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Sports News Today: Akhtar criticises Babar, Shelton advances to US Open final
Pakistan suffered a loss by eight wickets in the third Test match against England at the Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham. With this, the visitors lost the series by 0-3 against the "Three Lions". Following the series loss, legendary pacer Shoaib Akhtar has criticised Babar Azam for his captaincy.
Meanwhile, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited applications for Head of Sports Science and Medicine at its Centre of Excellence after being unable to fill the key position lying vacant since the resignation of Nitin Patel in March 2025.
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Shoaib Akhtar blasts Babar Azam for weak leadership in England tour mieszalniakolorado.pl
Former speedster Shoaib Akhtar has criticised under-fire captain Babar Azam for his weak leadership during Pakistan's ongoing three-match Test tour of England, which the visitor's are trailing 0-2.
Rizwan and Imam questioned by Pakistan's cyber crime agency over
Senior players Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq were grilled for nearly four hours as Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) began an inquiry into alleged dressing-room leaks following a complaint from the country's cricket board.
BCCI invites applications for COE Head of Sports Science
The BCCI invited applications for Head of Sports Science and Medicine at its Centre of Excellence after being unable to fill the key position lying vacant since the resignation of Nitin Patel in March 2025. BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia and COE head VVS Laxman have publicly spoken about the challenges in filling up the vacancy. The application deadline is September 30.
US Open: Ben Shelton beats Frances Tiafoe and will play Alexander Zverev for the title
Ben Shelton won the all-American duel with Frances Tiafoe and now he's the one who can end his country's long wait for another men's Grand Slam champion. Shelton pulled out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 victory on Friday and will play No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev on Sunday for the U.S. Open title.
US Open: Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina to meet in the final
Aryna Sabalenka is going for a third consecutive U.S. Open title. Standing in her way is Elena Rybakina, who is taking over for her as the No. 1-ranked women's tennis player in the world.
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“What I score in the morning decides whether he wins in the evening”, Test Twenty and the equality story
In exactly two months from now the first season of Test Twenty is about to start. The build up has been strong and there has been a lot of positives for the format from investors in the last few weeks. At the core of it is the parity rule. To ensure that the contribution of the women will be as valuable as the men in deciding the eventual outcome.
As a young lady who has been a part of the trials said to me, “What I score in the morning decides whether he wins in the evening. That’s what attracted me to the format. It gives me agency and it is something that is new. I hope the format takes off for this is no more tokenism”, she said.
Women’s cricket doesn’t lack talent. It lacks enough meaningful, high-quality contests to build depth. Test Twenty addresses that by making the women’s game consequential, not supplemental. The toss determines which gender sets the foundation. Every run, wicket, and decision carries direct consequences for the team’s result. That creates real competitive interdependence, forces equal investment in preparation and coaching, and guarantees that women’s performances shape the match outcome. That’s a bold, credible model for accelerating the growth, competitiveness, and commercial value of women’s cricket.
By linking the women’s innings directly to the men’s and making them co-authors of a single result, Test Twenty has added new layers to team sport. When Indian players set a benchmark and others have to chase or vice versa, you get real match intensity that fast tracks decision making, adaptability, and temperament under lights. That exposure, repeated across franchises and countries, builds a wider base of battle tested women’s cricketers, not just stars, but a competitive middle that narrows gaps between nations and makes one sided scorelines less rather than more likely over time.
If there is one thing that you think the current Asia Cup lacked is competitiveness across teams. Not every team was competitive and it is a natural outcome of the kind of opportunities on offer. It is unfair to even expect the same kind of competitiveness. The women playing for Hong Kong for example do not have the same kind of exposure or match training. They haven’t played quality sides regularly and it starts to show up in tournaments like these. That’s the gap Test Twenty seeks to address. By bringing in talent from across the globe and giving them a level playing field, it helps the sport. May be that’s why you see the kind of excitement from among women that the organisers have repeatedly spoken about. With two months left, it can only get better in the next few weeks.
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India A slump to six-wicket loss as Flintoff stars for Australia A
Tess Flintoff stole the show as Australia A humbled India A by six wickets in the opening match of their unofficial tour, which will feature three T20s, three One-dayers and a multi-day game, at Mullanpur on Saturday.
After Indian skipper Anushka Sharma opted to bat, pacer Flintoff wreaked havoc by picking up 4/12. Sianna Ginger (2/17) and Milly Illingworth (2/18) picked up two wickets each as India A stumbled to 117 all out in 19 overs. Minnu Mani scored 23 while Tejal Hasabnis got 22 as the Indian batters struggled against the visiting team bowlers.
It turned out to be an easy chase for the Aussies as Charli Knott (35) and Anika Learoyd (33) ensured the visiting side chased down the target in 14 overs, replying with 121/4.
The second and third matches will be played at the same venue on September 15 and 17, respectively.
Brief scores: India A: 117 all out in 19 overs (Mani 23; Flintoff 4/13, Ginger 2/17, Illingworth 2/18); Australia A: 121/4 (Knott 35, Learoyd 33; Anushka 2/14).
Shane Warne’s last great wicket: what his Rajasthan Royals stake says about cricket’s future
Shane Warne would have turned 57 today. He is remembered for a ball that turned in Manchester, his 708 test wickets, a flamboyance and charisma that many aspired to have but few could emulate and a franchise he built from scratch in Jaipur. But his most enduring legacy might not be a delivery at all … it’s a contract clause.
When Rajasthan Royals signed Warne ahead of the inaugural IPL season in 2008, he didn’t just negotiate a salary. Alongside roughly $657,000 a year, he secured a 0.75% ownership stake in the franchise for every season he played – captain, coach, and talent-spotter rolled into one, betting on the league before anyone knew what it would become. By the time he retired in 2011, that stake had compounded to 3%. He had, in effect, taken equity in an idea!
Warne died suddenly in 2022, but the bet kept paying out. When Rajasthan Royals changed hands this year in a deal worth roughly $1.6-2.3 billion, his 3% stake was suddenly worth somewhere between ₹450 and ₹460 crore … north of $50 million and destined, by most reports, for his three children, Brooke, Jackson, and Summer. A cricketer’s foresight, dead four years, is still generating generational wealth. Not many sportsmen leave that kind of wicket standing.
It’s hard not to read this against the noise coming out of Chennai this month. Reports suggested MS Dhoni had sought a stake in CSK. Initially, 25%, reportedly talked down to 20%, against an offer of 5.5%, only for the franchise to flatly deny any such conversation took place. What’s undisputed is smaller and stranger: Dhoni already holds over a lakh CSK shares, worth a few crore, a rounding error next to what Warne quietly built for his kids two decades ago. Whatever actually happened in those talks, the instinct behind them isn’t unreasonable. Dhoni built CSK’s identity as much as Warne built Rajasthan’s. Wanting a slice of what you created isn’t greed; it’s arithmetic.
Corporate employees get ESOPs precisely because ownership changes behaviour – it turns hired hands into people who care whether the company still exists in ten years. Warne behaved exactly like an owner-operator: he identified Ravindra Jadeja before anyone else rated him, built a culture that outlasted his own playing days. Why wouldn’t sport want more of that?
Transplant the idea into the IPL and it gets complicated fast. The league’s entire competitive architecture rests on the auction and the salary purse. Equity sits awkwardly next to that. A star with a stake in his franchise has every incentive to take a salary cut to protect the purse for other signings, which sounds virtuous until you notice it also lets rich franchises quietly out-compete poorer ones by offering upside instead of cash …the exact workaround the purse system exists to prevent. On the upside, it would do for Indian cricket what it arguably did for Warne – turn players into long-term custodians of a franchise’s brand and youth pipeline rather than mercenaries chasing the next bidder, and give the BCCI a retention tool sharper than any auction rule.
The counterargument is competitive integrity, and it’s why leagues regulate this carefully rather than ignore it. Tom Brady and LeBron James own pieces of Birmingham City, Liverpool, and the Red Sox but only in leagues and clubs where they never touch the field. The unresolved question, everywhere, is what happens when a player does move: does the stake move with them, get bought out, or quietly become the thing no one wants to litigate. Warne solved it the easiest way possible … he never really left.
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