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A total of 350 cricketers, including 240 Indians, will go under the hammer in the IPL auction to take place in Abu Dhabi on December 16. A total of 1,390 players are registered for the auction. The number was reduced to 1,005 players before 350 were finally shortlisted to battle for 77 slots available, including … Read more
File photo of Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood. | Photo Credit: AP Australian pace bowler Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the Ashes series with hamstring and Achilles injuries. Hazlewood missed Australia’s two eight-wickets wins over England in Perth and Brisbane but had been expected to return later in the five-match series. Australia coach … Read more
Sarfaraz Khan and Prithvi Shaw — the intriguing batters who went unsold in last year’s full auction — have been named in the opening set of players for the Indian Premier League (IPL) Player Auction ahead of the 2026 edition Sarfaraz Khan and Prithvi Shaw — the intriguing batters who went unsold in last year’s … Read more
Suryakumar feels the series against the Proteas and Black Caps will stand his side in good stead ahead of the World Cup. | Photo Credit: PTI Suryakumar Yadav made clear that there will not be a lot of tinkering in terms of team combination heading into the home T20 World Cup next year. The focus, … Read more
Jagjit Singh Sandhu’s fine all-round performance and Arjun Azad’s excellent half-century piloted Chandigarh to a four-wicket win over Hyderabad in a Group-B match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at the Eden Gardens here on Monday. Despite the loss, Hyderabad moved into the Super League as the group topper. Madhya Pradesh, which lost its last engagement and was tied on 16 points … Read more
South Africa pacer Anrich Nortje at a training session on the eve of the first India-South Africa T20 in Cuttack on Monday. | Photo Credit: PTI With South Africa’s T20 squad dealing with injuries, Aiden Markram believes that it gives players the perfect opportunity to prove their worth, especially with the T20 World Cup coming … Read more
Tamil Nadu opener Sai Sudharsan en route his hundred. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI Thanks to skipper Manisankar Murasingh’s all-round brilliance (69 and two for 30), Tripura first forced a tie against Karnataka and then edged it out in the Super Over in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Elite Group D seventh-round clash at the … Read more
It’s perhaps one of those convenient paradoxes; Yashasvi Jaiswal obliquely owes his international debut to Shubman Gill, yet it’s the latter who is, in a roundabout way, holding up the left-hander’s progress as an all-format powerhouse. Ahead of the two-Test tour of the Caribbean in July 2023, Gill had almost exclusively opened the batting in … Read more
Fine-tuning: Virat, with the help of coach Rajiv, has worked on his scoop, sweep and reverse-sweep. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI Jharkhand’s Virat Singh, who followed up his 39-ball 72 (10×4, 2×6) against Tamil Nadu with a 36-ball 69 (4×4, 5×6) in the 36-run win over Rajasthan in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy here on Monday, said … Read more
The third and final part of South Africa’s tour of India gets underway on Tuesday, with the two teams facing off in the first of five T20Is at the Barabati Stadium here. The Men in Blue have been almost unstoppable in this format, winning all six bilateral series in addition to the multi-nation Asia Cup, … Read more