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Five years after hosting its last ICC event, the 2016 Men’s T20 World Cup, India will be ready to host the same tournament in 2021, the BCCI has underlined. Despite the country continuing to struggle under the clutches of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sourav Ganguly and Jay Shah, the chairman and …

Rohit Sharma will not be part of the Indian contingent flying from Dubai to Sydney on Wednesday for the Australia tour. Sharma, who led the Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL title on Tuesday, will return home to fully recover from the hamstring injury he sustained during the IPL. The …

Gautam Gambhir, the former Indian batsman, believes it will be a “disgrace” and a “disgrace to Indian cricket” if Rohit Sharma is not considered for the full-time white ball captaincy in the future. Gambhir spoke at ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time Out shortly after Sharma led the Mumbai Indians to their fifth …

Unpopular opinion: the tight points table and that photo-final at the end of the league stage, which suggest that this was the most contested IPL, it was all a lie. This was possibly the most one-sided IPL. Neither team came close to suggesting they could challenge the Mumbai Indians on …

7:03 a.m. M. GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Close News Editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor of ESPNcricinfo Gaurav sundararaman Tuesday will be the first weekday IPL final, and also the first with the capitals of Delhi. His opponents, the Mumbai Indians, have the “psychological advantage,” according to Mumbai captain Rohit …

6:08 am GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Close News Editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor of ESPNcricinfo Gaurav sundararaman Tuesday will be the first time an IPL final has been held on a business day. It is also the first time Delhi Capitals will appear in one. His opponent, the Mumbai …

Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar believes BCCI President Sourav Ganguly is “undermining the credentials” of both the national selectors and IPL President Brijesh Patel “by sticking his neck out” and speaking in his Name. Vengsarkar, who was president of national teams from 2006 to 2008, said he was beginning to …

Virat Kohli has been granted paternity leave by BCCI and he will return home after the first test of the Australia tour, to be played in Adelaide from 17 December. It is not yet clear if the Indian captain will be able to return for the rest of the Trials …

Where would the capitals of Delhi be without Marcus Stoinis? It’s a rhetorical question, but if you really wanted an answer, they probably wouldn’t be in the IPL final without him. He has brought explosiveness to a batting lineup that has often struggled to get out of second gear, and …

There are two ways to see where the capitals of Delhi are at IPL 2020 right now. Optimists will say they only need to win two games and the title is theirs. Realists will point out that they have now lost five of their last six games, three of them …