Dubai, Jan 24 (IANS) The ICC has announced the list of umpires and referees for the Super Six stage of the U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2026, set to take place in Namibia.Faisal Afridi and Nitin Bathi will serve as on-field umpires for the highly anticipated match between Australia and South Africa at Namibia Cricket Ground. Cory Black will be the TV Umpire, while Forster Mutizwa will act as the Fourth Umpire.Afridi has previously umpired South Africa’s loss to Afghanistan in the group stage,…
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New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) The ‘India Energy Week 2026’ (IEW 2026) will serve as a platform for concrete business outcomes, with several major agreements and memoranda of understanding proposed to be signed during the event in Goa from January 27-30, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday.The minister said that a series of key side events and roundtables will be organised alongside the main conference. These include the 9th Prime Minister’s Roundtable, whe…
Windhoek, Jan 23 (IANS) Japan may have finished their second ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup group stage campaign without a win, but skipper Kazuma Kato-Stafford chose to reflect on an ‘unbelievable experience’ of featuring in the competition, saying that it’s not everyday one gets to face higher-ranked nations.Though Japan lost to Ireland, Australia and Sri Lanka, they had some standout performances to take positives from. Hugo Tani-Kelly became the first Japan player to score a ce…
Windhoek (Namibia), Jan 21 (IANS) England and Afghanistan marched into the Super Six stage of the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup with flawless group-stage records, after emphatic wins over Scotland and Tanzania, respectively, on Wednesday.Scotland got off to a good start when they removed Ben Dawkins early, but after that, it was all England as both Joseph Moores and Ben Mayes put together a remarkable partnership of 188 runs.Joseph Moores scored a solid 81 from 65 balls before falling t…
Dubai, Jan 20 (IANS) Rehaan Ahtif has replaced Dylan Thakrar in Tanzania’s U19 World Cup squad after the latter was ruled out due to an injury to his left middle finger during their second Group D match against South Africa and was unable to continue his participation in the remainder of the tournament.The Event Technical Committee of the U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup approved Ahtif as a replacement for Thakrar in the team’s squad. Replacing a player requires prior approval from the Committee …
Windhoek, Jan 19 (IANS) South Africa smashed their way to posting a mammoth 397/5 against Tanzania, which is now the highest score by a team in the 2026 ICC Men’s U-19 Cricket World Cup at the High Performance Oval on Monday. It’s also South Africa’s best total in their history of participating in the tournament. South Africa were powered to the gigantic score by centuries from captain Muhammad Bulbulia and Jason Rowles. The score of 397/5 also surpassed South Africa’s previous U-19 World Cu…
Windhoek, Jan 18 (IANS) Right-hand batter Aqil Khan Obaid has replaced Hafieezullah Zadran in Afghanistan’s U19 World Cup squad after the latter was ruled out of the tournament owing to a wrist fracture that he sustained during the team’s campaign opener against South Africa. Aqil was named one of the three reserve players alongside Fahim Qasemi and Izat Noor, who had travelled with the side, when the team announced the Mahboob Khan-led 15-member squad.“The Event Technical Committee of the…
Windhoek (Namibia), Jan 15 (IANS) The 2016 winner, the West Indies, made a winning start, beating Tanzania by five wickets in their opening match of the ICC Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup at the High Performance Oval in Windhoek, Namibia, to go top of Group D.Meanwhile, the match between Zimbabwe and Scotland in Harare was abandoned without a ball being bowled.At the High Performance Oval in Windhoek, Tanez Francis was the star with the bat for the Windies, having scored a fine half-century af…
Kochi, Jan 15 (IANS) A businessman who duped Kerala cashew traders of Rs 24 crore with the false promise of procuring low-cost stock from Tanzania was arrested by the ED from the state’s Ernakulam, an official statement said on Thursday.The Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) Kochi Zonal Office, arrested Aneesh Babu, 35, a resident of Kollam, on January 14 under Section 19(1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.On Thursday, he was produced before the Special Court (PMLA), Ernaku…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) President, Dr Tulia Ackson from the United Republic of Tanzania, expressed and observed that the year 2026 has opened with deeply concerning developments, serving as a painful reminder of how fragile and uncertain the international environment has become. According to her, at the global level, multilateralism is increasingly judged, not by the enduring values it upholds, but by the speed of its reactions or the visibility of its action…