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New Zealand's white-ball skipper Kane Williamson has been ruled out of this season's Indian Premier League (IPL) after sustaining an injury in Gujarat Titans' opening match against Chennai Super Kings, the team announced on Sunday.
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) take on last season's runners up Rajasthan Royals (RR) in match 4 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. SRH, who finished 8th last season under Kane Williamson's leadership, will look to kick-off life under new captain, Aiden Markram with a win. However, Markram will miss the first two games due to international commitments. In his absence, Bhuvneshwar Kumar will lead the team. RR, on the other hand, managed to retain their core group of players from last season, including Orange Cap winner Jos Buttler and Purple Cap winner Yuzvendra Chahal.
Salim Durani, the debonair India cricketer of the 1960s with a movie star looks, a puckish sense of humour, and a penchant for hitting monstrous sixes on demand, died on Sunday. He was 88. His death was confirmed by sources close to the family. He had been living with his younger brother, Jahangir Durani, in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Durani had undergone a proximal femoral nail surgery after he broke his thigh bone in a fall in January this year.
Mark Wood marked his return to the Indian Premier League with a fiery spell of 5-14 - the best ever figures by an Englishman at the tournament.
A well-balanced squad at their disposal, Rajasthan Royals would look to recreate this year the same magic which saw them emerge second best in IPL 2022, as they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in their campaign opener in Hyderabad on Sunday. The Royals, led by Sanju Samson, are a side overflowing with performers, with both the Purple Cap (highest wicket-taker) and Orange Cap (highest run-getter) being cornered by their players -- Yuzvendra Chahal and Jos Buttler -- last season. With the likes of two of India's best spinners in Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin as well as Australian tweaker Adam Zampa in the side, the 2008 IPL winners have perhaps the best slow bowlers in the league.
Defending champions Gujarat Titans got their 2023 IPL campaign off to a flying start with a five-wicket win over the Chennai Super Kings. For Chennai, Ruturaj Gaikwad put on a sensational batting performance in the first innings, scoring 92 runs (50b, 4x4, 9x6) to help Chennai put 178 runs on the board. Gujarat led by Shubman Gill's 63 runs (36b, 6x4, 3x6) comfortably chased down the total in front of a packed crowd at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Gujarat's Rashid Khan was the player of the match for his all-round show. He picked up the key wickets of Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes and also scored 10 runs off just three balls.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will start their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 campaign against Mumbai Indians on Sunday and Virat Kohli has been sweating it out in the practice nets ahead of the much-anticipated encounter. In a video posted on the official IPL Twitter handle, Kohli could be seen slamming the balls for huge sixes at the practice session and it left RCB skipper Faf du Plessis completely stunned. Faf was given an interview during Kohli's net session but the Proteas cricketer was distracted by the stroke play and he even broke into laughter due to the massive shots.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is in its 16th edition. Over the last decade-and-half the cash-rich T20 league has changed the contours of Indian and world cricket. This is one tournament where every top player in the world wants to compete. However, when the tournament began in 2008, nobody had any idea that it would grow so big. Compatriots playing for the national team was the norm, but IPL pitched them against one another. Former India star Virender Sehwag narrated a funny conversation when the IPL first happened and it involved Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra too.