Cricket

Gujarat Titans’ 144/4 wasn’t a match-winning total. Far from it. But the pitch wasn’t ideal for stroke-play and grafting was the order of the day. Once in a while, such low-scoring games are enjoyable amid an overdose of batting bludgeoning…

Last year, days after he was named in the Indian team, a very excited reporter from his hometown had asked Avesh Khan a question that had a rich sprinkling of charmingly rich Indori Hindi. Throwing in a couple of onomatopeic local slangs…

Jasprit Bumrah roared back to form against Kolkata Knight Riders in match 56 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday as he broke the Knights’ backs with five wickets at the cost of just 10 runs. Before this, Bumrah had taken only 5…

IPL 2022, DC vs SRH Highlights: Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs in an Indian Premier League match on Thursday. Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and decided to field first. With this win, Delhi Capitals have…

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Wednesday have signed Jharkhand left-arm pacer Sushant Mishra as a substitute for medium-pacer Saurabh Dubey for the rest of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. The official launch from IPL said that Dubey has…

The BCCI has banned journalist Boria Majumdar for two years for “threatening and intimidating” India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha. The ban, which includes not getting press accreditation for any matches in India, an embargo on interviewing…

The BCCI on Tuesday confirmed that the first IPL play-off and eliminator in Kolkata’s Eden Gardens will be held on May 24 and 25, followed by second play-off and final at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on May 27 and 29. Meanwhile,…

Aligarh, May 03: A small two-room quarters within the premises of an LPG distribution company’s storage compound near Aligarh stadium has become the talk of the town within days after the IPL auction. It’s the house of Rinku Singh, an…

Derby, April 17: After more than two years of dry run, Cheteshwar Pujara on Sunday roared back to form as he cracked his maiden first-class double hundred in a County Championship match for Sussex against Derbyshire. Pujara finished…

Dubai, April 10: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has been appointed as Member Board representative of the ICC Men's Cricket Committee, the world cricket governing body announced on Sunday. At the ICC Board meeting, a number of fresh appointments to…

Hamilton, April 4: New Zealand batter Ross Taylor ended his 16-year long international cricket career by taking a match winning catch in his final appearance, as the Black Caps whitewashed the three-match ODI series against the…

Mumbai, March 30: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah, who also heads the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), has initiated an ambitious plan to revive the Afro-Asian Cricket Project to develop the game in the African continent. The Project, which was…

London, March 22: England's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson said that he has "made peace" with being dropped for the West Indies tour. The 39-year-old Anderson along with Stuart Broad, 35, was left out of the squad for the…

Auckland, March 19: Australia won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 match at the Eden Park here on Saturday. Both sides made one change in their line-ups. For India, Shafali Verma replaced…

Tauranga, March 16: England have won the toss and elected to bowl against India in their do-or-die ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match at the Bay Oval here on Wednesday. Both England and India are unchanged from their previous fixtures…

Bengaluru, March 14 (BD Narayankar-UNI) Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah's bowling helped India bowl out Sri Lanka for 208 runs in their final innings of the series to seal a 238-run win over Sri Lanka on Day 3 of the pink-ball…

Bengaluru, March 13 (UNI) Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer's brilliant fifties, besides Jasprit Bumrah's five-for 24 propelled India to post 303 for 9 declared, setting a massive target of 447 for Sri Lanka to square the two-Test series on…

Bengaluru, Mar 12 (UNI- BD Naraayannkar ): Shreyas Iyer's 92 and five wickets between Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Shami put India on top on Day 1 of the pink-ball Test against Sri Lanka at Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday. Sri Lanka…

Hamilton, March 12 (UNI) Veteran India fast bowler Jhulan Goswami on Saturday became the all-time highest wicket-taker in Women's ODI World Cups. With 40 wickets, Jhulan surpassed the 34-year-old record which was held by Australia's Lyn…

New Delhi, March 9: India pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth on Wednesday announced his retirement from all forms of the game. Taking to Twitter, the right-arm pacer said: "During my 25 years career as a cricket player, I have always…