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Saud Shakeel’s century against Bangladesh boosted his Test batting average to 65.17, the second-highest among current batters with a minimum of 10 innings. He also equaled Saeed Ahmed’s record as the fastest Pakistani to 1,000 Test runs.

The teams may bring in some famous players for the next IPL season to take the place of their ailing mainstays.

Australia and South Africa players will miss almost first half of the IPL 2022 due to International duty.

Pat Cummins's promotion to the Australian captaincy may have come sooner than he bargained for, but for the nation's fast bowlers the appointment is long overdue.

Pat Cummins announced as new Australia Test captain. Steven Smith has been given the responsibility of Vice-captain. Cummins has taken 164 wickets in 34 Tests.

Virat Kohli is at second spot just behind Steve Smith in the latest ICC rankings for Test batsmen. Kohli gained two points for his half-century to get to 888 points.

The Australian opener also nominated his team-mates Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, Joe Burns and Marcus Stoinis to do the same. He also asked English journalist Piers Morgan to shave his head and come in support of medical staff.

Smith recorded his 24th century in 118th innings and he went past Indian skipper Virat Kohli who had achieved the feat in 123 innings.

Aus vs WI Live updates, Scores: Australia defeated West Indies by 15 runs in the tenth match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on Thursday. The ninth clash of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 witnessed a victory for New Zealand by a margin of 2 wickets against Bangladesh.

Steve Smith has admitted that the leadership of Australian cricket team had decided to tamper with the ball in a Test against South Africa. The act was later caught on camera.

Former captain Michael Clarke said he wishes the ball-tampering scandal engulfing the current Australia side "is a bad dream", as former cricketers reacted by slamming the players involved.

Smith and Khawaja batted through the final session in a 107-run partnership after openers Cameron Bancroft and David Warner had departed earlier in Australia`s reply to England`s 346.

Police said some 300 members of elite police units were on guard as the Australians landed at Dhaka`s Hazrat Shahjahal International Airport.

It must be remembered that all international and domestic players in Australia have been unemployed for more than a month, starting July 1 this year.

Referring to Smith's haul of 499 runs in the four-match series, Modi said,"I hope your visit to India is as productive as it has been for Steven Smith's batting, the other Australian Captain."

Steven Smith, who has replaced Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the Pune captain, began the season in style by smashing an unbeaten 84 yesterday to seal a seven wicket win for his team in its IPL opener against Mumbai Indians.

Pune needed 13 runs from the final over and Smith hit a six off the fourth ball, picking a Kieron Pollard slow ball needing another four for a win from two balls. He did not wait for the final delivery and hit the fifth ball of the final over to the stands to the huge roar of home crowd to reach 187 for 3 in 19.5 overs.

Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland on Wednesday took a dig at Virat Kohli, saying he is not sure if the Indian captain knows hot spell the "sorry" word.

Kohli is obviously a world class player and we expect him to comeback hard, said Smith.

Here's all the numbers and stats from the second day of Pune Test.