Pathirana is unlikely to be available for KKR, while RR could consider strengthening their lower middle order
Category: Cricket
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DC bowl first against RCB in Bengaluru
Both sides were unchanged from their previous games for the afternoon fixture in Bengaluru
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Sarfaraz appointed head coach as Pakistan name four newbies for Bangladesh Tests
Abdullah Fazal, Amad Butt, Azan Awais, and Ghazi Ghori are the new faces in Pakistan’s Test squad; Asad Shafiq (batting coach) and Umar Gul (bowling coach) join the back room
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Middle-overs muck-up puts Bangladesh middle-order frailties in sharp focus
Saif Hassan and Litton Das put Bangladesh in a strong position in their chase of 248, but the middle-order batters failed to do their job from there on
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Rodrigues: ‘When time came to capitalise, we were not able to’
“In the next match, I will come back and take that responsibility again,” Jemimah Rodrigues says after India lost the first T20I to South Africa
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Sarfaraz named head coach as Pakistan name four newbies for Bangladesh Tests
Abdullah Fazal, Amad Butt, Azan Awais, and Ghazi Ghori are the new faces in Pakistan’s Test squad; Asad Shafiq (batting coach) and Umar Gul (bowling coach) join the back room
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‘Extra bounce my ally,’ says Rabada after three-wicket haul
“The most important thing as a team is to prioritise the win first and the net run-rate, it will come,” Kagiso Rabada says after Gujarat Titans took 19.4 overs to reach their target of 181
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Green finds some form, but should be ‘far more efficient’ at the death
Cameron Green got 79 runs in 55 balls against Gujarat Titans, but scored just four runs in 11 balls in the last four overs – as KKR scored 23 runs – to pull the innings back
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Coetzee replaces the injured Payne at SRH for remainder of IPL 2026
SRH have had poor luck with their overseas seamers, having to bring in replacements for Jack Edwards and Brydon Carse, and now David Payne, but should get Pat Cummins back soon
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Foxcroft: ‘It’s just making sure we adapt the best we can’
Dean Foxcroft, playing just his second ODI, scored 59 in 58 balls from No. 6 to lead New Zealand’s batting charge against Bangladesh in Dhaka