Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Dinesh Karthik termed the Duckworth-Lewis (D/L) method “strange” and vouched for Indian counterpart of the rule, the “VJD method”, after his team lost to Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets in a rain-truncated Indian Premier League (IPL) game here on Saturday. “I have always thought that the […]

Lauding his spinners for a spirited bowling performance, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain Dinesh Karthik urged his seamers to learn the knuckleball from Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), whose bowlers set up a five-wicket win against his team here on Saturday. India pace spearhead scalped three wickets as Australian Billy Stanlake was outstanding too, conceding just 21 runs […]

Kolkata, April 7  A new-look Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), sans their most successful captain Gautam Gambhir, will look to outshine a strong Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) led by Virat Kohli in the inaugural match of this season’s Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday. Gambhir, who led KKR to IPL titles […]

Dinesh Karthik took the world by storm previous night with a six on the last ball to clinch the Nidahas Trophy for India. With five needed off the final delivery, Karthik lofted a full delivery from Soumya Sarkar over the boundary ropes to become a hero. Here are a few past instances where the batsman hit […]

One, a former India Wicket-Keeper; the other, an upcoming Wicket-Keeper from Jharkhand, the same state Mahendra Singh Dhoni hails from; One, a talented and a stunner-of-a-technician with the bat; other, a powerful, hard-hitting southpaw with unconventional technique. Dinesh Karthik, a few months back, was a former India Wicket-Keeper Batsman who was almost fading away from […]

The auctions for the tenth edition of the IPL were held on the 20th February 2017, where the eight existing franchises battled it out to grab their favourites from among local and overseas players. Volumes have already been written or spoken about the star-studded auctions and how they unfolded. In the normal course, now that […]