IPL

  MI VS DC The match between the league leaders and the defending champions, this should be fun. It is Rohit Sharma’s 150 th game for Mumbai Indians. He gets a commemorative shirt from Zaheer Khan. MI’s playing 11 remain unchanged. For DC Ajinkya Rahane and Alex Carey join the playing 11 for today, Hetmyer and Pant miss out. Delhi has won the toss and opted to bat. Shaw and Dhawan are at the crease, Boult will open the attack. Shaw starts with a four off the second ball and then gives a catch in the hands of Krunal Pandya in the third. A big loss for DC very early in the game . Ajinkya Rahane comes to the crease for his debut match. DC at 7-1 after first over. A good over by Trent Boult.   Wonderful deliveries by Bumrah, only one run coming off his over. Krunal Pandey strikes in his first over , LBW for Rahane. Rahane departs for 15. That’s two wickets for DC before the end of the first power play. Shreyas Iyer steps on the crease.   After Back to Bac...

  KXIP vs KKR KXIP VS KKR, the first match of Saturday’s double header. Lets see if KXIP can avoid a sixth loss. For KKR the playing 11 remains the same except, Prasidh comes in for Mavi, who has a few niggles. For KXIP Cottrell has a few niggles so Jordan comes in. Kolkata Knight Riders have won the toss and have opted to bat. Gill and Tripathi are ready to roll as Mohammad Shami charges in to bowl the opening over of the match.   Very impressive bowling by youngster Arshdeep Singh, with a MAIDEN to start off his spell. Second over of Shami and he has a wicket to his name,50 th IPL wicket for Shammi. Tripathi will have to go back. Nitish Rana replaces him on the field.   KKR 13-1, after 3 overs. Quick wickets for KKR, a mix up results in the run out of Nitish Rana. Eoin Morgan steps on the crease. A slow powerplay for KKR, 25 for 2 in six overs. This is one of the lowest powerplay scores this IPL season. A spectacular start for Punjab. A much improv...

  RR VS DC The 23 rd match started with Rajasthan Royals winning the toss and choosing to bowl. BUCKLE UP GUYS!! Remember we are in Sharjah so brace yourselves to be a witness to a shower of boundaries. Shaw and Dhawan walk in. Varun Aaron is on the attack. Delhi remains unchanged. Varun Aaron and Andrew Tye enter the playing 11 for RR. Dhawan goes back very very early giving a catch straight in the hands of Jaiswal. As usual, archer strikes. Shreyas Iyer, right handed batsman comes to the crease. Archer is unstoppable. No batsman can comfortably play in front of Archer. Shaw will have to go back, gets caught and bowled. Rishab Pant comes on to accompany Iyer on the field.   A big loss for Delhi at 5.5 with Captain, Shreyas Iyer run out. A direct hit by Yashasvi Marcus Stoinis, comes to the crease.                    The power play comes to an end and DC is at 51-3 Ba...

  KXIP VS SRH   Today’s Match of Kings 11 Punjab and Sun Risers Hyderabad, Started with SRH winning the toss and choosing to bat. Both teams have made changes to their line up, let’s see in whose favor the line up works. Captain David Warner and Jonny Bairstow stepped on the field to start the innings, with Sheldon Cottrell opening the attack. Sun Risers had a great start with 13 runs from the first over. At the end of the batting power play SRH was at 58(0) with Cottrell proving to be the most expensive, giving 28 runs in only 2 overs. Ravi Bishnoi’s first over and KXIP 8 th over proved to be very expensive with 3 boundaries (2 sixes and 1 four) and SRH’s score standing at 82(0) At 9.3 overs, Bairstow completed his 3 rd half century of the season from 28 balls. David Warner and Jonny Bairstow completed their partnership of 100 runs at the end of 10 overs, with the run rate of 10. Bairstow striked just after completing his half century and hits 3 boundaries...

  KKR Vs CSK   The 21 st IPL match between Kolkata knight riders and Chennai super kings started with KKR winning the toss and choosing to bat. The match took place in Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi stepped down on the crease to open kkr’s innings.   With a cracking delivery by Shardul Thakur, Shubman gill was caught behind  by MS Dhoni. Kkr’s score at this time was 37 from 4.2 overs.   Nitish Rana, left handed bat, comes to the crease .  Kkr (64-1) after 7 overs.  Nitish rana, experienced an early end to his innings by giving an easy catch in the safe hands of Ravindra Jadeja on K Sharma’s ball.   Sunil Narayan stepped on the crease    R. Tripathi completed his 5th half century in ipl by scoring 52 of only 31 balls. After 9.2 overs. At 10.6 Karn Sharma to Narine,  out  Caught by the combined efforts of Du Plesis and Ravindra Jadeja.   Eoin Morgan,...