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Virat Kohli owns the MCG in thrilling finish against Pakistan
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Sunday, 23 October 2022 06:36
India 163 for 6 (Kohli 82*, Hardik 40) beat Pakistan 159 for 8 (Masood 52*, Iftikhar 51, Arshdeep 3-32, Hardik 3-30) by four wicketsThat front foot...Just the way it lunges at the ball...Even in this game...Even against these guys...Virat Kohli isn't a man. He is a feeling. It's why every time he walks out to bat, he lifts the entire…
Drama at the death - a ball-by-ball account of a cracking finish at the MCG
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Sunday, 23 October 2022 06:29
It swung wildly, one way now, the other way a moment later. Till it came down to 31 from 12. Haris Rauf. Just three from his first four balls. That made it 28 from eight. Advantage Pakistan. Hold on, said Virat Kohli. Bang, and bang, and it was 16 from six, to be bowled by Mohammad Nawaz, the weak link…
Kohli: My best T20 innings because of the 'magnitude of the game and the situation'
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Sunday, 23 October 2022 06:25
He might have been "lost for words" by the end of it, but Virat Kohli was sure that his undefeated 53-ball 82 against Pakistan on Sunday in India's men's T20 World Cup opener at the MCG was the best T20 innings of his career, "because of the magnitude of the game and what the situation was".From 31 for 4, when…
Hundred critic Richard Gould becomes new ECB chief executive
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Sunday, 23 October 2022 06:28
Richard Gould, a prominent critic of the Hundred during his tenure at Surrey, has been appointed chief executive at the ECB, beating Durham's Tim Bostock to the role. Gould has spent the last 18 months as CEO at Bristol City Football Club but was previously involved in county cricket for 16 years, spending six years as Somerset's chief executive before…
Neighbours out to prove a point in rare World Cup clash
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Sunday, 23 October 2022 03:54
Big pictureIt doesn't have quite the same hype as the Trans-Tasman or subcontinent derbies, but the meeting of two southern African neighbours has all the makings of a classic match-up.There's an obvious favourite: South Africa, who have never lost a T20I to Zimbabwe and only been defeated by them in two ODIs. One of those was at the 1999 ODI…
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