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🇮🇳 Virat Kohli just announced the 2027 World Cup will be his retirement tour. The record books didn't get the memo.

Same innings, vs West Indies: 55th ODI century, 15,000 career ODI runs, third-fastest hundred of his career — 74 balls, at 37.

Nothing says "I'm leaving" quite like making it statistically impossible to replace you on the way out. 🔥

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🌴 Justin Greaves didn't just bag a fifer against Pakistan at Tarouba — Masood, Jamal, Usman, Rizwan and Abbas ALL fell in five consecutive maiden overs. A first in the entire history of Test cricket.

The previous benchmark: four wicket-maidens in a row, set by Stuart Broad against South Africa back in 2016. Greaves, 32 and playing only his 17th Test, broke it by getting FIVE — without conceding a single run across the whole spell.

Some spells take wickets. This one took the record book. 🔥

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🇵🇰 Ali Usman is 33, and Pakistan only just found out he exists.

192 wickets in 53 first-class matches, 12 five-fors, FIVE ten-wicket hauls — buried in domestic cricket for over a decade before his maiden Test cap finally arrived in West Indies last month. Debut game: an edge to slip, nothing else.

Two Tests later at Port of Spain, he took 6 wickets in the match alongside Sajid Khan's 8, spinning Pakistan to a series-levelling win.

Some careers just arrive fashionably late. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — that 1-1 finish isn't new, it's basically a rerun.

The last time West Indies and Pakistan split a Test series was 2021 — also 2 matches, also decided by chaos: West Indies won the opener by ONE WICKET, Pakistan hammered back to win the decider.

Five years and two Trinidad venues later: same scoreline, same swing of momentum, same "how is this happening again" energy.

Test cricket has a memory. 🔥

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🇵🇰 Pakistan end a THREE-YEAR wait for an away Test win — 8 wickets over West Indies at Queen's Park Oval, series levelled 1-1.

Abdullah Shafique — the injury replacement nobody had heard of a fortnight ago — batted like he'd owned the spot for years: unbeaten 160 built Pakistan's 387 (West Indies replied with 344). Then Sajid Khan (match figures 8/117) and Ali Usman (6/119) turned Day 3's pitch into a horror movie, folding West Indies for just 117 second time round.

Chasing 75, Pakistan wobbled to 2 down before Shafique and Babar Azam calmly saw it home unbeaten, shortly after lunch on Day 4 — a day to spare.

Pakistan won by 8 wickets. Player of the Match: Abdullah Shafique. Emergency call-up, series-saving century. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — Abdullah Shafique just ended a wait Pakistan didn't know it was still counting.

His unbeaten 160 at Queen's Park Oval — 323 balls, 15 fours, 3 sixes — makes him only the FIFTH Pakistan batter ever to pass 150 in a Test in the West Indies, and the first since Majid Khan's 167 in Guyana... back in 1977.

Six Test centuries into a career that's spent two years being doubted. This one just rewrote a 49-year-old record book. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — Port of Spain just watched two comeback stories collide.

Abdullah Shafique's Day 2 century ended a two-year exile from the XI — his last Test hundred came in Multan back in 2024, before a spell out of the side and a grind back through domestic cricket to earn this recall.

Babar Azam walked off unbeaten on 86 in the same 168-run stand, chasing something rarer: his first Test century since 2022.

Two careers being rebuilt in real time, in the same partnership. Redemption doesn't usually show up in pairs. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — Queen's Park Oval used to be a Pakistan happy place. Not anymore.

Two of Pakistan's most emphatic Test wins EVER came right here — an innings-and-1-run demolition in 1958, then a 266-run beatdown in 1977. Since then, nothing: West Indies won the last meeting between these two at this ground back in 1993, by 204 runs, and haven't lost a Test here in six straight.

33 years of Pakistan hurt at this venue, and the series decider is being played out on it right now at Port of Spain. Ghosts don't care about form guides. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — Port of Spain, and Pakistan are down a batter before a ball's even bowled.

Shan Masood: fractured finger, ruled out of this series decider. Babar Azam's captaincy reboot now has to erase a 1-0 deficit without its best batter — days after Justin Greaves turned Tarouba into a horror show, 5/27 including five straight wicket-maidens, a first in Test history.

One more West Indies win ends a series victory drought over Pakistan that's stood since 2000.

Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad. 10 AM local, 8:30 PM IST. Decider, minus Pakistan's best. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — West Indies' last Test win over Pakistan before Tarouba came down to ONE WICKET.

Antigua, May 2000: Wasim Akram ran through the tail with a five-for, Pakistan needed just 19 more — but Jimmy Adams dug in for an unbeaten 48 off 212 balls, with Courtney Walsh surviving everything thrown at him, to somehow drag West Indies home by the barest possible margin.

26 years later at Tarouba, West Indies won by 90 runs and didn't need a miracle this time.

2nd Test starts Sunday at Queen's Park Oval — same opponents, hopefully less cardiac activity required. 🔥

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🌴 West Indies beat Pakistan by 90 runs at Tarouba, and Babar Azam's Test captaincy sequel opens exactly like the original — with a loss.

Shan Masood's defiant 109 got Pakistan to 282, until Justin Greaves turned into a horror film: 5/27, including FIVE STRAIGHT WICKET-MAIDENS, a feat no bowler in Test history had managed before. Mohammad Abbas hit back with 5/22 as West Indies folded for 181, setting up a modest 211 to chase.

Modest didn't matter. Jayden Seales ran through the tail to bowl Pakistan out for 120 — Babar's gutsy unbeaten 58 the only thing between his side and total embarrassment.

West Indies won by 90 runs. Player of the Match: Justin Greaves. Pakistan's 8th straight away Test defeat, stone last in the WTC table. Some comebacks need a rewrite. 🔥

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🇮🇳 vs 🏴 — last July, India quietly buried a Test record that had survived since the flapper era.

Across the 2025 series in England, India racked up SEVEN individual innings of 350+ — the most by any team in a single Test series, ever. The old record (six) stood for over a century, shared by three different Australian sides from 1920-21, 1948 and 1989. Gill, Jaiswal and Jadeja did the damage; 425/4 at Old Trafford was the exclamation point.

One year on, Test cricket still hasn't caught up. 🔥

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🇮🇳 vs 🇿🇼 — 3-0. Series swept, confidence fully restocked.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15 and still can't legally drive, batted like someone twice his age — 81 off 49 to drag India to 192/5. Mayank Yadav then turned menace with the new ball, 3/29, to leave Zimbabwe stuck on 157/7 despite Ryan Burl's brave 54*.

Won by 35 runs. Player of the Series: Sooryavanshi — more teenage records broken this month than bats broken in most careers. After Ireland and England took turns humbling them, India finally found a team willing to lose to them. 🔥

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🏴 vs 🇮🇳 — 36 years ago today, Lord's watched Graham Gooch play the most excessive Test innings the ground has ever seen.

27 July 1990: bowled by Manoj Prabhakar for 333 — still the highest individual score in Lord's history — after 10+ hours at the crease. He wasn't done: 123 more in the second innings gave him 456 runs in one Test, still the all-time record match aggregate.

The closest anyone's come since? Shubman Gill — 430 runs (269 & 161) against this very opposition, just last year. Kids these days. 🔥

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🇮🇳 vs 🇿🇼 — the confidence top-up just became a full transfusion. India seal the series 2-0, with a game to spare.

Ishan Kishan (81 off 44, 5 sixes) and Tilak Varma (60* off 29) turned batting into a group hug, launching India to 219/5. Then Abhishek Sharma — part-time spinner, full-time menace — casually mopped up 3/17 to fold Zimbabwe for 129.

Won by 90 runs. Shreyas Iyer's first series win as captain, and Zimbabwe's therapy-session opponents have officially been promoted to punching bag. 🔥

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Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli walked out together at Lord's for the England series decider and quietly made history — the first Indian pair EVER to feature together in 400 international matches.

Combined tally: 48,574 international runs, 135 centuries, and a batting partnership that's now outlasted entire careers around them.

Longevity isn't a stat. It's a lifestyle. 🔥

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🇮🇳 vs 🇿🇼 — Harare, and India could wrap this series up before Zimbabwe finish unpacking their kit bags.

Mayank Yadav's steaming in at 145kmph+, Sooryavanshi's out here breaking teenage records before he can drive, and Shreyas Iyer just needs one more win to make his first series as captain official.

Harare Sports Club, 4:30 PM IST. Zimbabwe are 1-0 down and running out of overs to find a plot twist. 🔥

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🏴 vs 🇮🇳 — 25 July, and Lord's peaked once before this fixture ever needed reminding.

2011: the 2000th Test match in history, the 100th ever played between these two. Kevin Pietersen marked the occasion with 202* — his only Lord's double hundred — while Rahul Dravid's lone century went to waste as England won by 196 runs.

Round numbers, big stages, one ground that keeps collecting them. 🔥

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🌴 vs 🇵🇰 — Tarouba, and West Indies are 26 years into a hoodoo they'd very much like to end.

Last Test win over Pakistan: 2000. Since then, eight series, zero wins, four draws — the patience of a saint, the results of a wet Sunday. Speaking of wet, Trinidad's forecast has rain gatecrashing day one, because of course it does.

Babar Azam begins stint two as Test captain by walking straight into this mess. Brian Lara Stadium, Trinidad. First ball today — 26 years of hurt, now with a rain delay. 🔥

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🇮🇳 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 15 years old and he just outran Sachin Tendulkar's youth.

18 balls to a maiden T20I fifty against Zimbabwe — 4 fours, 4 sixes, the fastest half-century by a teenager for any full-member nation. Out next ball, because apparently subtlety wasn't in the contract.

15 years, 118 days old. Can't legally drive yet. Can already end a bowling attack's afternoon. 🔥