SPORTS

New Delhi: Left arm batsman Suresh Raina’s unbeaten 61 and Lungi Ngidi’s 4/10 helped Chennai Super Kings beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets in the last league game of IPL 2018 at the MCA Stadium, Pune on Sunday.KXIP were knocked out with this loss while Rajasthan Royals qualified for the playoffs.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) toyed with their batting order on way to a five-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), knocking their opponents out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs’ race that saw Rajasthan Royals (RR) qualify as the fourth and final team. (CSK vs KXIP HIGHLIGHTS)

Signing off with a commanding win orchestrated by Lungi Ngidi’s 4/10, Suresh Raina’s 61 not out and Deepak Chahar’squickfire 39 at their adopted home, CSK also recorded their fifth win out of six matches here at the MCA Stadium. (CSK VS KXIP SCORES)

New Delhi: Kolkata bowlers restricted Rajasthan to 144/4 to register a comfortable victory defending 169 at the Eden Gardens. Spinners PiyushChawla (2/24) and KuldeepYadav (1/18) led the hosts' attack and was well supported by their pacers, especially Prasidh Krishna (1/28). Sanju Samson(50) and skipper AjinkyaRahane (46) added an impressive 62 runs for Rajasthan but failed to take their team home.

Rahane and Rahul Tripathi gave Rajasthan a solid start to their chase as the duo added 47 runs in just five overs. Tripathi smacked two back-to-back sixes off Sunil Narine (0/39), who had a forgettable night, as the West Indian conceded 15 runs in his first over. Chawla broke the partnership dismissing Tripathi (20) in the final Powerplay over.

Rahane along with Samson kept the momentum going taking Rajasthan to 87/1 at the halfway mark. They soon completed fifty-run stand to take the score past 100-run mark in the 13th over.

New Delhi:South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has made a composed unbeaten 67 off 42 balls that contained five fours and four sixes to take Super Kings to 140/8 in 19.1 overs, to a two-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad. Only this man seemed to have a heart ticking in normal rate inside of a cauldron like Wankhede Stadium. He came in as opener,Faf saw Chennai Super Kings wickets falling around him like candyfloss flying away in storm.

This was their seventh IPL final here on Tuesday (May 22). Meanwhile, Sunrisers will play the Qualifier 2 on Friday at Kolkata against the winners of Eliminator match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday (May 23).

New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils has found their man of the moment in new the skipper Shreyas Iyer. The young batsman hit a 40-ball 93 to power the bottom-placed team in Indian Premier League (IPL) to a 55-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders.

Adversity can sink sides or they can find ways to swim amid uncertainty. Two days after the seasoned Gautam Gambhir quit as skipper – the out-of-form batsman wasn’t in the eleven – to compound problems, Delhi Daredevils found two youngsters to show the way.

Shreyas Iyer struck his third fifty in a row, and ninth overall in IPL, to steal the show from 18-year-old Prithvi Shaw. Daredevils milked 76 runs from the last four overs, including 29 off the final over by rookie paceman Shivam Mavi, to pile up 219/4, the highest score of IPL 2018.

New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils suffered a nail-biting four-run defeat against Kings XI Punjab in their first home game of the Indian Premier League 2018 at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Monday.
After posting their fifth win in six games, Kings XI Punjab jumped to top of the IPL standings with ten points. And with five defeats in six matches, Daredevils languished at the bottom of the pile.
Needing 17 off the final over, ShreyasIyer scored 12 runs off the first five balls but young spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman got the better of him and dismissed the right-hander in the final delivery of the match to stop Daredevils on 139/8.
Iyer top-scored for the hosts with 57 off 45 balls, which included a six and five fours. While AnkitRajpoot (2/23), Andrew Tye (2/25), Mujeeb (2/25) and BarinderSran(1/45) were among the wickets for the victors.

New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) wants T20 cricket to grow and the game, hopefully, be part of the 2028 Olympics. In the process, it buried the 50-over Champions Trophy, the next edition of which was scheduled to be hosted by India in 2021. That will now be a T20 World Cup.
This announcement came from ICC CEO David Richardson on Thursday in the city where JagmohanDalmiya lived. It was during Dalmiya’s stint as ICC president that the Champions Trophy was birthed. Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Richardson said all T20 matches between two countries would be accorded international status and a ranking system introduced for teams from 1 to 104.

For women, all T20 between countries would be internationals from July 1, 2018. For men it would start from January 1, 2019 after the qualifying cycle for 2020 World T20 in Australia. The rankings for women will start from October 2018 and those for men from May 2019.

New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Daredevils by 13 runs in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Monday night to reclaim the top spot in the points tally in Pune. Chasing 212, DD's Rishabh Pant and Vijay Shankar struck quickfire half-centuries to give CSK a late scare but in the end, the visitors managed 198/5 in 20 overs, slumping to their sixth defeat of the ongoing season to continue to languish at the bottom of the points table.

Delhi needed a strong platform to build their chase on but were given two early blows by debutant medium-pacer KM Asif who got rid of both their openers Prithvi Shaw (9) and Colin Munro (26) in successive overs. Captain ShreyasIyer (13), who played a match-winning knock in Delhi's previous match, was run out after a terrible mix-up with Pant.