Shah Rukh Khan, who is also the owner of KKR, it very involved with the team's happenings. With the IPL 2021 approaching, SRK hosted the 'AskSRK' session, where he took queries from fans, and came up with witty answers to all of them.
MS Dhoni was the biggest reason Rising Pune Supergiant reached the final of IPL 2017, despite Steve Smith taking over the captaincy at the start of the season, said Rajat Bhatia. Speaking on SportsTiger’s interview series – Interact. Personal. Laugh & Life (IPLL) – Bhatia said, “You can never compare Dhoni with Steve Smith. Smith doesn’t even feature in top 10 captains for me. Dhoni was the reason we reached the IPL 2017 final.”
India versus Pakistan is perhaps the biggest rivalry in cricket, and in it -- the competition between Sachin Tendulkar and Pakistan's fast bowlers is most remembered. Everyone remembers how Tendulkar thrashed Shoaib Akhtar, Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram in all directions, during the 2003 World Cup match.
There won't be any home advantage for the eight franchises in the upcoming Indian Premier League to be played at neutral venues but that's a fair deal, Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore said on Wednesday. The most lucrative T20 league is all set to return to India after a pit stop in UAE in 2020 but all teams will be deprived of the home conditions.
Vijay has so far played in 61 Tests, scored 3,982 runs, whereas he played in just 17 ODI’s scoring just 339 runs. His nine T20Is have produced 169 runs
Just days before the start of IPL 2021, Chennai Super Kings have received a huge blog as the in-form bowler Josh Hazlewood has decided to pull out of the tournament. The Aussie decided to keep himself fresh for the Ashes and then the T20 World Cup later this year, and wanted to spend time with his family instead.
Wadekar made his first-class debut for Bombay in 1958-59, he had to wait eight years before playing for the national side in 1966-67
Former India skipper Mohammad Azharuddin feels that Rishabh Pant might be the front-runner to lead Team India, in the years to come. Just recently, Delhi Capitals announced him as the skipper for the season, after Shreyas Iyer was ruled out of the team tournament due to a shoulder injury. Azhar went on to say that he won't be surprised if selectors consider him for the role.
Sri Lanka trailed the West Indies by 104 runs with only two secondinnings wickets in hand Wednesday after the rainaffected third day of the second cricket test.
Harbhajan Singh is still playing because he "wants to" and he "will", asserts the veteran off-spinner, as combative at 40 as he was in his heydays and least bothered by the people questioning his willingness to carry on.
Australia and Sunrisers Hyderabad allrounder Mitchell Marsh has pulled out of IPL 2021 citing bio bubble fatigue.
India fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar moved up to 11th from 20th in the International Cricket Council's (ICC) ODI rankings for bowlers. This is Kumar's best position since being 10th in September 2017.
The MS Dhoni-led side their campaign against Delhi Capitals on April 10 in Mumbai.
Mumbai Indians began training for IPL 2021 in Mumbai, with the likes of Chris Lynn, Arjun Tendulkar and Jayant Yadav among the players in action.
Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill and Prasidh Krishna arrived straight from the India-England bubble and didn't require to quarantine.
Clarke went on to say that it's harsh to criticise players for not being vocal about wanting the captaincy role.
Kohli will join his RCB teammates after finishing his seven-day quarantine in Chennai following his arrival on April 1.
Rishabh Pant has been named captain of Delhi Capitals for IPL 2021 in Shreyas Iyer's absence.
The Head Coach of the Delhi Capitals - Ricky Ponting - is certain that leading the franchise will make Rishabh Pant an even better player.
South African stars all set to miss the opening matches of their respective franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021.
The Punjab Kings will sport the new jersey in their IPL 2021 campaign opener against Rajasthan Royals (RR) on April 12 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Brendon McCullum gave the world a glimpse of the IPL on the opening night with an unbeaten 158 off 73 balls against RCB for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Even though the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to begin its 14th season on April 9, there is a set of IPL fans who are not sure about what exactly is the Fair Play award or how it is calculated. Introduced since the league’s inception in 2008, the Fair Play Award has a specific system in place to decide how fair the game was played.
A total 19 hat-tricks have happened in the IPL over the years with three coming twice in a single season in 2008 and 2017. Only three seasons in 2015, 2018 and 2020 didn't see any hat-tricks.
Being brought by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for a stunning Rs. 1.5 crore deal, 7.5 times way over his base price at the 2018 December IPL auctions, Barman made his debut for RCB in the clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Former BCCI chief and Chennai Super Kings owner N Srinivasan has explained why CSK have persisted with MS Dhoni, over the years.
Former Sri Lankan cricketers who returned home after the Road Safety World Series have been sent into quarantine due to the positive Covid cases of their Indian counterparts.
In the previous edition of the IPL, CSK had a forgetful season. The three-time champions finished seventh and missed a play-offs berth for the first time in the history of the tournament.
Manu Sawhney came under the scanner after an investigation revealed his conduct over the last 12 months as being ‘unsavoury and against the federation’s way of leading its operations.’
On a track that was purely meant for pacers, West Indies had a unit that made batsmen duck down more times than defend
On Monday, former Australia captain Steve Smith said that he will take up the captaincy role if he gets another crack at it.Life from IPL 2020 to IPL 2021 has been a topsy turvy ride for Rishabh Pant. He had a poor season with the bat in IPL 2020, scoring 343 runs from 14 matches at a strike rate of only 113.95
It was the final before the final. From the who’s who of the film industry to former cricketing greats, from the political heads of both the countries to half a billion viewers.
Punjab Kings begin their IPL 2021 campaign with a match against Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai on April 12.
Menon officiated in four Tests and six of the 8 limited-overs matches and a total of 40 referrals were made against Menon's decisions across the series but only five were upheld.
After the T20 series win against England, Kohli had said he will open in the IPL raising the possibility of him opening with Rohit in the World Cup.
RCB will take on defending champions Mumbai Indians in the tournament opener to be played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on April 9.
India is set to host the T20 World Cup later this year and Silverwood feels the English players will be better prepared for that.
Playing his first game of the series, Natarajan played a key role in the last over as he had 14 runs to defend against a Sam Curran, who threatened to take the game away from the hosts and was batting in his 90s.
The KKR Twitter page shared photos of the England and KKR captain Morgan along with the Indian youngsters arriving in Pune to Mumbai, where the team is practicing ahead of the IPL.
While India have been brilliant with the bat and ball, they have ranged between being average to sometimes hopelessly poor in the outfield and that will be a cause of worry ahead of major world tournaments starting with the World T20 later this year.
The MS Dhoni-led CSK side will look to bounce back from the lows of IPL 2020. They will be playing their first five games in Mumbai.
Kohli's case is different as he returned home to Mumbai to spend a few days there before moving to Chennai on April 1.
Lara, with a superb drive through the covers off Jason Gillespie’s delivery, pulled off an incredible win as the Windies made 311/9.
AB de Villiers is one of the most feared batsman in the history of the game. He has been the playmaker for RCB over the years in the IPL. AB has an aggregate of 4178 runs for the franchise in just 130 batting innings at an average of 42.2 and stunning strike rate of 159.46.
KL Rahul amassed 670 runs in 14 innings at an average of 55.83 and strike rate of 129.34 in IPL 2020 ending as the highest run-getter of the season. He has the highest combined aggregate in the last three editions of the IPL.
The partnership which best showcased the new all-out attack strategy in batting for India in the ODI series against England was the one between the two most dangerous batsmen in the XI - Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya. The pair combined in the second ODI and the decider and produced match-changing innings individually and were involved in defining counter-attacking stands collectively.
New Zealand vs Bangladesh Live Score, Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I, Live UpdatesThe former Pakistan captain also praised Virat Kohli for promoting Rishabh Pant up the order.
The on-field umpires are instructed not to make soft signals on DRS calls, third umpires can overrule the on-field umpire's on short runs.