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News “New Zealand had better intensity, better body language, and they created pressure on us from the first over onwards” Two matches into their T20 World Cup campaign, India are winless and on the brink of elimination. On Sunday, India only managed to post 110 in their 20 overs – a total that New Zealand

News New Zealander hadn’t opened in T20s before this week, now he’s put India on the brink Twenty of the 22 players involved in India vs New Zealand in Dubai have played in the world’s premier franchise league but the highest-scoring batter’s overseas T20 experience extends to half a season in the Vitality Blast for

News The fast bowler faced widespread abuse on social media – much of it tinged with Islamophobia – following India’s 10-wicket defeat to Pakistan India captain Virat Kohli has hit back against the abuse that fast bowler Mohammed Shami faced on social media following India’s 10-wicket defeat to Pakistan in their T20 World Cup opener

News The retention window for the eight older franchises is from November 1 to 30, while the window for the two new ones is from December 1 to 25 The salary purse for the IPL 2022 auction has been set at INR 90 crore per team, an increase from the IPL 2021 auction purse of

News The players were part of the Mushtaq Ali squad that was to travel to Guwahati for the tournament starting Nov 4 Four players of Mumbai’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy squad have tested positive for Covid-19 and their replacements have been picked. PTI reported that the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has finalised on replacements for

News After the list of retained players is finalised, the two new franchises will get first choice from the rest of the pool ahead of the auction A maximum of four players can be retained by the eight existing IPL teams while the two new franchises will be able to acquire three players from the

News Bowls for 20 minutes, raising the possibility that he might be able to send down a few overs against New Zealand Hardik Pandya bowled in the nets in Dubai on Wednesday, raising the possibility of him bowling in India’s crucial Men’s T20 World Cup game against New Zealand on October 31. Hardik bowled 16

News RPSG Ventures Ltd, which owns the football club, secured the rights for the Lucknow IPL franchise on Monday To avoid a potential conflict-of-interest controversy, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has decided to step down as director of ATK Mohun Bagan, the football team owned by RPSG Ventures Ltd, the Indian business conglomerate that on Monday

News Mhambrey applies for bowling coach role; Abhay, Ratra among contenders for next fielding coach Rahul Dravid has formally applied for the position of the Indian team’s head coach on Tuesday, having been touted as the heavy favourite to get the role. In addition to Dravid, former pacer Paras Mhambrey, and former wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra

In what will be seen as a watershed moment in the business of cricket, two corporate giants – RP Sanjiv Goenka Group (RPSG) and CVC Capital Partners (Irelia Company Pte Ltd) – have bid a staggering sum of money, running over USD 1.6 billion, to buy the two new IPL franchises. On Monday, at a

News The 2022 season will likely include 74 matches and not follow the home-and-away format This will not be the first time the IPL will comprise 10 teams – that already happened a decade ago. The BCCI is likely to revert to the format used in 2011, which scrapped the simple home-and-away model, and included

News India’s captain conceded that Pakistan’s powerplay bowling had left them too much catching up to do After India suffered their first defeat to Pakistan in World Cups, losing by ten wickets, Virat Kohli admitted that his side was outplayed. In response to India’s 151 for 7, Pakistan rattled off the target in 17.5 overs

Report Shaheen Shah Afridi set the tone for the night with a fiery opening spell in which he claimed both India openers Pakistan 152 for 0 (Rizwan 79*, Babar 68*) beat India 151 for 7 (Kohli 57, Afridi 3-31) by ten wickets In their 13th attempt in World Cups, Pakistan finally managed to beat India,

News India captain also believes pitches for T20 World Cup will be better for batting than they were in IPL Hardik Pandya, who didn’t bowl a single ball in IPL 2021 across both legs in India and the UAE, is still not fit enough to bowl. Virat Kohli, however, has said that India value his

News “If you lose players then world cricket is not going to be better off. So there has to be a balance in the future” India captain Virat Kohli has said that while trying to “cover up” for the amount of cricket lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities must be mindful that cricketers aren’t

Preview Pakistan will have to overcome a side with better personnel, and with their preparations having been hit Big Picture You could go with Albert Einstein reminding you madness is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You could try a variant of Richard Feynman’s famous quote about quantum

News The teams will have to be based in any two cities out of Ahmedabad, Cuttack, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Indore and Lucknow Lancer Capital, whose principal is Avram Glazer, a member of the family that owns a majority stake at Manchester United football club, is one of the 22 business entities to have picked up bid

News Senior India player thrilled with the way the lower-middle order has been contributing for the past two-three series To outperform the Australian quicks on their home soil was among India’s standout achievements on their recently concluded tour of the country. That is the view of Smriti Mandhana, who also singled out the lower-middle order’s

Report Virat Kohli turned his arm over as India looked to explore bowling options India 153 for 2 (Rohit 60, Rahul 39, Suryakumar 38*) beat Australia 152 for 5 (Smith 57, Maxwell 37, Stoinis 41*, Ashwin 2-8) by seven wickets A rollicking fifty by Rohit Sharma led India to a comfortable nine-wicket win against Australia

News Says experience of playing one-and-a-half seasons of the IPL in the UAE “put me in good stead” for the T20 World Cup Picking MS Dhoni‘s brain is on KL Rahul‘s checklist for the next few weeks, as he wants to utilise every bit of advice from the Indian team’s mentor, who, according to the

News Dhoni’s future as a player is uncertain, but indications are that he will stay on with the franchise in some capacity Whether he is part of Chennai Super Kings as a player or not come 2022, MS Dhoni and the franchise will continue to be inseparable, as far as N Srinivasan is concerned. “Dhoni

News “Things were different before IPL started and now KL Rahul is playing the way he is, so it’s very hard to look past him at top of the order.” Virat Kohli has indicated that he will bat at No. 3 during the T20 World Cup, reversing his desire to open with Rohit Sharma, which

Report Liam Livingstone impressed with bat and ball for England before going off the field with a finger injury India 192 for 3 (Kishan 70, Rahul 51, Pant 29*) beat England 188 for 5 (Bairstow 49, Moeen 43*, Livingstone 30, Shami 3-40) by seven wickets Fifties from KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan at the top

Bhuvneshwar Kumar might have endured a rough time at IPL 2021 – his economy rate of 7.97 was his worst in a season – but India captain Virat Kohli has brushed off concerns around his form in the lead-up to the Men’s T20 World Cup. In the UAE leg of the IPL, Bhuvneshwar managed just

News The batter died on Friday following a cardiac arrest Avi Barot, the Saurashtra batter, occasional wicketkeeper and part-time offbreak bowler, died on October 15 at the age of 29 following a cardiac arrest. “Avi was an exceptional and remarkable cricketer,” the Saurashtra Cricket Association said in a statement on its website; Barot had started

News Head coach full of praise for Venkatesh Iyer and the rest of the young Indians in his top order despite final defeat Kolkata Knight Riders had seemed down and out in the first half of IPL 2021, putting together just two wins in their first seven matches. The postponement of the tournament when Covid-19

Rahul Dravid could start working with the Indian team as early as in late November, when New Zealand visit Aijaz Rahi / © Associated Press Rahul Dravid is, by a distance, the frontrunner to be the next chief coach of the Indian men’s team, and is in line to take over once Ravi Shastri finishes

News Avesh Khan, Umran Malik, Harshal Patel, Lukman Meriwala, Venkatesh Iyer, Karn Sharma, Shahbaz Ahmed and K Gowtham to join team bubble too Shardul Thakur has replaced Axar Patel in India’s squad for the T20 World Cup 2021. Axar, meanwhile, joins the list of stand-by players for the squad, along with Shreyas Iyer and Deepak

News They join Umran Malik in the net bowlers’ list; teams have until October 15 to finalise their squads Avesh Khan and Venkatesh Iyer have been asked by the BCCI to stay on in the UAE after the completion of the IPL to join Umran Malik as net bowlers for the Indian team during the

Report The hosts beat India 11-5 in the multi-format series, but the contest was a lot closer than that Australia Women 149 for 5 (Mooney 61, McGrath 44*, Gayakwad 2-37) beat India Women 135 for 6 (Mandhana 52, Ghosh 23*, Rodrigues 23, Carey 2-42) by 14 runs After a series of closely fought encounters across