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Afghan U-19 cricket team beat Singapore by 224 runs in their fifth match in the qualifying tournament for 2018 U-19 World Cup. The team will play against Nepal on Tuesday in the tournament and are close to qualifying for the 2018 U-19 World Cup. Afghanistan batted first and set a 305 run target in the 50 overs match at the Singapore Cricket Club. Ibrahim Zadran and Darwish Rasouli played well for the team - Zadran got 73 runs and Rasouli 71 runs for their team. But Singapore started poorly as they lost four wickets in just 4.1 overs and lost all its wickets in 19 overs. They ended with only 81 runs. Mujib Zadran was man of the match as he took 4 wickets for the Afghan team.

BHOPAL: The  Madhya Pradesh government has announced Rs 50 lakh award for the Indian women's cricket team, which finished as runners-up in the Women's Cricket World Cup. The Indian women's team lost by nine runs to England in a tense summit clash of the World Cup last night, finishing runners-up for the second time - the previous being the 2005 edition.

Worcester batsman slams six sixes in an over but Yorkshire take the points after Willey's whirlwind ton Worcestershire's Ross Whiteley hit six sixes in an over on Sunday to join a select group who've performed the feat in senior cricket. Whiteley struck Yorkshire left-arm spinner Karl Carver for six sixes – a total of 36 runs – during the 16th over of Worcestershire's innings in an English Twenty20 match at Headingley.

KL Rahul is down with fever. His progress is being monitored by the medical staff of the Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka KL Rahul will miss the first India vs  Sri Lanka  cricket Test starting in Galle on July 26. The Bangalore batsman is down with fever but is progressing well, according to a BCCI press release on Monday. KL Rahul did not travel with the team to Galle and has stayed back in Colombo to recover.