Cricket

Lucknow Super Giants 257 for 5 (Stoinis 72, Mayers 54, Pooran 45, Badoni 43, Rabada 2-52) beat Punjab Kings 201 (Taide 66, Thakur 4-37, Naveen 3-30, Bishnoi 2-41) by 56 runs Punjab Kings fought hard to get past 200 themselves, with Atharva Taide slamming a 36-ball 66, but they were never really in contention to

Big picture: Will we witness Rinku magic again? There isn’t a lot to talk about when talking about this game, is there? Just kidding. Where my Rinku fans at? Living up to that epic night three weeks ago is not going to be possible. 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 to win a game feels like

Jake Weatherald will look to make a fresh start to his state career after moving to Tasmania on a two-year deal from South Australia. Weatherald, 28, did not play for South Australia since last December having stepped away from the game to manage his mental health early in the BBL. “I’m really excited and grateful

Rajasthan Royals 202 for 5 (Jaiswal 77, Jurel 34, Deshpande 2-42) beat Chennai Super Kings 170 for 6 (Dube 52, Gaikwad 47, Zampa 3-22, Ashwin 2-35) by 32 runs After losing their previous two games, Rajasthan Royals not only returned to winning ways but also the top of the IPL points table with a thumping

Poonam Yadav, the legspinner, who had previously been placed in the highest bracket when the central contracts were last made public in May 2021 (for the period October 2020-September 2021), drops out altogether along with the now-retired pair of Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, who had both been placed in Grade B (worth INR 30

As the IPL regular season passes the midway point here’s a look at how the Australian contingent are tracking and the implications for what is to come for some of them One of the major narratives from an Australian point of view has been Warner’s form and it has provided a curious situation. His strike-rate

Royal Challengers Bangalore gave Kolkata Knight Riders “a freebie” on Wednesday night, and “deserved to lose” after all their lapses in the field, Virat Kohli, standing in as captain in place of Faf du Plessis, said after the 21-run defeat at home in Bengaluru. “To be honest, we handed over the game to them,” Kohli

Sri Lanka gathered 276 brisk runs for the loss of just the wicket of Dimuth Karunaratne, as they eased into control of the second Test, on a rain-curtailed day. Nishan Madushka‘s maiden Test century was a highlight, as he added 108 to his overnight score. Karunaratne also hit his second hundred in as many innings,

Cricket Australia will allow Big Bash clubs to sign nationally-contracted players outside of their salary cap in a bid to avoid the Steven Smith fiascos of the past two seasons. Under rules unveiled by CA on Wednesday, players will be able to sign with individual clubs on a marquee supplementary list if they are not

Sunil Gavaskar feels Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians and India captain, should take some time off from the ongoing IPL and come back fresh for the last few league games and the subsequent World Test Championship (WTC) final. “I would like to see some change in the batting order [for Mumbai Indians],” Gavaskar said on

Sri Lanka 81 for 0 (Madushka 41*, Karunaratne 39*) trail Ireland 492 (Campher 111, Stirling 103, Jayasuriya 5-174) by 411 runs Paul Stirling and allrounder Curtis Campher struck their nation’s third and fourth Test hundreds respectively, as Ireland stormed past their previous highest Test score early in the day, and on to a mammoth 492

Mark Chapman has been added to the New Zealand ODI squad for their upcoming five-match series against Pakistan that begins in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Chapman has been called up on the back of his impressive performances in the T20I series, where he finished as the highest run-scorer with 290 runs in five games. His runs

Delhi Capitals 144 for 9 (Pandey 34, Axar 34, Washington 3-28, Bhuvneshwar 2-11) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 137 for 6 (Agarwal 49, Klaasen 31, Axar 2-21, Nortje 2-33) by seven runs For a large part of the contest, Sunrisers Hyderabad seemed to have a hold on Delhi Capitals. Like when Washington Sundar picked up three wickets

April 24 was chosen as the date to unveil the gates to mark Tendulkar’s 50th birthday, and also the 30th anniversary of Lara’s 277 at the SCG, his first Test century, though that Test was played in January 1993. In a statement, Cricket Australia said that the gates, situated between the members pavilion’s away dressing

Chennai Super Kings 235 for 4 (Rahane 71, Conway 56, Dube 50, Khejroliya 2-44) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 186 for 8 (Roy 61, Rinku 53, Theekshana 2-32, Deshpande 2-44) by 49 runs For a while, the IPL record for most sixes in an innings (21), which was coincidentally set on this day in 2013, was

“I think this counterattack was even better than [the one in the] Chennai game,” Kohli said at the post-match presentation. “Because, the Chennai game, the conditions were brilliant to bat on, but today, I got out first ball, so that pushed us back a little bit; then Shahbaz [Ahmed] tried to get going [but] he

Arshdeep Singh is among the death bowling elite in short-form cricket. Since 2022, only four men have delivered at least 60 overs in the last four of a T20 game and taken a minimum of 30 wickets. He’s one of them and he has the best average and the best economy rate of the lot.

Punjab Kings 214 for 8 (Curran 55, Bhatia 41, Chawla 2-15) beat Mumbai Indians 210 for 6 (Green 67, Suryakumar 57, Arshdeep 4-29) by 13 runs Punjab Kings’ innings was going nowhere. After 14 overs, they were 105 for 4 with Harpreet Singh Bhatia batting on 15 off 16 and Sam Curran on 8 off