Author: Divyansh Mishra

The Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are set to be locked in an IPL 2025 final at Ekana Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, May 27. This match indeed is important for RCB, for a victory could take them to the number two place in the points table from where they would have two ways to the final. Punjab Kings have snatched one, and now RCB has to fight hard for the other. One major concern for fans is whether Tim David will be able to take the field today. It does not look good from very far, as he…

Punjab Kings have overtaken Gujarat Titans from the top of the points table with a sterling win over Mumbai Indians at Jaipur. They won the game by seven wickets, thus securing their entry into the Qualifier 1. The extraordinary win takes one back to the evocative conversation between Shashank Singh and Shubhankar Mishra in the run-up to IPL 2025 when Shashank said with confidence, “We shall finish in the top two.” Shubhankar looked surprised with the claim, given the Punjab Kings’ track record as non-performers, last making the playoffs in 2014; expectations for this season were therefore quite low.  Before…

Back in 2016, Shikhar Dhawan, the former Indian cricketer, put everything on the line to keep his place in the Test team. During a match against New Zealand, he got hit on the arm by a ball from Trent Boult, which broke his arm. Despite the pain, he kept playing to show he belonged there. Last August, he announced that he was retiring from international cricket after being away from the game for a while. Over his career, Dhawan played 34 Tests, 167 ODIs, and 68 T20Is, racking up over 10,000 runs. But it wasn’t an easy ride. In 2016,…

Cameron Green is making waves in county cricket and is a strong candidate for Australia’s lineup in the World Test Championship final, even though he can’t bowl. Coach Andrew McDonald has said that whether they need an allrounder against South Africa at Lord’s will influence where Green bats. The 25-year-old hasn’t played Test cricket since March 2024, but he stole the spotlight recently with an unbeaten 174 in Wellington against New Zealand while batting at No. 4. He’s also done well for Gloucestershire, with three centuries and a 67 not out in eight innings at No. 5, showing he’s back…

Punjab Kings have had an excellent IPL season so far, but with all sincerity, Ponting believes there is still plenty of mileage left to run. Qualifying for the playoffs for the first time in over ten years is only halfway towards reaching his ambition. His team, Punjabi Kings, after beating Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets recently, has qualified for the top two in the playoffs, giving a better opportunity of reaching finals.  “I’m excited about the talent in the group,” shared Ponting in an exclusive interview with JioHotstar. “Yeah, it’s great so far, but we haven’t really accomplished anything yet.…

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are set to face each other in the last group-stage clash of IPL 2025. The game becomes particularly important for RCB as a victory will see them go straight into Qualifier 1. However, they seem to be wrestling with selection issues as some key players are grappling with injuries.  A veteran Aussie bowler, Josh Hazlewood, missed RCB’s last two clashes against DC and CSK due to a hampering shoulder injury. When IPL got suspended due to some tension between India and Pakistan, Hazlewood, along with other injured players, left…

In 2018, Chennai Super Kings reclaimed the Indian Premier League (IPL) title for the third time after a two-year hiatus. Following a 2013 spot-fixing scandal, the team was banned in the years 2016 and 2017. In what turned out to be an exhilarating final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, MS Dhoni and his men finally returned from exile to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Sunrisers were set a target of 178 by the Super Kings, who ran the crowd wild with an eight-wicket win. The bowlers seemed effective enough, with Deepak Chahar (0/25) and Lungi Ngidi (1/26) doing well and…

Anil Kumble, the former coach of India, said it’s going to be tough for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma to keep up their fitness for ODI cricket now that they’ve stepped away from Tests and T20s. He also emphasized that we should appreciate both players for their achievements as long as they’re still around.  Kohli and Rohit recently retired from Test cricket, just ten months after moving on from T20Is following their win at the T20 World Cup in June 2025. Now, they’re only focusing on ODIs, but there’s some uncertainty about how long they’ll stick with this format. The…

An 18-player squad has been announced by India for the Test series against England, to be started on the 20th of June. The team comprises Sai Sudharsan and Arshdeep Singh, new faces along with the comebacks of Shardul Thakur and Karun Nair. The notable omission is that of the veteran pace bowler Mohammed Shami, and this could, in fact, say something with respect to the future plans of the team. Shami had returned to competitive cricket only in November, having been sidelined due to injury for a long time. He played some white-ball matches for India thereafter and was instrumental…

Deepak Chahar has had a tough time with injuries over the years, and it seems like just when things are looking up, he gets sidelined again. In the 2025 season, after teaming up with Trent Boult and Jasprit Bumrah, he hurt himself while bowling against the Punjab Kings. He managed to bowl his four overs after taping up his leg, but then he left the field. Chahar’s had this injury issue many times before, especially during his time with CSK, starting in 2018 when he mostly did well despite some minor injuries. But things really went downhill in 2022 when…