Ranajit Dhar 
It is just mid-season in the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) but already the qualitative gap between the top four teams on the points table and the others is quite visible. The Rajasthan Royals have been the most consistent and best all-round team with five players putting in top-notch performances throughout the … Read more
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli should be India’s opening batters at the T20 World Cup in June. That’s the opinion of former BCCI president and ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly. With a little over a week left before the selectors sit down to pick India’s 15-member squad for the marquee event, Ganguly’s view was sought during … Read more
Regaining top form in the rain-curtailed encounter between former champions Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians on Monday, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed his second century of the Indian Premier League to help Sanju Samson and Co. record their seventh win of the new season. Indian opener Jaiswal returned to scoring ways with his first century of … Read more
In a league of big-hitting heroes and record-breaking totals, it often takes the sheer brilliance of a Jasprit Bumrah or the raw pace of a Mayank Yadav for bowlers to steal the limelight. An unassuming medium pacer like Sandeep Sharma thus invariably flies under the radar. Except on days when his skills, swinging at the … Read more
Yuzvendra Chahal equalled Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel’s wicket tallies at the top of the Purple Cap table by becoming the first player in Indian Premier League (IPL) history to take 200 wickets. Chahal dismissed Mohammad Nabi with a catch off his own bowling in the eighth over of Rajasthan Royals’ match against Mumbai Indians … Read more
Yashasvi Jaiswal roared to form on Monday with an unbeaten century against the Mumbai Indians to lead Rajasthan Royals to a comprehensive nine-wicket win at home. It was RR’s seventh win of the season and they extended their lead at the top of the table to four points. Jaiswal, who had scored 625 runs last … Read more
Sunrisers Hyderabad have made it a habit of setting new batting records in IPL 2024 and it continued against Delhi Capitals. Sent in to bat first, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma went on a boundary-spree. The records-broken: – The fastest 100 for a team in T20s as SRH got it in just five overs – … Read more
Australia batter Steve Smith will play for Washington Freedom in the second season of Major League Cricket (MLC) in the United States. The Washington DC-based team – which is one of six inaugural franchises to play in the MLC – made the Smith announcement on Thursday. Smith, who has played just four Twenty20 internationals for … Read more
Amazed at Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s longevity, former India batter Robin Uthappa says the Chennai Super Kings talisman’s “mind is staying up to date” and the only thing that could end his prolonged run in competitive cricket is his body. Dhoni has showed tremendous form this IPL season, powering CSK with his blistering cameos, the latest … Read more