him for Bangladesh’s awful showing at the ongoing T20 World Cup in the UAE.
Shakib al Hasan, who is recovering from his hamstring injury that he sustained during Bangladesh’s third game of the ICC T20 World Cup Super 12 stage against West Indies, is uncertain for the upcoming three-match T20I series against Pakistan at home starting from November 19.
Bangladesh cricket’s lamentable state of affairs following their abysmal T20 world cup campaign in the middle east has brought backlash on all fronts from the press and social media alike.
Followed by their disastrous T20 World Cup campaign, in which Bangladesh lost all five of their Super 12 games, the Tigers will be returning home empty-handed.
A dejected Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah Riyad walked into the press conference area after competing in a disastrous ICC T20 World Cup campaign, in which the Tigers went on to lose all the five Super 12 games after their crushing eight-wicket defeat to Australia in Dubai yesterday.
Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 20 runs at the T20 World Cup on Thursday, confirming the defending champions’ elimination from the tournament.
Bangladesh’s final Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup summed up the sordid state of the Tigers
Firm favourites New Zealand will look to inch closer to the semifinals when they take on a struggling Namibia in Group 2 Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup in Sharjah today.
Scotland skipper Kyle Coetzer hopes to engineer a World Cup upset of India today, fired up by memories of playing alongside honorary Scotsman Rahul Dravid, the new coach of the Asian giants.
Following a dreadful outing at the ICC T20 World Cup in Dubai where they lost all five Super 12 games, a demoralised Bangladesh team will board a return flight today.
