Tag: Jayant Yadav
Fifty-seven players have been released by eight Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises ahead of the 2021 auction, to be held next month. They include Mumbai Indians' fast bowling great Lasith Malinga, former Rajasthan Royals captain Steve Smith, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, and Kings XI Punjab all-rounder Glenn Maxwell. ....
Star opener Rohit Sharma was on Wednesday named Team India's ODI and T20I captain by the BCCI as the national cricket board announced the Test squad for their upcoming tour of South Africa, starting December 26. ....
South Africa were 17/1 at stumps, trailing India by 206 runs, on Day 1 of the third and final Test of the three-match series, here on Tuesday.....
The mega auction concludes with 10 IPL franchises splashing INR 551,70,00,000 across 2 days. A total of 204 players were bought out of 600. Meanwhile, 108 players fetched over INR 1 crore. Ishan Kishan turned out to be the most expensive player in this year’s auction with INR 15.25 crore. The second on the list is Deepak Chahar who was bought by Chennai Super Kings for INR 14 crore.....
Top-order batter Rohit Sharma, wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant and the pace-bowling duo of Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah are not in the squad for the two-Test series against New Zealand, beginning in Kanpur on November 25. ....
Deepak Chahar's fighting fifty (54 off 34) went in vain as South Africa completed a hat-trick of wins with a four-run victory in the thrilling third and final ODI to seal a 3-0 series whitewash against India, here on Sunday. ....
At Thursday's mini auction, South African fast bowling all-rounder Chris Morris set an all-time record of Rs.16.25 crore in the Indian Premier League (IPL), beating Yuvraj Singh's Rs.16 crore, a price that Delhi Daredevils had paid to buy him in 2015. ....
Axar Patel's incredible run in Test cricket at home continued with him picking his fifth five-wicket haul in just seven innings as India bowled out New Zealand for 296 in the first innings. Patel's efforts of breaking the back of New Zealand's innings meant that India took a 49-run lead, which eventually became 63 at stumps on day three at the Green Park Stadium on Saturday despite losing Shubman Gill cheaply. ....
Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicketkeeper-batter to score a Test ton in South Africa during India's second innings in the third Test at Newlands Cricket Ground on Thursday. He has also become the first wicketkeeper-batter from Asia to get a Test hundred in South Africa. ....
South Africa lost Aiden Markram and then captain Dean Elgar as they reached 101/2 at stumps on day three of third Test at the Newlands Cricket Ground on Thursday. For the hosts, the impressive Keegan Petersen is unbeaten at 48 as South Africa still need 111 runs to win the match. ....