Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra hopes that Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara’s fifties on Day 3 of the second Test against South Africa don’t turn out to be a one-time affair as well. However, Rahane and Pujara scored 58 and 53 runs respectively in the second innings of the ongoing Johannesburg Test. […]

Pune,  After losing their previous Indian Premier League (IPL) clash by a whisker, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will aim to start off with a win against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their new home ground — the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium, here on Friday. CSK were forced to move out of their original home venue […]

Jaipur, Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane blamed himself for his team’s seven-wicket defeat at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) game on Wednesday night. “I feel it was a different wicket from what we played on against Delhi Daredevils. It was slow and the ball was also keeping […]

Bengaluru, Rajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 19 runs here on Sunday to register their second win in three matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament. Rajasthan put up a huge score of 217 for 4 wickets, riding on Sanju Samson’s blistering 92 not out off 45 deliveries. RCB managed […]

Hyderbad, Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will face-off in the Indian Premier League here on Monday sans their marquee captains Steve Smith and David Warner who are serving a one-year ban for ball tampering. Smith and Warner were barred by the BCCI from taking part in the IPL after their role in the ball-tampering scandal […]

International Cricket, be it a bilateral series, or be it even a money-spinning T20 league like the IPL, is serious business. Players always play under tremendous pressure and frequently under the watchful eyes of experts and unapologetic fans. Expectations are mostly unreasonable, especially if you’re of those Indian Cricketers, most of whom are followed with […]

When the Kings XI Punjab’s newly appointed coach Virender Sehwag, the explosive former India batsman, walks into the Holkar Stadium, albeit as a non-player, he will instantly be nostalgic – his swashbuckling 219 came on this ground, the curator of which, Samandar Singh Chauhan, took great pride then for dishing out the kind of track […]

In a thrilling encounter at the Maharashtra Cricket Stadium, Pune, RPS, the home side edged past the visiting Mumbai Indians by x wickets and opened their account in the second game of IPL 10. Having set a challenging 185 to win, the RPS batted sensibly and ensured right from the beginning that the required run-rate […]