12:04 AM IST Hemant Brar Kings XI Punjab 167 for 5 (Pooran 53, Maxwell 32, Rabada 2-27) beat Delhi Capitals 164 for 5 (Dhawan 106*, Shami 2-28) by five wickets Shikhar Dhawan became the first batsman to score back-to-back hundreds in the IPL but it wasn’t enough as the Kings XI Punjab beat the Delhi
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4:43 PM GMT A year on from the players’ strike that shook Bangladesh cricket, senior BCB officials believe that their relationship with country’s cricketers remains “cordial”. But the players have refrained from making any public statements about the strike, despite it being widely acknowledged that they had raised relevant issues which were affecting the country’s
8:09 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff BCB director and Abahani Limited coach Khaled Mahmud has said it is “not possible” to go ahead with the 2019-20 season of Dhaka Premier League, which was put on pause after six matches in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The board, according to him, is looking at January next
8:50 PM GMT Eoin Morgan and Jason Holder have warned that it is “untenable” to expect players to continue to spend extended periods in lockdown as part of cricket’s response to Covid-19. Morgan, the captain of England’s white-balls teams, and Holder, West Indies’ Test captain, are both currently in the UAE for the IPL and
8:07 PM IST Debayan Sen Big picture The Kings XI Punjab’s IPL campaign is well and truly back on track. And despite their nerve-wrangling win over the Mumbai Indians after a double-Super Over having ended late on Sunday, they must be eager to front up against table-toppers the Delhi Capitals, themselves victors in a dramatic
8:10 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Legspinner Praveen Dubey has been named as Amit Mishra’s replacement at Delhi Capitals. Mishra was ruled out of the IPL after suffering an injury to his finger on October 3, and subsequently needed surgery. Dubey, who hails from Uttar Pradesh but plays domestic cricket for Karnataka, has been part of
1:28 AM IST Khyber Pakhtunkhwa edged out Southern Punjab by ten runs in the final to lift the National T20 Cup. Put in to bat first, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s openers – Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Rizwan – put up a 76-run partnership, with Zaman’s 40-ball 67 leading the way. When Rizwan fell, Mohammad Hafeez (38 off
8:48 PM IST Vishal Dikshit Kolkata Knight Riders 163 for 5 (Gill 36, Morgan 34, Karthik 29*, Natarajan 2-40) tied with Sunrisers Hyderabad 163 for 6 (Warner 47*, Bairstow 36, Ferguson 3-15)Super Over Kolkata Knight Riders 3 for 0 beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 2 for 2 Two mid-table sides separated by just two points. Two misfiring
9:06 PM GMT Vishal Dikshit Only minutes after another stunning knock – an unbeaten 55 off 22 balls – to help the Royal Challengers Bangalore wallop 64 runs off the last 28 balls for a seven-wicket win against the Rajasthan Royals, AB de Villiers said he gets “very, very nervous and erratic” in such chases.
Shikhar Dhawan hits down the ground © BCCI Delhi Capitals 185 for 5 (Dhawan 101*, Stoinis 24, Chahar 2-18) beat Chennai Super Kings 179 for 4 (du Plessis 58, Rayudu 45*, Nortje 2-44) by five wickets Shikhar Dhawan – reprieved on 25, 27, 50, 79 – punished a sloppy Chennai Super Kings and powered a