Virat Kohli now has highest fifty-plus scores in T20I history
Australia defeated Pakistan by five wickets in the second semi-final game of the T20 World Cup at the Dubai international cricket stadium, November 11, 2021 to enter the final.
Images from the Asia Cup final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Dubai on Sunday.
If rain leads to a shortened game, Babar and his boys are ready.
'Our middle order stepped up in the last two matches'
Great players have the knack of conquering the odds, and on Sunday Kohli crossed a major hurdle with the fighting spirit of a champion.
Thousands of fans from both countries have crisscrossed the globe to watch their team in action and trust rival captains Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam to tell you this is another 'match' for them, but all the 22 players and reserves know that this is 'The Match'.
Fast bowler Mohammad Wasim also returned to the World Cup squad after recovering fully from a side strain he suffered during the Asia Cup.
IMAGES from the T20 World Cup Final played between Pakistan and England in Melbourne on Sunday.
Images from the T20 World Cup Super 12s match between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Dubai, on Friday.
Suryakumar reached a career-best-equalling second position in the ICC men's T20I Player rankings
Pakistan mentor Matthew Hayden is backing struggling captain Babar Azam to produce something special in the knockout stages of the Twenty20 World Cup, starting in Wednesday's semi-final against New Zealand.
Abrar Ahmed made a stunning Test debut claiming seven for 114 to bowl out England for 281
'As I walked in to bat, I cursed Dinesh Karthik for a second.'
Virat Kohli was magnificent at the death, finishing 82 not out after digging India out of trouble
Indian chess icon Viswanathan Anand placed with nine points from seven rounds of Rapid (involving two mini-matches) and 14 rounds of Blitz.
The former World champion lost two games - one to Fabiano Caruana (USA) and the other to Richard Rapport (Hungary) while drawing with five others.
Who do you think should be part of India's playing for their T20 World Cup opening match against Pakistan on Sunday?
The Gashimov Memorial tournament this year is being played as a rapid and blitz chess tournament.
For Pakistan, Rauf clinched three wickets while Afridi grabbed two scalps.
Images from the Asia Cup Super 4 match between India and Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday.
Hayden believes that the team's performance would improve by the time they travel to India for the 50-over World Cup.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the Most Valuable Players in T20 World Cup 2022.
Babar smashed an unbeaten 105 and opener Imam-ul-Haq made 89 not out
Sarfaraz, Imad Wasim dropped from Pakistan white-ball squad vs Australia.
Pace legend Waqar Younis is backing Pakistan to win the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia later this year, saying the pitches Down Under could favour their potent bowling attack.
They can measure the speeds at which bowlers hurl the ball, they can measure the distance when batsmen slam sixes, so we ask why can't they measure the height at which bowlers jump when they take a wicket or as in the instance below to catch a ball off their own bowling?
With the semi-final spot assured, Pakistan might look to rest a few players and give others opportunities in the inconsequential match.
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson extolled Pakistan bowlers' "outstanding" performance against them, saying their clinical show at the death was of the "highest class".
Pakistan's weakened pace attack in the absence of injured Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah, didn't offer a challenge to Conway and Latham with the new ball as both batters took New Zealand to 41-0 by tea before adding 124 more runs in the final session.
Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar quit his TV punditry job on-air on Tuesday following a heated exchange with the host of the show while analysing Pakistan's victory over New Zealand at the Twenty20 World Cup.
The persons nabbed have been identified as Perwez Ahmed, Mohd Ilias and Abdul Muqeet (arrested from Delhi) and Shafeeque Payeth who was taken into custody by the ED from Kerala.
"It was a treat to watch you play, the six off the back foot in the 19th over against (Haris) Rauf over long-on was spectacular. Keep it going," Tendulkar tweeted.
With bilateral cricket remaining suspended between the bitter neighbours, India and Pakistan play each other only in multi-team tournaments with their rivalry now a rare but enticing occasion for fans worldwide.
In the women's event, the country's top player Koneru Humpy has 3.5 points with two wins and three draws after five rounds as does R Vaishali who has scored three victories to go with a draw apart from a loss.
Images from the second One-Day International between Bangladesh and India, in Chattogram, on Saturday.
The most sought-after megastars of the current generation are primed to show their might against a bunch of enigmatic cricketers as India and Pakistan engage in an ICC T20 World Cup face-off, something that transcends the 22-yard strip.
'The best part about what I loved about him (doing that) is we struggled, bro. Why it was so special was we struggled together. This would've been not this special if we had just cruised through.'
IMAGES from the T20 World Cup match played between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Adelaide on Sunday.
Pakistan bowler Hasan Ali on Friday issued a statement for the first time since the Men in Green's semi-final defeat in the T20 World Cup 2021 against Australia.
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