Padikkal’s 200 included 25 fours and two sixes.
| Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV
Padikkal’s 200 included 25 fours and two sixes.
| Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV
MS Dhoni (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has stirred debate ahead of IPL 2026 by leaving MS Dhoni out of his preferred Chennai Super Kings (CSK) playing XI. He feels Dhoni’s current role as a lower-order batter, who faces very few balls, doesn’t add enough value to the team unless…
India vice-captain Shreyas Iyer lavished praise on Virat Kohli, saying the batting great has been “walking the talk” for years, the latest being his masterclass in a successful run chase against New Zealand in the ODI series opener. Kohli struck a fluent 93 off 91 balls as India chased down a target of 301 to…
South Africa win series in New Zealand South Africa beat New Zealand by 33 runs in the final T20 to seal the series 3-2, thanks to a powerful knock from Connor Esterhuizen. Chasing 188, New Zealand struggled throughout and finished on 154-8, unable to keep up with the rising required run rate.Winning the toss and…
Services on Sunday beat Assam by eight wickets to break the record for the shortest-ever Ranji Trophy match (in terms of balls) at the Tinsukia District Sports Association Ground. The home team was blown away by eight wickets in merely 540 balls. The fixture that earlier held the record was a Railways versus Delhi contest…
History-making seamer Josh Tongue hailed England’s bowling unit for the “amazing job” it did Friday and said more of the same was planned to get a result in the fourth Ashes Test. Tongue led the attack in front of a record 94,199 crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, bagging 5-45 as the host was dismissed…
Suryakumar Yadav and Usman Tariq (Agency Image) India skipper Suryakumar Yadav admitted that the team’s batting has looked a little shaky in the first two matches of the T20 World Cup but expressed confidence in handling Pakistan’s tricky spinner Usman Tariq, describing him as “an out of syllabus question” in an exam. “See, sometimes there…
