Rajasthan have got back to winning ways, beating Delhi by 57 runs in Saturday’s afternoon fixture in Guwahati. It was an all-round performance from last season's finalists as Yashasvi Jaiswal made 60, Jos Buttler scored 79 and Trent Boult & Yuzvendra Chahal picked three wickets each. After David Warner put Rajasthan into bat first, Jaiswal smashed five boundaries in the first over of the match, off Khaleel Ahmed. He and Buttler got the team to 96/0 in 8 overs before Jaiswal got out on 60. Th...
Apr 08, 2023•9 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Lucknow have picked their second points of the season as Hyderabad continue to occupy the bottom of the standings after Match 10 of the 2023 season, played on Friday at Lucknow's Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. After Hyderabad elected to bat first, Mayank Agarwal and Anmolpreet Singh stitched together a 21-run opening stand before Krunal Pandya picked the first of his wickets. His second and third made the most impact though, as they came off back-to-back deliveries...
Apr 07, 2023•9 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Kolkata opened their account this season in the most thrilling of turnarounds, in front of their home crowd at the Eden Gardens. From 94/5 in 12 overs, the team posted 204 in their 20 overs before Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine and Suyash Sharma got Bangalore bowled out for 123 in 17.4 overs. Kolkata had lost Vekatesh Iyer, Mandeep Singh and captain Nitish Rana by the 8th over, with just 51/3 on the board. Afghan opener Rahmanullah though held fort at one end and scored a half century, but Kar...
Apr 06, 2023•10 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Punjab have registered their second consecutive win, and Rajasthan have been handed their first defeat, in match number 8, that was played at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati. Punjab were asked to bat first by Sanju Samson, and they scored 197 runs. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan top scored with a 56-ball 86, while his opening partner, Prabhsimran Singh scored 60 runs in 34 deliveries. In response, Rajasthan could only score 192. Nathan Ellis was the pick of the bowlers from the Punjab team, re...
Apr 05, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Hardik Pandya's Gujarat has bagged their second win, and handed Delhi their second defeat of the season, at their own home ground as the defending champions won Tuesday night's match by 6 wickets. David Warner's Delhi were put into bat first and once again Warner finished as their top-scorer with 37. Prithvi Shaw and Mitch Marsh also once again didn’t disturb the scorecard much as Delhi were down to 42/2 after 5 overs. There was some stability when Sarfaraz Khan joined Warner but Alzarri Joseph’...
Apr 04, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
MS Dhoni's Chennai’s return to their home ground Chepauk finished on a winning note, as Lucknow were beaten by 12 runs in Game 6 of the 2023 season. After being put into bat, Chennai made a solid start with the openers taking the team to 110 within 9 overs before Ravi Bishnoi broke the partnership and got Ruturaj out for 57. Mark Wood then got Devon Conway out for 47 in the next over. From 110/0 in 9 overs, Chennai went to 120/2 in 11 overs. But, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali and Ambati Rayudu made som...
Apr 03, 2023•10 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Faf du Plessis's Bangalore and Rohit Sharma's Mumbai played out the most one-sided match of the season so far with Bangalore in complete control of the proceedings throughout the game on Sunday night at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Things started going Bangalore's way from the toss itself where once again a winning captain chose to chase. Mumbai were reduced to 20/3 by the 6th over after Rohit got out on 1, Ishan Kishan on 10 and Cameron Green on 5. Tilak Varma though single-handedly salvaged the ...
Apr 02, 2023•11 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Indian T20 League has got its first 200-plus target of the season and no surprise that it came from the line-up that has Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Sanju Samson in their top three as Rajasthan have pulled off a big 72-run win over Hyderabad in Sunday’s evening fixture at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Stand-in Hyderabad skipper Bhuvneshwar Kumar won the toss and elected to chase. Jos Buttler and Yashasvi approved of the decision - smashing fours and sixes almost...
Apr 02, 2023•10 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Match number three of this 2023 season and KL Rahul’s Lucknow have beaten David Warner’s Delhi by 50 runs in Saturday’s evening game at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium in Lucknow. Delhi won the toss and elected to chase and Lucknow introduced the tournament to a new star - Kyle Mayers. The West Indian is playing his debut season of the Indian T20 League and smashed 73 off 38 balls as Lucknow posted 193/6. Delhi’s chase started strong, with the openers posting 40/0 in 4 overs but Mark Wood struc...
Apr 01, 2023•7 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Bhanuka Rajapaksa timed the ball well to slam a delightful half-century, while Arshdeep Singh picked three wickets as Punjab opened their 2023 campaign with a seven-run win over Kolkata via DLS method at the I.S. Bindra PCA Stadium on Saturday. On a flat pitch and fast outfield, Punjab were threatening to score upwards of 200, as they reached 100 runs in the first 10 overs. But Kolkata, whose bowlers majorly struggled, picked four wickets in the second half as Punjab could make only 91 runs to e...
Apr 01, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Game one of season 16 of the Indian T20 League started with defending champions Gujarat announcing their intentions, with a 5 wicket victory over MS Dhoni’s Chennai at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday night. Gujarat elected to put Chennai into bat first and MS Dhoni’s team made 178/7 in their 20 overs. Opener Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed 92 from 50 but could not convert it into a century with not much support from the other end. In reply, Gujarat’s chase was mostly anchored by Shubman...
Mar 31, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
