Weekly CRICKET Review - LXvii | Tigers with a historic win
Hello, fellow Cricket Enthusiasts,
You already know I am sharing a weekly wrap-up of what is happening within the Cricket community. It's the 67th edition now. Test Cricket is back with a few banging tournaments and the leagues have become a never-ending part of the game now. So, let's see what's happening!! You can read my previous post from here.
South Africa tour of West Indies, 2024
As I told you last week, after the Test series win by SA, West Indies came back with a clean sweep in the T20I series.
After getting invited to bat first in the second T20I, WI got a decent start. With a small collapse in the middle, Powell and Rutherford power muscled at the end carrying them to 179 runs. In the reply, SA went off for a fiery start, especially by Reeza Hendricks. They scored 67 runs in the first 5 overs. but after the first wicket, they lost the momentum and collapsed towards the end. From 129/3 in 14 overs they were all out for 149 runs. Romario Shepherd and Shamar Joseph shared 3 wickets each.
The rain interrupted in the third match resulting in a 13-over game. Even though SA couldn't do much, scoring 108/4 with Stubb's 40* off 15 balls. With WI in beast mode, they just chased the target in 9.2 overs. Sai Hope, Pooran, and Hetmyer smashed with over 175 strike rates hammering all SA batting units. Sai Hope won the Man of the Series award.
Sri Lanka tour of England, 2024
- As I said in the last week, in the first Test match between the two, SL had a lousy start. SL could only score 236 in the first inning and England put 358 runs in the reply. With 122 runs behind, SL put up a considerably good fightback., with another century from Kamindu and two fifties from Chandimal and Mathews.
Chasing 205 runs was not easy under the circumstances. Asitha and Prabath took wickets and England was 119/4 at one moment. but Root and Brook carried the innings marking a 5-wicket victory.
- The second test match was simply the brilliance and dominance of England at Lords. First, they ended up scoring 427 runs with 143 from Root and Gus Atkinson amazed everyone by scoring 118 runs as scoring a century in Lords is a dream for the batters even. Asitha Fernando took Fifer to feature in the Lord's honors board. Then they restricted Sri Lanka to just 196 runs.
In the second innings Eng. added another 251 runs, with one more century from Root. It's his 34th and in the past 03 years, he is in a different mode justifying being the no. 01 in Test batting. Chasing 482 runs in the final inning is almost impossible and SL's top order couldn't do much damage. Dimuth, Mathews, Chandimal, and Dananjaya scored fifties but Gus Atkinson took 5 wickets and England won it by 190 runs.
Bangladesh tour of Pakistan, 2024
- History made by Bangladesh in Pakistan marking their first Test win against Pakistan in Pakistan. We know how Rawalpindi Stadium works just like we know about Galle Stadium. As predicted, Pakistan scored 448/6 before declaring with 171 runs from Mohammad Rizwan and 141 from Saud Shakeel
But things didn't go as planned for Pakistan. Bangladesh ended up scoring 565 runs. Mushfiqur Rahim led the chase scoring 191 runs and Shadman Islam, Mominul, Litton Das and Miraz contributed with half-centuries. being 117 runs behind Pakistan's second inning was a disaster. It's just 146 runs falling to spinners. So, it's an easy win for the Tigers chasing 30 runs without a wicket.
The second Test is underway.
Other ongoing series
- Canada, Netherland, USA T20I Tri-Series, 2024
- ICC Mens T20 World Cup Sub Regional East Asia-Pacific Qualifier A, 2024
- ICC Mens T20 World Cup Sub Regional Europe Qualifier C, 2024
- Malaysia, Kuwait, Hongkong T20I Tri-Nations Cup, 2024
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