South African bowlers Anrich Nortje and Kagiso Rabada helped set up an eight-wicket win for the Delhi Capitals on Wednesday in an IPL match that went ahead despite a Sunrisers Hyderabad player testing positive for coronavirus.
Sunrisers Hyderabad bowler Thangarasu Natarajan has become the first Indian Premier League player to test positive for coronavirus but the team’s match on Wednesday will go ahead, organisers said.
Pace bowler Kartik Tyagi defended four off the last over as the Rajasthan Royals edged out the Punjab Kings by two runs in an Indian Premier League thriller on Tuesday.
Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered a nine-wicket loss to the Kolkata Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
Now in its 14th season, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is still the premier club cricket tournament in the world, despite increasing competition from other burgeoning tournaments such as Australia’s Big Bash League, the Caribbean Premier League and even South Africa’s very own Mzansi Super League.
Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed an unbeaten 88 as the Chennai Super Kings beat holders the Mumbai Indians by 20 runs in the first match of the revived Indian Premier League on Sunday.
Virat Kohli announced on Sunday that he will step down as captain of his IPL side the Royal Challengers Bangalore after the ongoing edition of the T20 tournament.
The IPL roars back this Sunday in the UAE, more than four months after being halted by the coronavirus pandemic in India. These are the players to watch …
IPL hostilities will resume on Sunday in the UAE in front of spectators, but without a host of top international stars after four months of pandemic suspension.
The Indian Premier League will have fans back at the venues when the tournament resumes in the UAE.
Aiden Markram will replace Dawid Malan in the Punjab Kings squad for the remainder of this year’s IPL tournament.
Australian cricketers who fled Covid-19-ravaged India when the IPL was suspended earlier this month were released from quarantine in Sydney on Monday, after spending 14 days isolating in hotel rooms.
With the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League now indefinitely postponed, we take a look at the players who finished with the most runs and wickets.
The Indian Premier League organisers will forever be remembered for putting profits ahead of people, while the players who stayed and played while thousands died and hundreds of thousands were infected daily will be judged by history, writes RYAN VREDE.
India cricket chief Sourav Ganguly has defended the attempt to hold the Indian Premier League during the country’s coronavirus emergency, insisting it was not a mistake.
