Lucknow

KL Rahul (C) (W)

Marcus Stoinis

Deepak Hooda

Nicholas Pooran

Ashton Turner

Ayush Badoni

Krunal Pandya

Ravi Bishnoi

Naveen-ul-Haq

Mohsin Khan

Yash Thakur

Kolkata

Phil Salt (W)

Sunil Narine

Angkrish Raghuvanshi

Venkatesh Iyer

Shreyas Iyer (C)

Rinku Singh

Andre Russell

Ramandeep Singh

Mitchell Starc

Harshit Rana

Varun Chakaravarthy

Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane

Akash Deep

Angkrish Avaneesh Raghuvanshi

Anukul Sudhakar Roy

Cameron Donald Green

Daksh Kamra

Finnley Hugh Allen

Harshit Pradeep Rana

Kartik Tyagi

Manish Krishnanand Pandey

Matheesha Pathirana

Prashant Hitesh Solanki

Rachin Ravindra

Rahul Ajay Tripathi

Rinku Khanchand Singh

Rovman Powell

Sarthak Ranjan

Sunil Philip Narine

Tejasvi Singh

Tim Louis Seifert

Umran Malik

Vaibhav Gopal Arora

Varun Chakaravarthy Vinod

Abdul Samad Farooq

Aiden Kyle Markram

Akash Maharaj Singh

Akshat R Raghuwanshi

Anrich Arno Nortje

Arjun Sachin Tendulkar

Arshin Atul Kulkarni

Avesh Khan

Digvesh Singh

Himmat Singh

Joshua Patrick Inglis

Manimaran Siddharth

Matthew Paul Breetzke

Mayank Prabhu Yadav

Mitchell Ross Marsh

Mohammad Shami Ahmed

Mukul Dalip Choudhary

Naman Tiwari

Prince Yadav

Rishabh Rajendra Pant

Shahbaz Ahmed

Pinnaduwage Wanindu Hasaranga De Silva

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Indian Premier League March 2024

Explosive batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz will be rejoining the Kolkata Knight Riders camp. This is good news for KKR as Phil Salt might leave before the IPL 2024 playoffs.

Shreyas Iyer and Phil Salt in frame (Getty)

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Explosive batter set to join KKR camp as Phil Salt's potential exit before IPL 2024 playoffs beckons

Ian Bishop has come out in support of Shreyas Iyer and slammed fans on social media for trolling him following KKR’s 98-run win against LSG in the 54th match of the IPL 2024.&nbsp;

KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer (L) and former West Indies cricketer Ian Bishop. (Getty)

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'Will You Say It Is Gambhir's Fault If KKR Lose?': Ian Bishop fumes at fans for trolling Shreyas Iyer after KKR's 98-run win over LSG 

IPL 2024: After defeating LSG, Shreyas Iyer addressed his recent string of toss defeats and revealed the havoc it had caused in the KKR dressing room.

KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer in this frame. (Getty)

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Shreyas Iyer makes startling revelation about 'havoc' in KKR dressing room after resounding win over LSG, says 'the last 6 matches...'

IPL 2024: KL Rahul expressed disappointment on Lucknow Super Giants' 'overall poor performance' in 98-run defeat against Chennai Super Kings.

Lucknow Super Giants' wicketkeeper and captain KL Rahul (L) gestures during the IPL 2024 match against Mumbai Indians at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on April 30. (Getty)

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'When you are chasing a big total...': KL Rahul calls out LSG's 'overall poor performance' after crushing defeat against KKR

IPL 2024: Sunil Narine's explosive knock powered Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing 98-run win over Lucknow Super Giants to rocket to top of the points table.

Kolkata Knight Riders' Sunil Narine (L) plays a shot as Lucknow Super Giants' wicktkeeper and captain KL Rahul fields the ball during their IPL 2024 clash on May 5. (Getty)

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IPL 2024: KKR ride on Sunil Narine's all-round exploits to hammer LSG by 98 runs, pip RR to become table toppers

Harshit Rana brought out a new ‘mute’ celebration after dismissing KL Rahul. He suffered a one-match ban after his aggressive celebration against Delhi Capitals

Harshit Rana's new mute celebration (Twitter)

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Despite one-match ban, KKR's young pacer Harshit Rana brings out new 'mute' celebration against Lucknow

Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and invited Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 clash at the Ekana stadium on May 5.

KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer (left) and LSG captain KL Rahul. (Getty)

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IPL 2024, LSG vs KKR: KL Rahul brings back 25-yr-old in place of Mayank Yadav in Lucknow's playing XI against high-flying Kolkata

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WPL 2026: Gujarat Giants captain Ashleigh Gardner revealed that she told Ayushi Soni that it was a team decision to retire her out.

Ayushi Soni scored 11 runs from 14 balls.

After retiring out Soni, Bharti Fulmali scored an unbeaten 15-ball 36. 

Ayushi Soni

Gujarat Giants batter becomes 1st to be retired out in WPL history, captain says

Harmanpreet Kaur starred with an unbeaten 71 to guide the Mumbai Indians to their highest successful chase in the WPL, leading a thrilling seven-wicket win over the Gujarat Giants. After early setbacks, Harmanpreet and Amanjot Kaur steadied the innings, with Nicola Carey finishing the job, while Harmanpreet also became the first Indian to cross 1,000 WPL runs.


Mumbai Indians defeated Gujarat Giants by 7 wickets.

Harmanpreet Kaur scored 71 runs against Gujarat Giants.

Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Harmanpreet Kaur playing a shot

Harmanpreet Kaur’s 71 leads Mumbai Indians to record WPL chase against GG

Gujarat Giants all-rounder Anushka Sharma is expected to be out for the next few matches after she sustained an injury while fielding against the Delhi Capitals

Anushka Sharma to be out of action for Gujarat Giants

Anushka had sustained an injury during the clash against Delhi Capitals

Gujarat Giants' Anushka Sharma plays a shot during the Women's Premier League (WPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai (via Getty)

Big blow for Gujarat Giants as all-rounder to be out of action due to injury

Grace Harris stole the show with a stunning 85 off just 40 balls as Royal Challengers Bengaluru easily beat UP Warriorz by nine wickets in their Women’s Premier League clash. Chasing 144, Harris raced to the fastest fifty of the season in only 22 balls, hitting 10 fours and five sixes.

RCB defeated UP Warriorz by nine wickets

Grace Harris’ smashed fastest half-century in WPL 2026.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's captain Smriti Mandhana (L) and her teammate Grace Harris run between the wickets

WPL 2026: Grace Harris blasts 85 as RCB crush UP Warriorz by nine wickets

The three matches of the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2026 will likely to be played in closed doors at the DY Patil Stadium because of municipal corporation elections in Navi Mumbai on January 15. Local police have told the BCCI that they will not be able to provide enough security for the Mumbai Indians vs UP Warriorz match scheduled on election day.


Three WPL 2026 matches will likely to be played without spectators.

WPL 2026 matches will likely to be played without spectators due to local elections.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain Smriti Mandhana with WPL Trophy 

Explained: Why some of WPL 2026 matches likely to be played without spectators

Australia pace maestro Mitchell Starc has made it clear that he has no plans to keep bowling when he will turn 40 as he feels that part of my role is his airspeed

Mitchell Starc has opened up on his retirement plans

He said that he won't be bowling when he hits 40

Australia's star pacer Mitchell Starc in this frame. (Getty)

Mitchell Starc drops big hint at retirement, says 'I won't be bowling when...'

New Zealand tour of India 2026

The India wicketkeeper-batter brought up his eighth ODI century during the match against New  Zealand in Rajkot, helping the side post a formidable total of 284/7

KL Rahul scored his eighth ODI hundred

Rahul's century massively helped India in posting a total of 284/7

India's KL Rahul (L) celebrates after scoring a century (100 runs) during the second one-day international (ODI) cricket match between India and New Zealand at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot (via Getty)

KL Rahul becomes one-man army, hits 87-ball ton to help IND post big total vs NZ

T20 World Cup 2026

Australia will be touring to Pakistan for the three-match T20I series before leaving for T20 World Cup 2026 which is slate to get underway from February 7

Australia will be playing a T20I series against Pakistan

The three-match T20I series will start from January 29

Australia's Mitchell Marsh (L) and Travis Head in this frame. (Getty)

Australia to tour Pakistan ahead of T20 World Cup 2026, Know full schedule here

Football

Real Madrid star has issued a furious response to claims of a rift with former head coach Xabi Alonso. The Spaniard recently departed from the club in a shocking move. 

Recently, MMA legend Khabib had called out the players and the club for getting rid of Alonso

Alonso  left the club following Real Madrid's 2-3 loss to the arch-rivals FC Barcelona in Supercopa

Jude Bellingham blasts Xabi Alonso rift claims 

Xabi Alonso, Real Madrid

Real Madrid star hits back on Alonso rift claims for 'Damaging Misinformation'

The India batter was out of action for over two months due to an injury to his spleen and made his long return to international cricket in the ongoing ODI series against New Zealand

Shreyas Iyer opened up on the painful spleen injury

Iyer returned to international cricket in the ODI series against New Zealand

Shreyas Iyer of India is assisted off the field with an injury during game three of the One Day International series between Australia and India at Sydney Cricket Ground (via Getty)

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Explosive batter set to join KKR camp as Phil Salt's potential exit before IPL 2024 playoffs beckons

'Will You Say It Is Gambhir's Fault If KKR Lose?': Ian Bishop fumes at fans for trolling Shreyas Iyer after KKR's 98-run win over LSG

Shreyas Iyer makes startling revelation about 'havoc' in KKR dressing room after resounding win over LSG, says 'the last 6 matches...'