Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni successfully underwent a left knee surgery in a Mumbai hospital on Thursday, raising hopes of playing in the 17th edition of Indian Premier League next year.Dhoni, who led Chennai Super Kings to their fifth IPL title, had flown to Mumbai from Ahmedabad after the final on Monday and consulted […]
Formula One champion Max Verstappen’s lights-to-flag victory at the Monaco Grand gave the Red Bull driver his fourth victory of the season and extended his championship lead to 39 points over teammate Sergio Perez on Sunday. Spanish veteran Fernando Alonso was a season’s best second for Aston Martin as he collected a fifth podium in […]
Mumbai Indians have defeated out-of-playoffs Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets to stay alive in the next phase of the Indian Premier League. Though the visitors posted a huge target of 201 runs, skipper Rohit Sharma, ace batter Cameron Green and a cameo by Suryakumar Yadav powered the home team to win this do-or-die match comfortably. […]
Was it Chepauk or Kotla? Anyone could have mistaken the Arun Jaitley Stadium for Chennai venue today. It was sea of yellow with chants of ‘Dhoni, Dhoni’ filling the air at Qila Kotla on Saturday. The ‘Yellow Army’ burst into celebration as Dhoni & co posted a thumping win over Delhi Capitals and qualified for […]
There was a joke among IPL fans that Royal Challengers Bangalore plays and wins matches only because it has brilliant trio of batting – Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell. Nobody took them as bowling side. But on Sunday, they turned that joke on its head as RCB bowlers demolished the ace batting […]
Sunrisers Hyderabad lost yet another match on home ground on Saturday. A match, which was well in their control, was lost to visitors Lucknow Super Giants as Aiden Markram & co remained unsuccessful in defending a competitive total of 182 on the board. LSG’s Nicholas Pooran, who was bought at the IPL auction for staggering […]
In the mid 1960s, after a very successful season, when he became the ‘King of the Stretford End’ at Old Trafford, Denis Law walked up to then Manchester United manager Matt Busby, demanding a pay hike. Upon his return from his native Scotland, as the new season began, Law found himself among the players who […]
Last week, Schneider Electric, a player in digital transformation of energy management and automation, and Indian Premier League franchise Rajasthan Royals announced a one-of-its kind sustainable match for cricket lovers. Rajasthan Royals pledged to be a Green Yodha, a sustainability initiative by Schneider Electric that aims to build a team of conscious citizens, organisations and businesses to […]
A fired up Virat Kohli roared back to form with a fine half-century as Royal Challengers Bangalore stayed alive in the IPL play-off race with a thumping eight-wicket win over table toppers Gujarat Titans here on Thursday. This was after skipper Hardik Pandya scored a gritty 47-ball 62 to lift GT to a competitive 168 […]
Riding on Mitchell Marsh’s all-round heroics, Delhi Capitals got their act together in the nick of time to upstage Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets and keep their IPL playoffs hopes alive here on Wednesday. After their bowlers restricted RR to 160 for six, Marsh’s 62-ball 89 and David Warner’s unbeaten 52 off 41 balls helped […]