Mumbai destroys Kings XI with impeccable top order performance

In the best batting conditions of the IPL, Mumbai Indians coasted to their highest successful IPL chase to reclaim their spot atop the points table. A target of 199 should have been more daunting but such was their dominance...

Australia name Champions Trophy Squad – Pattinson, Henriques in

Moises Henriques was chosen ahead of batsmen including Usman Khawaja, Pete Handscomb, George Bailey and Cameron White - plus the allrounder James Faulkner - in an Australian Champions Trophy squad that also features recalls for James Pattinson and John...

Daredevils look to outsmart Kings at home

Overall: Kings XI Punjab have won ten out of the eighteen matches played between the two teams so far. Last season: Both teams defeated the visitors in the one-off games at home; Daredevils had elected to bowl on both occasions. In the news After...

Sunrisers aim to break Knights

Head to head Last season: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in two of their three encounters - by eight wickets and 22 runs respectively. The only match they lost was the Eliminator, where Sunrisers won by 22 runs on...

Nasir Jamshed ready to cooperate over NCA inquiry

Nasir Jamshed is willing to cooperate with the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) inquiry into the PSL corruption investigation. But he wants the board to wait until an ongoing investigation by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) emanating from the...

Badree’s hat-trick not good enough to get over the line

It is not often that a hat-trick ends in a losing cause. It is not often that a team wins a T20 after losing four wickets for less than 10 runs. Samuel Badree, on debut for Royal Challengers Bangalore,...

Tye’s 5-17 massive in Lions first win

Gujarat Lions had picked up only one wicket in two matches this season. But Andrew Tye took five times as many - including a hat-trick, the second of the day - to record the best figures by an IPL...

Mumbai Indians cruise home over Sunrisers

Harbhajan Singh and Jasprit Bumrah bowled accurate and miserly spells on a typically high-scoring ground to condemn Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first defeat in six matches. Harbhajan did not find much turn, but maintained a constricting line, while Bumrah...

Bangladesh will rise and fall with Indias success

Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Nazmul Hasan has called for resolving the issues that BCCI has with ICC's proposed new revenue model, as he believes that a weaker India would have an adverse effect on Bangladesh. After a meeting in...

Pakistan needs to adapt to succeed – Mickey Arthur

That Pakistan cricket has faced a unique set of challenges over the past decade or so is not in dispute, and Mickey Arthur believes its effects on the international team were obvious when he walked into the role one...