Chennai Superstars won the inaugural Indian Cricket League (ICL) 20:20 Indian Championships with a 12-run victory over Chandigarh Lions in the final at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula on Sunday.
Stage is set for the Indian Cricket League's (ICL) Twenty20 tournament to take off from November 30 in Chandigarh with a host of former international stars promising to add spice to the rebel series
Delhi Giants paid the price of not building partnerships as they lost their ICL encounter to Kolkata Tigers by just one run at Tau Devi lal Stadium in Gurgaon on Sunday.
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala's timely knock of 62 coupled with Akhlakh Ahmed's superb four-wicket haul helped Kolkata Tigers beat Chandigarh Lions by 22 runs in the ICL's Eelweiss 20s challenge match at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Gurgaon on Wednesday night. Set a target of 166, Lions lost half their side with just 59 runs on the board by the 11th over and then all their wickets for 143 in 18.2 overs.
The 22nd match of the Edelweiss 20s Challenge was played at the sparkling new venue at Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, and featured Chandigarh Lions against the Kolkata Tigers in what was a virtual quarter final.
Sridhar Iyer produced a match-winning spell to guide Mumbai Champs to a 35-run victory over Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Cricket League's Edelweiss 20s Challenge at the Tau Devi Lal stadium in Gurgaon on Tuesday night. The target of 161 was too huge for Lions as they finished on 125 for 8.
Former Pakistan batsman Hasan Raza hit an unbeaten 98 as Lahore Badshahs crushed Mumbai Champs by 50 runs in a Twenty20 match of the ICL played in Panchkula on Saturday night. The 26-six-year old right-hander's knock, which came off just 52 balls.
The fourth match of the Edelweiss 20s Challenge featured the Mumbai Champs taking on the spirited Kolkata Tigers from the city of joy. The Tigers won the thriller by 2 runs handing the Mumbai Champs their second straight defeat. Andre Adams was declared Man of the Match for his allround performance.
The second match of the Edelweiss 20s Challenge, featured two big teams of the tournament, the Delhi Giants and Mumbai Champs. Delhi Giants won the match by 6 wickets and Abbas Ali was declared Man of the Match. Restricting the Mumbai Champs to only 115/5 in 20 overs, led by a superb bowling performance from left-arm spinner Ali Murtaza, the Giants romped home to victory led by some breathtaking batting by Abbas Ali.
Besides Shane Bond, the second edition of the ICL also features Damien Martyn, Adam Parore, and the big hitter Justin Kemp.
West Indian legend Brian Lara fell for a first ball duck as Hyderabad Heroes defeated Mumbai Champs by 33 runs in the ICL Twenty20 tournament.
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Real Kashmir FC scored the game's only goal through Gnohere krizo's 74th minute strike as the debutants made a dream start to their maiden I-League campaign.
'Unfortunately, during this pandemic, everybody started saying that well, these are desperate times and desperate times need desperate solutions.' 'Purely out of fear, anxiety, panic, this knowledge that people started acquiring from WhatsApp University and social media, it pushed science completely to the backseat.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leaders will attend the oath-taking ceremony of Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister of Haryana at Panchkula on Sunday.
Naked bodies of an unidentified man and a woman were on Monday found inside two steel trunks dumped near a park in the district, following which Haryana police has sent five teams to neighbouring states to crack the case, which it suspects to be of honour killing.
'Right now, politics is operating in a state of suspended animation. That works to Modi's advantage.'
After creating waves on the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) circuit in the US, Dalip Singh Rana, also known as "The Great Khali" on Tuesday said his aim is to take the WWE kind of wrestling to every city in India. "My aim is to take the WWE kind of wrestling to every city in the country. I returned from the United States last year because I wanted to do something which would provide new platform to the wrestlers in my country," Khali, who addressed a joint press conference here along with Haryana's Sports Minister Anil Vij, said.
Delhi and neighbouring Noida in Uttar Pradesh, too, are studying Gurgaon's no-car Tuesday model.
FC Goa beat FC Pune City 4-2 in a high-scoring match to climb back to the top of the Indian Super League football standings, in Margao, on Sunday.
Stephen Constantine said he has accepted the contract extension offered to him by the All India Football Federation (AIFF), which will make him the longest serving national coach in the history of the sport.
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Images from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Tuesday.
The South Asian International Film Festival celebrates 10 years of showcasing independent cinema.
Pawan Kumar, organising secretary of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), tells Aditi Phadnis it will join forces with other trade unions if necessary to oppose the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) provisions in the Union Budget.
A new West Asia is emerging and India must engage at the highest level and help shape this change, says Saeed Naqvi
Gurmeet Ram Rahim also made an appeal to his followers to go back to their homes, a development which may come as a big relief to security personnel.
'What of Modi? They are willing to take their chances. Maharashtra's Muslims recall how the Congress scared them with the Bal Thackeray bogey for decades, yet, when it came to using all the might of the State to protect them from Shiv Sena goons, be it in 1970, 1984 or 1992-1993, it did nothing. For them, the Congress's secularism is a cruel joke.' 'This argument that we ('seculars') must vote for the 'winning secular candidate' has one more implication: Those who are against Hindutva must forever be stuck with the same corrupt, cynical and tired old parties, who are not even secular,' says Jyoti Punwani.