After a disrupted campaign which had not quite sparked into life, Mitchell Marsh hit top gear against Rajasthan Royals with a fantastic all-round display. His 89 off 62 balls, including seven sixes, powered Delhi Capitals to their target in good time in what is becoming a tight race for the play-offs where net run-rate could
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Rajasthan Royals 178 for 6 (Jaiswal 41, Padikkal 39, Bishnoi 2-31) beat Lucknow Super Giants 154 for 8 (Hooda 59, Boult 2-18, Prasidh 2-32, McCoy 2-35) by 24 runs Rajasthan Royals are happy to have four No. 11s in their line-up. And this is why. Each of them – led by Trent Boult – produced
Andrew Symonds‘ former captain, Ricky Ponting, the man who put faith in him ahead of what became a defining 2003 World Cup, has called the allrounder an “extraordinary player” following his death in a car crash at the age of 46. Symonds was a controversial selection for the tournament in South Africa as he averaged
Andrew Symonds, the former Australian allrounder who played in 26 Tests and 198 ODIs in an international career spanning from 1998 through 2009, has died in a car crash in Queensland. Symonds was 46 and is said to have been involved in an accident outside Townsville where he lived in retirement. In a statement, police
Kolkata Knight Riders: M 13, Pts 12, NRR 0.160Remaining match/es: vs Lucknow Super Giants Knight Riders have kept their chances of qualifying for the playoffs alive, but just about. Their qualification is not entirely in their own hands. Apart from Super Giants, three out of four teams – Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challenger Bangalore, Delhi Capitals
Ryan Cook, the former fielding coach of the men’s Bangladesh team, will take over as interim head coach of the Netherlands team. The announcement was made by Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB) in a press release, with the decision being necessitated due to Ryan Campbell‘s health after he had suffered a series of heart attacks
Virat Kohli believes a big innings is around the corner, his IPL captain Faf du Plessis has said, and the Royal Challengers Bangalore coach Mike Hesson is not ruling out that big innings in their final league match, which could well be a must-win affair. Kohli has not scored an international century since the end
Derbyshire 274 for 4 (Masood 113, Guest 77) trail Worcestershire 368 (Haynes 133, Ali 88,Conners 5-109) by 94 runs Shan Masood scored his third century of a remarkable season to stay on course for 1000 runs before the end of May as Derbyshire dominated the second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match against
It is the fifth Test that Shakib will miss since playing one against Pakistan back in December last year. He skipped the New Zealand series due to personal reasons and then had to miss the South Africa Tests due to illness in his family. Shakib has now played three Tests out of Bangladesh’s 11 since
The challenge of lifting England’s Test cricket from “rock bottom” instead of a “cushy” role with the limited-overs side is what attracted Brendon McCullum to his first red-ball coaching job. He admitted that initially it was not a job he had given much thought to but as the interview process progressed the opportunity “kind of