Pak has advantage over India in Dubai, says Babar on WT20 tie
KARACHI, Sep 5: Pakistan captain Babar Azam is confident that familiarity of playing loads of matches in Dubai gives his team an advantage over India when they face-off in their opening league games of the ICC World T20 on October 24.
Pakistan have had very little success against India in ICC tournament save the 2017 Champions Trophy final at the Oval but at the Dubai International Stadium, they have played 36 T20 Internationals winning 21 of them. (PTI)
Du Plessis slams first century of CPL as Kings end Patriots’ streak
ST. KITTS & NEVIS, Sep 5: South African star Faf du Plessis struck the first century of the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to help St Lucia Kings end the unbeaten run of the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots with a 100-run win here.
Du Plessis batted though the innings as he recorded his highest T20 score of 120 not out off just 60 balls after Saint Lucia Kings were put in to bat. The Kings scored a mammoth 224/2 in 20 overs. St. Kitts & Nevis succumbed to 124 despite some fireworks from Evin Lewis (73) as a disciplined bowling performance from the Kings won them the day.
In another match, Chandrapaul Hemraj struck 105 not out to guide Guyana Amazon Warriors to a nine-wicket win over Barbados Royals. (PTI)
NZ thump Bangladesh in 3rd T20
Dhaka, Sep 5: Left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel claimed a career-best 4-16 as New Zealand kept alive its Twenty20 series against Bangladesh with a thumping 52-run victory in the third game on Sunday.
Off-spinner Cole McConchie (3-15) and left-arm spinner Rachin Ravindra (1-13) also played their part in dismissing Bangladesh for only 76 in 19.4 overs after New Zealand had recovered from 62-5 to a total of 128-5 on a slow surface.
It was Bangladesh’s joint second-lowest total in this format.
New Zealand’s Henry Nicholls and Tom Blundell shared 66 runs for the unbeaten sixth wicket. Nicholls was not out on 36 off 29 deliveries with Blundell on a run-a-ball 30.
Bangladesh now leads the series 2-1. (AP)
Rahul fined for showing dissent
DUBAI, Sep 5: India opener KL Rahul was on Sunday fined 15 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire’s decision when he was adjudged caught behind following a DRS review on the third day of the fourth Test against England in London.
The incident occurred in the 34th over of India’s second innings on Saturday. Rahul scored a patient 46 off 101 balls before being caught off James Anderson.
It was a breach of Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct. In addition to this, one demerit point has been added to the disciplinary record of Rahul, for whom it was the first offence in a 24-month period.
Rahul admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by Match Referee Chris Broad. (PTI)