Cricket

PUNE: Riding on blazing fifties by Shafali Verma and Laura Wolvaardt, Velocity on Tuesday chased down 151 in just 18.2 overs to rout Supernovas by seven wickets in match 2 of the Women’s T20 Challenge tournament. Supernovas had won the first match of the tournament by 49 runs against Trailblazers. Here are the highlights of […]

  BENGALURU: BCCI on Sunday announced the T20 squad for the five-match series at home against South Africa at home. Senior cricketers such as Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested. Umran Malik, who enthralled everyone with his supersonic pace in the IPL 2022, and Punjab Kings pacer Arshdeep Singh have received […]

BENGALURU: Virat Kohli’s form in all formats has been a cause of concern for over two years now. However, on Thursday, the 33-year-old batsman cracked a magnificent 73 off 54 balls and led Royal Challengers Bangalore to an important win against Gujarat Titans. After a long time, he looked in his element and whipped out […]

BENGALURU: After playing seven matches for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, Ajinkya Rahane has been ruled out of the remaining matches of the tournament due to a hamstring injury. He picked up the injury in Kolkata’s match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He is unlikely to feature in the knockouts of the Ranji Trophy, […]

BENGALURU: Former Indian batter VVS Laxman is set to become India’s head coach for the T20I series against Ireland. India will go to Ireland to play two T20Is, in late June, after their home series against South Africa. Laxman will be filling in for the regular head coach Rahul Dravid who will be accompanying the […]