Gujarat Titans will need their batters to fire when they take on high-flying Lucknow Super Giants as both teams look to seal IPL play-offs berth at the MCA Stadium in Pune on Tuesday.
The likes of skipper Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan, who had produced stellar performances and played a key role in GT's success so far, have floundered against Punjab.
IMAGES from the IPL 2022 game between Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday.
RCB is hoping that the former India captain would return to form soon with captain Faf du Plessis backing him
The only loss that table toppers Gujarat Titans suffered in IPL 2022 so far was against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their first round clash.
Gujarat Titans have been firing on all cylinders, with their batting prowess and bowling might.
It will be a test of wits between two new captains in Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya when defending champions Chennai Super Kings clash with debutants Gujarat Titans in the IPL match in Pune on Sunday.
A battle royale is on the cards when Hardik Pandya's Gujarat Titans take on the Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan Royals, two line-ups armed with potent bowling units in a top-of-the-table IPL showdown at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
SunRisers Hyderabad has the biggest purse while Kolkata Knight Riders has the slimmest purse.
Debutants Gujarat Titans will start as favourites against spin-heavy former champions Rajasthan Royals when the two teams face-off in the first IPL Qualifier, at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, on Tuesday.
Gujarat Titans are currently at the top of the IPL table with 18 points from 12 games and a win on Sunday will more or less secure them a top-2 finish. That would mean an extra chance of making it to the final.
Kolkata Knight Riders left-arm seamer Pradeep Sangwan has failed a random dope test in the Indian Premier League, it was reported on Thursday.
Former India seamer and Delhi coach Manoj Prabhakar is livid that Pradeep Sangwan "never bothered" to listen to his advice against spending hours at the gymnasium to build upper-body muscles.
Young left-hander Vaibhav Rawal's impressive show continued as he scored a century to help Delhi pile up a massive 523 for nine declared on the second of their final group league encounter against Vidarbha in Nagpur on Sunday.
The 32-year-old Test specialist featured in only one of the seven games that Delhi Capitals have played so far, finishing his four overs wicketless for 26 runs, against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi.
Mumbai rode on Abhishek Nayar's scintillating 47-ball 76 to record a comfortable five-wicket win over Saurashtra in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament for west zone, in Vadodara, on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh comfortably beat Delhi by 46 runs to reach Hazare semi-final.
In other big movements, Punjab Kings have released their last edition's captain Mayank Agarwal, while West Indies skipper Nicholas Pooran was released by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Delhi comfortably beat Haryana by 66 runs to register their second win in the North Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare National One Day Championship and in the process put one foot in the knock-out rounds in Bilaspur.
IMAGES from the IPL match played between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bangalore
Paul Collingwood's unbeaten half-century and Pradeep Sangwan took three wickets to help Delhi Daredevils outplay Royal Challengers Bangalore by 37 runs in the Indian Premier League at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi, on Sunday. Collingwood smashed an unbeaten 75 to lift Delhi Daredevils to 184 for five in their 20 overs. Left-arm seamer Sangwan then starred with the ball as he took three for 22 in four overs to restrict Bangalore to 147 for nine in their 20 overs.
An inspirational catch at first slip by Anushtup Majumdar off Ranadeb Bose's bowling enabled Bengal earn three points against Delhi by virtue of 14-run first innings lead in a Group A Super League match of the Ranji Trophy at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in New Delhi on Thursday.
The duo of Vyas and Desai took the opposing bowlers to the cleaners throughout the innings while stitching a massive first-wicket partnership of 282 runs.
Tamil Nadu batsman S Badrinath was on Monday named captain of the Indian team for the Emerging Players' tournament in Australia. Virat Kohli will be his deputy.
The doping menace in India's Olympic sport has always left the establishment embarrassed and the BCCI in a marked departure has set up an anti-doping helpline so that its domestic cricketers (men and women) are aware of the medicines and supplements they are consuming.
The Delhi speedsters picked three wickets each as Rest of India were dismissed for a disappointing 252 in their first innings on day one of the Irani Trophy tie. In reply, Delhi finished the day on 21 for no loss in five overs.
Cheteshwar Pujara's brilliant century (148) rescued Saurashtra, as the the Ranji Trophy Super League Group A match against Delhi ended in a tame draw in Delhi on Sunday. Delhi shares the top slot in Group A with Mumbai on eight points from two matches.
Anustup Mazumdar's impressive knock of 109 helped East Zone beat North Zone by 56 runs in the limited overs match of the Deodhar Trophy in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
Two players, one from Delhi and the other from Uttar Pradesh, who were part of the India under-19 team on tour in South Africa and not quite certain to play the Ranji Trophy final, stole the limelight on the opening day of the final.
Opener Tanmay Srivastav scored 105 as Uttar Pradesh posted 292 for 7 on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy final against Delhi.
Delhi were 159 for 4, in reply to Mumbai's first innings of 166, at close on the first day of the Ranji Trophy match.
Australian fast bowling great Dennis Lillee on Wednesday joined Delhi Daredevils, the Delhi Indian Premier League team owned by GMR Sports. "It feels great to be a part of GMR Sports and Delhi Daredevils. I've known many of the young players in the Delhi Daredevils squad and am naturally delighted to be part of this team," he said.
Left-arm pacer Pradeep Sangwan claimed five wickets as India coasted to a six-wicket victory over South Africa in the Under-19 cricket World Cup. Electing to bat, South Africa were dismissed for 149 runs in 30.1 overs. India achieved the target with eight overs to spare.
India will kick off their Under-19 cricket World Cup campaign against East Asia-Pacific qualifier Papua New Guinea.
Delhi took the opening day's honours in the Ranji Trophy Super League Group A match against Mumbai being played at the Wankhede Stadium
Delhi though had no problems overhauling Services' target of 112 and winning by eight wickets, in the North Zone Ranji Trophy limited-overs' tournament
For Virat Kohli, loyalty is paramount in relationships and that is why he believes that his bond with childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma and his IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore is forever. "In relationships, I always look at loyalty. From 1998, I had only one coach (Rajkumar Sharma) and that's never going to change. I have played for one franchise in the IPL (RCB) and that's also never going to change," Kohli said at the launch of a new book on him 'Driven' written by veteran journalist Vijay Lokapally. Sitting alongside legends like Kapil Dev, Virender Sehwag and Anil Kumble, Kohli revealed that even now when he is at the height of his popularity as an international cricketer, one person he is scared of is his coach Sharma.
'In modern cricket, many batsmen play innovative strokes which I think are not enough to score runs in T20 format.'
A roundup of the Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day matches played on Wednesday
The 11th edition of the Indian Premier League will commence, on Saturday, April 7 and will end on 27th May
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