The field could not be more open for teams competing in this year’s women’s world championship. It was always going to be the case without household team names Rachel Homan, Silvana Tirinzoni and Anna Hasselborg competing in Calgary, but through two days of the competition, the results have been crazy. The only team that you would kind of expect to be off to a great start would be Canada’s Kerri Einarson, who is 3-0 and sits atop the table. However, seeing Turkey’s Dilsat Yıldız tied with her is not something anyone probably expected to see. Then you have two teams in South Korea’s Gim Eun-ji and China’s Wang Rui, who finished as the bronze-medal winners in 2024 and 2025, respectively, and were supposed to be in the mix at the top but have struggled to start the week. Eun-ji is 1-2 while Rui is 1-3. It’s hard to know what to expect going forward for the rest of the week as a result, but for now, let’s focus on Sunday’s takeaways. Canada plays mistake-free curli...
Pakistan on Sunday won the toss and opted to bowl against Bangladesh in their final and third One-Day International in Dhaka. “Pakistan win the toss and opt to field first in the third ODI,” said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on X, referring to ODI captain Shaheen Afridi’s decision. The match is being played at Dhaka’s Sher-E-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. In a post revealing today’s Playing XI, the PCB highlighted that Ghazi Ghori and Saad Masood were making their ODI debut today. In their second ODI on Friday, Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 128 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method as rain hampered the match, levelling the series 1-1 after the hosts’ win in the opening match . On Saturday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said it had officially reprimanded Salman Ali Agha for breaching Level 1 of its code of conduct during Friday’s game. Teams Pakistan: Sahibzada Farhan, Maaz Sadaqat, Ghazi Ghori, Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Ali Agha, Abdul Samad, S...