Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation will conduct the first Central Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament as part of its plans to conduct volleyball and beach volleyball tournaments to celebrate the 75th Independence Day. The Volleyball Federation said in a statement that the tournament is a brainchild of Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa. The first Central Asian Beach Volleyball […]
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England’s international summer kicks off with a two-Test series against New Zealand commencing at Lord’s on June 2.
This will be New Zealand’s 18th Test series in England and will be followed by their much-awaited clash with India in the World Test Championship final. Having played 54 Test matches in England to date, the Black Caps have won only five times. Here is a look back in time at those rare instances.
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With the Ashes excitement soon to build and the absorbing series between India and England underway, I thought it was timely to look into the rear vision mirror and come up with the best England side of the last 50 years, in a similar manner to my article on Indian and Australian sides of the last half century.
For the opening positions, I chose the right and left handed combination and contrasting styles of Michael Vaughan (5719 runs at 41.4 average) and Alastair Cook, England’s highest ever run scorer in Test cricket (12,472 runs at 45.4 average).
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