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RR vs CSK - Flaying attacks at will has become routine like for the ever explosive Vaibhav Sooryavanshi!! With every marauding innings he plays in the IPL to obliterate bowling attacks, the teen sensation grows in stature and bolstering his credibility as a swashbuckling batter !!

A scorching 15-ball 50 against CSK was yet another glimpse of Sooryavanshi's destructive ability!! Is he just 15 and yet so insanely talented! The whispers are doing the rounds!! Get Sooryavanshi into the Indian team !! He is that good at just 15 to have a real crack!

There is plenty of firepower at the top in both the Indian white ball units..Abhishek, Ishan, Sanju, Gill , Jaiswal..Vaibhav might just have to wait that bit long but we have a shooting star ready to shine!!

May the sun always shine bright on Sooryavanshi!! There is a lineage with the onmipotent sun and isn't he living upto it.

Game 2 | MI vs KKR - Mumbai Indians Square Off Against Kolkata Knight Riders At The Wankhede

5-time champs Mumbai Indians will be up against 3-time winners Kolkata Knight Riders in Game 2.. The match being held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai is scheduled for a 7:30 pm start.

Mumbai Indians is hemmed by their star allrounder Hardik Pandya while Ajinkya Rahane is captaining the Kolkata Knight Riders.

MI have a formidable team, retaining their core players ( Rohit, Pandya, SKY, Verma, Bumrah, Boult) in the last auction and roping in QDK and Shardul Thakur.

KKR looks a revamped side post the retirement of Andre Russell and bolstered their team by picking up Cameron Green, Matheesha Pathirana, Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra and Tim Seifert.

RCB vs SRH - Virat King Kohli spearheaded RCB's chase with a whirwind 38-ball 69-run knock studded with 5 sixes and 5 fours!!

The 'Chase Master' also accomplished another major milestone by becoming the first batter to amass 4k runs in the IPL while chasing.

King Kohli looked in vintage touch during his marauding knock, timing the ball really sweetly and hitting exquisitely timed boundaries

| RCB vs SRH - Defending Champs Kickstart Title Defence With Dominant Win Over SRH!! King Kohli+ Padikkal Pull Off 200+ Chase

Defending champs Royal Challengers Bengaluru registered a dominant 6-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the season opener at the MA Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bengaluru.

Batting first SRH notched up a 200+ target with skipper Ishan Kishan ( 80) , Heinrich Klaseen (31) and Anikit Verma ( 18-ball 43) providing the firepower to their innings.

Chasing 202 runs to win, Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli provided RCB with an electric start after they lost Phil Salt early. Both Padikal ( 26-ball 61) and Kohli ( 38-ball 69). Both Kolhi and Padikkal went onto register blazing half tons by unleashing a brutal assault on the SRH bowlers

Skipper Rajit Patidar chipped in with a quick fire ( 12-ball 31) cameo as Kohli-David closed down the chase in emphatic fashion..

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- The 19th edition of the IPL will witness a historic first with Indian players captaining all the 10 franchises in the league

2026 IPL | Captains

Mumbai Indians - Hardik Pandya

Chennai Super Kings - Ruturaj Gaikwad

Kolkata Knight Riders - Ajinkya Rahane

Sunrisers Hyderabad - Ishan Kishan

Royal Challengers Bengaluru - Rajat Patidar

Rajasthan Royals - Riyan Parag

Kings XI Punjab - Shreyas Iyer

Delhi Capitals- Axar Patel

Gujarat Titans - Shubman Gill

Lucknow Supergiants - Rishabh Pant

| An Overview Of The Marquee League

League - Indian Premier League

Format - T20

Governing Board - BCCI

Edition - 19th

Dates - 28th March - 31st May

Teams - 10

Matches - 74

Venues- 13

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- 10 Teams!! 13 Venues!! 74 Games!! 1 Coveted Title!! The Battle To Reign Supreme As The IPL Champion Resumes!!

10 Marquee Franchises Battle It Out Across 13 Venues In 74 Games Over 2 Months In The Grandest T20 League At The Biggest Cricketing Spectacle For The Most Coveted T20 Title!!

Mates In The Indian Team Become Foes On The IPL Turf!! Old Rivalries Will Get Reignited!! Scorelines Need To Be Settled!! Bragging Rights Have To Be Won!!

International Cricket Takes A Backseat For A Few Months!! The IPL Mania Storms Over The Cricketing Landscape Of Bharat From Today...

Two heavyweights in MI and CSK have a legacy!! A few have been consistent knockout makers!! A few desperate to shed away their underperformer tag!!

A new champ was crowned in the last edition!! RCB finally won their maiden IPL Title!! Who Will it be this time around??

The 19th edition of the IPL gets underway later in the evening with the defending champs Royal Challengers Bengaluru squaring off against Sunrisers Hyderabad !!

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BCCI Honours Rahul Dravid With The Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award!! A Richly Deserved Recognition For India's Iconic Cricketer

Team Interest Before Self!! The Epitome Of Selflesness !! The Greatest Virtue Of India's Unshakable Batting Wall !!

Rahul Dravid stands tall among the greatest batters of all time!! He is hailed among the finest technicians with the willow!! One among the most accomplished No.3 batter to ever grace the Gentleman's Game !! The Unshakable Wall Of Indian Batting Unit During The 'Fab 5' Era. A Terrific slip fielders as well!!

Batting greatness apart; what set Rahul Dravid apart from many other cricketing stalwarts was his selfless character to always keep team interest before self!!

When called upon to float up and down the batting order in white ball cricket, he did not bat an eyelid !!

When the need arose for someone to keep wickets, Dravid stepped up to don the keeping gloves !!

Many forget that Jammie also donned India's captaincy hat b/w the Ganguly and MSD era!!

Humbleness and humility were hallmarks of Dravid's character who had tremendous grit, resilience and patience to grind out the toughest sessions and blunt out the most lethal bowling attacks in hostile overseas conditions.

Rahul's dodged defence, technically correct strokeplay and text book batting all ran through one's mind as a quick flashback when the legend came onto the grand stage @ the BCCI Naman Awards to accept the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award and deliver a heartwarming speech, expressing his gratitude to one and all who had been part of his cricketing journey. A speech as humbling as the tectonic achievements of the legend!!

Dravid's second stint as mentor cm coach was as succesful as his stellar playing career he groomed a younger Indian bde with his invaluable exp.. Coaching India to the 2024 T20 World Cup title was the high point of Dravid's coaching career.

The 90s Gen grew up watching Sachin's batting brilliance, Ganguly's combativeness as captain, Laxman and Azhar's wristy elegance, Kumble's spin wizardy but more often than not it was an unassuming Dravid who often stood rock solid as India's defensive Wall during the most testing times!!

If consistency was the name of the game!! Rahul Dravid was the finest specimen!!

- A Glittering Evening !! A Gala Ceremony! A Star Studded Affair!! BCCI's Annual Cricket Awards Returns With The Prestigious Naman Awards !!

The Apex Cricket Board Recognizes And Rewards Excellence In Both International And Domestic Cricket!!

Indian Cricket Stalwarts Rahul Dravid, Roger Binny and Mithali Raj To Be Bestowed With The Colonel CK Nayadu Lifetime Achievement Award!!

Shubman Gill ( Polly Umrigar Award) And Smriti Mandhana To Be Awarded International Cricketer Of The Year Awards!!

Period- 2024-25

The Indian Cricket Teams That Annexed ICC Titles Across Diff Formats To Be Felicitated !!

Teams- 2025 Men's Champions Trophy, Women's ODI World Cup, 2026 T20 World Cup, U+19 World Cup Teams.

The Naman Awards will be broadcasted live on Star Sports from 6:45 pm onwards.

India@ ICC Finals- T20 WC Title Defence + CT Title!! India's Record In ICC Tourney Finals Improves Significantly !!

Champion teams across international sports just dont get to finals of showpiece tourneys but raise their level of play in title clashes to win World Cups and coveted titles.

A killer instinct, winning attitude and clutch mentality seperates the great teams of their eras from their rivals.

Australia for long have been considered the benchmark of excellence when it came to winning major ICC tourneys incl the World Cups.

Australia have a terrific record at winning the marquee finals, emerging triumphant in 9 out of the 12 ICC white ball tourneys

Teams like England, South Africa and New Zealand have made the knockouts of ICC tourneys consistently but choked repeatedly.

India too went through an extended spell where they were making semis / finals of ICC tourneys but ending up as second best in the grand finale.

Post annexing the 'ICC Treble' under MS Dhoni , India lost 5 ICC finals in successionl. The 'Men In Blue' lost the 2014 T20 World Cup, 2017 Champions Trophy, 2021 + 2023 WTC and 2023 ODI World Cup finals. Not to forget, losing in the 2015 and 2019 ODI World Cup semis.

A horrid run at losing ICC finals ended with India annexing the 2024 T20 World Cup. Ever since, the sub continent tigers have clinched 3 straight ICC titles

3 finals in succession on the back of T20 title defence + CT title has improved India's record significantly at marquee ICC tourneys.

India have won the 2nd highest titles (8) behind Australia (9) in ICC white ball tourneys. Their win % is

Team Performances In ICC White Ball Tourney Finals ( Only ODI and T20)

Australia - Played 12, Won 9, Lost 3, Win 75%

ODI World Cup Finals - Played 8, Won 6, Lost 2
T20 WC Finals - Played 2, Won 1, Lost 1
Champion Trophy Finals - Played 2, Won 2

India | Played 13, Won 8, Lost 5, Win % 61.5%

ODI WC Finals - Played 4, Won 2, Lost 2
T20 WC Finals - Played 4, Won 3, Lost 1
CT Trophy Finals - Played 5, Won 3, Lost 2

West Indies - Played 8, Won 5, Lost 3 Win%

ODI World Cup Finals - Played 3, Won 2, Lost 1
T20 WC Finals - Played 2, Won 2, Lost 0
Champions Trophy Finals - Played 3, Won 1, Lost 2

Other Teams In ICC Tourney White Ball Finals

England P 9, W 2, L 7
Sri Lanka P 7 , W 3, L 4
Pakistan P 6, W 3, L 3
New Zealand P 6, W 1, L 5
South Africa P 2 W 1, L1

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Indian Cricketers@ ICC Titles - King Kohli The Leader With 5 Titles!! Hitman, Jaddu, Yuvi And Arsh Joint 2nd With 4 Titles!!

No matter how many batting milestones a batter scales or bowling records a bowlers may have broken; the ultimate goal of any cricketer is how many trophies he can win in his cricketing career

During Indian cricket's 2 dominant eras where the 'Men In Blue' racked up majority of their ICC titles, India had a very strong nucleas under MSD and a few notable stalwarts rolled onto the Roko era as well.

A similar pattern had followed when a lot many legends in the Class of 2000 under Sourav Ganguly played under MSD.

*Sehwag, Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Agarkar, Pathan won titles during MSD's captaincy

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma , Ravindra Jadeja, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik racked up titles during the 'ICC Treble' accomplished in the MSD era .

In the Roko era, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja added two more titles to their kitty..

Besides RoKo, the present crop of white ball stalwarts; Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Md Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal ( notable among others) have been part of the Indian squads to have ICC titles during India's hattrick of ICC titles including the T20 Title defence.

Virat King Kohli is the standout leader among Indian cricketers with 5 ICC titles. Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Arshdeep Singh jointly occupy the second spot with 4 titles each.

Notably, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Hardik Pandya have been part of all the squads in the recent hattrick of titles.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have the opportunity of adding another title if they are in the scheme of things for the 2027 ODI World Cup. Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav have risen up the ladder pretty quickly and are on track to beat RoKo.

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- ''Men In Blue' Closing In On The 'Kangaroos'! India Just 2 Short Of Australia's Record 10 ICC Titles!!

Beware The 'Kangaroos'!! The Sub Continent Tigers Are On The Prowl!!

Australia were the runaway leaders when it came to winning ICC World Cups.. The "Kangaroos' have been hailed for their exceptional performance at marquee ICC tourneys and have an impressive track record with a staggering 10 titles under their belt

India's hattrick of titles across the flagship white ball tourneys on the back of a successful T20 WC title defence on home turf has closed in the gap with the Australians.

3 ICC titles ( 2024 T20 WC, 2025 CT and 2026 T20 WC) in succession has catapulted India's ICC tourney tally to 8, 2 short of Australia's 10. If we take out Australia's WTC title, the gap in the white ball formats is reduced to just 1.

The 'ICC Treble' under MSD + the hattrick of ICC titles under Hitman + SKY's captaincy has been the next major dominant spell by a team after the mighty Australians at winning ICC titles

India have also gone three clear off Windies (5).

The Australians took over from the Windies as the powerhouse in international cricket in the late 90s and 2000s

During their heightened period of dominance in the Waugh-Ponting captaincy era, Australia completed a hattrick of ICC World Cup Titles ( 1999-2007) coupled with 2 Champions Trophy wins in 2006 and 2009.

Australia's spread is heavily skewed towards ODI format, winning 6 out their 10 titles . The 'Kangaroos' haven't been as dominant in the T20 format, winning one title. They have annexed the WTC title once.

India's title spread is more even with 2 ODI World Cup, 3 T20 WC and 3 CT titles.

The Windies annexed back to back ODI World Cup titles ( 1975 and 1979) in the Lloyd- Richards regime.

Barring the Australian, Indian and Windies spells of dominance at winning ICC titles, their haven't been any other title defences as other teams have won ICC WC / CT titles but not in continuity.

Most ICC Flagship Tourney Titles

Australia - 10

WTC - 2023

World Cup - 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, 2023

T20 World Cup - 2021

Champions Trophy - 2006 and 2009

India - 8

ODI WC - 1983, 2011, T20 World Cup - 2007, 2024 2026 Champions Trophy- 2002, 2013, 2025

West Indies - 5

ODI WC - 1975, 1979 T20 World Cup - 2012
Champions Trophy- 2004

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