I get up for tournament play and live for World Cups. You have to really shine on this stage. You have to emulate what you do in bilaterals over here. In this moment, we are staying in the present. Might enjoy that 20 years on. (Zampa's bowling) Proud of him. He was...
“If you want good team balance, you need a lot of all-rounders. All-rounders are big factors, not just in T20 cricket but in all formats, and their roles will be very important in this tournament,”Rohit Sharmasaid on Tuesday afternoon...
The New Zealanders, inaugural winners of the World Test Championship earlier this year, have still never won a title in one of the ICC’s white-ball World Cups. In 2019, New Zealand and England met at Lord’s in the final of the 50-over World Cup. Neither team had ever won the trop...
— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup)November 18, 2023 When Pakistan played India at the same venue earlier in the competition, their team director Mickey Arthur pointed out that the lack of away fans meant “it didn’t seem like an ICC event, it seemed like a BC...
Of course, let’s not forget about Morocco becoming the first team from Africa to reach the semi finals of a World Cup. A great achievement, eventually losing to France, 2-0. In comparison to other World Cups, Qatar 2022 is on the second level. Russia 2018 remains my favourite, with ...
it was the main venue for the first Olympic Games held in the Southern Hemisphere in 1956, a centrepiece for the 2006 Commonwealth Games and host to two cricket World Cups, in 1992 and 2015. Primarily a ground for AFL and cricket, with a capacity exceeding 100,000, it sits fondly in th...
Card says it fell to fan groups to “make do and actually do a lot of the work” at previous tournaments to conjure up the party spirit that defines World Cups. But for the first time, there will be official fan zones in all the host cities this year, which Card hop...
English football teams like ManchesterUnited, Chelsea and Liverpool are world-famous.Cricket is a traditional sport played with a bat(球拍)and a ball. It began in England and isnow played all over the world. England is a verymulticultural country and this has a big influenceon the food ...
where cricket hasn't been played seriously for a century.Rugby union morphed into American football while American happily holds a world series of baseball in which the only other country to compete is the recently admitted Canada.Any one suggesting that the world cups of cricket, rugby union or...
As one of the world’s oldest rugby teams, they contested their first international at Sydney Cricket Ground in 1899. The Australia rugby team is the second-most successful side in the history of The Rugby Championship, with four titles (joint with South Africa). They’re also the third-...