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Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly on Monday said he wants to help Tripura to flourish in cricket, besides promoting the state’s tourism sector as its brand ambassador. Addressing a press conference, he said he follows Tripura’s cricket players and is impressed with Manisankar Murasingh. “I am a cricketer and want to help the state cricket

As the Indian Premier League (IPL) Auction 2024, set to be conducted on December 19 in Dubai, all eyes will be on MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK). While the IPL 2024 season is expected to get underway in March next year, CSK’s title defence kicks off with the auction itself. With other title rivals

Former West Indies skippers Jason Holder, Nicholas Pooran and all-rounder Kyle Mayers turned down the central contracts from Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the 2023-24 season but confirmed their availability for the T20I series during the contract year. CWI released an official statement to announce the list of central contracts for 2023-2024 for both men

File image of Deepak Chahar with the Indian cricket team© AFP Senior seamer Deepak Chahar is not in contention to be selected in the playing eleven for the opening T20I between India and South Africa in Durban on Sunday as he is yet to join the squad due to personal reasons. It is understood that

File photo of Suryakumar Yadav.© AFP India take on South Africa in the first of three-match T20I series, starting on Sunday. Team India is scheduled to play in an all-format series against South Africa, encompassing three T20Is, an ODI leg and a Test series. Suryakumar Yadav is set to captain India’s T20I team. India enter

Indian batting looked clueless and out of depth to be dismissed for their third lowest total as England notched up a four-wicket loss in the second women’s T20I to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series in Mumbai on Saturday. On a day uncapped Indian cricketers won fat pay-cheques in the Women’s Premier

BCCI secretary Jay Shah said on Saturday that the second edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) will be played only in one city, like it was the case in the inaugural season. Shah, who is also the WPL committee’s convenor, said the league will start in the second or third week of February, 2024.

The Indian cricket team renews its rivalry with South Africa beginning with a T20I on Sunday. India will play all three formats on the Tour. South Africa, at home, have always been a great force and the Indian cricket team knows it well. This time India will have three captain – Rohit Sharma (Tests), KL

The Indian U19 cricket team celebrates after the fall of an Afghanistan batter.© BCCI Arshin Kulkarni starred with both bat and ball to enable India prevail over Afghanistan by seven wickets in their Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup match in Dubai on Friday. India skipper Uday Saharan opted to field as the three-pronged seam

File photo of Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni© BCCI/Sportzpics Former India captain MS Dhoni has been the guiding force for many budding cricketers. A number of players, both Indian and overseas, have been groomed by Dhon in the Indian Premier League and gone on to make a name for themselves in international cricket. Former

Playing down burnout fears, star all-rounder and former West Indies captain, Jason Holder, backed the scheduling of the next season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) ahead of the T20 World Cup next year, saying the premier domestic event would provide an ideal platform for cricketers to showcase their skills in the game’s shortest format

Former Pakistan left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir displayed the traits that had once hailed him as one of the world’s finest demolishers of batting lineups to produce a spell of four wickets for just seven runs to wreck Chennai Braves’ batting. His spell restricted Chennai to 75 for 9 and ensured New York Strikers a five-wicket win in

Surat (Gujarat) : With respect to an incident that occurred on the field during the match between Gujarat Giants player Sreesanth and India Capitals skipper Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday at Lalbhai Contractor Stadium and subsequent interactions on social media, Legends League Cricket (LLC) made their official stand very clear to uphold the spirit of the

Jos Buttler scored 58* off 45 balls against West Indies© AFP England skipper Jos Buttler said he was “fed up” with his woeful run of form and that it was time to get back to being “the player that I know I am” by putting up a solid performance with the bat. The wicketkeeper batter,

File photo of RCB cricketers in action© BCCI New Delhi : Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 auction for the upcoming season, former India pacer Irfan Pathan gave tips to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the 17th season of the tournament. While speaking at Star Sports, Pathan said that after adding Cameron Green

India Women vs England Women, 1st T20I Live Updates:Renuka Thakur has struck twice in the first over as England lost two wickets. Currently, Danielle Wyatt and Nat Sciver-Brunt are standing unbeaten at the crease for England. India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and opted to bowl against England in the first T20I of the

India pacer Deepak Chahar missed the 5th and final T20I against Australia despite only returning to action in the 4th T20I of the same series. India’s interim skipper Suryakumar Yadav revealed a ‘medical emergency’ to be the reason behind Chahar’s 11th-hour pull out from the series. Though Chahar has been named for India’s T20I assignment

File photo of Zimbabwe cricketer Sikandar Raza© X (formerly Twitter) Zimbabwe Cricket on Tuesday announced a 15-member squad for the three-match T20 international series against Ireland and included two uncapped players. The three-match T20I series will begin on Thursday at Harare Sports Club. Middle-order batter Brian Bennett and pace bowler Trevor Gwandu have been added