AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli (Photo credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: India superstar Virat Kohli on Wednesday hailed AB de Villiers as the ‘absolute number one’ after the Proteas great was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.The Class of 2024 has Sir Alastair Cook and India legend Neetu David as the other inductees alongside…
Mahela Jayawardene. (Mumbai Indians Photo) NEW DELHI: Mahela Jayawardene is back as the head coach of Mumbai Indians after serving as the franchise’s Global Head of Cricket for the last two years. When Mahela was elevated to the global role, MI appointed former South Africa cricketer Mark Boucher as the head coach in 2023 but…
Harshit Rana. (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: With no international debut yet for Harshit Rana, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) got a major boost ahead of IPL 2025 mega auction as they can retain him at a relatively low cost of just Rs 4 crore for the next year’s Indian Premier League season.Rana, despite showing potential as…
India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Hardik Pandya. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra praised Team India‘s choice to include Nitish Kumar Reddy alongside Hardik Pandya in the ongoing T20I series against Bangladesh. Reddy, a promising young player, has been promoted in the batting order ahead of Pandya…
Every Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise has gone into huddle mode as they finalise their Player Retentions before the October 31 deadline. But, most are yet to take concrete steps due to the ambiguity in the IPL Player Regulations 2025-27 Key Points document shared by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The…
Rinku Singh celebrates his half-century against Bangladesh in New Delhi. (Photo by Prakash Singh/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: When Rinku Singh top-edged a fast full toss off Tanzim Sakib for a six over the wicketkeeper to bring up his half-century on Wednesday night, he animatedly pointed at his left forearm. There’s a tattoo on that forearm…
Rohit Sharma (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises are in a huddle finalising their retentions ahead of the 2025 mega auction and all eyes are on Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma was removed as captain last season as the IPL giants gave the captaincy arm band to Hardik Pandya, who was transferred…
NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has advised that Delhi Capitals (DC) focus on retaining wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant and all-rounder Axar Patel as their first two retention ahead of the IPL 2025 auction. Despite rumors about Pant leaving the team, Chopra disclosed that the star player is staying with the Delhi-based franchise. Chopra also…
NEW DELHI: The template has been set. The character has been written. Now it is a question of head coach Gautam Gambhir‘s consistent approach. If that happens, the legacies of Indian cricket will be written and rewritten.Sunday’s T20 game in Gwalior was another mini-step towards establishing the Gambhir era. Picking youngsters, bringing them in at…
GWALIOR: For the last three years-1066 days to be precise- since he was dropped from the Indian team after failing to take a wicket in three matches of India’s disastrous 2021 T20 World Cup campaign in Dubai, ‘mystery spinner’ Varun Chakravarthy would look up for his name whenever the national selectors announced a squad for…
