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Madhya Pradesh 536 (Dubey 133, Patidar 122, Shubham 116, Mulani 5-173) and 108 for 4 (Mantri 37, Patidar 30*) beat Mumbai 374 (Sarfaraz 134, Jaiswal 78, Yadav 4-106) and 269 (Parkar 51, Sarfaraz 45, Kartikeya 4-98) by six wickets Madhya Pradesh are the Ranji Trophy 2021-22 champions, 69 years after they last won the coveted

IND vs LEI, Day 3: Focus on Kohli and Rohit as India eye big total© Twitter India vs Leicestershire, Tour Match, Day 3 Live Score Updates:All eyes would be on how the India batting order performs on Day 3 of the ongoing tour game against Leicestershire. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma who failed to get

It’s natural for sports teams to take lessons learnt from one game into another but to take those lessons from a fixture played over eight years ago has to be unprecedented. That’s what South Africa will have to do when they play their first Test since 2014 next week. They’re looking back to when they

IND vs LEI, Tour Match, Day 1 Live Updates: India face Leicestershire in a four-day Tour match at the Uptonsteel Cricket Ground. This will be the only practice game for Team India ahead of their rescheduled fifth Test against England in Edgbaston, starting July 1. Indian players will look look to hit their top form ahead

Kieron Pollard has been ruled out of the rest of the T20 Blast but is expected to be fit in time to play in the Hundred after knee surgery. Pollard, 35, was a marquee signing for Surrey as one of their two overseas players alongside his compatriot and close friend Sunil Narine, but suffered a

Jason Roy was bought by Gujarat Titans in the IPL mega auction but pulled out of IPL 2022 saying that the bio-bubble fatigue had taken a toll on him, and that he’d like to spent some quality time with his family. Soon after the England batter was handed a suspended two-match international ban by the

Mendis retired hurt on 87 off 85 balls in Sri Lanka’s win on Sunday, having put on a match-defining 170-run stand with centurion Pathum Nissanka. But he left the field because of “meuromuscular cramps,” SLC’s chief medical officer Dr Daminda Attanayake told ESPNcricinfo, and as such, will be fit for Tuesday. Nissanka, who was also

India and Sri Lanka will square off in 3 T20Is, 3 ODIs© Twitter The Harmanpreet Kaur-led Indian women’s cricket team arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday for its limited-over tour of Sri Lanka, beginning on June 23. Without senior players like Mithali Raj, who has announced her retirement, and veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami, a young

Madhya Pradesh 341 (Mantri 165, Raghuwanshi 63, Mukesh 4-66) and 281 (Shrivastava 82, Patidar 79, Shahbaz 5-79, Pramanik 4-65) beat Bengal 273 (Shahbaz 116, Tiwary 102, Kartikeya 3-61) and 175 (Easwaran 78, Kartikeya 5-67) by 174 runs Twenty-three years after their Ranji Trophy dream went up in smoke, Madhya Pradesh will fight for the title

Rishabh Pant has scored just 40 runs in 3 T20Is against South Africa© BCCI Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant is currently leading Team India in the ongoing five-match T20I series against South Africa. He was named as skipper after KL Rahul was ruled out on the eve of the first T20I. Currently, the hosts are trailing 1-2

Australia won the toss and decided to bowl against Sri Lanka Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first in the second ODI, as both sides made changes forced by injury. Left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann makes his debut for Australia. He was called into the squad only yesterday, and gets the chance on the

File photo of England Test captain Ben Stokes with Joe Root© AFP England have been docked two World Test Championship points and fined 40 percent of their match fee due to a slow over-rate in their second Test win against New Zealand. Match referee Richie Richardson imposed the sanction after the home side were ruled

Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Australia Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first in the first ODI against Australia, at Pallekele. The hosts are again playing with six recognised batters, plus two allrounders, and three specialist bowlers. Dunith Wellalage, the 19-year old left-arm spinner who can bat a bit, is making

File image of Sunil Gavaskar.© Twitter Despite several youngsters being picked in the squad for the T20I series against South Africa, the Indian cricket team management went with an unchanged XI for the second T20I in Cuttack on Sunday, after going down in the first T20I. Their fortune also remained the same as India slumped

A tough day in the field for Stuart Broad was made all the more gruelling on Saturday, after a 6am wake-up call to tell him that the Nottinghamshire pub that he co-owns was on fire. Firefighters were called to the award-winning Tap & Run country pub in Upper Broughton, near Melton Mowbray, at about 3.20am

Captain Rishabh Pant will expect an improved showing from the India bowlers as he plots a comeback against a marauding South Africa in the second T20 of the five-match series at the Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on Sunday. Leading India for the first time ever, Pant had to swallow a bitter pill when David Miller and

Nathan Sowter, the Australian-born, England-qualified legspinner, has joined Durham on loan for the rest of the T20 Blast and looks set to leave Middlesex permanently when his contract expires later this year. Sowter, 29, is Middlesex’s third-highest wicket-taker in T20 history but is yet to feature in a matchday squad this year. He has been

File photo of Dinesh Karthik.© BCCI/IPL Dinesh Karthik is set to return to the Indian team for the first time since 2019 when they take on South Africa in the first of five T20 Internationals later on Thursday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Karthik was picked for the squad on the back