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Samarawickrama comes in for injured Meg Lanning at Trinbago Knight Riders

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Injured Meg Lanning has been replaced by Sri Lankan batter Harshitha Samarawickrama at the Trinbago Knight Riders in the ongoing Women’s Caribbean Premier League. 

She becomes the second player from Sri Lanka after Chamari Athapaththu to participate in an overseas league. Samarawickrama’s signing comes at the right time as she remains in swashbuckling form, having contributed significantly to Sri Lanka’s title win at the Women’s Asia Cup 2024. She scored 69 runs unbeaten in the Asia Cup final between Sri Lanka and India. 

 

 

 

 

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IPL 2025 dates revealed, to begin on March 14: Reports

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The dates for the upcoming three editions of the cash-rich league Indian Premier League have been revealed. As per reports, IPL 2025 will begin on March 14 and the final will be held on May 25. While, the IPL 2026 will begin on March 15 and end on May 31. And the IPL 2027 will be played between March 14 and May 30. 

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Jofra Archer back to IPL auction

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England fast bowler Jofra Archer has been added to the IPL auction list after initially being omitted from the shortlist list. Archer earlier didn’t feature among 574 names the IPL sent to the franchises. 

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IPL 2025 mega auction won’t be a distraction: Pat Cummins

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Australian skipper Pat Cummins on Thursday admitted that there will be pressure on home side heading into the first Test match of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India, starting on November 22 (Friday) in Perth. Australia will be out to break their losing streak to reclaim the BGT title, which has eluded them since 2014-15.

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Both India and Australia have gone through rigorous training in the build-up to the highly anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy, starting on Friday (November 22) in Perth. This time for the first time since 1991-92, the series will have five Test matches. In the first match, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma will register his absence as his family welc...


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“Bowlers are tactically quite smart”: Jasprit Bumrah backs bowlers for leadership

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With regular skipper Rohit Sharma missing the first Test, fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is set to lead India in the first Test match of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, starting in Perth on Friday (November 22). Since the 2014-15 season, Australia have been unable to overcome India, who have come out victorious in the past four BGT assignme...

 

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