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It was only to be expected that Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s landmark Indian Premier League title victory last year would be a roller-coaster of emotions followed by an utterly tragic stampede. A passionate team finally ended the titleless run, with Virat Kohli in a sense of fulfilment — as the master batsman was able to lay his hands on the only trophy not in his cabinet. Last season, the RCB held firm until the end, finishing second in the league stage then winning both

By now, a timid man would have quit. But there is no surrender in the vocabulary of Mohammed Shami, a veteran fast bowler who still roars like a lion. Cruelly ignored by the selectors despite his consistent habit of taking wickets in domestic cricket, Shami tore up the field on Sunday with a blistering spell of fast bowling. With unrelenting accuracy, he sent two players back to the pavilion as the right-armer laid down the foundation for Lucknow Super Giants’ first victory of

Explosive knocks by openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first victory of the IPL season with a commanding 65-run thrashing of Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday. Australia's Head made 46 off 21 balls and together with Abhishek, who smashed a 48 off just 21 balls, set the platform for Hyderabad's total of 226-8 at Kolkata's Eden Gardens. Hyderabad then dismissed the three-time winners Kolkata for 161 in 16 overs to earn their first points after losing their opener

Pakistan international Fakhar Zaman was banned for two matches on Tuesday after being found guilty of ball tampering in the country’s showpiece T20 league, cricket bosses said. Video footage showed the 35-year-old opener changing the condition of the ball during his team Lahore Qalandars’ game against Karachi Kings in Lahore late Sunday. “Zaman has been banned from playing in two Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches after being found guilty of a Level 3 offence due to ball tampering,” the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Cooper Connolly had an Indian Premier League debut to remember as he withstood a torrent of wickets falling around him and helped steer Punjab Kings to a nail-biting three-wicket win over the Gujarat Titans on Tuesday. A tidy bowling effort, led by Vijaykumar Vyshak, had seen Punjab limit Gujarat to 162-6 at the New Chandigarh Stadium after Shreyas Iyer chose to chase. Last year’s finalists Punjab seemed on course for a routine win as opener Prabhsimran Singh and Connolly went after the bowling,

Lahore Qalandars batsman ‌Fakhar Zaman has been charged with ball-tampering in ⁠Sunday’s Pakistan Super ⁠League (PSL) fixture against Karachi Kings, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a statement. The incident happened in the ⁠final over, when Karachi required 14 runs to win. Fakhar was engaged in a short conversation with Lahore captain Shaheen Afridi and fast bowler Haris Rauf where he and Rauf threw the ball between them. The umpire then came to Rauf and requested the ball. After consultations with the

England coach Brendon McCullum will keep his job after the Ashes debacle, with cricket chief Richard Gould saying he has the capacity to "adapt and evolve". Ben Stokes’s men were beaten 4-1 on their five-Test tour of Australia that began in November and ended in January. And their terrible performances were accompanied by reports of excessive drinking among players during a break, sparking concerns over the dressing-room culture. Subsequent revelations that vice-captain Harry Brook had been embroiled in a tussle with a nightclub

The India national cricket team scripted history on Sunday, lifting the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, with a thumping 96-run win over the New Zealand national cricket team. India became the first team to win back-to-back T20 World Cup titles, while also becoming the first side to lift the trophy three times. The night was also historic for the hosts, as India became the first country to win a T20 World Cup in its own country.

India held on to beat England by seven runs in a dramatic T20 World Cup semi-final in Mumbai on Thursday, despite Jacob Bethell’s brilliant 105. After Sanju Samson’s 89 sparkled, setting up India to set a huge 253-7 down the numbers, England fell short in what would have been a record chase on finishing at 246-7. Phil Salt (5), Harry Brook (7) and Jos Buttler (25) had perished early but Bethell, alongside Will Jacks (35), did much to keep England interested. The left-handed

The 2026 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will kick-off on March 28, two days later than the Ranjan Pandey-led Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)'s original plan, ESPNcritinfo has reported. IPL had already announced all the franchises back in December 2025 that the IPL in 2026 will kick start from March 26 but as per ESPNcricinfo reports, IPL has altered the starting date for 2026 with two days deadline and now it would be starting on March 28 with

India's assistant coach has said that the defending T20 World Cup champions will require "two big performances" in order to qualify for the semi-finals after their crash to South Africa on Sunday. India were red-hot favourites on home soil heading into the T20 World Cup but suffered a crushing 76-run defeat in the Super Eights, as the 80,000 fans at the sprawling Narendra Modi stadium fell silent. In their first run chase of the tournament, India's batsmen fell way short against some disciplined South Africa bowling.

South Africa crushed reigning champions India by 76 runs on Sunday in their Super Eight Group One match of the Twenty20 World Cup, confirming their title credentials and serving notice to opponents. Electing to bat in a rematch of the 2024 World Cup final, SA raced to a powerful 187-7 after recovering from 20-3. In response tournament co-hosts India also surrendered their top order to the nerves, and their innings never really broke free from the shackles of chasing a nominal target. They were bowled out for

West Indies defeated Italy by 42 runs in their final Twenty20 World Cup Group C match here on Thursday as the two-times champions registered third straight win to enter into Super Eights phase with a clean slate. Captain Shai Hope scored his 11th T20 Internationals half-century, hitting a Man of the Match knock of 75 off 46 balls on either side of what was an industrious bowling effort. Italy were soon reeling in their chase when a nip-backer from Matthew Forde pegged back Justin Mosca’s

Australia's out of the T20 World Cup! Zimbabwe moved on to the Super Eights because their game against Ireland got rained out in Kandy, no play at all. So, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are through from Group B. They're heading to the next round to play the West Indies, India, and South Africa. Ireland's out too. It rained all day at the Pallekelle stadium, so the umpires called the game at 5:30 pm local time (1200 GMT). There was no way they could've

New Zealand trounced Canada despite a spectacular century by Yuvraj Samra in their Group D match and with it booked their place in the Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup at Afghanistan's expense on Tuesday. Glenn Phillips (76) and Rachin Ravindra (59) clobbered unbeat half-centuries as New Zealand eased to a target of 174 with 4.5 overs to spare for their third win out of four. Pool leaders South Africa had already progressed to the super eight from the group with a hat-trick of

Azmatullah stars in Afghanistan win over UAE Afghanistan kept alive their hopes of reaching the Super Eight phase of the Twenty20 World Cup after all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai's heroics guided them to a five-wicket Group D victory over UAE on Monday. The result saw group leaders South Africa (six points, three games) make the Super Eight along with defending champions India and two-time winners West Indies. New Zealand, who are four points ahead with a game in hand against bottom-placed Canada on Tuesday. appear set to snatch

Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav expressed his happiness after his side routed arch-rivals Pakistan by 61 runs on Sunday to qualify for the next round of the T20 World Cup in a clash that had been uncertain until a few days back. Suryakumar’s team posted 175 for seven after being given a flying start by Ishan Kishan (77) before bowling out Pakistan for 114 in 18 overs. The loss for Pakistan maintained their appalling World Cup record against India. India have triumphed in eight of nine T20 World

Mumbai: The West Indies stormed into the Super Eights stage of the T20 World Cup with a comfortable nine-wicket victory over Nepal on Sunday. Having restricted Nepal to 133-8 in their 20 overs, captain Shai Hope's unbeaten 61 guided his team to a comfortable 134-1 in just 15.2 overs in the Group C game at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium. Hope cruised to his half-century off 38 balls, hitting three sixes and five fours all told. He added an unbroken 91 with Shimron Hetmyer to get to the target

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will appeal to the country's military backed interim government in a final bid to try and have the team play next month's Twenty20 World Cup after their request for its matches on grounds that they may not be safe was rejected here on Wednesday. The International Cricket Council (ICC)'s executive board has thrown out Bangladesh's worries over the safety and security of its players and fans in India due to political problems between the South Asian neighbours. Bangladesh have been

Opener Abhishek Sharma hammered 84 off 35 balls to give India a thumping 48-run victory over New Zealand in the first of five T20 internationals on Wednesday. Abhishek's eight sixes set India on course for a strong start while hosts Rinku Singh contributed an unbeaten cameo of 44 to take the home side to 238-7 after they were invited to bat in Nagpur. Chasing 204 to win, New Zealand managed 190-7 in a losing effort as India's bowlers kept taking wickets for them to grab