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I had won my fans back: Pandya

India’s premier all-rounder Hardik Pandya believes he has regained his fan base through his performances, pointing at the key role he played in India’s T20 World Cup triumph in the Americas last year.

Bahutule named Royals’ spin bowling coach

Former India cricketer Sairaj Bahutule has been appointed spin bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals, the Inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) champions. He worked in the same capacity with RR from 2018 to 2021.

Hope & reality

The Indian Premier League is like an annually awaited cyclone, packing all the power of devastation in the span it is allowed, littering the land with whatever it roars in with, inclusive of people's capacity for assessment and evaluation.

Must cricket always be a gentleman’s game?

Only one team was playing with the spirit of the game, that’s all I can say, Anil Kumble chided the Australians for their unsportsmanlike behaviour in the 2008 Sydney test. Does it sound comparable when Ben Stokes asks, “Would I want to win a game in that manner?” following their Lord’s Test defeat to Australia in the 2023 Ashes series?