“He is looking just that little bit preoccupied – maybe at this stage he is thinking about the WTC [final],” Gavaskar says Sunil Gavaskar feels Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians and India captain, should take some time off from the ongoing IPL and come back fresh for the last few league games and the subsequent […]
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Gill and Vijay Shankar holed out to long-on against the spinners in successive overs, and at 103 for 4 after 13 overs, the innings could have tilted either ways. Manohar bravely took on a miserly Chawla and tilted the pendulum in Titans’ favour in such a way that Mumbai never recovered. With the field spread […]
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Defending champions Gujarat Titans handed five-time champions Mumbai Indians a thumping defeat, courtesy a violent death-over assault by Abhinav Manohar and David Miller, and a spin demolition of the Mumbai batting, led by the excellent Noor Ahmad and Rashid Khan. Gill lays the platform despite top-order failure After a difficult end to his spell in […]
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The first two overs of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s chase against Kolkata Knight Riders yielded as many as 30 runs. Virat Kohli struck a couple of boundaries while Faf du Plessis, again coming in as an Impact sub, collected two sixes apart from a four. Chasing 201 for victory, RCB would have had the confidence of […]
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Chennai Super Kings are on a roll. They have now won three games on the trot and the last two in particular were in convincing fashion. However, their most recent defeat came at home against their opponents for Thursday (April 27). Rajasthan Royals arrived in Chepauk and pulled off a job. They will now come […]
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After opening their account with two one-man shows “W”s, KKR suffered a flurry of losses before finally pulling off a complete team effort to defeat the Royal Challengers Bangalore comprehensively at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Wednesday, April 26. The win kept RCB at their fifth spot but KKR rose from No. 8 […]
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Top performer of the day. Tom Price (109 & 4/38) Batting at No 9, Price smashed a 98-ball 109 against Worcestershire to bail Gloucestershire out from a precarious position of 45 for 7 to 231 on the opening day. He then returned to bat four wickets and down the hosts to 118 for 7 at […]
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Ramiz Raja tore into the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on the Mickey Arthur appointment and called it ‘crazy as a clown in a village circus’ stuff. On Thursday (April 20), the PCB confirmed the much-awaited appointment of the former coach as the Director of the Pakistan men’s cricket team. “A first of its kind coach/director […]
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A consistent performer for Delhi Capitals in this edition of the IPL, despite their streak of losses, has been David Warner. Against Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday (April 20), Warner registered his fourth fifty-plus score in six games and while comparing this knock to his previous outings, there were a few contrasts. The most obvious […]
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Several Delhi Capitals players have reported items missing from their kits after they returned to Delhi from Bengaluru, where they played RCB on April 15. According to a report in the Indian Express a total of 16 bats, in addition to other equipment like shoes, pads, thigh pads and gloves, were missing. Three of the lost bats belonged […]
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