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Set 205 to win, Head went in as a makeshift opener and plundered 123 from 83 balls

Mumbai are the defending champions of the competition having won it the previous year under Shreyas Iyer

Currently, Taijul Islam has 248 Test wickets in 57 matches and 102 innings. The left-arm spinner has scalped 17 fifers and two ten-fers. He surpassed Shakib's tally of 246 scalps in 71 games and 121 innings, along with 19 five-wicket hauls and two ten-fer.

Bavuma secured this milestone during his side's second Test against India in Guwahati. During the first innings, he scored 41 in 92 balls, with five fours. His runs came at a strike rate of over 44. A fine catch by Yashasvi Jaiswal gave his wicket to spinner Ravindra Jadeja and ended his stay at the crease in the third session.

During England's second innings in the Test match at Perth, Smith was cramped for room while attempting a pull on a delivery by Brendan Doggett and was given not out by on-field umpire Nitin Menon. Aussie skipper decided to review the decision via DRS, and it was overturned by the TV umpire Sharfuddoula after a lengthy delay.

Under the theme 'Indian Sports: Forging the Path to Global Excellence,' the summit united policymakers, athletes, global partners, and industry leaders to outline a collaborative strategy for India's accelerated success in international sports, according to a press release from FICCI.

In a tightly contested final, Mahit shot a combined score of 456.0 after 45 shots to win her second gold medal in the games. South Korea's Dain Jeong won silver with a final score of 453.5, while Mira Zsuzsanna Biatovszki of Hungary won bronze with a score of 438.6. Mahit also broke the Deaf Qualification World Record and the Deaflympics World Record enroute to the finals, as per a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).

At the end of the second session on Day 1, Proteas are 156/2 in 55 overs, with Temba Bavuma (36* off 86 balls) and Tristan Stubbs (32* off 82 balls) staying solid at the crease.

With this victory, the Black Caps whitewashed the Caribbeans 3-0 in the three-match ODI series. Right-arm pacer Matt Herny was awarded the Player of the Match for his brilliant four-wicket haul.

Ahead of the Ashes 2025 series, Root arrived in Australia as the second-highest run-getter in Tests and the highest for England.

After taking a devastating 7/58 in the first innings, the best-ever bowling figures at the Optus Stadium, Starc started from where he had left, dismissing Zak Crawley for another duck with a brilliant one-handed grab, showcasing his remarkable athleticism in his mid 30s. He also managed to get crucial wickets of stalwart Joe Root and English skipper Ben Stokes.

At the end of session's play, England was bundled out for 164. They had earlier bundled out Australia for 132 in response to their first innings total of 172. Gus Atkinson (37) top-scored for England, putting a 50-run stand for the eighth-wicket with Brydon Carse (20). Starc completed a memorable ten-wicket haul in the match, while after a wicketless first innings, Boland looked threatening, taking four crucial, quick wickets.

This question came after 19 wickets fell on the opening day of the first Ashes Test at Perth, and Australia was in a poor position at the end of the day, trailing by 49 runs.

At the end of the day's play, SA was 82/1, with Rickelton (35*) unbeaten.

The Indian bowlers - especially Kuldeep (3/48) and Jasprit Bumrah (1/38) - displayed immaculate control and mastery on a track that was reasonably good for batting with no signs of variable bounce whatsoever

In the first Test against Australia at Perth's Optus Stadium, Stokes bagged 5/23 in just six overs.

Tasked with providing England with an explosive start to expand their 40-run lead further, Crawley once again fell to Starc in the first over, thanks to an excellent one-handed grab from the veteran Aussie left-armer. Previously in the first innings, he had nicked the delivery at slips to Usman Khawaja.

At the end of the session's play, England was 59/1, with Duckett (28*) and Pope (24*) unbeaten.

Team India is already 1-0 down in the series. With this series being of just two matches, it is important that they win this match to avoid another series loss in back-to-back years. Currently, India is on a four-match losing streak at home in Tests against South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia (SENA) at home, having endured a first-ever humiliating whitewash by New Zealand just last year. This is also the first Test being held in Guwahati, making it a historic moment in Indian cricket.

On Friday, chasing 119, the Titans looked under pressure at 82/4 before Moeen produced an explosive over, flipping the match and sealing the result with two overs to spare at the Zayed Cricket Stadium, as per a press release.

On November 2, all-round performances from a returning Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma helped India make history as they defended 299 against first-time finalists South Africa to secure their first-ever world title across the ODI and T20I formats, winning the title clash by 52 runs at Navi Mumbai's DY Patil Stadium. This win came after two heartbreaks in the 2005 and 2017 World Cup finals and on the back of plenty of effort put in by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to boost women's cricket in India, such as introducing equal match fees as the men's team and the Women's Premier League (WPL).

Speaking on why India are suddenly losing matches on turning tracks, Amre said, 'Well, I think it is also an art to play on a turning track. That was always with us. This result is also pointing out that we should prepare well for this. We should not deny that we have to, sometimes it's also critical to get the result. We should have turning tracks. We were successful and we were the number one team because we played on turning tracks earlier, and we had a batting unit that could score 400 runs and a bowling unit that could take 20 wickets.'

The top-seeded Indian duo, ranked third in men's doubles, fell 21-19, 21-15 to the 13th-ranked Indonesian pair in a 50-minute clash

Boxing Federation of India president Ajay Singh emphasised that the country's impressive performance in the just-concluded World Boxing Cup Finals was a testimony to the fact that Indian boxing is no longer an emerging power but one of the superpowers in the sport.

The Indian Blind Women's Cricket team is set to face the Australia Blind Women's Cricket team in the semifinal of the first Women's T20 Cricket World Cup for the Blind 2025 on November 22 in Colombo.