NEW DELHI: Rachin Ravindra played in his maiden Indian Premier League season for five-time champions Chennai Super Kings sharing the dressing room with the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni.In his maiden season for CSK, Ravindra scored 222 runs from the 10 matches with a highest score of 61 at a strike rate of 160.87.Even though defending…
MI has 4 Indian T20 WC playersWill their team’s performance in IPL matter when Team India cricketers play T20 World Cup next month? The top two in the league this season – KKR and SRH – have no player from India’s T20 World Cup squad.Bottom-rankers Mumbai Indians have four in their mix and sixth-ranked Delhi…
NEW DELHI: Former India opener and current KKR mentor Gautam Gambhir on Monday appreciated the high standard of cricket in the Indian Premier League but said that the tournament should not serve as the primary route for young players to secure a spot in the national team.Gambhir, who represented India, emphasized on the importance of…
NEW DELHI: Star Indian batter Virat Kohli recently shared insights into his early career, highlighting two key figures who significantly contributed to his rise in international cricket.In a conversation with former cricketer Suresh Raina on JioCinema, Kohli revealed that during the 2008 Emerging Players tournament in Australia, then-chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar and Raina advocated for…
NEW DELHI: A towering stadium with 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is nearing completion in Long Island’s Eisenhower Park, set to host one of the world’s premier cricket tournaments, the T20 World Cup, next month. This venue is part of a historic event, marking the first major international cricket…
NEW DELHI: After the victory against Mumbai Indians in their final fixture of the Indian Premier League 2024, Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul expressed his disappointment with the team’s overall performance in the 17th edition of the cash-rich league. Despite the win, LSG ended their season with 14 points from 14 games and were…
NEW DELHI: The discussion around the exclusions of Shubman Gill and Rinku Singh from India’s T20 World Cup squad is not going to take a backseat with former India player Robin Uthappa expressing his views on the matter.Opener Gill and star batter Rinku did not find a spot in the main squad but barely managed…
India will face off against Pakistan in their much-awaited T20 World Cup match on June 9 in New York, and the build-up for the big game has alrady started.The venue for the match, Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, is ready to host 34,000 fans for what is perhaps the biggest match of any ICC tournament,…
‘As BCCI secretary, my job is to choose the best experts and support them’Expressing optimism that the Indian men’s cricket team will win the 2024 T20 World Cup after suffering a loss in the final of the ODI tournament last year, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said the squad has a good balance between form and…
Nassau County Ground inaugurated by Usain BoltCHENNAI: Cricket is at a crossroads with a part of the T20 World Cup in June taking place in the USA ahead of the sport’s re-entry into the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. The world is waiting with bated breath to see how the public accepts cricket in…
