Due to a super quick turnaround from the end of IPL 2022 with Kolkata Knight Riders, premier Australian fast-bowler Pat Cummins will be skipping the T20I series part of the national side’s all-format visit to Sri Lanka. While the Premier League concludes on May 29, the three-match T20I series begins June 7. Cummins, however, will be available for the ODI and Test leg of Australian men’s first visit to the island nation since 2016, when they won the ODIs and T20Is but were hammered 3-0 in the Test matches. The ODI series will be a proper five-match affair, but the Test bout…
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Kuldeep Yadav registered yet another four-wicket haul against his former franchise Kolkata Knight Riders as Delhi Capitals edged past Shreyas Iyer’s men in a low-scoring thriller. KKR lost their fifth match in a row as yet another dismal batting performance led to their downfall against DC in Mumbai. Shreyas Iyer and his men were asked to bat after the Capitals’ skipper Rishabh Pant won the toss and opted to field. Переглянути цей допис в Instagram Допис, поширений IPL (@iplt20) Kolkata continued chopping and changing their lineup as they brought in Aaron Finch, Baba Indrajith and Harshit Rana in place of Sam Billings, Shivam Mavi and Varun Chakravarthy. The lack of good opening stands…
Timely end-over cameos from Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan proved to be the difference in the end, as GT emerged victorious against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 27 and stretched their winning streak to three games. Needing 22 from the last over against SRH’s in-form left-arm quick Marco Jansen, Tewatia and Khan tilted the scales in Titans’ favour off the last delivery. While Tewatia eased up the equation a little bit with a first-ball six, it was Rashid who provided GT with the finishing touches via three magnificent sixes to close off the game. The Afghan cricketer had a rare poor outing…
Royal Challengers Bangalore were bowled out for 115 while chasing 145 against Rajasthan Royals on April 26. Ex-West Indies international turned commentator Ian Bishop believes failing to chase 145 should worry RCB a lot more than their previous loss, where they were shot out for 68. Bishop stated RCB’s disastrous batting performance against Sunrisers Hyderabad could be put down as one bad game, but it was not the case with their failure against the Royals. The RCB bowlers had done a pretty good job to restrict an in-form opposition batting unit to only 144/8. But chasing a reasonably low total of 145, they were…
Ex-India head coach Ravi Shastri threw light upon India’s attitude and response to on-field jeering from their Australian counterparts during his seven-year spell. The former India allrounder oversaw two famous Indian Test series wins in Australia during his tenure as head coach of the side. The Indian team led by Virat Kohli became the first Asian side to clinch a Test series Down Under on the 2018-19 trip, winning the four-match Test series 2-1. It was a feat and the scoreline that they repeated two years later with an incredible come from behind series victory, considered one of the most remarkable comebacks in Test…
As captain of Kolkata Knight Riders, Shreyas Iyer says one of his team’s biggest motivations to reverse their fortunes and get on a winning run in Indian Premier League 2022 is to end up playing a playoff at their home venue the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The first qualifier and the eliminator of the tournament will be played in Kolkata on May 24 and 25, respectively, and Iyer wishes for his team to dominate from here and play that first versus second virtual semi-final at the Eden Gardens and entertain their fans. Also read 👉 Venues, schedule revealed for IPL 2022 playoffs; full capacity…
For most of their batting effort, Rajasthan Royals looked like staring at a certain defeat in IPL 2022, only for their designated power-hitter Riyan Parag and the team’s multi-resourced bowling unit to save the day for them against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 26. The inaugural season champions won by a healthy margin of 29 runs despite having set up a score of only 144/8, which they also reached thanks mainly to a fantastic innings from Parag. The 20-year-old repaid the trust shown in him by the team management, who have backed him through all the failures and criticism from outside. https://twitter.com/kaustats/status/1519010623597989888…
Ex-skipper Graeme Smith has been cleared of all charges of racism labelled against him during his time as captain of South Africa and post-retirement in his stay as the ex-Director of Cricket for CSA. Smith went through an independent arbitration process following the Social Justice and National-Building commission report. In the independent enquiry, advocates Ngwako Maenetje SC and Michael Bishop cleared Smith of all three chargers put against him in the SJN report commission, which was set up by CSA to rectify past and present mishandling against the black cricketers, reports ESPNcricinfo. These chargers included: (a) indifferential treatment to ex-wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile in the…
A fine bowling effort from PBKS helped them overcome a one-man show with the bat by Ambati Rayudu for CSK in their league-stage encounter of the Indian Premier League 2022 on April 25 in Mumbai. The Mayank Agarwal-led side won by 11 runs following an allround display on the field. Defending a challenging score of 187/4 on a dryish track at the Wankhede Stadium, the Northern rivals kept their opposition down to 176/6, which also they reached thanks largely to their lone warrior Rayudu, who smashed 78 off 39 balls. Rayudu looked the best of the CSK batters on show, finding perfect timing on a used surface…
Nearly halfway through the ongoing Indian Premier League season, a major shock has been the campaign endured by five-time winners MI, who have gone through an eight-match losing streak and are yet to get on board. The Rohit Sharma-led side haven’t warmed up to the post mega auction season, with their weakened bowling unit and unsettled, out-of-form batting department combining negatively to lead to their downfall. Having to let go of their mainstays Quinton de Kock, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Trent Boult and Rahul Chahar in the pre-auction retention/release process, the franchise also had arguably their worst auction in recent years. They failed to bring in adequate replacements…