Pakistan players celebrate after winning the fourth and final T20 cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan at Centurion Park in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 16, 202...
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Pakistan's bowler Faheem Ashraf, left, celebrates with captain Babar Azam after dismissing South Africa's batman George Linde for 3 runs during the fourth and final T20 cricket mat...
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South Africa's bowler Lizaad Williams, left, reacts after taking a whilst Pakistan's batsman Shaheen Afridi watches on during the second T20 cricket match between South Africa and ...
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South Africa's bowler Tabraiz Shamsi, left, celebrates after dismissing Pakistan's batsman Shadab Khan on LBW as teammate Fakhar Zaman watches on during the second One Day Internat...
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South Africa's batsman Aiden Markram, left, leaves the field after being caught buy Pakistan's fielder Asif Ali for 39 runs during the second One Day International cricket match be...
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Yuzvendra Chahal plays with his specs during a RCB practice session ahead of IPL 2021
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Mohammed Azharuddeen reaches for a ball during RCB's training session in Chennai
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Suyash Prabhudessai bats during a practice session for RCB
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Navdeep Saini gets ready for another day of training in Chennai as RCB prepare for IPL 2021
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Harshal Patel bowls during a training session for RCB in Chennai ahead of IPL 2021
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Sanjay Bangar addressing RCB players during a training session in Chennai
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India pacer Mohammed Siraj before the start of a training session for RCB in Chennai
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Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers arrives at RCB team hotel in Chennai for the IPL 2021
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Captain Virat Kohli arrives in Chennai on April 1, 2021 to join RCB team-mates
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Delhi Capitals' batsman Steve Smith arrived at the team hotel in Mumbai on April 3, 2021
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Pakistan's batsman Faheem Ashraf plays a shot during the One Day International cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan at Centurion Park in Pretoria, South Africa. Pakistan...
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Umesh Yadav was acquired by the Delhi Capitals for his base price of Rs 1 crore in the IPL Auction in February, 2021
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Delhi Capitals' opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan arrived at the team hotel in Mumbai
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Delhi Capitals' pacer Ishant Sharma at the team hotel in Mumbai
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Delhi Capitals' leg-spinner Amit Mishra and all-rounder Lalit Yadav at the team hotel in Mumbai
Up against a resurgent Delhi Capitals, defending champions Mumbai Indians will need to address their middle-order woes if they are to go for a third consecutive win in IPL 2021
Prithvi Shaw was dropped after his twin failures in the Adelaide Test. However, he dominated Vijay Hazare Trophy like no other in the history of the tournament
AB de Villiers himself is keen to play the T20 World Cup in India, and is supposed to discuss it with South Africa head coach Mark Boucher towards the end of the IPL
The stylish Laxman waxes humble but deep on his magical chef d’oeuvre from 20 years ago. That 281 was part of a process that taught everyone life lessons, he says.
The Aussies rolled into India like an invincible juggernaut, and demolished Wankhede. But there was Bhajji, a man possessed, and then VVS-Dravid happened…. I didn’t move an inch.
Twenty years ago, over two hot March days at the Eden Gardens, India came back from the dead to beat Australia. We bask in the sunshine of that past glory, in the company of some heroes who made it happen.
IPL,overseen by BCCI, is a spectacular money-spinner. In abject contrast, football, and ISL, is cash-strapped and dogged by losses. Terrible
governance is the only culprit.
For a British-Asian with roots in Punjab, playing in India is doubly special. It gets you out twice…as Bishan Bedi famously said of a stumping wicket I took!
The series in Australia was won on the backs of India’s debutants. Rarely have a batch of youngsters achieved so much in so short a time in our cricketing history.
Rebirths in cricket: Memories of Adelaide from another time-zone, of 42 all out from 1974 (with Sunny, Vishy & Co)…and of becoming a dad while on tour in a distant land.
A cricket team clad in PPE suits, hundreds of forbidding forms, a bio-bubble: the IPL in times of corona seemed a bit too extra-terrestrial. But then there was the beach….