Cricket

Match details Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Delhi Capitals (DC)Mullanpur, 3.30pm IST (1030 GMT) Big picture – Rishabh Pant is back The first afternoon match of IPL 2024 will be dominated by just one storyline in the lead up: the return of Rishabh Pant, who survived a car crash in December 2022. He had three ligament

Match details Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)Kolkata, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Cummins vs Starc In December, Pat Cummins became the most expensive player at an IPL auction when SRH bought him for INR 20.5 crore (US$2.47 million approx.). But the record did not survive for even two hours as

Former Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper-batter Adithya Ganesh, who had recently moved to the USA, was the No.1 pick in the domestic draft, and he’ll turn out for Knight Riders. Ganesh, 32, was TN’s reserve wicketkeeper-batter when they won the 20-overs Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy under Vijay Shankar in 2021. Ganesh is a good player of spin

It was MS Dhoni‘s call to hand over the Chennai Super Kings captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad, ahead of IPL 2024, their head coach Stephen Fleming has revealed on the eve of the tournament opener in Chennai. “It was MS [Dhoni’s decision] with a lot of consideration and one view to the future on the back

Match details Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)Chennai, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture: Can RCB break the Chennai jinx? It was only last month that Faf du Plessis played a blinder to put Joburg Super Kings in the SA20 playoffs. And four months from now, he will be wearing yellow again

Pathirana’s absence could potentially open up a slot for Bangladesh left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman, who also operates at the death. Mustafizur had suffered cramps, and a stretcher was required to carry him off the field in the third ODI against Sri Lanka in Chattogram on March 18. But he has since recovered to join CSK

Five of the seven players signed on top-bracket £125,000 contracts in the men’s draft were West Indies power-hitters, with the new Northern Superchargers coach Andrew Flintoff choosing Nicholas Pooran as the first signing of the draft. Andre Russell and Shimron Hetmyer will play for London Spirit, Kieron Pollard has joined Southern Brave and Rovman Powell

Wanindu Hasaranga‘s surprise return from retirement to the Sri Lankan Test side was not a ploy to avoid the legspinner missing T20 World Cup games later this year, according to Sri Lanka Cricket. Hasaranga was suspended from international cricket after stacking up demerit points for showing dissent against an umpiring decision in Sri Lanka’s defeat

As Western Australia captain Sam Whiteman stepped up for the media conference on Wednesday ahead of the Sheffield Shield final, he undoubtedly knew the barrage of questions headed his way. A bombshell broke late on Tuesday that WA opener Cameron Bancroft was ruled out of the final against Tasmania after a bike accident left him

Less than a day after Sri Lanka announced that Wanindu Hasaranga would be coming out of Test retirement to join the team for a two-match series in Bangladesh, he ended up with a sanction from the ICC that meant he would not be able to take part in the series. Hasaranga was punished for breaching

If Shadab Khan came across as slightly unsure about receiving the Player of the Tournament award after the PSL final on Monday night, he certainly didn’t feel undeserving. Quite the opposite in fact. “Nahin, aisa kuch nahin, mera hi banta hai (Nothing like that, I deserve it),” he quipped after leading Islamabad United to their

Cricket Australia has chosen to postpone a scheduled three-match T20I series with Afghanistan due to “a marked deterioration in human rights for women and girls” in the country following consultation with the Australian government. Australia were scheduled to play three matches against Afghanistan at a neutral venue in August as part of the current men’s

Afghanistan 155 for 7 (Ibrahim 72*, Ishaq 27) beat Ireland 98 (Campher 28, Omarzai 4-9, Naveen 3-10) by 57 runs Ibrahim Zadran smashed an unbeaten 72, his highest T20I score, Azmatullah Omarzai took more wickets than the amount of runs he has scored in the entire series and Naveen-ul-Haq found himself in plenty of action

Hardik Pandya has declared himself fit to bowl as he returns to captain Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024. The allrounder said he has been fit since the start of this year, after suffering an ankle injury during the 2023 ODI World Cup that ruled him out of all cricket since October. “Yes, I will be

Toss Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat vs Bangladesh Sri Lanka captain Kusal Mendis won his third straight toss and opted to bat against Bangladesh in the third ODI in Chattogram. Bangladesh made three changes to the playing XI for the final game bringing in Anamul Haque, Rishad Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman

Exactly a week ago, Richa Ghosh sat motionless on the turf after being run out off the last ball as Royal Challengers Bangalore were pipped by one run by Delhi Capitals in a thriller. Shreyanka Patil, who was batting with Ghosh, sobbed inconsolably at the other end. RCB’s playoffs had been hanging by a thread.

Toss Delhi Capitals chose to bat vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning continued with the trend of opting to bat first, when she won only her third toss in the tournament from nine games. In the Delhi leg of this WPL where teams batting first have won seven of the 10 games

Amelia Kerr and Sophie Devine will not be part of New Zealand’s opening T20I against England, which gets underway in Dunedin on March 19. Kerr, fresh off winning the Debbie Hockley Medal at the New Zealand Cricket awards, was part of the Mumbai Indians side that went down to Royal Challengers Bangalore in the WPL