off the final 12 balls, Mitchell smashed Chris Woakes for two sixes and a four before his 47-ball

Rohit Sharma top-scored with 127 — the opener’s first Test match hundred away from home — and put on 153 for the second wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara( 61).... But Ben Stokes, whose brilliant unbeaten century saw England to that nailbiting one-wicket win, is not playing in this series while the all-rounder takes a mental health break from all cricket.... India’s number eight batsman Thakur smashed his second fifty of the match and Pant his first of the series in a strong recovery by the touring

Join our Whatsapp channel WELLINGTON: England romped to a second comfortable victory over New Zealand in two weeks to secure a Test series triumph on Sunday with skipper Ben Stokes apparently enjoying a Midas touch with his every decision turning to gold. Stokes delivered the coup de grace at Wellington’s Basin Reserve himself, coming on to take the last three wickets at a cost of five runs to dismiss New Zealand for 259 and wrap up the 323-run victory with more than two days to spare. Seamers C

England beat Australia by 49 runs to win the fifth Test at The Oval on Monday and end the Ashes series all square at 2-2 after the tourists suffered a dramatic collapse. Australia, chasing a mammoth 384 to win, collapsed from 264-3 to 334 all out, with England’s retiring paceman Stuart Broad taking the final wicket. England did the bulk of the damage when, after a rain break of more than two hours, they took four Australia wickets for 11 runs in 19 balls. Off-spinner Moeen Ali( 3-76) and all-rou

England beat Australia by 49 runs to win the fifth Test at The Oval on Monday and end the Ashes series all square at 2-2 after the tourists suffered a dramatic collapse. Australia, chasing a mammoth 384 to win, collapsed from 264-3 to 334 all out, with England’s retiring paceman Stuart Broad taking the final wicket. England did the bulk of the damage when, after a rain break of more than two hours, they took four Australia wickets for 11 runs in 19 balls. Off-spinner Moeen Ali( 3-76) and all-rou

ABU DHABI: England raced to a second successive victory at the ICC Twenty20 World Cup with a ruthless eight-wicket drubbing of Bangladesh on Wednesday in the two nations’ first ever meeting in the format.... Opening batter Jason Roy marked his 50th T20 appearance by smashing 61 off 38 balls as England romped to their victory target of 125 in 14.1 overs in the Super 12 clash at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.... England, the world’s number one-ranked T20 team, top Group 1 with two big wi

Shardul Thakur marked his return to India duty with a record-breaking fifty that saw the tourists fight back on the first day of the fourth Test against England at the Oval on Thursday. Thakur made 57, including a fifty in just 31 balls — the fastest in terms of balls faced in a Test in England — as he revived India from 117-6 to a total of 191 all out after they had lost the toss in overcast, bowler-friendly conditions. Jasprit Bumrah then removed both the hosts' openers in the same over before

ADELAIDE: England were staring down the barrel of another sorry defeat on Saturday, dismissed for 236 then forced to watch as Australia batted again and stretched their lead in the day-night second Ashes Test in Adelaide. Joe Root and Dawid Malan had survived the opening session of day three unscathed, building a 128-run stand as they chased Australia’s imposing first-innings 473 for nine declared. But it all came crashing down after the dinner break with both players removed in quick succession

The Australian prime minister gave Rishi Sunak a photograph of Jonny Bairstow’s controversial Ashes stumping in the margins of the Nato summit. The two men had “ good cricket banter ” at a “ brush by ” meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, where they joked about their countries’ sporting rivalry. Anthony Albanese gave Mr Sunak a photograph of the moment Bairstow was stumped after walking out of his crease during the second Ashes test at Lord’s, believing the over had ended. The incident sparked abuse o

ADELAIDE: Joe Root fell in the final over of the fourth day Sunday to leave England in deep trouble at 82 for four chasing a massive 468 to win the second Ashes Test and needing a history-making miracle to avoid slumping 2-0 down in the series.No team has ever posted such a big score in a fourth innings to win in the history of Test cricket — with the West Indies’ 418 for seven in beating Steve Waugh’s Australia at St John’s in 2003 the highest.It is an even harder task at the Adelaide Oval, whe