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IPL, DC vs LSG: Ashutosh Sharma secures win for Delhi from the jaws of defeat | Ipl News

IPL, DC vs LSG: Ashutosh Sharma secures win for Delhi from the jaws of defeat | Ipl News

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Ashutosh Sharma’s unbeaten 66 overshadows the pyrotechnics of Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran as Delhi Capitals sneak home by 1 wicket against Lucknow Super Giants. Impact Player Ashutosh Sharma played an innings to remember to take Delhi Capitals to a thrilling one-wicket over Lucknow Super Giants. Chasing 210 for victory, Ashutosh was at one stage 20 off 20 deliveries as the asking rate mounted. But despite running out of partners, he scored his next 46 runs off just 11 deliveries to take Delhi home at Vizag with three balls to spare. It was a night when Ashutosh proved that his power-hitting exploits of last season with Punjab Kings wasn’t a fluke. If anything, each of his five boundaries and as many sixes, with the game on the line, showed how much he has matured as a batsman who can survive the tough phases and affect a turnaround. With 39 runs needed off the last three overs and despite losing one of the remaining three wickets on the first ball of the 18th over, Ashutosh calmly …

CSK vs MI: Super Kings return to familiar ploy as trio of tweakers take down Mumbai | Ipl News

CSK vs MI: Super Kings return to familiar ploy as trio of tweakers take down Mumbai | Ipl News

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Chennai Super Kings’ plan to fall back on the spin formula works as Noor Ahmad’s 4/18 chokes Mumbai Indians on way to 4-wicket win With Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra and Rahul Tripathi in the squad, Chennai had a decision to make regarding their openers. With Tripathi mostly batting at No.3 in the past, it looked Rachin and Ruturaj Gaikwad would be the opening pair. But coming out for the chase of 156, Chennai sprung a surprise, as Tripathi walked out with Rachin – the pair were the preferred choice in the practice matches with Gaikwad dropped to No 3. It was a bold call, for the right-hander is known to get off the blocks slowly. Coming out in the second over after Tripathi’s dismissal, it was Gaikwad who took the limelight with his crisp shots as Rachin struggled with his timing. Story continues below this ad The skipper started off with two textbook square drives off Trent Boult and then brought out his cuts as boundaries flowed in the Powerplay. With Jasprit Bumrah missing, Mumbai …

New Zealand beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in T20I series | Cricket News

New Zealand beat Pakistan by 5 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in T20I series | Cricket News

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Tim Seifert blasted 45 from 22 balls and Finn Allen hit 38 from 16 as New Zealand cruised to a five-wicket win over Pakistan on Tuesday in a rain-shortened second Twenty20 cricket international. Captain Salman Ali Agha made 46 as Pakistan reached 135-9 in a match reduced to 15 overs per innings after a delay for wet outfield. Shaheen Shan Afridi then bowled a maiden to start New Zealand’s innings. But Seifert and Allen hit seven of the next 12 balls for sixes as New Zealand launched an assault which helped them clinch the match and a 2-0 series lead with 11 balls remaining. Story continues below this ad Seifert and Allen hit five sixes apiece as New Zealand sped towards its target. After the scoreless opening over Allen cleared the boundary on the first, third and sixth balls of the second over, then Seifert struck sixes from the first two and the last two deliveries of the next over as New Zealand raced to 44-0. New Zealand began its innings needing 136 runs from …

New Zealand smash highest team total in Champions Trophy history in semifinal match vs South Africa | Cricket News

New Zealand smash highest team total in Champions Trophy history in semifinal match vs South Africa | Cricket News

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New Zealand smashed the highest ever team total in Champions Trophy history when they put up 362/6 against South Africa in the 2nd semifinal in Lahore on Wednesday. This is the 3rd time that the highest total in the history of the tournament has been breached in the 2025 edition alone with England’s 351/8 chased down by Australia when they scored 356/5 last month in their Group B encounter. Interestingly, both the matches have been in Lahore. Before that, the highest ever score was also held by the Kiwis when they had scored 347/4 against USA at the Oval in 2004. Hosts Pakistan’s 338/4 in Oval in 2017 against India is currently in the 5th position. In the match on Wednesday, both Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson scored centuries while Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips chipped in with quickfire knocks to help the Kiwis post the massive total. Story continues below this ad New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and opted to bat against South Africa in the second semifinal of the Champions …

ICC Champions Trophy: Amidst speculation about his future, Virat Kohli shows what makes him a chase-master in ODIs | Cricket News

ICC Champions Trophy: Amidst speculation about his future, Virat Kohli shows what makes him a chase-master in ODIs | Cricket News

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Where would India be without Virat Kohli in this ICC Champions Trophy? As they got one step closer to becoming the most successful team in the tournament’s history, for the second time in this edition, Kohli mastered a chase. Unlike the game against Pakistan where he remained unbeaten on 100, there was no century to show against Australia in Tuesday’s semi-final. But his 84 was an innings that sent a strong reminder to the world that Kohli isn’t going anywhere for now. If anything, with such knocks under pressure in the most challenging of conditions, he seems to be indicating a second wind in his career. Truth be told, Kohli looked all over the place in the first game against Bangladesh, who were able to pin him to the crease. After that knock, he trained for extra hours at the nets, facing local spin bowlers and in the sessions that followed, has been testing himself against the tweakers in the India squad. Before facing them, he would check what sort of field setting they are …

IND vs AUS: Virat Kohli aced a chase, but here’s how India’s supporting cast chipped in | Cricket News

IND vs AUS: Virat Kohli aced a chase, but here’s how India’s supporting cast chipped in | Cricket News

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While Steve Smith rued the fact that Australia didn’t have enough significant partnerships, India found one between Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer, which yielded 91. It was a testament to Iyer’s form in the middle order and how he has owned the No.4 spot in this format. While he wasn’t at his attacking best, he kept the strike rotating. It might not appear significant in the end result, but Axar Patel at No. 5 once again played a handy knock. With Kohli surviving a dropped chance and Iyer dismissed immediately thereafter, Patel walked out and played an important cameo. A slog-sweep for six and a gorgeous four over cover were standout shots on the night. He continues to impress in all three facets of the game. At the 40-over mark, with the required rate creeping up, Nasser Hussain picked up a cue on air, watching KL Rahul’s body language. He sensed that there was an acceleration around the corner and Rahul did just that. He later told the broadcasters that, contrary to how Kohli batted, …

Champions Trophy | ‘Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial’: Rohit Sharma lauds allrounder after India defeat Australia in semifinal | Cricket News

Champions Trophy | ‘Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial’: Rohit Sharma lauds allrounder after India defeat Australia in semifinal | Cricket News

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India skipper Rohit Sharma lauded Virat Kohli for his crucial 84-run knock against Australia while also praising the contributions of the other batters, singling out Hardik Pandya’s huge hits at the death on his way to a quick 28 runs from 24 deliveries. On the back of these performances, India defeated Australia by 4 wickets and punched their ticket to the summit clash, scheduled for Sunday in Dubai. “Yes, he’s (Virat) done it for us for many years. We were calm during our batting innings. We wanted that big partnership, which Shreyas and Virat provided, along with smaller partnerships between Axar, Virat, KL, and Virat. And then Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial,” Rohit said after the match. He also talked about the nature of the surface, saying that it played slightly better on Tuesday than the one that was used in the last Group game against New Zealand last week. Story continues below this ad “It looked better, but that’s been the nature of the surfaces here; they’re very uncertain. The surface today …

ICC Champions Trophy: Steve Smith & Alex Carey show how it’s done as Aussies compile fighting total | Cricket News

ICC Champions Trophy: Steve Smith & Alex Carey show how it’s done as Aussies compile fighting total | Cricket News

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For the first time in this Champions Trophy, one could see India under pressure. In each of their three outings before this semi-final, they have been precise in their planning and the execution in the middle has been mostly fool-proof. But on Tuesday, for a large part of the afternoon, Steve Smith and Alex Carey would keep Rohit Sharma and India under the pump with some quality batting in yet another testing environment. The two put together only a 54-run stand, off just 58 deliveries, but with scores of 73 and 61 respectively powered Australia to 264 – the highest total made till in the Dubai leg. For the fourth straight match here, a new surface was put to use. Though India have by now got familiar with conditions here, pitch No.6 that they used for the semi-final, seemed to have sowed a few doubts in them. While the square has remained dry throughout, out of all the 9 pitches, this was one that had some presence of live grass. Story continues below this ad …

Champions Trophy: How Shreyas Iyer, Rohit Sharma are the faces of India’s risk management | Cricket News

Champions Trophy: How Shreyas Iyer, Rohit Sharma are the faces of India’s risk management | Cricket News

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As pitches in Dubai seem to be getting slower with each outing, all eyes are on the Indian spinners. However, for India to go the distance a lot is riding on the batting unit, which so far has adapted exceptionally to the sort of tracks that have been their biggest undoing in recent times. With a century each to Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, they have two in-form batsmen in the top three to go with Rohit Sharma to provide rapid starts. In the middle overs where they need to be flexible with their approach against spinners, they have a solid middle-order which includes an enforcer in Shreyas Iyer and two busy players in Axar Patel and KL Rahul before the finishing job is handed over to Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja. This is as good a top 8 as a team could get in these conditions where batting depth is absolutely a non-negotiable factor. But two of those, Rohit and Shreyas, strategically placed at the top and at No 4 provide the right sort …

Ranji Trophy final: Will Kerala pay the price for Sachin Baby’s ill-timed slog sweep? | Cricket News

Ranji Trophy final: Will Kerala pay the price for Sachin Baby’s ill-timed slog sweep? | Cricket News

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For an eternity, Sachin Baby stood frozen on his bent knee. His batting ally Jalaj Saxena let out a shriek in anger so loud that it could have been heard as far as the Wardha Road. But Sachin was too shocked to even scream or shout or curse himself, or to move from his crouched follow-through. He had just played the stroke that could define his career, self-destroying a knock that could have defined his life. Two runs away from his hundred, 56 runs away from snatching lead in the Ranji final, half his batting colleagues dismissed, he fatally slog-swept Parth Rekhade to deep mid-wicket. It was his lone moment of indiscretion in an innings that lasted 235 balls, where he was the wall of resistance and the fountain of hope that kept Kerala in the game and dragged them to the promised land. It was the exact second the game took a decisive shift towards Kerala. Psychologically battered, they were shot out for 342 runs, the visitors losing the last four wickets for 18 …