Royal Challengers Bangalore 174 for 6 (Kohli 50, Marsh 2-18, Kuldeep 2-23) beat Delhi Capitals 151 for 9 (Pandey 50, Vyshak 3-20, Siraj 2-23) by 23 runs Royal Challengers Bangalore spent a large part of this game under the pump. Frustratingly, every time they thought they got ahead, like when Virat Kohli reached a 33-ball

The Delhi Capitals are “a long way off right now” but Ricky Ponting can’t fathom the reasons behind their collective failure just yet. “I can’t put my finger on why because I watch these boys train and prepare,” Ponting said. Their work has been really good, their training has been great, but it hasn’t come

Sunrisers Hyderabad 228 for 4 (Brook 100*, Markram 50, Abhishek 32, Russell 3-22) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 205 for 7 (Rana 75, Rinku 58*, Jagadeesan 36, Markande 2-27, Jansen 2-37) by 23 runs Harry Brook put behind a string of low scores with an unbeaten 55-ball 100 that included imperious hitting against pace and calculated

Big picture: Lucknow’s Kings KL Rahul captaining. Andy Flower in the coaching staff. Deepak Hooda and Nicholas Pooran in the middle order. K Gowtham and Ravi Bishnoi bowling spin. There are several similarities between Punjab Kings’ class of 2020 and Lucknow Super Giants’ 2023 vintage, but one clear difference so far: results. While Kings finished

Gujarat Titans 154 for 4 (Gill 67, Saha 30, Brar 1-20) beat Punjab Kings 153 for 8 (Short 36, Jitesh 25, Mohit 2-18) by six wickets Another day, another last-over thriller. This one, though, wasn’t as topsy-turvy as a few of the earlier games in IPL 2023. But, it still required the ice man Rahul

Somerset 28 for 2 trail Nottinghamshire (Duckett 75, Hameed 65, Gregory 7-84) by 228 runs Back injury healed; fracture recurring. Such has been the story of Lewis Gregory’s bowling career. It has become such a dispiriting routine that it was no wonder he often chooses to describe himself as a batting allrounder. But everything came

Big Picture – KKR and SRH both on the rise Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad were both thrashed in their first games of the season and there was no single noteworthy performer for either team. But brighter days are already here. It’s been three days since that miracle innings but Knight Riders will still

“I’m quite surprised the umpires changed the ball for dew on their own. It’s never happened before and I’m quite surprised,” Ashwin said at the post-match press conference. “Some of the decisions in this year’s IPL on the field have left me a little flummoxed, to be honest. It left me flummoxed in a good

One round down, 13 to go. The County Championship is up and running for the 2023 season, and to judge by Hampshire’s opening-week crushing of newly-promoted Nottinghamshire, they are primed to put 50 years of history behind them, and gun for their first title since 1973. According to the odds-setters at Bet365, Hampshire are the

Big picture: Gujarat Titans look to bounce back Rinku Singh did to Gujarat Titans an extreme version of what they did to teams last year. In fact, their next opponents, Punjab Kings, last year had every reason to believe they had done enough when they got Hardik Pandya first ball of the last over with