The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is set to kick off on June 1 (local time) with the co-hosts United States of America set to take on Canada in their first match of the campaign. While the West Indies host Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning and both matches will be preceded by an opening ceremony.
Leg-spinner Matt Parkinson fired his new County side Kent Spitfires to a massive win with his first professional hat-trick in the ongoing T20 Blast. After Joe Denly's 33-ball 56, Parkinson led Kent's bowling performance as Middlesex were bowled out for 106 while chasing 206 runs.
The T20 World Cup 2024 is set to open the game to a whole new audience in the United States with the country being the co-host of the marquee event. Virat Kohli, one of the biggest crowd-pullers, visited the US Consulate in Mumbai before leaving for the tournament and spoke on playing cricket in US.
Team India will begin its T20 World Cup campaign in the Big Apple on Saturday morning (local time) against Bangladesh. Virat Kohli joined the squad a day ago and thus there is an uncertainty over his participation but the main aim for the Men in Blue will be to get down to their best playing XI.
In a freewheeling chat, one of the stars of Sunrisers Hyderabad's magnificent campaign and the emerging player of IPL 2024, Nitish Kumar Reddy opened up on India ambitions, the No 4 role, similarity between MS Dhoni and Pat Cummins, pressure of expectations, life of an all-rounder and much more.
Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell had a forgettable IPL season for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), scoring just 52 runs in 10 matches. However, the senior Australian opener Usman Khawaja has backed him to return to his best in the T20 World Cup saying that IPL form won't be relevant.
It has been a rainy series in England with two games being washed out among the three and the collective hopes and prayers will be there for the match to take place in London on Thursday, May 30. England might be without Jos Buttler yet again but despite his absence, they have enough to win.
Former India opener Wasim Jaffer has suggested a rather innovative batting order for the T20 World Cup for the Men in Blue. Jaffer reckoned that India might be able to fit all three of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma with the skipper demoting himself to the middle order.
Sanju Samson, who got a nod ahead of the likes of KL Rahul and Jitesh Sharma as India's second wicketkeeping option for the T20 World Cup, admitted that he was far from being considered and had to put in a season to remember in the IPL, which he did as he achieved first-ever season fo 500 runs.
Oman, Canada and Namibia began their campaigns in the T20 World Cup with respective wins albeit in the warm-up matches. However, as they say, confidence is a big thing in big tournaments and all of them will be keen to take this momentum in their next warm-up games and then the T20 World Cup.
Major League Cricket (MLC) ahead of its second edition has officially received the List-A status. The success of the inaugural season in Texas and Morrisville and the involvement of some of the biggest T20 stars kept the tournament in good stead and now the official T20 status is cherry on the top.
Rafael Nadal suffered a first-round exit at the French Open after losing to Alexander Zverev while the former England captain Eoin Morgan has picked India as favourites for the T20 World Cup saying that they have the strongest squad. Here's a look at the top 10 trending sports stories on May 28.
Joe Burns, the 34-year-old Australian batter is set to make a move to Italy for the latter part of his career after confirming his brother's death which happened earlier this year. Burns, who represented Australia in 29 matches across two formats, last played for his country in 2020 against India.
Cricket Australia on Tuesday (May 28) confirmed that Australia A will be hosting India A for a couple of red-ball games including one at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ahead of the five-match Border-Gavaskat Trophy. India have won the last four Test series against Australia, two at home and two away.
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