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Starc ruled out of Punjab Kings match with finger injury
Kolkata Knight Riders replaced Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc with Sri Lanka seamer Dushmantha Chameera for the game against Punjab Kings at the Eden Gardens on Friday. KKR captain Shreyas Iyer said at the toss that Starc cut his finger during their previous match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Coming into the season, having been bought at the auction for a record sum of INR 24.75 crore (USD 2.98 million approx.),…
Mayank Yadav "pretty close" to return, says LSG assistant coach Sriram
Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler Mayank Yadav has resumed bowling in the nets and is “pretty close” to returning to action after having been sidelined by injury, according to LSG’s assistant coach S Sriram. “He’s bowling today in the nets,” Sriram said on the eve of LSG’s match against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday. “So we’ll find out how he pulls up after today, he’s pretty close, so ya hopefully, fingers…
Pant vs Bumrah in focus as Mumbai arrive in Delhi for Capitals challenge
Match details Delhi Capitals (DC; 6th place) vs Mumbai Indians (MI; 8th place)Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, 7:30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture – Pant vs Bumrah With 342 runs in nine outings, Pant has already crossed his run-tally from the last time he played in the IPL in 2022. He is comfortably DC’s highest run-getter this season and boasts a strike rate of 161.32. That strike rate goes further up…
'Massive relief' for du Plessis after RCB finally end losing streak
Faf du Plessis will “sleep easier” after the bottom-placed Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their six-match losing streak by beating the in-form Sunrisers Hyderabad by 35 runs, in Hyderabad. After Rajat Patidar’s 50 off 20 took RCB to 206 for 7, they restricted the home side to 171 for 8, thanks to spinners Karn Sharma and Swapnil Singh, who combined to take four wickets early in the game. With this win,…
Robinson's fifty and O'Rourke's three-for give New Zealand unassailable 2-1 lead
New Zealand 178 for 7 (Robinson 51, Foxcroft 34, Abbas 3-20) beat Pakistan 174 for 8 (Fakhar 61, O’Rourke 3-27, Sears 2-27) by four runs Four days after failing to defend 178 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan failed to chase down the same target in Lahore on Thursday. A disciplined performance from New Zealand’s bowling attack, particularly the pace duo of Will O’Rourke and Ben Sears, saw them edge Pakistan by four…
Vanuatu stun Zimbabwe to kick-off T20 World Cup Qualifier
Vanuatu, ranked 30th, stunned Zimbabwe (12th) on the opening day of the Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier by beating them by six wickets after bowling them out for their lowest T20I score of 61. The result will rank among the biggest sporting success stories of Vanuatu, a small island nation with a population of little more than 300,000, who are appearing at a World Cup – men’s or women’s –…
Patidar, Green, spinners thump SRH to end six-match losing streak
Royal Challengers Bengaluru 206 for 7 (Kohli 51, Patidar 50, Unadkat 3-30, Natarajan 2-39) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 171 for 8 (Shahbaz 40, Green 2-12, Karn 2-29, Swapnil 2-40) by 35 runs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) rode on the success of their spinners – considered the team’s least-fancied department – to force big-hitting Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) into submission in Hyderabad. Their 35-run victory on Thursday, the season’s second for RCB, also…
Maia Bouchier targets World Cup opener's berth after breakthrough winter
Maia Bouchier says her goal for the 2024 summer is to cement her new-found status at the top of England’s batting order, as the countdown begins for the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September. Bouchier, 25, enjoyed a breakthrough winter on England’s recent tour of New Zealand, where she capitalised on the late arrival of several senior players from the Women’s Premier League in India, including the incumbent opener…
Aamer Jamal joins Warwickshire for Championship, T20 Blast stint
Warwickshire have signed allrounder Aamer Jamal on a multi-format contract until the end of July, after he was left out of Pakistan’s ongoing T20I series against New Zealand. Jamal announced himself to the world by taking 18 wickets in three matches in his maiden Test series for Pakistan in Australia late last year, and has also played six T20Is. He was part of a training camp at the Pakistan Military…