Tag: spin

Ben Stokes, everybody agrees, is a man on a mission. But it might be more accurate to call him a man on two missions. He doesn’t merely long to make Test cricket exciting: he yearns to make selection boring.Picking the England team used to be a national sport. The ...

Tea Sri Lanka 312 and 210 for 6 (Dhananjaya 53*, Madushka 52, Ramesh 19*, Noman 3-59, Agha 2-25) lead Pakistan 461 (Shakeel 208*, Ramesh 5-136) by 61 runsAs Pakistan have experienced too often in the past, Dhananjaya de Silva stands between them and a straightforward Test victory in Galle ...

Suyash, with the main-hoo-na tribute Suyash Sharma, Kolkata Knight Riders’ 19-year-old mystery spinner, seems like someone who had wandered off into the cricket field from a Qawwali night at the Eden maidan. Flock of hair, girdled in a bandana, dangling down his shoulders, fresh-faced and quick hands, he looks ...

Ben Duckett described Abrar Ahmed as "basically a legspinner who has a good googly" and hinted that England will look to go even harder against him in the second innings, after the Pakistan debutant took 7 for 114 in 22 overs on the first day in Multan.Duckett, who made ...

Teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has told England he would be ready for an international debut if the opportunity were to present itself to become their youngest men’s Test cricketer this winter. The Leicestershire all-rounder has played just three first-class games but has been selected in the England Lions squad ...

The founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream said Sunday that parent company Unilever violated their original social justice-focused merger agreement by allowing the sale of the company’s products in West Bank settlements. Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods conglomerates, acquired Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 under ...

Are Asian batters the best at attacking spin? While popular perception given the pitches in the sub-continent might indicate that they are, the numbers tell a different story, especially in T20 cricket.Mickey Arthur, who has coached Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as teams in the PSL and BPL, ...

The claim suggests that the incident was a result of communal violence, where the victim was dragged and tortured by people from the Muslim community. The viral post was uploaded by Zee Hindustan, and the video has more than 355K views.It was uploaded with a caption in Hindi, "पाकिस्तान ...

Some time during the second one-day international between England and South Africa, while Anrich Nortje was unleashing thunderbolts in the Manchester gloom, the BBC’s lead commentator, Jonathan Agnew, wondered why the Proteas possess a seemingly endless supply of fast-bowling talent. A number of variables were mentioned but one in ...

On conducting a keyword search on Google using 'man distributed saffron scarf to women', we came across a Hindustan Times report.The report stated that a fight broke out at a cinema hall in Nashik, Maharashtra on 23 March, after some women, who went to watch The Kashmir Files wearing ...