The Indian squad for the continental championship will be selected on Monday, but it is still not clear if the official announcement will happen on the day.
As the Lucknow SuperGiants and RCB players filed out on the ground at the Eden Gardens to congratulate and commiserate, Kohli was spotted in animated prayer.
Yuzvendra Chahal, not normally known for his fielding, took a superb catch to leave his Rajasthan Royals' team-mates pleasantly surprised.
Samson was part of the squad in the recently concluded ODI series that the team won 3-0 and scored a half-century in the second game.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday
Sunrisers Hyderabad, reeling from three consecutive defeats, will face a resurgent Gujarat Titans in their fifth IPL encounter on Sunday.
Sai Kishore has been part of the IPL for nearly six years but had played just five games before Sunday's game against the Punjab Kings.
Bumrah, Coetzee and Patel all took three wickets each.
Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad find themselves in troubled waters, having lost two of their last three games
Defending champions Chennai Super Kings will look to set their house in order and get back to winning ways when they face an upbeat yet unpredictable Punjab Kings for the second time in a row in the IPL match in Dharamsala on Sunday.
Images from the IPL 2025 match between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will be wary of Sunrisers Hyderabad's (SRH) aggressive batting approach when the two teams face off in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Thursday.
MI will hope Jasprit Bumrah returns to his menacing best, which is essential for them to stop an explosive Sunrisers Hyderabad batting unit in its tracks.
Virat Kohli starred with the bat for RCB with a vintage knock in a must-win game to help them overpower Punjab Kings.
Punjab Kings had a horror day on the field as they put down four catches against Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Gujarat Titans roared back to winning ways with a 38-run mauling of Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is likely to see bowlers playing a crucial role in the success of teams.
Sunrisers Hyderabad buried Rajasthan Royals under a deluge of runs to start its IPL 2025 campaign in thumping fashion with a 44-run win in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Former India opener Navjot Sidhu says wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant's return to form is just a "matter of time" following his nearly 15-month-long absence from professional cricket after a horrific car crash.
Images from the IPL 2023 match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle present Rediff's Most Valuable Player Index of IPL 2025 after Game 55.
Sam Curran's 50 guided Punjab Kings to an important victory which helped them get off the bottom of the league standings.
Despite a well-tuned 48 from local hero Riyan Parag, Rajasthan Royals struggled against an array of accurate bowlers on a rather slow pitch, meandering to a sub-par 144 for nine against Punjab Kings in their IPL match in Guwahati on Wednesday.
Hogg suggested that Green might have been a more suitable fit for another IPL franchise.
He has played for 6 teams and been involved with the IPL since the inaugural season in 2008.
Australia's World Cup heroes Travis Head, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc have all kept their respective base prices in the highest bracket of Rs 2 crore.
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Lucknow, on Friday.
RCB skipper Virat Kohli will join the squad on Thursday.
Arshdeep has courage but needs experience
Starc dismantled SRH's top order with sheer pace, while Kuldeep's control in the middle overs ensured there was no way back for the batting side.
Glenn Maxwell's brilliant all-round performance and Harshal Patel's hat-trick powered Royal Challengers Bangalore to a thumping 54-run victory against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League match, in Dubai, on Sunday.
IMAGES from the IPL match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals played in Mullanpur on Saturday
Aerodynamics in action at the Royal Challengers Bangalore-Sunrisers Hyderabad game at the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi, Wednesday, October 6, 2021.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will aim to shed the over-reliance on their celebrated top-order when they face a belligerent Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL match in Lucknow on Monday.
Cheteshwar Pujara has made a comeback to India's Test team while youngsters Umran Malik and Arshdeep Singh have received an India call-up as the selection committee on Sunday named the squad for the five-match T20I series against South African in June and the one-off Test against England in July.
Delhi are enduring a poor start to the season as they have lost all their four games in IPL 2023 so far.
Even shadow Purple Cup winner Prasidh couldn't escape Vaibhav's onslaught on Monday night!
CSK can ill-afford to take Punjab Kings lightly, who are coming in to this match after chasing down a world record total of 262 against KKR.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will expect more runs from their batters and discipline in 'death' overs bowling when they take on high-flying Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL match in Bengaluru on Monday.
