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As Virat Kohli looks to avoid hat-trick of ducks, Shane Watson hoping he goes for a big shot early again vs KKR

As Virat Kohli looks to avoid hat-trick of ducks, Shane Watson hoping he goes for a big shot early again vs KKR

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2 min readMay 13, 2026 10:29 AM IST Virat Kohli had been consistently among the runs for much of the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) season until the last couple of matches, in which the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) veteran fell for ducks. He first fell for a two-ball duck in RCB’s match against Lucknow Super Giants and then for a golden duck in Raipur against Mumbai Indians. Now, RCB are set to face Kolkata Knight Riders in their second home match in Raipur and Kohli is hoping to avoid a hat-trick of ducks. Naturally, KKR’s assistant coach Shane Watson is hoping for the opposite. “Every team has plans against Virat Kohli because he’s one of the best players in the world. But the challenge is that he knows exactly how to counter those plans as well,” Watson told reporters on the eve of the match. “We’re hoping he might play an aggressive shot early like he did in the last game, although the chances of that are probably remote because Virat is so disciplined. …

Virat Kohli’s shaky SRH numbers heap pressure before IPL 2026 opener: 805 runs, 2 golden ducks in horror season

Virat Kohli’s shaky SRH numbers heap pressure before IPL 2026 opener: 805 runs, 2 golden ducks in horror season

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Virat Kohli finally got his hands on the Indian Premier League trophy last season and will now start his title defence with RCB in the IPL 2026 season opener. RCB face SRH in the season opener in Bengaluru on Saturday. RCB would have hoped for more swag and pomp ahead of their opener. But then the atmosphere is tense as the memory of 11 fans who lost their lives in the June 4 stampede outside the stadium still dominates the lead-up to the game. Virat Kohli and RCB will begin their title defence on Friday. (PTI) Against SRH in 24 innings, Kohli has managed 805 runs at an average of 36.59 and a 141.97 strike rate. He has also smacked five fifties and a ton against them, but has also been dismissed for three ducks. In the 2022 season, Kohli was dismissed back-to-back golden ducks vs SRH. In the 2022 season, Kohli was dismissed for back-to-back golden ducks vs SRH. The season was overall horrible for him, as he registered 341 runs in 16 matches. …

Why the safety features of self-driving cars are making passengers “sitting ducks” for angry protesters

Why the safety features of self-driving cars are making passengers “sitting ducks” for angry protesters

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In January, Doug Fulop was riding home from a night out in San Francisco when a man crossed the street in front of his car, doubled back and began screaming at him. The man punched the car’s windows and tried lifting up the vehicle. He then yelled that he wanted to kill Fulop and the other two passengers for giving money to a robot. A taxi driver would have simply driven away. But Fulop’s vehicle had no driver — it was a self-driving Waymo. “We felt helpless,” said Fulop, 37, who works in the tech industry. Since autonomous cars started roaming San Francisco streets almost four years ago, they have elicited an array of reactions from humans, including angry protests against the vehicles. That has created an unexpected hazard for passengers of self-driving cars all around the city: being stuck inside the vehicle during an anti-robot rant. Self-driving cars are designed to stop moving if a person is nearby. People can take advantage of that function to harass and threaten their passengers. In 2024, a …

Suryakumar Yadav backs Abhishek Sharma amid T20 World Cup ducks

Suryakumar Yadav backs Abhishek Sharma amid T20 World Cup ducks

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3 min readUpdated: Feb 21, 2026 05:07 PM IST With Abhishek Sharma coming into the Super 8s stages not in the best of forms, having scored 3 ducks in three matches he has played, there have been concerns about the Punjab batter heading into a high voltage clash against South Africa on Sunday. Captain Suryakumar Yadav, however, dismissed the talks about the 25-year-old’s form, saying the whole team is ready to cover for Abhishek’s performances. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “Those who worry about Abhishek Sharma’s form, I worry about them. Last year, Abhishek covered for us, and this tournament we will cover for Abhishek: Skipper Surya said on Saturday in the pre-match press conference. Abhishek opened the tournament with a golden duck against the USA in Mumbai before being ruled out of the second game in Delhi with an upset stomach. Last week, he returned for the high-stakes clash against Pakistan and fell for a four-ball duck to Salman Agha’s part-time off-spin in the first over. The script turned horrendous in Ahmedabad on Wednesday when …

‘Three ducks in the same way raises questions’: Former India batter probes Abhishek Sharma’s technique after T20 World Cup failures | Cricket News

‘Three ducks in the same way raises questions’: Former India batter probes Abhishek Sharma’s technique after T20 World Cup failures | Cricket News

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3 min readFeb 20, 2026 10:25 AM IST Abhishek Sharma could not have imagine a worse start to his maiden T20 World Cup after dominating the format for over a year and entering the competition as the world’s No. 1 batter. Things, however, have not panned out the way the Punjab opener would have loved to as he now bears the dubious record of being one of only three men ever to bag three successive ducks in the T20 World Cup. Abhishek opened the tournament with a golden duck against the USA in Mumbai before being ruled out of the second game in Delhi with an upset stomach. Last week, he returned for the high-stakes clash against Pakistan and fell for a four-ball duck to Salman Agha’s part-time off-spin in the first over. The script turned horrendous in Ahmedabad on Wednesday when the left-hander’s leg-stump was uprooted by Netherlands spinner Aryan Dutt in the first over. The streak of failures has now raised questions from former India batter, Mohammed Kaif, who picked up on the …

Suryakumar Yadav backs Abhishek Sharma amid T20 World Cup ducks

Three ducks in three matches: Abhishek Sharma’s nightmare form continues in T20 World Cup, falls in 3 balls vs Netherlands | Cricket News

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3 min readUpdated: Feb 18, 2026 07:30 PM IST India opener Abhishek Sharma’s nightmare form in the T20 World Cup continued on Wednesday when he was castled by Netherlands bowler Aryan Dutt for a duck in Ahmedabad. This was Abhishek’s third duck in the three matches he has played with the big hitter from Punjab yet to score a run in the T20 World Cup. After seeing off the first too balls, Abhishek tries for a pull but missed the ball entirely only for his stumps to get rattled. Before this match, Abhishek fell for a four-ball duck as Pakistan unleashed a fresh tactic with captain Salman Agha taking the new ball on February 15. The hard-hitting left-hander miscued a length ball to the mid-on fielder as he returned his second blob in two outings in his maiden T20 World Cup. The in-form Abhishek, who had entered the World Cup as the top-ranked batter in the format, has had a quiet start to his campaign with a stomach bug affecting him even before the tournament …

Abhishek Sharma remains India’s destroyer-in-chief, consecutive ducks won’t, and shouldn’t, change that

Abhishek Sharma remains India’s destroyer-in-chief, consecutive ducks won’t, and shouldn’t, change that

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6 min readAhmedabadFeb 17, 2026 09:03 PM IST The gaze and mind of the motley audience in the Narendra Modi Stadium shrinking on him, Abhishek Sharma stoutly defended the first ball from an intrepid net bowler. A collective gasp blew in the stands, where a few overzealous fans were waving the tricolour and hoping for Abhishek to ferry the first ball deep into the stands. It’s the habit he has pampered the audience into, the burden of expectations he has imposed on himself. With every defensive stroke of his, the onlookers grew impatient. Even during an optional nets session, they expect his willow to shower sixes. It soon did, when he pilloried a good length ball from Varun Chakaravarthy straight over him. The ball crashed onto a just-swept orange seat beside the sight-screen. Peels of applause crackled, creating an echo in the vast and immense space. Abhishek clanked into Abhishek mode, and this was what the crowd wanted. Sixes soared, shrieks of “watch out” sliced the unusually nippy air. The onslaught of sixes is why …

Two ducks in two matches: Abhishek Sharma falls in four balls vs Pakistan, yet to score a run in T20 World Cup | Cricket News

Two ducks in two matches: Abhishek Sharma falls in four balls vs Pakistan, yet to score a run in T20 World Cup | Cricket News

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2 min readUpdated: Feb 15, 2026 07:26 PM IST India suffered a huge jolt as they lost returning star opener Abhishek Sharma for a four-ball duck in the opening over of the high-octane clash against Pakistan in their T20 World Cup 2026 Group A match at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. FOLLOW LIVE: India vs Pakistan Live Cricket Score, T20 World Cup 2026 Playing his second World Cup match, Abhishek fell for a four-ball duck as Pakistan unleashed a fresh tactic with captain Salman Agha taking the new ball. The hard-hitting left-hander miscued a length ball to the mid-on fielder as he retured his second blob in two outings in his maiden T20 World Cup. The in-form Abhishek, who had entered the World Cup as the top-ranked batter in the format, has had a quiet start to his campaign with a stomach bug affecting him even before the tournament opener in Mumbai last week. Playing the match against the United States of America at the Wankhede Stadium despite being unwell, Abhishek fell for a …

10 retired outs and 8 ducks! How UAE’s bizarre scorecard helped counter rain threat in T20 World Cup Qualifying win over Thailand | Cricket News

10 retired outs and 8 ducks! How UAE’s bizarre scorecard helped counter rain threat in T20 World Cup Qualifying win over Thailand | Cricket News

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Cricket can pull all sorts of surprises on the field, even in big 2025. On an unusual Saturday showdown in Bangkok, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) women used all of their cricketing smarts to tackle the conditions at the Terdthai Cricket Ground and record a stunning 163-run victory over Qatar in an ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Asia Region qualifiers. With the nine-team tournament slotting three countries in each group, UAE needed to win the clash against Qatar to proceed to the Super 3 stage of the contest after having downed Malaysia the previous day. However, with a rain threat on the forecast, the UAE pulled out a remarkably unique and unprecedented tactic to set up the win. The UAE women, led by captain Esha Oza, batted only for 16 overs, after which the team collectively decided they had enough on board to topple the lingering rain clouds and the opposition to register a win that would assure qualification. Powered by Oza’s 55-ball 113 laced with 14 fours and five sixes and fellow opener …

Riyan Parag Gives Teammate Cold Staredown As Two RR Batters Depart For Ducks In One Over

Riyan Parag Gives Teammate Cold Staredown As Two RR Batters Depart For Ducks In One Over

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) by just one run as RR stand-in captain Riyan Parag‘s heroic knock of 95 went in vain. KKR were cruising at one stage with RR down to 71/5. Parag kickstarted a dramatic comeback by slamming five sixes off Moeen Ali in a single over. Prior to that, however, Parag could scarcely believe what was happening as RR lost two wickets in one over, with Varun Chakravarthy picking up the wickets of Dhruv Jurel and Wanindu Hasaranga. Bowling the eighth over, Dhruv Jurel was left completely bamboozled by a googly from Chakravarthy. Unable to read it, Jurel’s stumps were knocked over as he departed for a golden duck. With four wickets down, RR decided to send Wanindu Hasaranga up the order as a temporary stabilizer. But, almost hilariously, Hasaranga suffered an identical dismissal. Hasaranga was outfoxed by another googly from Chakravarthy, as he also departed for a duck. Riyan Parag, who watched along from the other end, could barely believe what he was seeing. The 23-year-old …