MUMBAI: Veteran fast bowler Umesh Yadav has not been dropped from the two-Test series in the West Indies, but is out due to a hamstring injury, TOI has learnt.“Umesh is suffering from a hamstring injury and is recovering at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore,” a source in the BCCI told TOI. It was speculated … Read more
IPL 2023, the 16th edition of the tournament has so far been a very open one. After the first 42 matches, 1 team is on 12 points, 4 teams on 10 points, 2 on 8 points, 2 on 6 points and 1 on 4 points. The race for the playoffs berths is well and truly … Read more
KOCHI: It’s time again for the 10 IPL franchises to shell out some serious money to bolster their squads ahead of the next season. The IPL mini-auctions are here and this time the venue is a non-IPL centre, Kochi.Unlike last year’s mega auctions, this is a smaller affair with only 87 slots to be filled … Read more
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Kolkata Knight Riders’ campaign in this IPL can be summed up in this one sentence. The side fielding the maximum number of players in this tournament is yet to find the perfect combination. Although they are still in with a mathematical chance to make the … Read more
With 10 matches now left to play in the league stage of IPL 2022, there remain 1,024 possible combinations of results. That’s down from 2048 possible combinations on Friday (May 13) morning. TOI looked at each of these possibilities to calculate the chances of individual teams making it to the playoffs. As of Saturday morning, … Read more
LONDON: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has been appointed head coach of England’s Test team, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Thursday. McCullum replaced Chris Silverwood who left the role in February after England were thrashed 4-0 in the Ashes in Australia, with Paul Collingwood stepping in as a caretaker coach. McCullum, 40, … Read more
NAVI MUMBAI: Kolkata Knight Riders finally found the team balance they were looking for to outclass Mumbai Indians by 52 runs on Monday and keep their slim IPL play-off hopes alive. Lead Mumbai Indians pacer Jasprit Bumrah picked up his maiden five-wicket haul in IPL history to restrict KKR to 165 for nine after fine … Read more
LONDON: One of T20 cricket’s all-time greats, Chris Gayle has revealed that he opted out of IPL 2022 because of lack of respect, saying he “wasn’t treated properly” in the last couple of years despite doing so much. The swashbuckling West Indian has been one of the top performers with the bat since the inception … Read more
PUNE: Quinton de Kock laid the platform with a commanding fifty and his pacers then terrorised Kolkata Knight Riders to record a crushing 75-run victory for Lucknow Super Giants which put them on top of the table with an IPL play-off berth being a formality now. For last year’s runners-up KKR, eight points from 11 … Read more
MUMBAI: Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) captain Sanju Samson considered his batters’ inability to score boundaries in the death overs on a slow pitch as the reason for his side’s seven-wicket defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Monday. Samson said with his batters failing to master the KKR bowling … Read more