Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul hit hundreds as Cricket World Cup hosts India geared up for the semi-finals with a crushing 160-run victory over the Netherlands on Sunday to keep intact their 100% record with nine group wins. After their colleagues had departed following breezy fifties on a good M […]
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 20th over: India 140-2 (Kohli 14, Shreyas 8) de Leede continues. Shreyas picks up his first boundary through mid on. Shreyas and Kohli grin in the middle 19th over: India 133-2 (Kohli 13, Shreyas 3) In […]
World Champion status may have ended up in the bin but, ahem, European bragging rights belong to England. An incendiary century from Ben Stokes helped brush aside the Netherlands for a 160-run victory in Pune that lifted Jos Buttler’s men off the bottom of the World Cup table – not […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature “Good morning Rob,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “There were a lot of discussions on Angelo Matthews in the OBO yesterday till the MadMax screening took over. The irony of the jump in focus from one for whom […]
Australia’s World Cup campaign is gathering momentum after they demolished the Netherlands by a record 309 runs in Delhi on the back of Glenn Maxwell blasting the fastest century in tournament history. After starting the World Cup in India with two disappointing defeats, Australia made it three wins in a […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 2nd over: Australia 11-0 (Warner 2, Marsh 9) Spin from both ends with Colin Ackermann taking the second new ball. Over the wicket to the right-handed Marsh, around to the left-handed Warner, there’s no spin to […]
Virgil van Dijk scored a stoppage-time penalty to give the Netherlands a crucial 1-0 win in Greece to keep alive their hopes of Euro 2024 qualification. Following last week’s defeat in Amsterdam by France, the Group B leaders, who secured their own place at the finals, the Dutch were in […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Half-time entertainment. Photograph: Internet GEORGE: What is Holland?JERRY: What do you mean, ‘what is it?’ It’s a country right next to Belgium.GEORGE: No, that’s the Netherlands.JERRY: Holland is the Netherlands.GEORGE: Then who are the Dutch? Photograph: […]