Ranajit Dhar 
Shreyas Iyer tagged Kolkata Knight Riders’ win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2024 final “comprehensive”, lauding his team for playing “like invincibles throughout the season”. “This is what we demanded from the team and every individual, they stood up on the right occasion,” Shreyas said, after KKR secured a third IPL title, their first … Read more
West Indies swept the three-match series against South Africa to conclude their T20 World Cup preparations in the most commanding way possible before the tournament starts next week. South Africa, on the other hand, have won just two of their last 11 completed T20I matches since the last T20 World Cup and have lost series … Read more
Mitchell Starc was magical. Andre Russell was mesmerising. Gautam Gambhir remained stoic. Shah Rukh Khan hid his emotions behind a mask. Those contrasting pictures vividly conveyed Kolkata Knight Riders’ annihilation of Sunrisers Hyderabad in a lopsided final to bag their third Indian Premier League title in Chennai on Sunday. In a season dominated from start … Read more
Glamorgan take a lead of 58 with nine wickets in hand into the final day of their Vitality County Championship match against Leicestershire after the home side declared in arrears on a rain-restricted third day at the Uptonsteel County Ground. Having been 280 for five from 85 overs overnight, Leicestershire lost not out centurion Peter … Read more
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the final in Chennai on Sunday. Here’s how the KKR players and coaches reacted after the win. Andre Russell: “No words to explain right now. It means so much with all the fans that have been supporting us throughout the season. We are the players who go game after game and … Read more
Career-best figures of 4 for 20 from Warwickshire slow left armer Jacob Bethell ensured Lancashire’s first innings collapsed from 66 for 3 overnight to 149 all out before the visitors built a lead of 231 runs with seven wickets in hand after closing on 96 for 3 going into the last day of this Vitality … Read more
Spinners Felix Organ and Liam Dawson tore through Surrey to hand the champions their largest-ever Vitality County Championship innings defeat and open up the title race. Off-spinner Organ claimed his third career five-for with leg-armer Dawson picking up 4 for 45 to give Hampshire an innings and 277 run victory, their first home win of … Read more
Just like the 2015 World Cup final, Mitchell Starc led the rout of the second-best team of the tournament as Kolkata Knight Riders fashioned the most one-sided IPL final to secure their third title. Starc started with arguably the ball of the tournament, and the most complete attack of the tournament was too good for … Read more
Kolkata Knight Riders claimed the IPL 2024 title with a comprehensive victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday but the summit clash was not without controversy. KKR opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz was left fuming following a controversial LBW decision that prevented him from scoring a half-century. During the 9th over of the KKR innings, Gurbaz went for … Read more