A look at the top performers in the IPL this year, who set the T20 tournament alight with outstanding performances this season.
In an IPL match in 2010 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru, Ravichandran Ashwin was taken to the cleaners by Robin Uthappa and Mark Boucher. He had two bad games and was subsequently dropped from the squad. "It felt like a hard slap," says Ashwin.
Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders will open their campaign against Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 11th edition of IPL on Sunday.
CSK coach Stephen Fleming differed with Gautam Gambhir's viewpoint that one can't say Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the same breath, as India's captain has not won the tournament.
Star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell says that he, along with his Australian teammates, wouldn't mind being on the same chartered flight that would take India, New Zealand and England players to the United Kingdom after the conclusion of IPL 2021.
AB de Villiers revealed that he would be auctioning his and Virat Kohli's kits from the 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Gujarat Lions for raising funds to aid the battle against the coronavirus. During a live session on Instagram with former South African captain and RCB teammate AB de Villiers, Kohli said winning the tournament remains the goal but he would not leave the team irrespective of the results.
South Africa paceman Vernon Philander will miss the first two Tests against England because of injury, team officials said as the squad returned from their 3-0 hiding in India.
De Villiers was set to lead the side in Kohli's absence but the South African was ruled out of the team's opening game of the season on Wednesday.
With a semifinal spot at stake, South Africa's Warriors and England's Somerset will clash in a make-or-break Champions League Twenty20 cricket match in Bangalore on Wednesday.
India begin their World Cup campaign on June 5 against South Africa at Southampton.
Elated after years of hard work finally paid off, Mumbai all-rounder Shivam Dube said he loves power-hitting and would never give up his aggressive brand of cricket which earned him a maiden call-up to the Indian team.
CSK suffered their fifth loss in seven matches, going down by 37 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore, in Dubai, on Saturday.
Injury-prone South African fast bowler Dale Steyn is set to play in the Euro T20 Slam league after being signed up as one of the marquee players along with New Zealand's Martin Guptill for the tournament's first edition, beginning August 30.
South African great AB de Villiers revealed that he sees a lot of himself in young Australian batsman Josh Philippe.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes was the costliest buy after the first round of Indian Premier League players' auction, going to Rising Pune Supergiants for a whopping Rs 14.50 crore.
A win for Mumbai Indians will virtually seal them a spot in the play-offs while a loss for KXIP could send them out of contention.
The 13th edition of the IPL will have added significance as 2020 is also a T20 World Cup year.
The 30-year-old Jamaican all-rounder, who has now hit a remarkable 207 runs off 77 balls with 22 sixes in four matches, came out to bat with his side needing 68 runs from 26 balls and proceeded to flay the bowling around the Chinnaswamy.
Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal will travel to Bangalore and New Delhi from March 4 to 6
Among the Indians, while Robin Uthappa was bought by Rajasthan Royals for 3 crore, Test specialists Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari went unsold.
Leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal shone with the ball as Rajasthan Royals finally won their first game of this IPL season after outclassing Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets in Jaipur on Tuesday.
'I'm prepared for any kind of Bangalore wicket' 'South African teams are known for bouncing back and their resilience. I'm expecting the boys to be very upbeat for the second Test match'
In the course of his various tenures, Yediyurappa made many adversaries. Bommai, by contrast, knows the Opposition well and has many friends, cutting across parties -- he is, after all, only a 2008 BJP entrant.
VVirat Kohli's franchise wants to unite fans on an innovative digital community platform.
Images from the IPL match between SunRisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, in Delhi, on Wednesday.
The BCCI suspended the IPL 'till further notice' in the wake of the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. RCB coach Simon Katich said the BCCI would leave no stone unturned to stage the IPL this year.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers to take note of at the end of the first day's play in the fourth Test between India and South Africa.
Skipper Michael Klinger and Daniel Harris produced a 124-run opening partnership to help South Australia inflict a humiliating eight-wicket defeat on Royal Challengers Bangalore and qualify for the Champions League Twenty20 semi-final in Durban on Friday.
Ecstatic after powering Kings XI Punjab to an improbable IPL win over Royal Challengers Bangalore, young batsman David Miller said a "nice piece of willow" and a lot of luck carried him through to the best knock of his career so far.
The two were recalled to Australia's team for the 2019 World Cup, starting in England and Wales from May 30.
Skipper Michael Klinger and Daniel Harris produced a 124-run opening partnership to help South Australia inflict a humiliating eight-wicket defeat on Royal Challengers Bangalore and qualify for the Champions League Twenty20 semi-final in Durban on Friday.
Rabada and Kohli had a verbal exchange during one of the IPL matches between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The shoulder injury that the 35-year-old had suffered in Perth against Australia in 2016 kept him out of action for two years.
With demand drying up, hotels are surviving on quarantine centres and isolation facilities.
...but are we chasing yesterday's dreams, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
Shamsi has been roped in to replace injured Samuel Badree
South Africa's batting great AB de Villiers, on Monday, said Virat Kohli has been fantastic as captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore
Kolkata Knight Riders may have missed a trick by not playing Kuldeep Yadav on a slow Sharjah wicket but skipper Dinesh Karthik said AB de Villiers put the game beyond their reach with an incredible display of power-hitting.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will be bolstered by the return of star batsman AB de Villiers for their Indian Premier League clash against Kolkata Knight Riders in Kolkata, on Sunday.
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