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Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene said it wasn’t nice to retire impact player Tilak Varma, but described the move as a “tactical” one due to southpaw’s inability to connect big hits during their chase against Lucknow Super Giants in an IPL game in Lucknow. “These things happen in cricket. And (it was) not nice … Read more

Everybody has a plan to make cricket more equitable, bring in more money, have more rational calendars, comprehensible points systems and so on. The International Cricket Council, sadly, isn’t one with such plans. Some years ago, the Woolf Report put forward ideas which were heartily ignored. Now the World Cricketers’ Association (WCA), a body with … Read more

Shreyas Iyer has been leading from the front for Punjab Kings. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Punjab Kings, after rollicking victories away in Ahmedabad and Lucknow, is set to play host for the first time in IPL 2025. Saturday’s fixture against Rajasthan Royals is also a good opportunity for the in-form PBKS to snap … Read more

‘Home advantage’ has been a hot topic of discussion in IPL 2025. Teams have expressed displeasure at pitch curators when they did not get their preferred kind of track while hosting games. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson, however, said he was not one to dwell on this discourse. “To be very honest, I … Read more

Reinforcement: CSK might be tempted to bring in Conway to bolster its batting. | Photo: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN It is not often that Chennai Super Kings enters a match in its backyard as the underdog. The five-time champion boasts the best home record (69.86%) in the competition. However, after an indifferent start to its IPL-18 campaign … Read more

Prashant Vaidya was once rated the fastest bowler in India. He will quickly remind you though that a certain Javagal Srinath was very fast, too. Unlike Srinath’s, Vaidya’s career was cut short by injuries; he ended up playing just four ODIs. But, he went on to play a key role in turning Vidarbha into one … Read more

Michael Hussey, right, with Shivam Dube. | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B Ahead of the clash against Delhi Capitals at the MAC Stadium on Saturday, Chennai Super Kings’ batting coach Michael Hussey sounded optimistic about his side’s turnaround and highlighted the areas where it would like to improve during a media interaction on the eve … Read more

Manisha. | Photo Credit: X@IIS_Vijayanagar While Manisha Bhanwala ended her four-year gold-medal drought in women’s competitions on Friday night, the Indian male freestyle wrestlers in action on Saturday disappointed at the Asian wrestling championships in Amman, Jordan. The 28-year-old Manisha, who had claimed three consecutive bronze medals across 62kg and 65kg from 2022 to 2024, … Read more

Sharath Kamal during his farewell in Chennai on Saturday. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran The WTT Star Contender here is done and dusted. There were plenty of upsets and several new faces caught the eye. However, for the first few days of the global event, the tournament was all about Sharath Kamal in his swansong. … Read more

Mumbai Indians’ captain Hardik Pandya and Lucknow Super Giants’ captain Rishabh Pant during the toss. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bowl against the Lucknow Super Giants in an Indian Premier League match on Friday (April 4, 2025). MI skipper Hardik Pandya said Rohit Sharma is sitting … Read more

Eugenio Chacarra of Spain emerged the sole leader despite shooting one-over 73 in the third round, on a teaser of a day when the ball kept missing the lip of the cup with unnerving consistency for most, in the $2.25 million Hero Indian Open golf championship at the DLF Golf and Country Club here on … Read more

Dhoni in action against RR. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR In what could be a stunning development, M.S. Dhoni could return as captain of Chennai Super Kings on home soil for the IPL league encounter against Delhi Capitals at the MAC Stadium on Saturday. This comes in the wake of skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad being … Read more

Kolkata Knight Riders Venkatesh Iyer plays a shot during the Indian Premier League 2025 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI Kolkata Knight Riders vice-captain Venkatesh Iyer believes his ₹23.75 crore price tag doesn’t mean he has to score heavily every game, stressing that his focus is … Read more

LSG will hope captain Rishabh Pant finds form with the bat. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Lucknow Super Giants will hope its big guns can turn up and pull off a concerted effort against Mumbai Indians at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in their IPL match here on Friday. The Super Giants’ fate has hinged on the efforts … Read more

Sai Kishore of GT celebrates after taking the wicket of Jitesh Sharma of RCB during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru on 2nd April 2025. | Photo Credit: K. BHAGYA PRAKASH It is not often that Rashid Khan is the bowler with the worst figures and yet … Read more

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s captain Pat Cummins with Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain Ajinkya Rahane before the start of an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, April 3, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bowl against … Read more

Followers of the Indian Premier League will identify Vikram Solanki as the Director of Cricket with Gujarat Titans, the champions on debut in 2022. The Udaipur-born Solanki, who celebrated his 49th birthday on Tuesday, played 51 ODIs and three T20Is for England between 2000 and 2007 with modest returns, but he will go down in history books as … Read more

GT captain Shubman Gill, and Mohammed Siraj, during the training session ahead of the IPL 2025 match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Gujarat Titans (GT), in Bengaluru on April 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Gujarat Titans skipper Shubman Gill won the toss and elected to field first against Royal Challengers Bengaluru … Read more

The Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati will become the newest Test venue in India when it hosts South Africa (second and final Test, Nov. 22 to 26) later this year. It was confirmed when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced the fixtures for the India men’s home season from October … Read more

Tomokazu Harimoto in action at the WTT Star Contender, in Chennai | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran Tomokazu Harimoto has been in the public eye ever since he was 12 years old. In 2015, he became the youngest player in history to reach the main draw of an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour event, … Read more

Kolkata Knight Riders’ mentor Dwayne Bravo. | Photo Credit: Reuters Kolkata Knight Riders mentor Dawyne Bravo thinks a combination of smart bowling and reckless batting has resulted in a drop in high-scoring aggregates in the ongoing Indian Premier League. Analysing the trend of less number of 200-plus totals, Bravo said, “You have to try to … Read more

Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders’ Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakaravarthy during their practice session ahead of an IPL 2025 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on April 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Previous year’s finalists Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad, lying low this time with just a win apiece, … Read more

Yashasvi Jaiswal hits a boundary during day two of the fifth cricket Test match between Australia and India. | Photo Credit: DAVID GRAY India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has decided to leave Mumbai, his domestic team that made him the cricketer that he is, citing personal reasons. Jaiswal wrote to the Mumbai Cricket Association on Tuesday … Read more

Ben Sears took 5-59 as New Zealand bowled out Pakistan for 208 to win the second one-day. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ben Sears took 5-59 as New Zealand bowled out Pakistan for 208 to win the second one-day cricket international by 84 runs Wednesday, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in three-match series. Faheem Ashraf … Read more

Two losses in three games have hit Lucknow Super Giants hard, and team mentor Zaheer Khan did not hold back in his criticism of the home-ground pitch following the heavy defeat to Punjab Kings, remarking, it looked like the PBKS “curator out here”. Chasing 172 on a track that offered grip and variable bounce, PBKS … Read more

A cricket ball is caught in a pair of wicket keeping gloves with a fan of Australian fifty dollar notes | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock Everybody has a plan to make cricket more equitable, bring in more money, have more rational calendars, comprehensible points systems and so on. The International Cricket Council, sadly, isn’t one … Read more

Everybody has a plan to make cricket more equitable, bring in more money, have more rational calendars, comprehensible points systems and so on. The International Cricket Council, sadly, isn’t one with such plans. Some years ago, the Woolf Report put forward ideas which were heartily ignored. Now the World Cricketers’ Association (WCA), a body with … Read more

Punjab Kings’ captain Shreyas Iyer exchanges a handshake with Lucknow Super Giants’ Manimaran Siddharth after their Indian Premier League 2025 match, at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on April 1, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI Opener Prabhsimran Singh followed up a disciplined performance from Punjab Kings bowlers with a … Read more

RCB’s Virat Kohli, during the training session ahead of the IPL 2025 match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Gujarat Titans (GT) in Bengaluru on April 01, 2025. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K. On paper in the lead-up to IPL-18, and on the field during the opening two matches, Royal Challengers Bengaluru has given … Read more