Wood, Mayers shine as Lucknow Super Giants thrash Delhi Capitals in IPL 2023

Mark Wood picks five for 14 and Kyle Mayers makes quickfire 73 to help Lucknow franchise beat Delhi franchise by 50 runs in the two teams’ IPL season opener

DDCA league weekly round-up

Yug Gupta slammed a double century while Ritik Arora, Himmat Singh, Sanchit Sabharwal, Ekansh Dobal, Vivek Yadav, Siddharth Joon and Gaurav Sabharwal scored centuries over the last week in Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) league. Aditya Yadav was the lone bowler to take a five-wicket haul

Delhi Capitals coach Ricky Ponting wary of travel fatigue in IPL

The former Australia captain says he wants to involve Rishabh Pant despite the player being injured and hopes that David Warner will leave the team with assurance

The life coach

Gurcharan Singh, who has been coaching cricket to kids for over half a century and produced over 100 first-class cricketers, has been awarded Padma Shri. Even today, he stays vigilant in spotting talent

DDCA league weekly round-up

Mayank Malhotra, Ankur Kaushik, Keshav Dabas, Umang Sharma, Neel Chikara and Shivam Tyagi score centuries in the preceding week’s matches

Playing ball again

Capital’s once robust football scene suffered since early 2000s but progress made over the past four years seems to be bringing the sport back on track