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🔹The last time the teams played an ODI was in the 2023 World Cup where Marsh hit an unbeaten 177 off 132 balls to chase down 307.

#BANvsAUS

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🚨 Stats & Trivia ⚡

🔹Adam Zampa needs three wickets to become the seventh Australia bowler with 200 in ODIs.

🔹Najmul Hossain Shanto needs 86 runs to reach 2000 in ODIs.

🔹Bangladesh have only beaten Australia once in ODIs - the famous day in Cardiff in 2005.

#BANvsAUS

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🚨 Bangladesh vs Australia - Head to Head in ODIs: 🏟️

»Matches Played - 21
🇧🇩 won - 1
🇦🇺 won - 20
NR - 1

»At Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Matches Played - 3
🇧🇩 won - 0
🇦🇺 won - 3

#BANvsAUA

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New Chandigarh Test | June 08, 2026 (#2621)
India won the only Test series by innings and 300 runs.

🇮🇳 IND: 564/8d

🇦🇫 AFG: 152 & 112
• Rahmat Shah - 60 (135)
◆ Manav Suthar - 6/33

★ 2ns inns -
• Sediqullah Atal - 42 (80)
◆ Washington Sundar - 4/36

★ POTM - Manav Suthar

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5/71 ― Amit Mishra
vs Australia | Mohali | 2008

5/93 ― Mohammad Nissar
vs England | Lord's | 1932

#ManavSuthar | #INDvsAFG

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🚨 Best figures in an innings on Test debut for India:

8/61 ― Narendra Hirwani
vs West Indies | Chennai | 1988

8/75 ― Narendra Hirwani
vs West Indies | Chennai | 1988

6/33 ― Manav Suthar
Vs Afghanistan | New Chandigarh | 2026*

6/47 ― Ravi Ashwin
vs West Indies | Delhi | 2011

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6/55 ― Syed Abid Ali
vs Australia | Adelaide | 1967

6/103 ― Dilip Doshi
vs Australia | Chennai | 1979

5/47 ― Mohammed Shami
vs West Indies | Kolkata | 2013

5/60 ― Axar Patel
vs England | Chennai | 2021

5/64 ― Vaman Kumar
vs Pakistan | Delhi | 1961

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6️⃣/3️⃣3️⃣ – A dream debut for Manav Suthar! 🙌

✅ Third-best figures by an Indian on Test debut.
✅ Tenth Indian to achieve the five-for on Test debut.

#ManavSuthar | #INDvsAFG

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India becomes SAFF Women's Champion after seven years! 🇮🇳

The Indian women's football team clinched the SAFF Women's Championship 2026 title by defeating Bangladesh 3-1 in the final.

#SAFF

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New Chandigarh Test | June 07, 2026 (#2621)
Stumps Day-2: Afghanistan are 113/5

🇮🇳 IND: 564/8d
• Shubman Gill - 126 (177)
• Rishabh Pant - 81 (121)
• Washington Sundar - 52* (68)
◆ Mohammad Saleem - 6/140

🇦🇫 AFG: 113/5
• Rahmat Shah - 43*

★ Afghanistan trail by 451 runs.

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Lord's Test | June 07, 2026 (#2621)
England won by 115 runs

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG: 140 & 226

🇳🇿 NZ: 113 & 138
• Glenn Phillips - 44* (52)
◆ Gus Atkinson - 5/30

★ POTM - Ollie Robinson

#ICCWTC | #ENGvsNZ

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5️⃣/3️⃣0️⃣ ― Gus Atkinson claimed his fifth Test five-wicket haul! 🙌

✅ His first Test five-for against New Zealand.
✅ His fourth Test five-for at Lord’s
✅ His fifth Test five-for at home.

#GusAtkinson | #ENGvsNZ

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6️⃣/1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ - Mohammad Saleem took his maiden five-for in Tests! 💥

✅ Best bowling figures by an Afghan bowler against India in Tests.

#MohammadSaleem | #INDvsAFG

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Lord's Test | June 06, 2026 (#2621)
Stumps Day-3: NZ are 55/5 (2nd inns)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG: 140 & 226

🇳🇿 NZ: 113 & 55/5
• Tom Blundell - 2*
• Devon Conway - 19*

★ Due to rain, only 9.4 overs of play were possible on the third day at Lord's.
★ Now, New Zealand need 199 runs to win.

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New Chandigarh Test | June 06, 2026 (#2621)
Stumps Day-1: India are 368/3

🇮🇳 IND: 368/3
• KL Rahul - 100 (165)
• Sai Sudharsan - 81 (104)
• Shubman Gill - 103*
• Rishabh Pant - 50*

★ Toss - India, elected to bat first
★ Test debut -
🇦🇫 Nangeyalia Kharote
🇮🇳 Manav Suthar

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🔹 Rahmat is 30 short of becoming the first Afghanistan batter to reach 1000 Test runs.

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🚨 Stats & Trivia ⚡

🔹The last time India played a home Test without Ashwin and Jadeja was in 2010, against New Zealand in Nagpur. That was before either of them had made their debut.

🔹Shubman Gill needs 157 runs to reach 3000 in Test cricket.

#INDvsAFG

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🔹This will be Rishabh Pant's 50th Test. Only MS Dhoni (90) and Syed Kirmani (88) have played more as wicketkeeper for India.

🔹Left-arm spinner Sharafuddin Ashraf was the leading wicket-taker in the 2025 Ahmad Shah Abdali Trophy, with 36 wkts in 6 games at an average of 17.11.

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Lord's Test | June 05, 2026 (#2621)
Stumps Day-2: NZ are 36/3 (2nd inns)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG: 140 & 226
• Emilio Gay - 57 (95)
• Jamie Smith - 39 (52)
◆ Nathan Smith - 6/70

🇳🇿 NZ: 113 & 36/3
• Kyle Jamieson - 38* (29)
◆ Ollie Robinson - 5/39

2nd Inns
• Devon Conway - 12*

#ENGvsNZ

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🔹The teams will be competing once again for the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy, which was named in honour of two former greats, Martin Crowe and Graham Thorpe, and was unveiled ahead of New Zealand's home series in December 2024.

#ENGvsNZ

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🚨 Stats & Trivia ⚡

🔹Emilio Gay is set to become the first England debutant to open the batting since Alex Lees, against West Indies in March 2022, 50 Tests ago.

🔹Ben Stokes, who turns 35 on the first morning of the match, needs five more wickets to reach 250 in Tests.

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🔹This will be the 150th Test at Lord's, the most hosted by any ground in the world.

🔹NZ have won just once in 19 previous Tests at Lord's, dating back to 1931. That came in their series victory in 1999, since when they have drawn 2 and lost 4 out of 6 subsequent appearances.