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Shut up whiners, India had to overcome lots of burdens to win the Champions Trophy

While Pakistan dealt with the burden of being (g)hosts

12-Mar-2025•Alan Gardner

How many bowlers have taken four wickets in five balls without taking a hat-trick?

And who has the highest individual ODI score against England?

04-Mar-2025•Steven Lynch

Is Ben Duckett's 165 the highest individual score in the Champions Trophy?

And who has the most wickets in the history of the tournament?

25-Feb-2025•Steven Lynch

Loop, drift, leap: Kuldeep crafts a wristspin masterpiece

His nine overs included the full range of his skills that have made him the best at what he does

23-Feb-2025•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Pakistan slide feels like a terminal, slow decline

Hosts now find themselves in the familiar scenario of hoping for some outlandish results to go their way

23-Feb-2025•Sidharth Monga

Kohli breaks record for most outfield catches for India in ODIs

Stats highlights from the Champions Trophy match between Pakistan and India in Dubai

23-Feb-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

India vs Pakistan is sci-fi vs fantasy - but will it be box office?

Pakistan bring the magic, India the space-age technical developments. Let's hope it's worth the popcorn this time

22-Feb-2025•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Babar has major spin demons to overcome, and oppositions know this well

India, Pakistan's next opponents in the Champions Trophy, will almost inevitably seek to expose this frailty

21-Feb-2025•Andrew Fidel Fernando

How to be successful in the Champions Trophy? Look to the middle overs

In ODI cricket in 2025, the contest belongs to the team that can maximise batting and bowling efficiency in overs 11 to 40

20-Feb-2025•Kartikeya Date

Salman Agha laments Pakistan's poor start with the bat

Pakistan missed the services of Fakhar Zaman at the start of their lofty pursuit because he had been off the field with an injury earlier

19-Feb-2025•Danyal Rasool

Machine-like New Zealand raise the bar, inept Pakistan fall well below par

They do the basics just as well as they do the spectacular, and there's no telling who comes to the fore on any particular day

19-Feb-2025•Danyal Rasool

Stats - Latham and Young hit hundreds on Champions Trophy debut

Also, Williamson dismissed for single digits for the first time in six years in ODIs, and Pakistan have their slowest first ten overs in a home ODI since 2002

19-Feb-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

At the Champions Trophy, Shaheen Afridi sees a chance to make history

Pakistan's front-line fast bowler has had a difficult couple of years, but he believes he's peaking just in time to make a mark at his country's first home ICC event since 1996

18-Feb-2025•Danyal Rasool

Champions Trophy - A critical test for ODI cricket and Pakistan as hosts

There have been several hurdles and setbacks on the journey to Karachi, but the Champions Trophy is finally here

17-Feb-2025•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Pakistan boosted by Rizwan's form but bowling remains a concern

The hosts are also perhaps without the spin pedigree they need in these conditions

16-Feb-2025•Danyal Rasool

Stats - Babar joins Amla as fastest to 6000 ODI runs, pushing Kohli to No. 3

After the innings in which he got to 6000, Babar's batting average stood at 55.73 - the highest for any batter at that point

14-Feb-2025•Sampath Bandarupalli

Stats - Pakistan's first 350-plus chase, Rizwan-Salman's record partnership

All the stats and records broken in the third ODI of the tri-series

13-Feb-2025•Shubh Agarwal

Where have all the wristspinners gone in Test cricket?

It's a weird, in-between time for the craft in the longest format

12-Feb-2025•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Was Noman Ali's hat-trick the first for Pakistan in Tests?

And were the 20 wickets that fell in Multan the most for the first day of a Test?

28-Jan-2025•Steven Lynch

Multan musings: Are raging turners the way to go for Pakistan in Tests?

Aqib and Masood have made it clear that the spin strategy is not short-term, but is it really a fix?

27-Jan-2025•Danyal Rasool

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