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IPL 2025: Captains Of All 10 Teams

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 The captains of all 10 teams for the 2025 Indian Premier League season has been announced that will start from the 22 nd of March. It promises to be an exciting season with few new captains for their respective franchises. Here we look at the 10 captains of IPL 2025. 1.       Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Kolkata Knight Riders has appointed experienced Ajinkya Rahane this season. He was bought by the KKR franchise for the base price of 1.5 Crore. Rahane will replace Shreyas Iyer who led KKR to their third title in IPL history during the 2024 edition of this prestigious tournament. Venkatesh Iyer has been appointed as his deputy. 2.       Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Sunrisers Hyderabad retained Pat Cummins as the captain of IPL 2025. Under his captaincy, SRH finished in the top two before losing to KKR in qualifier 1 and finals. SRH would be looking to build on the success with the likes Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, M...

This Day That Year: Rishabh Pant blasted away Sunrisers Hyderabad attack in IPL

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  The explosive left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman, Rishabh Pant played one of the best innings by an Indian player against Sunrisers Hyderabad played on 10 th May 2018 at Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi. Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bat first. It was not an ideal start for DC as they lost wickets of Prithvi Shaw, Jason Roy, and DC captain Iyer cheaply. Pant looked steady at the crease and put the Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers under pressure with his attacking style. Harshal Patel also provided some impetus for the team. Pant remained cool and reached his fifty off just 36 balls. After reaching his fifty, Pant was in simply sensational form hitting boundaries and sixes at will. Harshal Patel contributed 24 off 17 balls. Patel and Pant added 55 runs for the 4 th wicket. Pant upped the ante showing his class making life tough for SRH bowlers. He did not allow any bowlers to settle and completed a century off 56 balls. Despite the other batsmen fai...

Indian explosive wicketkeeper achieves career-best rankings in Test cricket.

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  In the latest ICC Test rankings announced on Thursday, the 23-year-old Indian wicketkeeper Risbah Pant achieved his career-best rankings. It has been a remarkable rise for the explosive batsman. He made his Test debut for India in the 3 rd Test match against England at Trent Bridge on 18 th August 2018. Pant started his innings with a six. In the fifth and final Test match at Oval, Pant scored his maiden Test century and showed his impact with attacking strokes. Despite his knock, India lost the match and series 1-4. The Indian Cricket Team went for a 4 match Test series against Australia in their own den. He did not contribute with the bat in the first match at Adelaide Oval but created a record for most dismissals leading India to a famous win. He created a big impact in the 1 st innings of the 4 th Test match at SCG making his career-best score of 159 helping Team India post a massive total. He showed his attacking skills and kept on scoring runs against West Indies ...

IPL 2021: Newly appointed captain for Delhi Capitals

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  After a successful season against Australia away and England at home, the explosive left-handed Rishabh Pant has been appointed the captain for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2021 starting from 9 th April. Shreyas Iyer who injured his shoulder while fielding during the 1 st ODI against England at Pune went off the field and was ruled of the entire series. After that, Iyer’s injury was so serious that he needed lots of time to recover and thus was ruled of the IPL 2021. Pant has been in sensational form for the past 5 months for Team India. After not featuring in ODI, T20I series, and one Test match against Australia, he was included for the rest of the series. Chasing a massive target of 407 runs in the 4 th innings at Sydney, Pant played a brilliant knock getting out for 97 and put on 148 runs stand for the 4 th wicket with Pujara. His knock helped lay down fear of a win but after being dismissed in the 2 nd session, Ashwin and Vihari played the whole last session to help India ...

Indians dominate in latest ICC Test rankings

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  After an impressive 3-1 win in the Test series over England, there have been changes in the latest ICC Test rankings announced by ICC on Wednesday. Kane Williamson, Steve Smith, Joe Root, Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli and Babar Azam maintained the top six spots. England captain Joe Root and Virat Kohli did not have a great fourth match as both were dismissed cheaply. The explosive wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant made a remarkable 101 and helped India recover from 146 for 6 reaches his career-best rankings of number 7 th . It was an amazing knock by Pant who showed patience in the first fifty runs and then counterattacked putting pressure on England bowlers with innovative strokes. His knock helped India post a competitive total and then bowl out visitors for a paltry total to give the hosts an innings and 25 runs win. For his 101, Pant was awarded the man of the match. Henry Nicholls and Rohit Sharma have the same number of points as Pant, but Nicholls is at number 8 th...

Stats: KL Rahul creates history in IPL

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  Kings XI Punjab captain KL Rahul looked in sublime form during the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore played at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai on 24 th September 2020. Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli won the toss and decided to field first. KL Rahul put the bad balls away for boundaries putting the RCB bowlers under pressure. He never looked in discomfort and timed the ball decently. Mayank Agarwal also looked decent with his stroke play but was dismissed by a beauty by Yuzvendra Chahal. After the strategic timeout, Rahul completed his fifty off 36 balls. Nicolas Pooran who was promoted at number 3 struggled for timing. Shivam Dube struck twice to get rid of Pooran and Maxwell. He was dropped twice by Virat Kohli at the boundary and took the advantage of the chances. Rahul plundered RCB bowling to complete his 2 nd IPL century off 62 balls. It was amazing hitting by Kings XI Punjab captain who just upped the ante with great hitting and remained no...