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The BCCI spoke with the relevant authorities in the UAE to successfully negotiate the issue, which had created a cloud of uncertainty over the availability of some of the star players for the first match of IPL 2020. Check IPL 2020 schedule The development comes after an Aussie cricketer had written a letter to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly requesting him to reduce the self-isolation period. England and Australia got done with their bilateral series last night and will touch down in the UAE late on Thursday night (UAE time)....

The IPL 2020 Orange Cap and Purple cap lists didn’t see too many changes. While KL Rahul retained his position at the top of the run-getters charts, Varun Chakravarthy broke into the top 10 of the wicket-takers table. Mohammed Shami was another bowler who moved up a couple of places on the Purple Cap list. KL Rahul’s decision to bowl first was immediately vindicated as KKR lost opener Nitish Rana off the second ball of their innings....

Quite frankly, there’s no squad that is perfect heading into the season but some are surely better than others on paper. The finalists of last year Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings didn’t have much to add to their respective squads in the auctions but they did buy some quality back-up players, which only made them stronger. Furthermore, Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders did some big business in the auctions....

Ravindra Jadeja has been a match-winner for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. He has scored 102 runs, scalped five wickets and taken seven catches in five outings this season. Speaking about Jadeja’s excellence on CSK TV, Suresh Raina said: Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja have been teammates in the IPL for a decade now. While Raina has been a part of CSK since the first season, Jadeja joined in 2011....

IPL 2021 will resume on Sunday with a much-hyped clash between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Dubai. Building up to the mega contest, Tendulkar took to his Twitter account to share a video from his batting session. He uploaded the clip with the caption: Tendulkar joined Mumbai Indians’ training session on Saturday, and was seen interacting with the players along with coach Mahela Jayawardene. Tendulkar captained the franchise in the early years of the IPL....

Many fans uploaded the video of Ravi Bishnoi’s stupendous effort on Twitter. You can also check out the clip uploaded on IPL’s official website here. The moment of brilliance happened on the last ball of the third over, with Arshdeep Singh bowling to Sunil Narine. The West Indian hit a back-of-a-length ball towards mid-wicket, but only managed to get height on it as the ball stayed in the air for a long time....

Five lowest team totals in IPL history: There have been 38 occasions when teams have failed to cross the 100-run mark in an IPL innings. On that note, let’s take a look at the five lowest team totals in the history of the IPL. #1 Royal Challengers Bangalore - 49 against KKR (IPL 2017) In an IPL 2017 game between KKR and RCB, Sunil Narine scored a quickfire 34 off 17 balls to set KKR on the way to post a big total....

Speaking to the host broadcaster in an interview before the Indian Premier League match between the Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar said: Also Check: IPL Live Score | IPL Points Table | IPL Schedule Sunrisers Hyderabad have the lowest number of wins among all teams in IPL 2021 so far. The franchise made it to the playoffs last year, but their chances are slim this season. Once you bowl a few deliveries, it becomes relatively easy: Bhuvneshwar Kumar talks bowling after quarantine During the same interview, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was asked about the challenges that a bowler faces after quarantine....

Chennai Super Kings shared a couple of pictures from the airport on their official Instagram account. They captioned the post: All available Indian cricketers who are part of the Chennai Super Kings squad, including skipper MS Dhoni, have traveled with the squad. Along with Dhoni, the likes of Suresh Raina, Deepak Chahar, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Karn Sharma were seen in pictures shared on social media platforms. The Super Kings have not arranged a camp in Chennai and will only start training in Dubai after completing their mandatory isolation and testing....

For over the last few weeks, Kings XI have slid from table toppers to playoff contenders to a team that is now the butt of jokes and memes, and whose playoff hopes hang on a slender thread. They have contrived to collapse in a chase of 133 against Sunrisers Hyderabad; failed to gun down 159 against Rajasthan Royals despite KL Rahul’s unbeaten 95 (with seven others failing to reach double-figures); withered under a batting onslaught from Kolkata Knight Riders (being hammered for 245); put on a most amateur batting display against Royal Challengers Bangalore (shriveling for 88 all out in 15....

RR then picked up wickets at regular intervals as MI slipped from 87/0 to 131/5. It was Hardik Pandya who scored a 21-ball 36 and helped MI to get to 168 in their 20 overs. Archer and Ben Stokes were the standout bowlers for the visitors as they took two wickets apiece and played a key role in restricting MI to an under-par total. Chasing around 8.5 runs per over, RR lost D’Arcy Short early....

What has clicked for the Punjab side has been the batting-unit, which has performed as a team - KL Rahul has led the batting chunk from the front, matched efficiently by Chris Gayle, who wasn’t given much of a chance before the start of the tournament. They have been led admirably by Ravichandran Ashwin, whose shrewdness has come to the fore in this edition. Rajasthan have, on the other hand, fallen flat after a haphazard, unplanned batting lineup has pulled them down, with no cure to their revolving positions after nine games....

It was a terrific effort with the ball once again by the Men in Orange, as they suffocated the famed RCB batting line-up and tamed them in the 20 overs to clinch the victory by five runs. Virat Kohli won the toss and decided to bowl first, doing well in the first innings to restrict the hosts to a subpar total and scalping ten wickets in the process. However, the tides turned in the second innings, as they so often do in when Hyderabad take the field to defend a total....

In case one is still skeptical about spinners dominating the T20 cricket, the ICC T20 Bowlers Rankings reveal that 8 out of the top 10 bowlers in T20 cricket are spin bowlers with various styles like off-break, orthodox and leg-break. Over the years, we have seen spinners change the fate of several franchises in the IPL. From legends such as Anil Kumble and Shane Warne to young talents like Mayank Markande and Rashid Khan, spinners have perplexed batsmen with bowling variations and proven themselves to be the match-winners for their respective teams....

In the last couple of years, it has been observed that Dhoni has struggled in his first few balls, he has been able to hit boundaries only after facing 15-20 balls. Here, we will be looking at 3 things Dhoni must do to succeed in this season. #1 Rotation of strike MS Dhoni hasn’t been able to rotate strike on a frequent basis in his first 10-15 balls. He has to improve on this aspect of his game to succeed this year....

The signing of Ricky Ponting as head coach was a brilliant move by the team management as he is someone who comes with tons of experience at the international level. The Aussie’s philosophy will be different from former coach Rahul Dravid’s philosophies and the Delhi franchise will have to adapt to the change as soon as possible. Ponting has an aggressive ‘give it your everything’ attitude whereas Dravid is more conservative in his ways....

The season’s opening fixture is a mouth-watering context for all neutral fans, as it pits colossal figures MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli against each other. However, he RCB fans seem appropriately apprehensive of the match, as they rightly should. A Virat Kohli-led team featuring AB de Villiers having a win rate of just 14.2% on any ground versus any team borders on the unbelievable. But with RCB having won just 1 out of 7 matches played at the den of the Super Kings, this is a harsh reality that the RCB fans, players and team management have to come to terms with....

Pre-season moves There were three major pre-season events that set the tone for their superb run this year: trading in Shikhar Dhawan from Sunrisers Hyderabad, roping in Sourav Ganguly for the coaching duties, and changing the name from Daredevils to Capitals. Dhawan was traded in for Vijay Shankar, Shahbaaz Nadeem and Abhishek Sharma. The move was questioned by many in the beginning, but the management knew the importance of having someone experienced at the top....

Having won four of their first five games this season, the Knight Riders seem to have completely lost the plot in the last six games and are currently staring down the barrel, with a loss against the Mumbai Indians all but set to put a screeching halt to their qualification into the playoffs. However, the pressure issue for the Knight Riders has been their shambolic show at home that has seen them lose four of their six games at home....

Both teams have won five matches and lost seven. KKR are placed at 6th position on the IPL points table, one above KXIP, on the basis of net run rate. Ahead of their meeting tomorrow, let’s take a look at the head-to-head stats between the two franchises and the probable playing XIs for the match. Head-to-head record The KXIP vs KKR rivalry has seen 24 matches being played so far....