IPL 2024: Coach who won two titles for KKR, fast bowler worth Rs 11.75 crore… Will Punjab Kings be able to win the trophy this time?
Punjab Kings will play their first match in IPL 2024 against Delhi Capitals on March 23 in Mohali. Trevor Bayliss & Punjab Kings (Photo Source: Getty Images) IPL 2024, Major Changes of Punjab Kings: IPL franchise Punjab Kings has not been able to win a single title so far. Punjab Kings made it to the finals for the first time in the 2014 season, while the team has reached the playoffs only once in 16 seasons. Last season, Shikhar Dhawan was appointed the captain of the team, but the team did not get any special results. Punjab Kings could win only 6 out of 14 matches and were ranked 8th in the points table. Players like Sikandar Raza, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma, Arshdeep Singh and Liam Livingstone are present in the Punjab Kings camp. The team would like to show great performance in the upcoming season. This season, Punjab Kings will play their first match against Delhi Capitals on March 23 in Mohali. Let us tell you what major changes Punjab Kings has made in the team this season. Take a look at the changes of Punjab Kings- Before the IPL 2024 auction, Punjab Kings had released Mohit Rathi, Raj Bawa, Shahrukh Khan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, and Baltej Singh. In the IPL 2024 auction, Punjab Kings bought Harshal Patel (11.75 crore), Chris Woakes (4.2 crore), Ashutosh Sharma (20 lakh), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (20 lakh), Shashank Singh (20 lakh), Tanay Thiagarajan (20 lakh), Bought Prince Chaudhary (20 lakhs), Riley Russo (8 crores). Sanjay Bangar is holding the post of Cricket Director of Punjab Kings. Wasim Jaffer was the batting coach of the team last season, but the franchise has released him for this season. Sanjay Bangar is also going to play the role of batting coach. Trevor Bayliss (Head Coach), Brad Haddin (Assistant Coach), Charl Langeveldt (Fast Bowling Coach), Sunil Joshi (Spin Bowling Coach), Fielding Coach (Travor Gonsalves), Sanjay Bangar (Batting Coach) are part of the support staff team. Punjab Kings full squad for IPL 2024 Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Tayde, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kawerappa. , Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thiagarajan, Prince Chaudhary, Riley Rousseau
AFG vs IRE: Mark Adair celebrated in a special way after dismissing Rahmat Shah for the third time in the series.
Both Afghanistan and Ireland will play a three-match T20I series from March 15. Mark Adair. (Image Source: X) Afghanistan’s batsman Rahmat Shah and Ireland’s fast bowler Mark Adair (Mark Adair) is witnessing a great competition in the ongoing multi-format series. Let us tell you, recently the only Test match was played between Ireland and Afghanistan, after which both the teams faced each other in a three-match ODI series. Now both the teams will play a three-match T20I series from March 15. While the Ireland cricket team won the only Test match by six wickets, the Afghanistan cricket team won the ODI series by a margin of 2-0, while the second ODI was abandoned without a toss. Rahmat Shah is getting defeated by Mark Adair Meanwhile, Mark Adair has sent Rahmat Shah back to the pavilion three times in just four innings in this multi-format series. Mark Adair took 5 wickets for 39 runs in the only Test and became the third player to take a five wicket haul for Ireland in the history of Test cricket. Adair dismissed Rahmat Shah in both innings in the only Test, and then the scene was repeated in the third ODI, when the Afghanistan batsman again lost his wicket on the third ball of the 14th over. Adair pitches the ball a short length away from Shah. Shah played his shot, but could only get a slight touch and the ball fell into the hands of the wicketkeeper. Adair’s happiness knew no bounds as he once again got success against Rahmat. After dismissing Rahmat Shah, Mark Adair waved both his hands and celebrated the wicket with his hands in his pockets, which could be an indication of his hold on the Afghanistan batsman. Now this unique celebration of Adair is going quite viral. See Mark Adair’s unique celebration here Mark Adair has dismissed Rahmat Shah three times in four innings during this series. Safe to say he’s aware of the trend… pic.twitter.com/JIEJGiqn50 — Nathan Johns (@nathanrjohns) March 12, 2024
There was a time when he needed support to go to the toilet – Shikhar Dhawan said on Pant’s recovery journey.
Team India’s star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant will be seen spreading his magic in IPL 2024. Rishabh Pant (Photo Source: Organized by Star Sports for IPL 2024 In the program ‘Star Nahi Far’, Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan has said a lot about Rishabh Pant. Speaking on Rishabh Pant’s recovery journey after recovering from a serious injury, Dhawan expressed happiness over Pant’s return to the field. Let us tell you that Team India’s star wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant will be seen spreading his magic in IPL 2024. He is part of Delhi Capitals (DC). The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) declared Pant fit on Tuesday. The 17th season of IPL will start from March 22. Pant had a terrible car accident in December 2022. He suffered many injuries in that accident. After that Pant also had surgery. Veteran batsman Shikhar Dhawan is very happy to see Pant’s return to competitive cricket. Punjab Kings (PBKS) captain Dhawan is confident that Pant will be able to make a splash after coming out of the difficult phase. Shikhar Dhawan gave a big statement regarding the return of Rishabh Pant Dhawan said at the Star Sports event, “I am very happy to see Rishabh Pant in action again. I am very excited. He survives a terrible accident. This is all thanks to God. In the last one year he has worked extremely hard and kept a positive attitude. He was in a lot of pain in the beginning. He was not even able to move in the first few months. He was not able to do anything. Even to use the toilet he would need someone’s help. Pant has shown a lot of patience, positivity and tolerance from that difficult time till now. This is a big thing. This has definitely given him a lot of strength and I am sure he is going to do wonders for himself and the country.” Let us tell you that the Punjab team will play all its home matches in the upcoming season of IPL at the new Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, which is a new stadium. Here more than 30 thousand spectators can watch the match simultaneously. Dhawan said, “This is a new stadium, where there are a lot of seats for the spectators. There is a new pitch here, but home matches have been played on it. When we play we get experience. We get to know what the wicket is like, how to play on it, what the game plan should be, what we should not use. It comes with experience and if we make it a big thing in our mind, it becomes bigger. If we had not done this then it would not have been a big thing.”
BAN vs SL: After winning the T20 series, Sri Lanka did ‘time out’ celebration to rub salt on Bangladesh’s wounds, watch video
Sri Lanka has defeated Bangladesh by 28 runs in the third T20 match. Sri Lanka (Image Credit- Twitter X) Sri Lanka cricket team is currently on Bangladesh tour for all format series, where yesterday on March 9, the third T20 match between the two teams was played at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Let us tell you that in this match, Sri Lanka defeated the host team by 28 runs and won the T20 series 2-1. On the other hand, after winning the T20 series, Sri Lanka did such a celebration during the post match, the video of which went viral on social media within no time. It is noteworthy that after winning the T20 series, during the photoshoot with the trophy, the entire Sri Lankan team, including Angelo Mathews, was seen celebrating the victory by signaling time out. Let us tell you that in the Cricket World Cup in India last year, Bangladeshi team captain Shakib Al Hasan had given Mathews ‘time out’ for not reaching the crease on time. So now it seems that the Sri Lankan team has been seen settling its scores regarding this time out. Watch the video of this celebration of Sri Lankan cricket team Time out celebration pic.twitter.com/ijFTqhDu1Z — SRI LANKA CRICKET LIONS (@slcricketlions) March 9, 2024 On the other hand, if we tell you the situation of this match, Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bowl and batting first, the visiting team played a brilliant innings of 174 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Sri Lanka, wicketkeeper Kusal Medins played a brilliant inning of 86 runs, while Dasun Shanaka contributed 19 runs. So when Bangladesh came to chase the target of 175 runs given by Sri Lanka, Nuwan could not recover after the hat-trick taken by Thushara in the first over. In the match, Bangla Tigers were all out for 146 runs in 19.4 overs and lost the match by 28 runs. Only Rishad Hussain could play the best innings of 53 runs for Bangladesh.
WPL 2024: RCB’s fanbase is the most loyal, we saw it this time: Smriti Mandhana
RCB has won 3 out of 5 matches played in the ongoing WPL season. Smriti Mandhana (Image Credit- Twitter X) Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has performed brilliantly so far in the ongoing second season of the Women’s Premier League. The team has won three out of the five matches played so far. So till the time of writing this news, he is at second place in the WPL points table. When RCB won over UP Warriors by 23 runs on March 3, it reached the first position in the points table. However, yesterday Delhi defeated Mumbai by 29 runs and once again captured the first place. On the other hand, RCB’s home leg against UP was the last match in Bangalore. So during this time only RCB fans were visible in the stadium. So now Smriti Mandhana, impressed by this fanbase of RCB, has given a big statement. Mandhana says that we have seen how loyal RCB’s fanbase is. Smriti Mandhana gave a big statement Let us tell you that after the match against UP, during a discussion on RCB’s fan base, Smriti Mandhana said on Sports 18 – We will see whether the crowd of fans in Delhi can match that of the fans in Bangalore? I came here in 2016 to watch an IPL match. At that time also the crowd of fans was similar and the atmosphere was also similar. The way people are supporting me is wonderful. As a woman cricketer I feel that women’s cricket has won. Smriti further said- I am not saying this only about RCB matches. This is a victory for women’s cricket, but the fans in Bangalore were crazy for our matches. It is good to see that the fans are not only supporting RCB but also other teams. They call RCB the most loyal fanbase, and we have seen it this time. It’s great to see. This is a victory for the women’s cricket fraternity.
NZC will not take any risk this time, security team sent to Pakistan before T20 series
New Zealand team can reach Pakistan on 14 April. New Zealand Team (Pic Source-Twitter) The New Zealand team has to play a T20 series against the hosts in Pakistan, the first match of which will be played on April 18. Before the start of this spectacular series, a security group of New Zealand Cricket has reached Pakistan. This group has been sent to Pakistan to prepare for the upcoming T20 series. Let us tell you, New Zealand team can reach Pakistan on 14th April. This group has two members and an impartial security expert who had planned to visit Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi and that is why this group has come to Pakistan. Let us tell you, this five-match T20 series will be played in Lahore and Rawalpindi. Apart from this, the CEO of New Zealand Players Organization is also a member of the delegation. A source in the Pakistan Cricket Board said, ‘The security delegation will visit the match venues and hotels where the teams are staying and will also get information from the government and security officials about the security plan for the visitors.’ New Zealand has lost by 172 runs in the first test against Australia. The New Zealand team is currently playing a two-match Test series against Australia. The first Test has been played between the two teams in which New Zealand had to face defeat by 172 runs. New Zealand players had failed to perform well in the first test and due to this they had to face defeat. Talking about Pakistan team, their recent performance has been very good and the team has batted and bowled very well in international cricket. Currently Pakistan Super League is being played in Pakistan. Pakistani players would definitely like to leave their mark in the T20 series against New Zealand and would definitely like to win this series. The New Zealand team will also definitely have its eyes on the upcoming T20 series. Then it remains to be seen which team wins this T20 series? If IPL 2024 flops, these 5 players will be out of T20 World Cup. 5 teams which have made it to the finals of Ranji Trophy the most number of times IPL 2024: Which team’s captain is getting the highest salary…? These 5 Indian greats never got a chance to captain in international cricket IPL 2024: 5 CSK players injured, Dhoni’s tension increased Top 5 players who took most catches in test cricket from Australia Top 5 players who hit most sixes in the history of WPL IPL 2024: This player is injured, betrayed the team big time BCCI showed contempt to these 7 players, did not give them a place in the central contract IPL 2024: These 5 players will replace Mohammed Shami in Gujarat Titans squad
IPL 2024: Yuzvendra Chahal made a big prediction, told who will win the Orange Cap this time
Chahal is the bowler who has taken the most wickets in IPL Yuzvendra Chahal (Image Credit- Twitter) There is very little time left for the start of the 17th season of IPL. It is noteworthy that the upcoming tournament is starting from March 22. The first match will be played between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chidambaram Stadium. However, before the start of this match, experienced Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who plays for Rajasthan Royals (RR), has made a big prediction and announced the name of the player who will win the Orange Cap in the upcoming season. Yuji Chahal made a big prediction Let us tell you that when Yuzvendra Chahal was asked the name of the winner of the Orange Cap in the upcoming season on his YouTube channel (Joker Ki Haveli) along with e-sports streamer Gulrez, he first took his own name, but after that he became serious. The names of his teammates Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler have been taken. Also, when he was asked to name the player who took the most wickets, he took his own name and placed the name of Rashid Khan of Gujarat Titans at second place. It is noteworthy that Yuji Chahal was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 6.5 crore in the 2022 mega auction from RCB. Since this season, he is continuously seen playing for Rajasthan. So it will be worth watching that how is Chahal going to perform in the upcoming season? Chahal out of BCCI central contract It is noteworthy that recently the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had released the list of central contracts. Let us tell you that along with experienced Indian players Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, Yuzvendra Chahal has also not been included in this list. So after Chahal was out of the central contract, Aakash Chopra had said through his YouTube channel that this decision of BCCI shows what they are thinking now.
“Great of all time” – Sourav Ganguly called this 37 year old Indian bowler ‘all time great’
India and England will play the fifth and last match of the ongoing five-match Test series from March 7 at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium in Dharamshala. Rohit Sharma-led Team India has already taken an unassailable lead in the series by defeating England in the second, third and fourth Tests in Visakhapatnam, Rajkot and Ranchi respectively. In such a situation, by winning this match, the England team would like to end the series on a good note. Many memorable moments have been seen from both the teams in the current series. One of them is experienced all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin who aims to complete 500 wickets for India in the Test format. Ashwin crossed the 500 wicket mark in Rajkot and crossed the 350 wicket mark, breaking former Indian spinner Anil Kumble’s record of taking most Test wickets at home for India. Sourav Ganguly is not tired of praising R Ashwin Sourav Ganguly was also impressed by Ashwin’s performance. He described off-spinner Ashwin as one of the greatest players of all time. Praising Ashwin while talking to Revsportz, Sourav Ganguly said that, Greatest of all time, greatest of all time. 500 wickets is no joke. Then you have Jadeja, the best all-rounder at the moment. Who can perform well with both bat and ball in these conditions. Apart from this, Ganguly also praised the performance of star spinner Kuldeep Yadav, saying that the star player has improved a lot and there has been no decline in him despite players like Ashwin and Jadeja performing well. Kuldeep has taken 12 wickets in three Test matches so far and will be keen to finish the series on a high when the two teams face each other in Dharamsala. Ganguly said, “I think Kuldeep has made a tremendous comeback. There has been a lot of improvement in that. And I think with bowlers like Ashwin and Jadeja, there has been no weak performance from him. He has left his mark in the series and will play for India for a long time.”
Ranji Trophy 2024: Pair of Tushar and Tanush created history, this happened for the first time in 78 years
Tanush Kotian and Tushar Deshpande Mumbai Ranji Trophy. (Photo Source: Twitter) In the ongoing quarter-final match against Baroda, Mumbai’s bowling pair has done something which no one had expected. Bowling leaders Tushar Deshpande (123) and Tanush Kotian (120*) became the second batting pair to score centuries while batting at numbers 10 and 11. No. 10 and 11 With this spectacular feat in first-class cricket, the “batsmen” have created history in the domestic circuit. Thanks to his century, Mumbai managed to set the target of 606 runs against the opposition team. Mumbai suffered its ninth blow at the score of 337 when their vice-captain Shams Mulani was out. After that Tushar Deshpande and Tanush Kotian batted brilliantly and put pressure on the Baroda bowlers and took the team to a big score. Tushar Deshpande and Tanush Kotian made a partnership of 232 runs for the last wicket. Furthermore, the two made a partnership of 232 runs for the last wicket, which is the third highest partnership for the last wicket in the history of first class cricket. After 78 years, no one has been able to achieve this feat in first class cricket. Earlier, Chandu Sarwate and Shute Banerjee had achieved this feat during the Indians vs Surrey match in 1946. Talking about the match, Baroda will have to score 606 runs to win, in such a situation Mumbai’s victory is considered certain and its semi-final ticket is also confirmed. Tanush scored 120 runs in 129 balls with the help of 10 fours and four sixes, while Tushar Deshpande was out after scoring 123 runs in 129 balls with the help of 10 fours and eight sixes. Let us tell you that Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh have already confirmed their place in the semi-finals of the tournament. Vidarbha and Karnataka are also playing against each other for a place in the semi-finals. Now it will be interesting to see which other two teams secure their place in the semi-finals.
WPL 2024: This time it will not be so easy for any team to defeat Gujarat Giants.
Gujarat Giants is being captained by Beth Mooney this season. Gujarat Giants (Image Credit- Twitter X) The second season of the Women’s Premier League has started. The second match of this fantastic tournament is currently being played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Giants at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Gujarat Giants is being captained by Beth Mooney this season. Beth Mooney is hopeful that Gujarat Giants will perform well this season and will definitely win the 2024 trophy. Let us tell you, the head coach of Gujarat Giants team this season is Michael Kallinger while the mentor of the team is Mithali Raj. The responsibility of vice-captain has been given to Indian all-rounder Sneh Rana. Beth Mooney said before her first match of the Women’s Premier League 2024, ‘The group is fully prepared for this season and everyone is very excited. We have been working hard for the last one week and the results will be quite good. We are all fully prepared for the first match against RCB and we would definitely like to win this match. Sneh Rana also presented his side Sneh Rana said, ‘All the players of the team are very supportive and many also have experience. The thinking of the team is very positive. Even though the first season may not have been so good for us, all the players would like to perform very well in the 2024 season. Our fan following is huge all over India. This time the team will look to start the tournament on a good note. Mentor Mithali Raj said, ‘If the Women’s Premier League is held in every city, then the fans of the franchise will also increase significantly. I would definitely like to share my experience with the young players and also tell them about their role. The team is looking very strong since last season and the mentality of all the players is also very positive. These teams have lost the most matches in IPL history These batsmen have scored the most runs against Dhoni’s team CSK in IPL. 5 players who scored 10,000 T20 runs in the fewest innings 3 Indian players who have scored most centuries in India IPL 2024: These 3 players will be the wicketkeepers of Delhi Capitals in place of Rishabh Pant 5 players who have scored the most runs in PSL IND vs ENG, 4th Test: Rohit Sharma will throw these 5 players out of playing 11 3 biggest wins recorded by India in terms of runs in Test cricket These 5 bowlers have sent Virat Kohli to the pavilion for a golden duck in IPL. List of bowlers who took the fastest 500 wickets in Test cricket-