Mumbai can’t dwell on that, Rohit insisted. “For the past six to eight months, I am used to playing without Jasprit Bumrah [for India too],” he said after the loss. “Of course, this is a different set-up. Someone needs to put their hand up and come in to fill that place. We can’t keep dwelling on it. You can try and control the things that are in your control and…
Royal Challengers Bangalore 172 for 2 (Kohli 82*, du Plessis 73) beat Mumbai Indians 171 for 7 (Varma 84*, Wadhera 21, Karn 2-32) by eight wickets Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis hit scintillating half-centuries as Royal Challengers Bangalore marked their homecoming with a dominating eight-wicket win over Mumbai Indians. The win was set up by Royal Challengers’ bowlers. After inserting Mumbai in, du Plessis used seven of them; except…
Rajasthan Royals 203 for 5 (Samson 55, Buttler 54, Jaiswal 54) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 131 for 8 (Samad 32, Chahal 4-17, Boult 2-21) by 72 runs Rajasthan Royals dominated the first half of their batting innings, racing to 122 for 1 in ten overs. And then they owned the first half of their bowling innings too, reducing Sunrisers Hyderabad to 52 for 6 in 11 overs. The two periods of…
Big picture – CSK get their home ground back for full season If your reflexes slow down with age, how is Chennai Super Kings’ ‘Dad’s Army’ planning to face Mark Wood‘s fiery pace on Monday? Jokes aside, Super Kings’ youngest batter Ruturaj Gaikwad was in blazing form in their opening game and could hold the key again with his ability to put away even good balls to the boundary. Jokes…
The biggest challenge for Mumbai Indians heading into IPL 2023 was to fill the Jasprit Bumrah-sized hole in their fast bowling department. This has, however, helped realise the dream of Arshad Khan, an all-rounder from Gopalganj, Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, who might have earned his Mumbai Indians cap a year back. Mumbai bagged Arshad at his base price of INR 20 lakh in the 2022 mega auction, but an…
Sri Lanka’s top order hasn’t had the best time on tour so far, but in Auckland on Sunday, they finally clicked into gear. Pathum Nissanka may have fallen first-ball, but Kusal Mendis scored 25 in just nine balls, Dhananjaya de Silva 15 in 10, and then Charith Asalanka and Kusal Perera raced at nearly 10-an-over during a century-plus stand. It helped Sri Lanka tie the game and then score their…
Losing in a Super Over can be hard to take, but to keep doing it, well, you’d have to ask New Zealand. Even so, Daryl Mitchell took a more dispassionate view of New Zealand’s latest Super Over defeat, this time to Sri Lanka in the first T20I at Eden Park. Overall, New Zealand have lost seven of their eight Super Overs in T20Is. Mitchell, whose 44-ball 66 had laid the…
Toss Netherlands choose to bowl vs South Africa Netherlands won the toss and chose to bowl in the third ODI against South Africa in Johannesburg. The visitors’ captain Scott Edwards said he expected the pitch to help the bowlers initially, and announced two changes to the side that had lost the second match three days back: right-arm seamer Vivian Kingma replaced Ryan Klein in a like-for-like swap, while middle-order batter…
New Zealand A 109 for 3 trail Australia A 370 for 6 dec (Renshaw 112, Ward 75, McSweeney 50, Kuggeleijn 3-94) by 261 runs Wes Agar and Spencer Johnson made early inroads for Australia A on the second day in Lincoln before the New Zealand A middle order fought back. It did not take long for Agar, who played two ODIs in 2021, to strike with the new ball when…
Cricket is poised to become the first sport in Australia to break the six-figure wage mark for the vast majority of its domestic female athletes, with players on state and WBBL contracts to earn an average of AU$151,000 from next season. Cricket Australia and the players’ union are closing in on finalising the sport’s new pay deal, with a Memorandum of Understanding likely to be announced as soon as early…