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Daryl Mitchell and Michael Bracewell made half centuries in a 105-run sixth wicket partnership to help lead New Zealand to an eight-run win over Sri Lanka on Saturday in the first of three T20 internationals.

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First Innings null Score - 474/10 in 122.4 overs null batting performance Steven Smith 140(197)Marnus Labuschagne 72(145)Jasprit Bumrah 28.4-99-4Ravindra Jadeja 23-78-3Second Innings null Score - 164/5 in 46.0 overs null batting performance Australia vs India Live Score: Pat Cummins, the skipper of Australia, is up for a quick chat with the broadcasters. He begins by saying that Steven Smith batter really well this morning and is delighted to get those late wickets towards the end of the day.

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Rohit Sharma seems to have nothing left in the tank. «Tough times for him,» the legendary Sunil Gavaskar said while on air with broadcasters '7Cricket'.

Jasprit Bumrah came naturally to Sam Konstas, it had something to do with an innocuous mistake his father committed during the teenager's childhood training. Making a Test debut that will be talked about for a long time, Konstas lived up to the hype around his talent by smashing an impressive 60 off 65 balls when the Boxing Day Test got underway here on Thursday.

Sam Konstas will replace Nathan McSweeney in the fourth Test of the ongoing five-match series against India. The 19-year-old is set to become the youngest-ever Australian opener when he makes his debut on Thursday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her second comprehensive budget after the 2024 general elections. The budget proposals are expected to focus on the ongoing theme of helping India transition to the envisioned "Viksit Bharat" of “Amrit Kaal." Hence, the focus will be on employment generation, skill development, and providing relief to a large mass of people distressed by inflation, with the overall objective of pushing up the GDP growth rate.

Renuka Thakur Singh's five-wicket haul powered India Women to a commanding 211-run victory over West Indies Women in the first ODI of the series at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Sunday. Having secured a 2-1 win in the preceding T20I series, India Women extended their dominance in white-ball cricket. The emphatic win on Tuesday gave the Women in Blue an early lead in the ODI series. West Indies, led by Hayley Matthews, won the toss and opted to field. However, Harmanpreet Kaur's team set a daunting target for the visitors in the first innings.

US government has just narrowly avoided a shutdown — and the speculation, confusion and concern around tech titan Elon Musk’s power in Washington is rampant. So rampant that President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary was forced to clarify. “As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view,” Karoline Leavitt explained about the plan to keep the government funded, known as a continuing resolution.“President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop.” This was not entirely convincing. It was not convincing because Musk, who gave Trump’s reelection effort a quarter of a billion dollars, has emerged as an unexpected, unelected and uncontrollable political powerhouse. He derailed the bipartisan plan to keep the government open and put Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s job in jeopardy by posting to his 200 million followers on X, the platform he owns.

Ravichandran Ashwin's surprise retirement midway through the India-Australia series, PM Narendra Modi wrote a letter to the star cricketer acknowledging and thanking him for his phenomenal services to cricket. «As you bid farewell to international cricket, jersey number 99 will be sorely missed. Cricket lovers will miss the sense of expectation they felt when you took to the crease to bowl — there was always a feeling that you were weaving a web around the opponents which would trap a victim any moment. You possessed an uncanny ability to outwit batsmen with good old off-spin as well as innovative variations, as the situation demanded,» the PM wrote. Referencing one of the iconic weapons from the off-spin great's legendary bag of tricks, PM Modi said the shock announcement by Ashwin felt like a «carrom ball that bowled everyone».

Arsenal side swept Crystal Palace aside 5-1 on Saturday to move just three points behind leaders Liverpool, as per a report. Gabriel Jesus, who scored a hat-trick against Palace in the League Cup at the Emirates on Wednesday, netted twice at Selhurst Park and was only denied a third by the width of a post, with Kai Havertz pouncing, AFP reported. Palace forward Ismaila Sarr, who had pulled his team level at 1-1, failed to make the most of two inviting opportunities early in the second half. Instead Arsenal added two more, climbing back into third place above Nottingham Forest, who had leapfrogged them earlier in the day.

Annabel Sutherland on Saturday continued her good form with the bat, registering her second consecutive ODI century against New Zealand in Wellington. Sutherland, who had scored a match-winning ton against India last week, pulled Australia out of trouble once again with an unbeaten 105 off 81 balls. Her effort carried the visitors to to 7-291 after they were put into bat in the second Rose Bowl ODI. The 23-year-old was given a lifeline on 67 in the 48th over and capitalised, hitting 33 runs from the next 11 balls she faced to bring up a 78-ball century.

Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh struck quickfire fifties as India outplayed West Indies by 60 runs to clinch the three-match women's T20I series 2-1 here on Thursday. Stand-in skipper Mandhana continued her red-hot form with a making 77 off 47 balls, before Richa Ghosh's 18-ball fifty powered India to a record 217/4, India's highest in the format. Mandhana, leading in the absence of Harmanpreet Kaur, struck 13 fours and a six. Following her dismissal, Richa (54, 21b; 3x4, 5x6) took charge to equal Sophie Devine and Phoebe Litchfield's record for the fastest half-century in Women's T20Is.

India Women Innings Highlights : India Women vs West Indies Women Live Score: India Women Raghvi Bist 3 (3) Smriti Mandhana 59 (33) West Indies Women Afy Fletcher 1/13 (2) India Women vs West Indies Women Live Score: OUT! lbw b Afy Fletcher. India Women vs West Indies Women Live Score: India Women Smriti Mandhana 57 (31) Jemimah Rodrigues 39 (27) West Indies Women Karishma Ramharack 0/29 (2) India Women vs West Indies Women Live Score: FOUR! Nicely done! Short and turning away, outside off, Smriti Mandhana waits on the back foot and cuts it late to get it to the right of backward point. It races away for a boundary.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Glenn Maxwell’s book The Showman, with Adam Collins, is meant to read like a story told in a pub. That’s how the Australian cricketer would like this book to be considered.

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Day 4 Highlights : New Zealand vs England Live Score: FOUR! Coming in from around the wicket, bowled back of a length, nips away. Jacob Bethell guides it off the full face of the bat past gully and picks up another boundary. New Zealand vs England Live Score: England Ollie Pope 5 (12) Jacob Bethell 62 (89) New Zealand Mitchell Santner 1/40 (7) New Zealand vs England Live Score: Full and outside off, drifting in.