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IPL 2024: Mumbai Indians' full schedule, match time, SWOT Analysis

Rohit Sharma will not be the captain of the Mumbai side for the first time in a decade, and Hardik Pandya, who won a title in his inaugural season as captain of Gujarat Titans

IPL 2024: Chennai Super Kings, full schedule, match time, SWOT analysis

With five trophies already in their pocket, they would look to go for one last hurrah under the captaincy of Thala Dhoni to become the best team in IPL history with six titles to their name

IPL 2024 schedule: Chennai gets final, Ahmedabad playoffs; 5 games in Delhi

The final of the mega event will take place on May 26 in Chennai while the same city will also host qualifier 2 on May 24

IPL 2024 MI vs GT Highlights: Bowlers win thriller for Gujarat at home

IPL 2024 Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians Highlights: Mohit Sharma took big wickets of Brevis and David while Sai Kishore removed Rohit. Umesh defended 18 in last over to give Titans a thrilling win

IPL 2024 RR vs LSG Highlights: Sandeep, Samson lead Royals to big home win

IPL 2024 Rajasthan Royals vs Lucknow Super Giants Highlights: Sandeep Sharma bowled a brilliant spell of 1/22 at the death and Samson hit an unbeaten 85 off 52 balls to take Royals to a 20-run win

IPL 2024 PBKS vs DC: Arshdeep opens up on short ball, Curran, and Harshal

Short ball ploy used by the likes of Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh primarily and also by Kagiso Rabada at some point in the game was due to the size of the stadium

IPL 2024, RR vs LSG preview: Focus on fit-again LSG captain KL Rahul

The focus will be on KL Rahul's form and fitness when he returns from a quadriceps injury to lead the Lucknow Super Giants in their IPL opener against Rajasthan Royals here on Sunday. Rahul missed the last four Tests against England due to pain in his right quadriceps. He was out for four months last year after undergoing a thigh surgery. LSG captain will look to hit top gear not only as a batter but also as a leader, especially after guiding the team to successive playoffs in the first two seasons. Rahul is likely to play purely as a batter, at least in the initial phase of IPL, but the additional burden of keeping strengthen his chances of making the T20 World Cup squad. His opposite number on Sunday, Sanju Samson, is also a candidate for the wicket-keepers' role in the India squad for the ICC event and he too will be keen to find his rhythm right from the start. RR had come tantalisingly close to clinching a second title before Gujarat Titans broke their heart in the final in 2

IPL 2024: Abhishek Porel's blitzkrieg vs Punjab big positive for DC - Amre

Their campaign not off to the best start with an injury to their lead pacer and the team guilty of a sloppy display on the field which led to a loss but Abhishek Porel's scintillating cameo was a big positive, says Delhi Capitals assistant coach Pravin Amre. DC brought in Porel as an Impact Substitute in the death overs after the other batters failed to get going. The 25-year-old wicketkeeper-batter smashed an unbeaten 32 off 10 balls to help his side post 174/9. However, the total was not enough as DC suffered a four-wicket loss in their IPL opener against Punjab Kings on Saturday. "Not the start we wanted, every team wants to start on a winning note. But there are a lot of positives from the game, our intent in batting was good. We were in a good position, then back-to-back wickets in the middle overs cost us but we came back. "We can also see the positive about Abishek Porel, the guy who came in and scored runs at a strike rate of more than 300. He got us to the par score of ...

IPL 2024, RCB vs PBKS preview: du Plessis seeks better outing from bowlers

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's IPL 2024 campaign is just one-match old but it has already exposed their biggest chink -- brittleness in bowling, and they need better returns from bowlers against a confident Punjab Kings at an unforgiving M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Monday. During their six-wicket defeat against Chennai Super Kings, the pacers were guilty of blindly following a short-pitch ball strategy while the spinners just did not have enough resources to exploit a gradually slowing-down Chepauk pitch. The three RCB spinners -- Mayank Dagar, Karn Sharma and Glenn Maxwell -- bowled five overs between them and managed middling figures of 37 for one without actually troubling the batters. In contrast, the two CSK spinners -- Ravindra Jadeja and Maheesh Theekshana --bowled a combined eight overs for figures of 57 for four when the deck was much easier to bat. So, the Royal Challengers' spinners will have to brace for a tougher task here as the 22-yard trampoline with short fences a

IPL 2024: India got his fine gem back - Sidhu on Rishabh Pant's return

He is out now, leading Delhi Capitals and running between the wickets and playing good cricket, says Navjot Singh Sidhu

IPL 2024: KKR's match winner Harshit Rana fined 60 per cent of match fee

While the IPL statement did not go into details about the incident, which attracted the code of conduct violation, it could be the 22-year-old's celebration following Mayank Agarwal's wicket.

IPL 2024 KKR vs SRH Highlights: Rana rises to the ocassion in thrilling win

IPL 2024 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Harshit Rana, defended 13 off 6 balls against Klaasen and Shahbaz who had hit 47 off 12. He was hit for a first ball six and still won it for KKR

JioCinema sees 51% increase in first day viewership figures of IPL 2024

A total of 6.6 billion minutes of watch time was also recorded during the IPL 2024 opening match which was won by the Chennai Super Kings against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru

IPL 2024 PBKS vs DC Highlights: Curran, Livingstone star in Punjab win

IPL 2024 Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals Highlights: Punjab managed to get past the Capitals with a four-wicket win thanks to fifty from Curran and his 67-run stand with Liam Livingstone

IPL 2024: Gaikwad's captaincy was most impressive against RCB - Gavaskar

The legendary Sunil Gavaskar is mighty impressed with Chennai Super Kings' new captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and lauded him for the way he maneuvered his bowlers during the IPL opener against Royal Challengers Bengaluru here. Handed the leadership role just ahead of the IPL, Gaikwad has big shoes to fill and he made an impressive start under the tutelage of talisman MS Dhoni, guiding CSK to a six-wicket win over RCB on Friday night. "Absolutely! Your debut as a captain becomes very important. You want to begin your captaincy career well with a win and that's exactly what happened. What was impressive was his bowling changes," the former India skipper told Star sports. "Because when you saw the way he kept on changing Mustafizur; the way he used Mustafizur was absolutely terrific. He kept swapping Deepak Chahar, keeping faith in Tushar Deshpande for that final over. "I think seeing that Tushar Deshpande had been taken for 25, there was an opportunity to use another bowler, but he still st

IPL 2024: Pant reveals raw emotions on return to competitive cricket

Rishabh Pant IPL stats: 26-year-old Delhi Capitals' captain has scored 2838 runs in 98 IPL matches. Behind the wicket, he took 64 catches and made 18 stumpings so far

IPL 2024, Gujarat vs Mumbai preview: Pandya to begin high-profile captaincy

Hardik Pandya will aim to build on the rich legacy of his predecessor Rohit Sharma when he begins his Mumbai Indians captaincy stint with a match against Gujarat Titans, a team that the star all-rounder himself marshalled over last two seasons, in the IPL here on Sunday. Such are the professional ways of IPL that Pandya, having led Titans to the title and runners-up finish in the previous two seasons, has gone to back to the Mumbai Indians where he made a name for himself. The tournament also marks Pandya's comeback from a 'freak' ankle injury he picked up in the middle of the ODI World Cup in October. The form of the injury-prone all-rounder with both bat and ball will be closely tracked in the tournament that precedes the T20 World Cup in the USA and Caribbean. With Pandya moving on to the other side, Titans will be led by Shubman Gill, who assumes the responsibility with very little captaincy experience. Mumbai have been grappling with fitness issues to their key players includ

IPL 2024: Karthik pleased to get some runs despite challenging build up

Veteran wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik is pleased about getting some runs in the IPL opener despite getting limited game and preparation time going into the tournament due to his commentary commitments. Since the last IPL, the only competitive cricket Karthik played was in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He was on air in the recently concluded India-England Test series and admitted finding training time in between his commentary duties was tough. Karthik, who is playing his last IPL, made an unbeaten 38 off 26 balls to help RCB recover to 173 for six against CSK on Friday night. By his own admission, he was rusty in the middle. "It's been extremely challenging, doing a bit of commentary and to keep practising cricket between Test matches and in between the time that I get, it's been a lot of hard work. "So, I am happy that Game 1 has gone positively for me, and it feels good to score some runs," Karthik told reporters after the game. The 38-year-old is hoping that play-offs happen a

IPL 2024: Mustafizur executed the plans beautifully - CSK's Eric Simons

Chennai Super Kings' bowling consultant Eric Simons has heaped praise on Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman for executing the plans perfectly to set up their comfortable six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL opener here. Mustafizur (4/29) rattled the RCB top-order, dismissing Virat Kohli (21), skipper Faf du Plessis (35) and Rajat Patidar (0) -- besides also getting rid of Cameron Green (18), to return with his best ever IPL figures as CSK restricted RCB to 173 for six. "We always wanted to look at the conditions and the balance of the side. He does suit the conditions, but it's the simplicity of the plan that we put in place, and he executed that beautifully today (Friday)," said Simons during the post-match press conference. While RCB was reeling at 78 for five, Anuj Rawat (48) and Dinesh Karthik (38 not out) pair added 95 crucial runs to propel the side to an encouraging total. Asked why spinner Rachin Ravindra was not introduced to arrest the flow of runs,

IPL 2024 CSK vs RCB Highlights: Fizz, Jadeja, Dube shine in big Chennai win

IPL 2024 Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Highlights: Chennai earned an easy six-wicket win over Bengaluru to open the season. Mustafizur picked 4/30 and Jadeja and Dube batted well