Tag Archives: 2020 season

Six weeks after IPL 2020, Chris Morris has been hailed as the change that Royal Challengers Bangalore needed. He sparkles with the new ball, clears the lower orders upon death, gives them a commanding presence on the field with his rocket arm, and brings with him the potential to be …

MS Dhoni, the captain of the Chennai Super Kings, has said his team is “hurt” after they suffered their eighth loss in 11 games to reach the bottom of the points table. After the Super Kings worked 30-for-6 and then 114-for-9 in their 20 overs, the defending champion Mumbai Indians …

The worst inning in T20 cricket is not a first ball duck. It is one in which a batter can neither hit nor come out. Ben Stokes’ battling with the bat on Thursday belonged to that same category. Opening the innings, Stokes went 30-of-32 as the Rajasthan Royals finished 154 …

8:13 pm GMT Alagappan Muthu The ball is a lie. Everything goes against everything else. And cheat on Nitish Rana. You are not ready to launch it. The swing hits him completely. Hears the remains behind him. And for half a second he stands, suspended in disbelief. There are wickets …

Chennai Super Kings’ IPL 2020 woes have deepened with Dwayne Bravo ruled out for the remainder of the season. Super Kings CEO Kasi VIswanathan told ESPNcricinfo that Bravo suffered a grade 1 tear in his right groin and will leave the UAE on Thursday. Bravo suffered the injury during the …

9:06 pm GMT Vishal Dikshit Just minutes after another impressive hit, an undefeated 55v22 ball, to help the Royal Challengers Bangalore hit 64 runs of the last 28 balls for a seven-wicket win against the Rajasthan Royals, AB de Villiers said he gets “very, very nervous. and erratic” in such …

When Shikhar Dhawan was with the Hyderabad Sunrisers, he was David Warner’s partner. Then even after moving to the capitals of Delhi, he was quite happy to be second fiddle to players like Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant. Now, with Pant injured and Shaw struggling, Dhawan has become the Capitals’ …

Dinesh Karthik has retired as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders, with Eoin Morgan replacing him. Karthik, a team statement said, wanted to focus on his hitting. The franchise made the announcement hours before their game against the defending champions Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi on Friday. The Knight Riders …

Dinesh Karthik has retired as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders, with Eoin Morgan replacing him. Karthik, a team statement said, wanted to focus on his hitting. The franchise made the announcement hours before their game against the defending champions Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi on Friday. The Knight Riders …

With Dinesh Karthik stepping down from his Kolkata Knight Riders captaincy midway through IPL 2020, we observed seven other occasions where IPL teams changed their captains mid-season, for reasons other than injuries or national team calls. Kumar Sangakkara joins Deccan Chargers (2012) With Deccan Chargers winning just one game in …