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Glamorgan 370 for 3 (Northeast 186*, Carlson 77, Root 67) vs Middlesex In a dank start to the year, few would be able to state with any confidence that they’ve yet heard their first cuckoo of spring. But cock an ear to the shires on this cold grey day in April, and you’d hear loud

IPL 2024: Shashank Singh played a great knock for PBKS vs GT.© BCCI/IPL The Gujarat Titans vs Punjab Kings IPL 2024 match was a thriller to the core. After Shubman Gill‘s 89* took Gujarat Titans to 199/4 in 20 overs, most the Punjab Kings top batters fell on low scores. But one man had some

Gujarat Titans (GT) vs Punjab Kings (PBKS)Ahmedabad, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Punjab boy Gill vs Punjab Kings Life after Hardik Pandya hasn’t been too bad after all for Gujarat Titans. Their new captain Shubman Gill has marshalled them to two wins in three games, with both the victories coming at home. They

Mumbai Indians cricketers in action during IPL 2024© AFP Mumbai Indians fast bowler Gerald Coetzee shattered youngster Mayank Yadav‘s record by delivering the fastest ball of IPL 2024 during the match against Rajasthan Royals on Monday. Mayank clinched the record just two days ago when he delivered a 155.8 kmph ball for Lucknow Super Giants

The PCB and Shaheen Shah Afridi have reached an uneasy truce after PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi met the player in Kakul earlier today. Afridi, who was deposed as Pakistan T20I captain after just one series, was thoroughly disgruntled with the manner of his sacking and the lack of communication from the board. Relations deteriorated further

Rishabh Pant was on top of his game on Sunday night as he took the Chennai Super Kings bowlers to the cleaners with his sensational strokes. During the Delhi Capitals’ IPL 2024 match vs CSK in Visakhapatnam, Pant scored 51 off only 32 ball with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. That also

KL Rahul has handed over the Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) captaincy to Nicholas Pooran for their second game of IPL 2024 against Punjab Kings in Lucknow on Saturday. Rahul, however, was part of the playing XI as an Impact Player. Pooran said at the toss that the team management wanted Rahul to ease back into

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders clash at the IPL 2024 had two men, who have been known to share a bit of history, on the opposite side – Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir. The last time the duo faced each other at the IPL 2023, it made for one of the lasting images

Match details Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)Bengaluru, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – RCB vs KKR, a fiery rivalry RCB vs KKR at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. That’s how it all started in 2008, when Brendon McCullum’s unbeaten 158 launched the IPL with a dream start. Over the years, the

Records tumbled left-right and centre as Sunrisers Hyderabad smashed 277 for three, the highest total in IPL history, to leave Mumbai Indians shell shocked on Wednesday. Travis Head (62 off 24) and Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23) came up with a sensational display of power-hitting, that saw the latter snatching the franchise record for fastest

Ollie Pope has made himself available for Surrey’s opening match of the County Championship, against Lancashire at Old Trafford, and says he’s fully focused on giving Alec Stewart the trophy-laden send-off he deserves, as Stewart embarks on his final season as the club’s director of cricket after 11 transformative years in the role. “I feel

The pragmatism of captain Shikhar Dhawan was the bedrock on which Punjab Kings built their 176 for six as Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers found their bearings on a Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch that offered them springboard bounce on Monday. Dhawan (45, 37b), Jitesh Sharma (27, 20b) and Prabhsimran Singh (25, 17b) were the main contributors for

Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul didn’t want to read too much into his team’s 20-run defeat at the hands of Rajasthan Royals in their opening game of IPL 2024, but has said that none of the teams have been able to crack the powerplay code in the first week of the season so far.

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has complimented former Indian skipper MS Dhoni, saying that he is “intuitive, instinctive” and makes right decisions and recalled that he had in 2007 recommended a young MSD to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for leading India. Dhoni has led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to five IPL

Match details Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)Kolkata, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Cummins vs Starc In December, Pat Cummins became the most expensive player at an IPL auction when SRH bought him for INR 20.5 crore (US$2.47 million approx.). But the record did not survive for even two hours as

MS Dhoni (L) and Rohit Sharma© BCCI It was the “end of an era” as MS Dhoni stepped down as the Chennai Super Kings captain and he was replaced by Ruturaj Gaikwad for the IPL 2024 season. The announcement came on Thursday just after the captains’ meet ahead of the opening match between CSK and

Wanindu Hasaranga‘s surprise return from retirement to the Sri Lankan Test side was not a ploy to avoid the legspinner missing T20 World Cup games later this year, according to Sri Lanka Cricket. Hasaranga was suspended from international cricket after stacking up demerit points for showing dissent against an umpiring decision in Sri Lanka’s defeat

The Indian Premier League (IPL) will introduce a Smart Replay System for quick, accurate decision-making and a less rigid process in the upcoming season, starting from Friday, as ESPNcricinfo reported. According to ESPNcricinfo, eight of Hawk-Eye’s high-speed cameras are spread over the ground, and two Hawk-Eye operators will be seated in the same room as