Bollywood superstar and principal owner Shah Rukh Khan on Sunday cheered for Kolkata Knight Riders from the stands even as his new-look team, under new skipper Dinesh Karthik, looked to regain some lost ground in the post-Gautam Gambhir era at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
'I absolutely love it and the moment I wore it, I felt something special'
Rohit Sharma is likely to miss his third game in a row when Mumbai Indians take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday with both teams aiming to secure their spot in the IPL play-offs.
CSK began full-fledged preparations for IPL-12 at the M A Chidambaram stadium in Chennai.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to exploit the home advantage when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad.
'Winding down for team dinner before we hit the road for the away leg.'
Veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel feels India's young glovesmen should be given a "consistent run" to secure their place in the national team, something which has not been happening of late. While Wriddhiman Saha has been a regular in Tests, India currently do not have a fixed wicketkeeper in limited-overs cricket with K L Rahul recently taking over the duties from Rishabh Pant, who is a regular squad member but not a sure starter anymore.
VVirat Kohli's franchise wants to unite fans on an innovative digital community platform.
Images from the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals, in Bengaluru, on Sunday.
The Indian Premier League is scheduled to start in the second week of April and the swashbuckling all-rounder hopes to pick up some leadership qualities from the Indian skipper, who will also be Maxwell's captain at RCB.
David Warner spoke about SRH's youngsters
The 19-year-old Meiyappan is a leg-spinner, who has played four ODIs for UAE.
IMAGES from Sunday's IPL match played between Delhi and Bangalore in New Delhi
Ashish Nehra, the current bowling coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore, has been confirmed as the coach and will be part of the coaching leadership team along with head coach Gary Kirsten for the forthcoming 11th edition of the Indian Premier League.
Replays showed the Sri Lanka fast bowler had clearly overstepped the crease for a no-ball, meaning a free hit for Bangalore.
Punjab Kings, who had paid Rs 10.75 crore for Maxwell in the previous auction, had released the 32-year-old following the 2020 edition in which he made 108 runs in 13 games at 15.42.
Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders will open their campaign against Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 11th edition of IPL on Sunday.
They have jumped to the second spot in the points table with sixth consecutive win but the Royal Challengers Bangalore's stand-in skipper Virat Kohli is not ready to take their place in the IPL play-offs for granted.
Nirma has jumped into the ongoing cricket spectacle - IPL - as the principal sponsor for the Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore to raise awareness and recognition for the cement brands it acquired after its purchase of the erstwhile Lafarge India's assets in 2016
'He has given RCB that kind of profile, that brand recognition that very (few) cricketers have given to their franchise'.
If RCB win their remaining two games, they will move to 20 points and have a chance of finishing in the top two.
The Virat Kohli-led RCB has won five of its eight games on the back of all-round performances but seemingly blundered in the eight-wicket defeat to laggards KXIP on Thursday.
The Australia pacer, player of the recent cricket World Cup, will be out for up to three weeks after suffering a minor knee injury.
The ninth edition of the Indian Premier League is approaching the business end. There are a lot of permutations and combinations on how the teams can make it to the last four. Rediff.com takes a look at each team's chances of making it to last four.
Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has once again called for Rohit Sharma to lead India's T20 team instead of Virat Kohli.
RCB's Devdutt Padikkal now has fifty-plus scores in all his major debut matches -- first-class, List-A, T20, and IPL.
The middle-order continues to remain a concern for CSK with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni himself not being at his best.
Sandeep Lamichhane continued his rapid rise in international cricket as he was named in the ICC World XI squad to take on the West Indies in a charity T20 International on May 31.
Desperate to break their title jinx, Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore will be hoping for a positive start to their campaign in the ninth edition of the Indian Premier League, when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad, in Bengaluru, on Tuesday.
Kohli was also congratulated by his friend and Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate AB de Villiers
Unheralded teenagers Prabh Simran Singh and Prayas Ray Barman attracted astonishing bids during the IPL Players' Auction on a day when superstar Dale Steyn went unsold and once a hot-property Yuvraj Singh went for his base price.
Sunrisers Hyderabad unit would look to consolidate its position at the top of the points table
Shaw on Monday missed out what could have been his third fifty of the season. He is the second highest scorer for DC so far with 179 runs, behind captain Shreyas Iyer (181).
The IPL starts on September 19 and, in all likelihood, all the English and Australian players will land in the UAE via a charter flight on September 17, making them available for their respective team's opening match.
Wrist spinners have become the toast of the Indian Premier League (IPL) so much so that a successful off-spinner like Ravichandran Ashwin, too, has been keen to try bowling leg breaks, feels cricket legend Kapil Dev.
The onus would be on their famed batting line-up of Kohli, AB de Villiers and Glenn Maxwell to start firing once again and put pressure on the KKR batsmen.
'Now it's about going out there and lift the trophy and achieve his the ultimate goal'
A look at the top 10 purchases at the IPL auction.
Chess master-turned-cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal went back to his old passion, headlining an online blitz event organised by chess.com, and said the sport taught him to be patient on the cricket field. A former national Under-12 chess champion, India cricketer Chahal has the distinction of having represented the country at the World Youth Chess Championships, and is listed on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) website. His Elo rating is 1956.
Rajneesh Gupta presents how the teams have performed in eight seasons of the IPL.
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