Cricket

Kolkata Knight Riders 171 for 9 (Rinku 46, N Rana 42, Jansen 2-24, Natarajan 2-30) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 166 for 8 (Markram 41, Klaasen 36, Thakur 2-23, Arora 2-32) by five runs Varun Chakravarthy bowled overs 16, 18 and 20 for 12 runs – four of them off byes and leg byes – and one

Royal Multisport Private Limited – Rajasthan Royals’ parent company – have been David Miller‘s employers for around one-third of the last seven months but on Friday night, he will find himself walking out to bat against them. Miller represented Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last September, and captained Paarl in the SA20 in January,

Two-time T20 World Cup champion Johnson Charles has joined Kolkata Knight Riders for the remainder of IPL 2023 as a replacement player for Litton Das. Charles, a member of the West Indies team that was crowned champions in 2012 and 2016, brings with him extensive experience at the top of the batting order. He has

As well as Ballance, the ECB asked for a combination of fines, suspensions, reprimands and education courses for Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale, Richard Pyrah and John Blain – all of whom either played at Yorkshire, or worked in a coaching capacity while Rafiq was there. The ECB asked for Hoggard and Pyrah to

The game had started 15 minutes late due to an afternoon shower, and the surface ended up assisting spin big time. Moeen Ali dismissed Kyle Mayers for the second time in the season, and Maheesh Theekshana accounted for Manan Vohra and Krunal Pandya off successive deliveries in the sixth over. Moeen held on to a

Left-arm spinner Paddy Dooley has been handed his first state contract after signing a one-year deal with Tasmania. Dooley, 25, whose unorthodox action was modelled on Jasprit Bumrah, was one of the breakout stars of last season’s BBL with Hobart Hurricanes having initially played for Brisbane Heat during the 2021-22 campaign among the raft of

Buckingham, 23, impressed for South Australia in the most recent Sheffield Shield season, where he took 25 wickets in his first seven first-class matches at an average of 26.56 for South Australia. His returns resulted in selection for the Australia A tour of New Zealand in April and he took 6 for 58 in his

The BCCI has invited applications for the position of head coach of the India women’s team. The spot has been vacant since Ramesh Powar was transferred to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru ahead of the women’s T20 World Cup earlier this year. A BCCI statement said that the applicant would be expected to

Following a fractious end to Monday night’s IPL game, with Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir having to be separated from each other, the Royal Challengers Bangalore batter addressed the situation in a video published by his team on YouTube. Captured candidly as he was celebrating with the rest of the players, Kohli was seen saying,

Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir are not IPL captains anymore, but they were still involved in a heated exchange after Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs. It was over 10 years after their altercation in the IPL during RCB’s match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. Kohli now plays for RCB

Big picture – Tough challenge for Delhi Capitals Is Tuesday night’s game a contest between the season’s best and worst teams? It’s not just the points table suggesting that. In key metrics, Gujarat Titans reign supreme while Delhi Capitals bring up the bottom. Their chasing records (100% v 20%), middle-order batting averages (37.8 v 16.6)

In March they were facing each other in Ahmedabad and next month they will do so again at The Oval, but for the next few weeks Cheteshwar Pujara and Steven Smith will be team-mates at Sussex. Smith joins the county this week for his somewhat controversial pre-Ashes stint, which will see him play three County

Tim David has played only 16 games for Mumbai Indians, but he has already shown glimpses of the power-hitting ability that had made Kieron Pollard one of the stalwarts of the IPL. In the 1000th game of the IPL on Sunday, David went 6, 6, 6 off the first three balls of the last over

Big picture – RCB begin long streak of away games The effect of travel fatigue is underrated. It can’t be easy playing IPL games up until midnight and fly out the next day, before that same old routine for another game on the third day. Teams were spared of this over during the Covid-19 era,

Sunrisers Hyderabad 197 for 6 (Abhishek 67, Klaasen 53*, Marsh 4-27) beat Delhi Capitals 188 for 6 (Marsh 63, Salt 59, Markande 2-20) by 9 runs In a game of high drama where both sides kept landing punches at each other with neither backing off, Sunrisers Hyderabad pipped Delhi Capitals to arrest a three-match losing

Southern Vipers 287 for 6 (McCaughan 67, Bouchier 59, Elwiss 59) beat South East Stars 129 (Scholfield 31, Bell 4-37, Dean 3-18) by 158 runs Lauren Bell took 4 for 37 as the Southern Vipers routed the South East Stars by 158 runs in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Beckenham. Bell was twice on

Legspinner Matt Parkinson joined Durham from Lancashire on a two-week loan deal last week, ahead of their current match against Derbyshire, while Kuhnemann’s injury continued to be assessed. Parkinson had featured in just one of Lancashire’s three Championship fixtures previously this season and, after talks with Lancashire, it was agreed his move to Durham would

According to Rahul, the six-day gap between the two games helped the players take their minds off the defeat and come back stronger. “The last game was a bit of a downer and did hurt us as a team,” Rahul said at the post-match presentation. “But we had three or four days’ break after that,