Anil Kumble has always loved challenges. And the hectic season ahead could provide enough of them for the leg-spinner who is keen to deliver the goods.
Delhi Capitals have never won the IPL despite featuring top talent over the years. Under Axar Patel's leadership, they will hope IPL 2025 finally ends their title drought.
An out of sorts Rohit Sharma will strive to keep himself relevant going forward in the Indian Premier League when he is challenged by Delhi Capitals' effective troika of spinners in Mumbai Indians' next match in Delhi on Sunday.
Vidarbha earned three valuable points thanks to the significant contribution made by their lower middle-order as they went past Tamil Nadu's first innings score on the final day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match.
Vidarbha closed in on Maharashtra's first-innings total of 282 after left-arm pacer Shrikant Wagh shone with a five-wicket haul in their Group B Ranji Trophy match, in Nagpur, on Sunday.
Baroda took control of their Group B Ranji Trophy match after bowling out Vidarbha for 264 on the second day Vadodara.
The Indian team physio will work on players' fitness to prepare them for the next season at the MRF pace academy.
Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed links with the rebel Indian Cricket League and applied to the Board of Control for Cricket in India to return to the fold under the amnesty scheme that ended May 31. Seventy-nine current and 11 former Test cricketers -- including ex-captain Ajit Wadekar and off-spin legend Erapalli Prasanna -- have taken advantage of the amnesty scheme.
Tom Moody returns as head coach after fellow-Australian Trevor Bayliss quit following the 2021 season.
Former Test cricketer Sandeep Patil was selected coach.
Chennai Superstars scored a convincing 22-run victory over Ahmedabad Rockets to make sure of a place in the semi-finals in the Indian Cricket League's Edelweiss 20s Challenge.
The South Zone team will face the West Zone in the Duleep Trophy match at Vadodara from October 20 to 23.
The defending champions retained the title by virtue of their first innings lead against Tamil Nadu in the Elite championship final.
A well compiled half century from Hemang Badani helped Chennai Superstars to defeat Delhi Giants by five runs in the ICL 20s Championship at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Gurgaon on Friday night.
Tamil Nadu, needing 276 to avoid a follow-on, were 119 for four at stumps on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match.
The newly-elected ICC president Ehsan Mani of Pakistan said Kenya faces a major struggle to be granted full Test status.
Test opener Shiv Sunder Das will lead the team on the tour of England, from June 22 to August 3.\n\n
A blistering 86 not out by Rajagopal Sathish helped Chennai Superstars beat Kolkata Tigers by 32 runs and finish third in the ICL's Twenty20 tournament in Panchkula, Haryana, on Friday. The 27-year-old right-hander scored his runs off just 42 balls.
The India discard made a patient 82 as Tamil Nadu scored 252 for 5 on day 1 of the Ranji Trophy semi-final against Delhi.
Former India player Hemang Badani cracked an unbeaten 88 to help Chennai Superstars score a two-wicket win over Hyderabad Heroes in their second match of the six-team Indian Cricket League domestic 50-over-a-side one day cricket tournament at the Mayajaal grounds in Chennai on Monday
India have replaced left-arm spinner Murali Kartik with Romesh Powar for the second ODI in Rawalpindi.
The Indian captain said the team will try its best in Sunday's second final in Sydney.
Anil Kumble returned to the side while Badani replaced an injured Rohan Gavaskar in the first final at Melbourne.
Bengal, chasing 497 to win, were 109 for 3 in the second innings in the Ranji Trophy match.
Tamil Nadu were 202 for 5 in the second innings, ahead by only 47 runs, after day three of the Ranji Trophy match.
Tamil Nadu were 211 for 4 at stumps, in reply to Railways' 270, on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'A' match.
Replying to Central Zone's first innings total of 478, South were 127 for 3 at stumps on day 2 in the Duleep Trophy match.
Legends Brian Lara and Muttiah Muralitharan plotted the course for Sunrisers Hyderabad, while Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara led the way for Rajasthan Royals.
The left hander was unbeaten on 135 as the Board President's XI reached 320 for five, a lead of 94, on the second day of the tour match against South Africa.
Hyderabad were 83 for five in the first innings against Tamil Nadu on the opening day of the four-day Ranji Trophy Elite 'B' league match.
They were beaten by Pakistan 'A' in one-day warm-up match by six wickets.
The team was given a solid platform by the opening pair, captain Shiv Sunder Das and Jaffer, who put on 151 runs for the first wicket.
After skittling out Tamil Nadu for 218, they were tottering at 32 for 3 on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy match.
Ganguly joined Delhi Capitals in 2019 as an advisor, where he worked alongside coach Ricky Ponting, and later returned to the franchise as Director of Cricket after his stint as BCCI president.
New rules, new captains, but same excitement as two months of cricket extravaganza kicks off in Kolkata.
Reckon Captain Kane can call on Murali, Lara and Steyn to shore up his resources on the field of play?
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