Australian batting great Ricky Ponting on Tuesday hailed the Indian Premier League as the world's best domestic T20 competition "by a long way", saying it is one of the best places to learn for talented youngsters such as Jake Fraser-McGurk.
IMAGES from the IPL 2024 Qualifier 1 played between SunRisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad, on Tuesday.
Indian batters, with the exception of Yashasvi Jaiswal (84), faltered yet again to lose the match by 184 runs and trail 1-2 in the five-match series.
Travis Head scored an unbeaten half-century on his home debut to give Australia hope of reeling in India's first innings lead at the close of day two of the first Test on Friday.
In the 55th match of the ongoing season, there were a couple of crucial catches which changed the ebbs and flows of the game.
The mega auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season is expected to be held in Riyadh at the end of this month, according to sources.
Images from Day 5 in the fourth Test between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday.
Following the conclusion of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Australia's stand-in skipper Steve Smith lauded his team while adding that the series was played in really good spirit.
The 32-year-old Starc was diagnosed with a detached tendon in the middle finger and missed the third and final Test against the Proteas at Sydney.
'Gautam Gambhir and Morne Morkel will need to provide Rohit with more inputs like whether to bowl bouncers or bowl round the wicket or whether we are allowing the game to drift.'
After the game, Mhambrey pointed out the contrast in the batting conditions in both innings and said in a video posted by Olympics.com.
The lack of tension fuelled the '#WorstIPLFinal' trend on social media.
A look at statistics and aspects which have made SRH's 2024 season such a memorable one:
A look at the best catches in the CSK-SRH game.
Suryakumar is placed second with 821 rating points behind Australia's Travis Head, who has 844 rating points.
IPL's Governing Council will have a meeting with the owners of all 10 franchises in Mumbai on Wednesday to discuss the various key issues of this year's players auction.
'Just because of the nature of how good those bowling attacks were they probably embellished it a bit. So, you wouldn't want to play on it every day, but I think for occasional Test matches it's not the worst thing.'
Pat Cummins and Co. stormed into the semi-finals on the back of one of the greatest ODI innings played by Glenn Maxwell. The all-rounder battled cramps to smash an unbeaten 201 off 128 balls to lift Australia from a precarious 91 for seven to the victory target of 292 against Afghanistan.
Images from the IPL 2024 match between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday.
Maxwell has starred with bat and ball in Australia's white ball teams since coming back from his broken leg last year.
The four wickets that India prised out in the third session, on balance, swung the game back in their favour, says Prem Panicker .
Smith carried his bat with an unbeaten 91 in a losing cause in Brisbane.
With pacer Mohammed Shami in menacing form, India holds the edge in the bowling department against Australia, reckons batting great Gundappa Viswanath, who wants skipper Rohit Sharma to convert his aggressive starts to a big hundred in the World Cup final.
Resurgent Australia are fourth in the standings, having won their last four matches in succession.
'That's a standard we want to keep going with for the rest of tournament.'
'Kuhnemann put his hand up straight away and did a fantastic job'
IMAGES from Day 2 of the WTC Final played between Australia and India at The Oval in London on Thursday.
Pathan mentioned that the Hyderabad-based franchise needs a proper spinner who can take wickets.
More than 110,000 people are expected on the opening day at the world's largest cricket stadium
England struggled with dropped catches, including those behind the stumps by Jonny Bairstow
The Australian team management chose Peter Handscomb ahead of Travis Head
2024 saw some of the most competitive and captivating cricket being played on the field.
Pakistan's experienced wicketkeeper-batter Sarfaraz Ahmed laid out the team's plans to ruin Australia's star batter David Warner's farewell Test series.
'...there'll be nerves and a bit of pressure, but that's all part of it, and I'm just excited to see what it all brings.'
Senior pacer Mitchell Starc claimed his maiden Allan Border medal, while Ashleigh Gardner became the first indigenous person to win the Belinda Clarke award, the top two honours at Cricket Australia (CA) Awards.
Sri Lanka, who had conceded a 109-run lead, were bowled out for 113 in their second innings
'To be able to then just work through it, and you could see there definitely was a shift after the second game just from his own performance, you'd see there's a little bit of extra intensity in him after that.'
Ravindra Jadeja led the demolition of Australia with the ball as India triumphed by six wickets inside three days in the second Test.
Only two bowlers stood out from Sunday's game.
