Month: March 2023

The Impact Player rule can lead to situations where certain bowlers are underutilised, Gujarat Titans Hardik Pandya has said. Hardik was speaking after the IPL season-opener in Ahmedabad, where Titans beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets. This was the first-ever IPL match to involve the Impact Player rule. Related Gill, Rashid lead defending champions Gujarat Titans to victory in IPL 2023 opener How much impact will the Impact Player…

ஐபிஎல் தொடரின் முதல் ஆட்டம் எப்படி இருக்க வேண்டும்? பேட்டிங் மாஸ்டர் கிளாஸ், தரமான வேகப்பந்து வீச்சு, புதிரான சுழற்பந்து வீச்சு, நம்பமுடியாத காட்ச், எதிர்பாராத திருப்பம், கடைசி ஓவர் திரில்லர்..கம்ப்யூட்டரில் புரொகிராம் செய்யப்பட்டது போல அப்படியே நடந்து முடிந்திருக்கிறது சிஎஸ்கே குஜராத் டைட்டன்ஸ் இடையிலான முதல் ஆட்டம். போட்டிக்குள் ஒரு போட்டி என்பது எல்லா ஆட்டங்களுக்கும் அமைந்து விடாது. மகேந்திர சிங் தோனி Vs ஹார்திக் பாண்டியா: குருவை விஞ்சுவாரா சிஷ்யன் என்பதுதான் இந்தப் போட்டிக்கான யூஎஸ்பி! இதுவொரு பக்கம் என்றால் ‘இம்பாக்ட் பிளேயர்’ ரூலை இரு அணிகளும் எப்படி பயன்படுத்தப் போகின்றன என்பதும் ஒரு பேசுபொருளாக…

Gujarat Titans 182 for 5 (Gill 63, Hangargekar 3-36) beat Chennai Super Kings 178 for 7 (Gaikwad 92, Rashid 2-26, Shami 2-29) by five wickets Ruturaj Gaikwad marked his return from a wrist injury with a sublime 92 off 50 balls, and set Chennai Super Kings on track for a 200-plus score, but a middle-overs slowdown, triggered by Alzarri Joseph, limited them to 178 for 7. That total looked even…

Kane Williamson was forced off the field 13 overs into his Gujarat Titans debut, against Chennai Super Kings, after injuring his right knee. He had done the damage while fielding on the deep-square leg boundary, where he had leapt to intercept a ball headed for six off Ruturaj Gaikwad‘s bat. He managed to save two runs, palming the ball into the field of play before it bounced onto the boundary…

Luthra tweeted a statement on Friday morning in which he expressed his disagreement with the way SportScotland – the body that oversaw his appointment as chair – was looking to run cricket, claiming it was bowing to “the demands of a lobby group and a handful of individuals associated with them – even if that means the wider sport and community will be negatively impacted”. Cricket Scotland was placed into…

Bracewell, who recently made a return to the New Zealand Test team after a seven-year gap, will join up with Essex after next week’s opening fixture against Middlesex. He will stay with the club until the end of July, and could feature in as many as 10 Championship games. “It’s great that we’ve been able to secure Doug for a long stint of our County Championship season,” Essex’s head coach…

Big picture After an impressive inaugural season where they made it to the playoffs, Lucknow Super Giants will play at their home ground for the first time, with the IPL returning to the tradition home-and-away format. Last year, Super Giants’ middle order looked brittle at times, so at the auction, they bought Nicholas Pooran. How much they value his batting is clear from the price they paid – INR 16…

Taskin Ahmed said that Bangladesh will continue to bat in the same way in T20Is after their seven-wicket defeat against Ireland in the third T20I in Chattogram. The visitors chased down the 125-run target in 14 overs to pick up the consolation win, their first win on tour. The Bangladesh batters pressed down hard like they did in the previous two T20Is, only to be reduced to 41 for 5…

On Friday, the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Committee (CDC) announced its verdicts on the six players against whom the ECB had brought charges of bringing the game into disrepute over the alleged use of racist and/or discriminatory language. John Blain, Andrew Gale, Rich Pyrah, Tim Bresnan and Matthew Hoggard refused to engage with the disciplinary hearings that took place in March and all but Hoggard denied the charges; Hoggard made qualified…

Michael Vaughan, the former England captain, has been cleared by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Committee (CDC) of bringing the game into disrepute over the alleged use of racist and/or discriminatory language before a Yorkshire match in 2009. The case against Vaughan and five other former Yorkshire players was heard earlier this month, with the CDC verdict announced on Friday morning. However, Vaughan took to Instagram in advance to reveal that…