Shubman Gill has overtaken Pakistan captain Babar Azam as the World No 1 batter in ODIs.
Pacer Josh Hazlewood expressed happiness after his three-wicket haul helped Royal Challengers Bangalore bet Delhi Capitals by 16 runs in the IPL match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.
Innovative strokeplay from Glenn Maxwell (23) injected impetus into Australia's response, though it was Stoinis who delivered the knockout blow as spinner Wanindu Hasaranga conceded 53 runs in three overs without taking a wicket.
Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli slammed half-centuries as India edged Australia by six wickets in the third and final T20 International in Hyderabad on Sunday, to claim the series 2-1.
Images from the T20 World Cup Super 12s match between Bangladesh and Australia, in Dubai, on Thursday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings, in Sharjah, on Friday.
'He started the campaign really well in the IPL and he needs some support. He's not going to score runs on every occasion.'
Instead of declaring, and getting ample time to bowl at the Aussies, the home team preferred to play it out. MS Dhoni (44) and Virat Kohli (34) swelled the Indian total, increasing the lead further to 266. They added 103 runs in the second session.
Buoyed by their convincing seven-wicket win over title holders Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings will take on Kings XI Punjab in their second IPL knockout game.
As the tournament shifts to India, here's a look at the best performances from the first leg.
Batting first after losing the toss, Sri Lanka started sluggishly and were reduced to 51-4 at the halfway mark of their innings after Richardson claimed two early wickets.
Still finding his feet in the Twenty20 format, Cheteshwar Pujara knows that he cannot be "flamboyant" like some of his Kings XI Punjab teammates in the IPL but the Indian says he is hoping carve a niche for himself by emulating South African legend Jacques Kallis.
David Warner said his side needs to get back to the drawing board
Images from the West Indies-Australia World T20 in Mirpur on Friday.
Up against Delhi Capitals, RCB will need to address their middle-order woes, to return to winning ways, in what could be touted as a battle of equals.
Hardik Pandya's late cameo and half-century from opener Shikhar Dhawan helped India outclass Australia by six wickets in a high-scoring thriller in the second T20 International to seal the T20 series 2-0, in Sydney, on Sunday.
'Because of the Impact sub rule, everyone gets one more batsman so they think that they will use the batsman in case the batting unit doesn't go well.'
Australian captain Aaron Finch said his team "needed a bit of luck" to get the better of South Africa in their ICC T20 World Cup opener here on Saturday.
IMAGES from the T20 World Cup warm-up match played between India and Australia in Dubai on Wednesday.
Bangladesh off-spinner Sohag Gazi's bowling action has been reported illegal after his side suffered a heavy 177 run loss in Friday's One Day International (ODI) against West Indies in Granada, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed.
If RCB win their remaining two games, they will move to 20 points and have a chance of finishing in the top two.
So 52 games have already been played in the Indian Premier League this season. Here are the Most Valuable players and some random observations by Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle.
RCB will be strengthened further when the immensely-talented Devdutt Padikkal makes the team after his recovery from COVID-19.
Left chasing shadows in the first two games, a listless Indian team would most certainly tweak its bowling combination in order to avoid a second successive clean-sweep when it takes on Australia in the third and final ODI, in Canberra, on Wednesday.
First, Axar smashed his way to an unbeaten 38 off 17 balls as Kings XI Punjab managed 138 for 7 and then grabbed 3/11 in in 3 overs with RCB skittled out for 119 in 19 overs.
Glenn Maxwell hammered the India 'A' bowlers to all parts of the LC de Villers Oval in Pretoria to score 145 not out from 79 balls and lift Australia 'A' to 298 in the second match of the 'A' Team tri-series, on Thursday.
Former India skipper Rahul Dravid has termed Australia's decision to drop Nathan Lyon from the ongoing second Test as a "tactical blunder" and said the visting captain Michael Clarke must take some responsibility for the off-spinner's axing.
Portuguese-born all-rounder Moises Henriques has been handed a Test debut ahead of Glenn Maxwell for the first of the four-match series, starting in Chennai on Friday.
Ahead of the play-offs, we look at the top 10 batsmen from the just-concluded league stage.
Images from the IPL 2022 Playoff Eliminator match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants
List of players bought at the players' auction for the sixth edition of the IPL.
IMAGES from the 2nd T20I played between India and Australia in Nagpur on Friday.
Robin Uthappa was elegance personified during his 52-ball 80 as he powered Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing six-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in their Indian Premier League match in Cuttack on Wednesday. A look at key statistics from the match.
Kings XI Punjab batsman Wriddhiman Saha, who made a superb 54 to help his side score a thrilling victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL match, has said he enjoyed his batting and contribution to the team cause.
Kolkata Knight Riders will look to challenge the seemingly unstoppable force of table-toppers Kings XI Punjab when the two sides clash in an IPL match in Cuttack on Sunday.
Australia clawed back to 2-1 in the five-match series following defeats in Christchurch and Dunedin.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab in Dubai, on Monday.
Half-way through the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League, the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament has witnessed some top quality catches. Rediff.com takes a look at some memorable ones.
IMAGES of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday.
Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni conceded that his side was beaten "fair and square" by a better opponent in their six-wicket loss to Kings XI Punjab in the IPL thriller in Abu Dhabi.
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