New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) A reinforced skillsets and the ability to perfectly read the ebbs and flows of a match have made Kuldeep Yadav a tough customer, but back in 2019 the left-arm wrist spinner felt the need of a guiding force around him as his form went south while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders.Kuldeep had an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery in 2020 but once he joined Delhi Capitals, his performance both for the national team and in IPL improved significantly, making him the first-choice spinner across formats.He has taken 41 wickets in 33 matches since joining DC…
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Chennai, Apr 23 (PTI) Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul won the toss and elected to bowl against Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League match here on Tuesday. Rahul cited dew as the reason behind his call to chase against CSK. The Chennai side made one change to their eleven, bringing in Daryll Mitchell for fellow Kiwi Rachin Ravindra, who has been out of form. LSG made no changes to their eleven from the last match. Teams: Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (wk/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry,…
New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) South Africa and Gujarat Titans’ middle-order batter David Miller doesn’t expect too many high-scoring matches in the upcoming T20 World Cup in the Americas as he feels the pitches there will be on the slower side. Favourable conditions and the much-debated ‘Impact Player’ rule have helped batters rule the roost in the ongoing IPL, with teams such as Sunrisers Hyderabad piling up scores in excess of 260 on three occasions. But Miller feels it won’t be the same in the T20 World Cup, to be held in the United States and West Indies from June…
New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) Lovlina Borgohain is aware that fierce competition awaits her at the Paris Olympics but the ace Indian boxer is quietly confident of snaring a second successive Games medal, having found considerable success in her new category, which is also closer to her natural body weight. Following her bronze medal-winning feat at the Tokyo Olympics, Borgohain endured a tumultuous period when she made early exits from the World Championships and Commonwealth Games. She eventually moved up to 75kg as her original 69kg category was scrapped from the Paris program. Since then, the ace Indian boxer has…
Colombo, Apr 23 (PTI) Indian national Yoni Patel, who owns a cricket team in the unsanctioned Legends Cricket League here, is set to be indicted for match-fixing along with compatriot P Akash, a Colombo magistrate’s court official has said. This was after Patel’s application for bail was refused by the court last Friday and the travel ban imposed on the duo was extended by one month, the official revealed. The Indians have been accused of trying to fix matches in the Legends Cricket League which was held between March 8 and 19 at central Kandy district’s Pallekele international stadium. A…
नयी दिल्ली, 23 अप्रैल (भाषा) युजवेंद्र चहल को टीम में नहीं रखने का रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बेंगलोर को लंबे समय तक अफसोस रहेगा और फ्रेंचाइजी के पूर्व क्रिकेट निदेशक माइक हेसन ने मंगलवार को जोर देकर कहा कि आईपीएल की पिछली नीलामी में गलत आकलन के कारण वे इस लेग स्पिनर को अपने साथ बरकरार रखने में विफल रहे।
New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) Letting go of Yuzvendra Chahal is something Royal Challengers Bengaluru could regret for the longest time and the franchise’s former director of cricket, Mike Hesson on Tuesday insisted they failed to retain the leg-spinner due to a miscalculation at the last IPL auction. On Monday, Chahal scripted history by becoming the first player in IPL to have taken 200 wickets. “Yuzi is one I will be frustrated with until I have finished my career and probably beyond. He is an outstanding bowler. I guess when it comes to every cycle, you have got to decide…
New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) CWG mixed doubles champion Sreeja Akula on Tuesday became the top-ranked Indian woman table tennis player after rising to career-high rank of 38 in latest ITTF Chart, replacing Manika Batra. Sreeja climbed a spot while Manika who had been India’s number one TT player for a while now, slipped two places to 39 in the latest update. The 25-year-old Sreeja has enjoyed a good run this year, winning the WTT Feeder Corpus Christi and WTT Feeder Beirut titles in January and March respectively besides reaching the quarterfinal of the WTT Star Contender in Goa. Sreeja…
नयी दिल्ली, 23 अप्रैल (भाषा) यशस्वी जायसवाल की परिपक्वता से प्रभावित वेस्टइंडीज के महान क्रिकेटर ब्रायन लारा ने कहा कि मुंबई इंडियंस के खिलाफ इस युवा खिलाड़ी की पारी प्रभावशाली थी क्योंकि उन्होंने शॉट खेलने के लिए समय भी लिया और उच्च स्ट्राइक रेट बनाए रखकर अच्छा संतुलन बनाया।
New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) Delhi Capitals opener David Warner has no qualms in admitting that the team is left with no option but to win all their remaining matches to stay in the reckoning for a play-off berth in the ongoing IPL. Having lost five out of their eight matches, DC will be desperate to turn things around when they take on Gujarat Titans here on Wednesday. “We’re not where we want to be for the team’s sake. We’d like to win a few more games. But we’ve got to win the next remainder to obviously compete in the…