Category: IPL

Battle of attrition in Match 20 of the 2016 Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders were almost trumped by Rising Pune Supergiants at their own game, but managed to get over the line with a straight six that came off the bat of tailender Umesh Yadav off the third ball of the final over, taking their tally of wins to […]

Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli has been fined Rs 12 lakh for maintaining slow over rate during the team’s Indian Premier League game against Rising Pune Supergiants. Kohli and AB de Villiers smashed brisk half centuries to guide Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 13-run win over Rising Pune Supergiants here on Friday night. “Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli has […]

Troubled by the constant shifting of venues and matches of the ongoing Indian Premier League, the Board of Control for Cricket in India is thinking of taking the next edition of the league outside India. “BCCI has become a punching bag and the rise in public interest litigations in courts against IPL has led to huge losses. The board has suffered […]

Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday notched up their second consecutive win this IPL season with a win over Gujarat Lions at Rajkot. Openers David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan helped the visitors overcome the target with 10 wickets and 31 balls to spare. Warner and Dhawan hand Gujarat their first defeat this season. The two (Warner 74* and Dhawan 53*) have helped […]

Chris Gayle, Royal Challenger Bangalore’s (RCB) dashing opening batsman, will miss the next two Indian Premier League (IPL) games of the franchise – against Mumbai Indians, on April 20th, and Rising Pune Supergiants (RPSG), on April 22nd, as he has flown back to Jamaica to be with his partner, Natasha Berridge, who is expecting the couple’s first child. RCB’s middle […]

Delhi Daredevils wins the toss and elects to bowl first. Zaheer Khan doesn’t trust the second innings wicket. Nor his counterpart Virat Kohli’s chasing brilliance. Mohammad Shami in for Jayant Yadav for DD. Kohli says RCB is playing David Weise instead of Adam Milne and S. Aravind in place of Stuart Binny. The Virat is quite happy to be out […]