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SRH vs RR Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 2: Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad plays Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals | Cricket News

Special homecoming: R Ashwin returns to Chennai home dressing room for first time after 2016 On Friday, the city’s favourite son of soil R Ashwin returns to Chepauk for Qualifier II. (Sportzpics) The play-offs and the final were supposed to take Chepauk on a nostalgic ride with its favourite hero MS Dhoni, but not all stories have a happy ending. But come Friday, the city’s favourite son of soil R Ashwin returns to Chepauk for Qualifier II for an emotional return. “This place has given me so, so, so, so much that I always keep coming back to Chepauk. Tomorrow I might not be alive, but my soul will be hanging around this place. That is what this place means to me,” Ashwin recalled in a function before this IPL to felicitate his 100 Tests and 500 Test wickets. For the first time since leaving the CSK set-up in 2016, Ashwin would return to the home dressing room at Chepauk. (Read more from Venkata Krishna B) Source link

RR vs RCB Live Score, IPL 2024 Eliminator: Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals play Faf du Plessis’ Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Cricket News

RCB’s Swapnil Singh, a late bloomer in IPL, nearly left to play in Bangladesh League After a start-stop IPL career, 33-year-old Swapnil Singh is now making the most of the opportunities he has got with Royal Challengers Bengaluru. (Sportzpics) Swapnil Singh, at the age of 33, is enjoying his best IPL season while playing for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). An IPL late bloomer, he nearly left for Bangladesh to play 50-over league cricket when his career was going nowhere three years ago. The spin-bowling all rounder has taken six wickets for RCB with an economy rate of 8.76 and even opened the bowling at times. He has played in each of the six games RCB won on the spin to qualify for the playoffs after languishing at the bottom of the table. This isn’t Swapnil’s first outing with an IPL team but it is the first time he has got a long run and made an impact. (Read more from Devendra Pandey) Source link

KKR vs SRH Live Score, IPL 2024 Qualifier 1: Will Bhuvneshwar Kumar be able to stop Sunil Narine? | Cricket News

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Live Score: In a battle between the top two teams of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), the winner of the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad will qualify for the final. The match played at the Narendra Modi Stadium coule be decided by the might of the openers and the Powerplay. With the scoring rates surging to a record high this season, KKR and SRH have stood at the forefront of the batting revolution led by their deadly opening pairs during the league-stage While Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma bludgeoned the opposition bowlers up top for Hyderabad, Sunil Narine and Phil Salt formed a successful attacking pair for Kolkata. KKR will miss the services of Salt for the playoffs after the England star flew back to fulfill national commitments ahead of the T20 World Cup. Head and Abhishek lead the batting charts as the most successful pair of the season with 676 runs at a staggering run rate of 13.74 across three 100-plus stands …

RR vs KKR Live Score, IPL 2024: Rajasthan face Kolkata in Guwahati | Cricket News

Sanju Samson beyond the sixes Rajasthan Royals’ captain Sanju Samson plays a shot during the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, in Jaipur, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (PTI Photo) With pop culture and movie references on his Instagram feed, self-deprecating humour, remarkable poise during interviews and no airs despite stardom, Rajasthan Royals’ captain Sanju Samson has developed a near cult-persona to emerge as a darling of the masses back home. (READ MORE) Source link

SRH vs PBKS Live Score, IPL 2024: Rain likely play spoilsport in Hyderabad | Cricket News

Shashank Singh interview Punjab Kings batter Shahsink Singh plays a shot during their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (Sportzpics) Uncapped Indian batters Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma have been IPL 2024’s sleeper hits, playing entertaining innings despite their team Punjab Kings not making it past the league stage. In an interaction with The Indian Express, moderated by Pratyush Raj, Shashank talks about learning from Mumbai mates, having a hard taskmaster as a father and his sister’s geeky loyalty to his career. (READ MORE) Ashutosh Sharma interview Punjab Kings batter Ashutosh Sharma plays a shot during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Mumbai Indians (MI) at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, in Mohali, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (PTI Photo) In an interaction with The Indian Express, Ashutosh Sharma recalls his life as an 11-year-old moving to Indore to pursue cricket, and hitting Jasprit Bumrah for a six. (READ MORE) Source link

RCB vs CSK Live Score, IPL 2024: Rain set to play spoilsport in Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Chennai Super Kings clash | Cricket News

Virat Kohli vs MS Dhoni, one last time? Bengaluru’s loyalty to be tested Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bangalore hitting a four during match 1 of the Indian Premier League season 17 (IPL 2024) between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on the 22nd March 2024.(Photo by Saikat Das / Sportzpics for IPL) A month ago, Royal Challengers Bengaluru looked buried. But they have been reborn like the mythical phoenix. With Virat Kohli giving them wings to fly, they have scripted a stunning turnaround to inch quietly to the play-offs, which looked like a farfetched dream in the middle of April. Win their last league match on Saturday, all those criticisms about the strike-rates and lack of frontline spinners and a toothless attack would be forgotten. A meme material for much of this season, they have an opportunity to enter the banter room. Muted just four weeks into the IPL, the chants “Ee saala cup namde” are beginning to be heard again slowly. (READ MORE) Source link

MI vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2024: Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai Indians host KL Rahul’s Lucknow Super Giants | Cricket News

Disquiet in LSG over not-so-happy chat in public between owner Sanjiv Goenka and captain KL Rahul after crushing defeat LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka and KL Rahul were involved in an animated discussion after LSG’s 10-wicket loss against SRH. (Screengrab) THERE IS disquiet in the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) camp after visuals of team owner Sanjiv Goenka in what appeared to be a not-so-happy animated discussion with captain KL Rahul did the rounds of social media following the team’s 10-wicket thrashing by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the IPL match on Wednesday. Speculation was rife about Rahul’s long-term future with the Lucknow franchise that is now placed sixth in the 10-team points table and has two more league matches to play this season. (Read more from Devendra Pandey) Source link

SRH vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad look to seal playoff berth against Gujarat Titans | Cricket News

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant and teammate Axar Patel greet Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul after Delhi won the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match against Lucknow Super Giants, in New Delhi, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. With just six games remaining in the group stage of the IPL 2024, two teams have now secured of a spot in the IPL Playoffs: Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. There are as many as five teams who have a shot at qualifying for the IPL playoffs. Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians are the three teams who cannot qualify for the IPL 2024 Playoffs anymore. (READ MORE) Source link

RR vs PBKS Live Score, IPL 2024: Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals lock horns with Sam Curran’s Punjab Kings | Cricket News

Shashank Singh interview: How PBKS batter was steered along by a cricket-mad father and sister Shashank Singh in action Uncapped Indian batters Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma have been IPL 2024’s sleeper hits, playing entertaining innings despite their team Punjab Kings not making it past the league stage. In an interaction with The Indian Express, moderated by Pratyush Raj, Shashank talks about learning from Mumbai mates, having a hard taskmaster as a father and his sister’s geeky loyalty to his career, while Ashutosh recalls his life as an 11-year-old moving to Indore to pursue cricket, and hitting Jasprit Bumrah for a six. (Read more) Source link

DC vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2024: Pant, Rahul in focus as Delhi, Lucknow hope to stay alive in playoffs race; Toss, Playing XI updates | Cricket News

Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants IPL 2024 Live Score: Both Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants are chasing victory in Tuesday’s IPL match with the hope that it will keep them in the hunt for a spot in the IPL 2024 playoffs. Delhi, who are on 12 points after 13 games, are playing in their last match of IPL 2024 group stages. They will draw comfort from the fact that they’re playing at home, in the Arun Jaitley Stadium. DC’s best chance for the playoffs lies in beating LSG today and then seeing SRH suffering significant defeats in their final two matches, CSK emerging victorious against RCB, and LSG winning no more than one game while maintaining a run rate below that of DC. LSG, meanwhile, have played 12 games and accumulated 12 points: 12 with a terrible NRR of -0.769. After today’s game, they travel to Mumbai to play the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. Since their NRR is very low, they will need to win both their remaining games and then, …