Author: Divyansh Mishra

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) is gearing up for their first tournament game against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Saturday, March 22. Now that the Champions Trophy and WPL are over, everyone’s attention is on the IPL. Most players from all 10 teams have arrived, except for those dealing with injuries or late arrivals. RCB is putting on what’s expected to be another star-studded Unbox event before the new season. RCB already announced their captain and jersey for 2025. This year, they’ve planned some fun activities with the players. At the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, players will practice in front…

Looks like Mayank Yadav might be back with the Lucknow Super Giants around April 11 or 12. He’s been working on getting better after a back injury. He had some back trouble earlier this year. After playing for India against Bangladesh in T20Is last year, he worked on getting back in shape at the BCCI center in Bengaluru. He’s started bowling again recently. There were reports that Mayank might miss the first part of the IPL 2025 season, but it seems he’ll be joining the LSG team soon. Someone close to the situation told Sports Tak that Mayank is looking…

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has penalized a few cricketers, including Aamer Jamal, for conduct code violations. Word on the street in Pakistan is that Jamal got slapped with a PKR 1.3 million fine for sporting a cap with a political message during an interview on the field. Apparently, the 28-year-old wore a cap with 804 on it in the first Test against England last October. The number 804 is supposedly a shout-out to Imran Khan, the former Pakistan captain and Prime Minister, who’s currently serving time in jail. Rumor has it that 804 is Imran’s prison number. Also, Salman…

Virat Kohli wants TV folks to stop talking about his lunch. Seriously, he’s not into them discussing his favorite foods or where he likes to eat in Delhi. He’d rather they focus on the actual game and what players are experiencing. The TV show should be about the game, not what I ate yesterday or my favorite chole-bhature place. That’s not right for cricket. Talk about what the athlete is going through, instead, Kohli said. Kohli’s super fit, like Cristiano Ronaldo or Novak Djokovic. He’s known for his dedication and hardly ever indulges in his favorite foods so he can…

MS Dhoni, the iconic Indian cricketer and ex-captain, was talking about that time in the 2019 IPL when he got mad and ran onto the field to argue with the umpires about a no-ball call that was up for debate. It all went down in the last part of the Rajasthan Royals versus Chennai Super Kings game in Jaipur on April 11, 2019. CSK needed 8 runs in 3 balls when Ben Stokes bowled what looked like a no-ball. The umpire first called it a no-ball but then changed his mind. That’s when Dhoni lost it and stormed onto the…

Back in 1996, March 17th was a huge day. It was probably the biggest moment ever for Sri Lankan cricket. Arjuna Ranatunga led his team and they actually beat Australia in the Wills World Cup final. Winning that ODI World Cup? Still a massive deal in cricket history. That game really showed how tough Sri Lanka was, facing off against a super strong Aussie team. This game that everyone remembers went down at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Aravinda de Silva just went off that day. He pretty much won the game himself with both his batting and bowling,…

The first season of the International Masters League just wrapped up, and guess what? The Indian team, captained by the one and only Sachin Tendulkar, took home the trophy! They beat the West Indies Masters by six wickets in the final game in Raipur this past Sunday. The India Masters kept the West Indies Masters to 148/7 at the stadium. Then, the India Masters chased down the score in just over 17 overs. Opener Ambati Rayudu played great, scoring 74 off 50 balls. But the game wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Things got heated when Yuvraj Singh and Tino Best…

Umran Malik, the Indian fast bowler, is out of IPL 2025 because of an injury he sustained last Sunday (March 16). The Kolkata Knight Riders, who won last year, had signed the 25-year-old from Jammu for Rs 75 lakh at the big IPL 2025 auction. IPL put out that KKR has signed Chetan Sakariya, a pacer from Saurashtra, to take his place. The statement mentioned that KKR chose Chetan Sakariya to replace Umran Malik for the upcoming TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 since Umran Malik is injured and can’t play this season. Sakariya has played for India in one…

Ravichandran Ashwin, the ex-Indian spinner who retired from international cricket back on December 18, 2024, dropped a bomb on Sunday (March 16). He said he actually wanted to retire after the India-England Test series in March last year. Ashwin was at the Chennai Super Kings book launch, called ‘Leo—The Untold Story,’ when he said he’d asked MS Dhoni to give him the award for his 100th Test in Dharamsala (March 7-11, 2024). He wanted that game to be his last for India. Ashwin told Sportstar, I asked MS (Dhoni) to hand over the award at my 100th Test in Dharamshala…

After playing only four games for Mumbai Indians in the 2022 and 2023 IPL seasons, people weren’t really sure what Tristan Stubbs would bring to the Delhi Capitals (DC) after they picked him up in the 2024 auction. But Stubbs fit right in for DC. He became their go-to finisher and scored the second-most runs for them in IPL 2024, racking up 378 runs with a killer strike rate of 190.90 and an average of 54. Fans loved how good he was at scoring runs all over the field, smashing pull, sweep, slog, and reverse shots. Since then, things have…