• Live match blog - RCB vs PBKS 6th Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    Royal Challengers Bengaluru return home as they host Punjab Kings Get all your live stats, analyses and colour right here on ESPNcricinfo's live blog You can also follow live ball-by-ball commentary in English or in Hindi

  • Ahmedabad shows its feelings in Hardik's night of agony

    You couldn't not see it. It was that obvious.Even those on the broadcast couldn't not mention it. Kevin Pietersen wondered when an Indian player was last booed at home. Ian Bishop asked what Hardik Pandya could do to win them over. Brian Lara had a ready solution: "Play for India here."The Ahmedabad crowd vehemently voiced their disapproval of Hardik switching teams, ringing out loud boos every time he was involved in the game. One of the biggest IPL trades in player history may have been okayed...

  • Titans pull off heist against former captain Hardik Pandya's Mumbai

    Gujarat Titans 168 for 6 (Sudharsan 45, Bumrah 3-14, Coetzee 2-27) beat Mumbai Indians 162 for 9 (Brevis 46, Rohit 43, Mohit 2-32) by six runsKeep your eyes on Shubman Gill. The captain. With Mumbai Indians on 107 for 2 after 12 overs, chasing 169, he barracked his team to get back in the game. And boy, did they ever.A batting line-up that is the envy of the T20 world came undone even with conditions pretty much in their favour, with two set batters at the crease and dew all over the park. And...

  • Live match blog - GT vs MI 5th Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    Mumbai seem to have found another one of those diamonds in the rough. Naman

  • Live match blog - RR vs LSG 4th Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    Spidercam, Spidercam, disrupts games like a Spidercam can ... two balls

  • Shreyas on final over: Told Harshit this was his time to 'become a hero'

    Harshit Rana, with just 12 T20s to his name before Saturday night, found himself with the unenviable task of defending 12 runs off the final over in Kolkata Knight Riders' first game of IPL 2024. On strike was a marauding Heinrich Klaasen, batting on 56 off 26 deliveries. The previous over, bowled by the IPL's most expensive player Mitchell Starc, had just gone for 26 runs. Klaasen's partner, Shahbaz Ahmed, had faced just four balls but had already hit 16. And when Klaasen pulled Harshit's first...

  • Match Preview - RR vs LSG, Indian Premier League 2024, 4th Match

    Match detailsRajasthan Royals (RR) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Jaipur, 1530 IST (1000 GMT)Big picture - Where will Rahul bat?After the 2016 season, KL Rahul has only batted as an opener in the IPL, except for one match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru last year when he came out at No. 11 after picking up a quad injury while fielding. Even for India, he established himself at the top of the order. But with Lucknow Super Giants bringing opener Devdutt Padikkal into their squad, along with...

  • Live match blog - KKR vs SRH 3rd Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    T Natarajan has been the pick of the SRH bowlers, bowling an eight-run 20th

  • Live match blog - PBKS vs DC 2nd Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    Hello and welcome to the second match of IPL 2024. It's Punjab Kings taking

  • Rishabh Pant is back - celebrating life, loving cricket

    Soon after Rishabh Pant checked into the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru in the summer of 2023, former India and Mumbai legspinner Sairaj Bahutule went to meet him. Pant's wounds from the car crash he was in the previous December were still fresh. He was barely walking, still on crutches after undergoing multiple surgeries to fix various ligaments in his right knee.Bahutule had a reason - almost a duty, he felt - to talk to Pant. On July 28, 1990, Bahutule, then 17 years old, was in...

  • Match Preview - KKR vs SRH, Indian Premier League 2024, 3rd Match

    Match detailsKolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Kolkata, 1930 IST (1400 GMT)Big picture - Cummins vs StarcIn December, Pat Cummins became the most expensive player at an IPL auction when SRH bought him for INR 20.5 crore (US$2.47 million approx.). But the record did not survive for even two hours as KKR broke the bank for Mitchell Starc, signing him for INR 24.75 crore (US$2.98 million approx.).On the first weekend of IPL 2024, those two will come face-to-face in...

  • Live match blog - CSK vs RCB 1st Match 2024 - Cricket Insights

    RCB captain and former Chennai Super King Faf gets going with three fours,