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The Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore have been the perennial underachievers in the IPL. Despite making the best team season after season, they somehow fail to translate their potential into performance. They have reached the finals of the tournament thrice (2009, 2011, 2016) and unfortunately ended up on the losing side on all three occasions. Once again they have brought together a competitive squad and in the recently concluded IPL 2020 auctions have bought a few players who might be the players to

The IPL 2020 is likely to start on March 29, with Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings playing the first game of the season at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. These two teams have been the most successful teams in the league's history. While MI have four IPL titles to their name, CSK have three. In the players to watch out for segment of our IPL coverage, we carry on analysing the teams and looking at the five most important players who will

When it comes to the shortest format of the game, one can mention the Indian Premier League or IPL in the same breath as the T-20 World Cup. Not only has it brought the essence of your dream players sharing the same dressing room, it has also been a massive platform for the young-guns to showcase their talent. Since its inauguration 11 years ago, the popularity of this cricketing extravaganza has only increased over the years. None of this would have been made

India did not have the best of starts to their Mission 2020 campaign as the first T20I against Sri Lanka was abandoned due to rain. Despite the best efforts of the ground staff, the playing conditions were not conducive enough to let the game happen. This meant that the India vs Sri Lanka 2020 series hasn't yet started. Though the outfield was ready on time, the pitch had too many patches of water soaked into it and the ground staff failed to get

The Indian cricket team starts their Mission 2020 by hosting Sri Lanka for a three-match T20I series to start the year. Virat Kohli and Lasith Malinga will resume their rivalry as both of them lead their respective teams in the series. The first of the three T20Is in the India vs Sri Lanka 2020 series will be played will be played at the Baspara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati. The second and the third T20Is will be played at Indore and Pune respectively on

Chennai Super Kings bought the fewest players in the recently concluded IPL 2020 auctions. While KKR bought the most expensive overseas player, CSK roped in Piyush Chawla, the former KKR spinner at Rs 6.75 crores to make him the most expensive Indian player in the auction. Adding Chawla to their squad, they have strengthened their spinning core all the more. Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Imran Tahir will now have Chawla by their side as CSK has one of the most experienced spin attacks.

It was a successful day at the office for Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL 2020 auctions. They headed into the auctions with 14 players and added another nine. The squad strength is currently 25 with as many as 8 overseas players. KKR bought four overseas players at the auctions, three of who will be the players to watch out for KKR this season. Kolkata also recorded the highest bid in this year's auction as they bought Pat Cummins for 15.50 crores. In

When the decade is ending and moving onto a new one, cricket fans are reminiscing the year gone by, through memories of the best test players of the year. The year 2019 started with India’s Australia tour followed by the Indian Premiere League, ICC World Cup, and lastly the Ashes Trophy; all these events have given us some amazing performances to remember. However, Test cricket is still the Holy Grail as far as the beautiful game is concerned and there were some players

After the incredible success of the recently concluded Qatar T10 League, the Qatar Cricket Association (QCA), led by the Presidency of Yousef Jeham Al Kuwari, is gearing upto stage the Four-nation Twenty20 International Tournament for women from January 16 to 22.  The participating teams are China, Kuwait, Oman and hosts Qatar. The round-robin cum knock-out event will end on January 22 with the third-place play-off and the final of the Four-nation Twenty20 International Tournament will be held at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium,

After dominating the world of cricket in the bygone decade (2010-2019), the Indian cricket team is all set to start a new decade aiming to maintain the domination. Year 2020 will be the first year of a new decade and the Indian cricket team have set their sights on winning the World T20 World Cup in Australia next year, which is the biggest cricketing event of the season. The Virat Kohli led team has been very consistent in the last three to four

In the recently concluded IPL auctions, the Chennai Super Kings left Kolkata with a big smile. This is because they were able to cover all departments with unmatched efficiency. They brought in the wily Piyush Chawla, Sam Curran, Sai Kishore and Hazelwood to their ranks. To be frank, the CSK team management entered the auction with a purse of 14.6 crore. They made some good decisions in the IPL auction and made some clever purchases. Considering their strong and formidable run since 2018

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has had their fair share of travails in the last two seasons. After their inspirational skipper decided to call it quits, the Kolkata-based franchise had a torrid time under the captaincy of Dinesh Karthik. However, in the recently concluded IPL auction in Kolkata, the team managed to sort out the issues in various departments. They forayed into the auctions with a net purse of INR 35.65 crores. However, after the auctions, they were left with a purse of

It was indeed a hectic day for Royal Challengers Bangalore at the IPL Auctions for the 2020 season. RCB, who are one of the perennial underachievers of this tournament, will now be seeking redemption in 2020. They have a couple of new faces added to their squad and will be aiming at getting the team combination right.   RCB has now invested in some uncapped players. They managed to bag services of Aaron Finch as well as who could be an amazing addition

IPL’s 13th edition is set to occur in this year, 2020, and with that, the IPL Auction for 2020 has already seen the light of day a few days ago in Kolkata. SRH or Sunrisers Hyderabad has used funds wisely as the team didn’t spend mammoth amounts on a few particular players. They grabbed Indian stars who might prove worthy if used properly. The two Indians signing their contract with the team are the Indian U-19 skipper Priyam Garg and new talent Virat

South Africa registered their maiden win in the World Test Championship by beating England in the first Test of the four-Test match series in Centurion. A Dale-Steyn less attack humbled their counterparts by 107 runs with Quinton de Kock winning the Man of the Match award for his contribution with the bat (95 & 34) in both the innings. Besides that, he took eight catches in the Test match. Interestingly, this was the sixth straight win for the Proteasin Centurion, while England are

Kings XI Punjab bought two of the costliest players of IPL 2020 as they roped in Glenn Maxwell and Sheldon Cottrell. The 2014 finalists have once again accumulated a good squad and will hope that this time around they not only make the IPL final but win the much-coveted trophy as well. Having got a well-rounded squad, KXIP have a tough task of figuring out the best possible predicted line-up for the tournament which can help them win maximum number of matches. KXIP

As 2019 is a World Cup year, most cricket teams were concentrating on the ODI format. It has been seen that a lot of matches have been played this year in the 50-over format. As the ICC World Cup was amongst the most awaited events of 2019, there were several teams who focused extensively on building teams to stand out in this particular format. Here are some of the players who deserve to make it to the best ODI XI of 2019 by

Royal Challengers Banglore have been the perennial under-achievers of the IPL in the past 12 seasons. Despite making the finals twice they failed to get a hand onto the trophy. Every season at the IPL auctions they get together a strong team, which fails to deliver the goods on the field. From changing the squad to the coaching staff, the RCB management has tried almost everything to win the trophy but still have not been successful in winning the trophy. Yet again they