NEW DELHI: One of the more endearing images from Sunrisers Hyderabad‘s carnage at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday was when Travis Head rushed to hug Abhishek Sharma when the duo brought up their 100-run opening partnership inside the powerplay. Head has dominated the headlines during this IPL, but Abhishek has added substance to their…
Opener’s blistering 89 helps SRH post 266/7 as Capitals go down by 67 runsNEW DELHI: Travis Head is currently on the loose, hopping cities and murdering bowling attacks. At the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday evening, it was almost spine-chillingly cold-blooded about the way he tossed his bat, opened his gloves before the ball had…
NEW DELHI: A captain’s job in cricket is not only confined to making tactical moves to adjusting field placements and managing the bowling and batting order based on the match’s dynamics. He should also intervene if players from his team engage in a spontaneous altercation or conflict.Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant exhibited a brilliant example…
NEW DELHI: Australia’s Jake Fraser-McGurk made a memorable IPL debut with an aggressive half-century, while spinner Kuldeep Yadav shone with the ball as Delhi Capitals secured a confidence-boosting six-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday.Kuldeep, returning to the side after missing three matches due to a groin…
NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul expressed his surprise at the performance of young Delhi Capitals batter Jake Frazer-McGurk, highlighting his impactful debut in the IPL match. Rahul noted that Frazer-McGurk’s performance caught his team off guard, particularly as they were missing the services of express pacer Mayank Yadav, who is recovering from…
In 2014 Mumbai Indians lost five on the trot but still made it to the playoffs. In 2015 they suffered four-straight defeats before going on to clinch the title. In the 2024 edition, they have been slow off the blocks once again having lost their first three. But unlike those two campaigns, things are a…
NEW DELHI: In spite of the fact that Rishabh Pant, the wicketkeeper-batter, is “fully fit,” former India captain Sourav Ganguly stated on Saturday that the wicketkeeper-batter needs more time to get ready for the West Indies and USA T20 World Cup selection process.After returning to professional cricket after a terrifying car accident in December 2022,…
NEW DELHI: It is a tradition of sorts in cricket that the bowler who taken the maximum wickets in the innings or a match leads his teammates off the field after the day’s play or at the end of the match.Kuldeep Yadav took 5/72 to bowl out England for 218 in their first innings on…
CHENNAI: The ‘spin quartet’. It’s an idea that evokes a sense of nostalgia and respect in equal measure if you’re an Indian cricket fan. But post the late 1970s, when Bishan Singh Bedi, BS Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan retired from the sport, India haven’t gone back to the formula. Now, however, there’s an…
NEW DELHI: India star spinner Yuzvendra Chahal‘s exclusion from India’s Asia Cup 2023 squad raised quite a few eyebrows. The question – why Kuldeep over Chahal? – started doing the rounds of social media after the latter’s exclusion from the continental event.Once India’s go-to bowler, there is now a big question mark over Chahal’s inclusion…
