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MUMBAI : Delhi Capitals' next Indian Premier League (IPL) match has been shifted from Pune to Mumbai following five COVID-19 cases in the camp, the organising Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.
Impressed with the way Dinesh Karthik is making his bat talk in this year's IPL, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar reckons that the veteran keeper-batter can play the role of a finisher for the Indian team in the T20 World Cup later this year. Karthik has been hitting the ball fluently for his new franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore this season. The former Kolkata Knight Riders skipper has produced effective knocks of 32, 14, 44, 7, 34 and 66 with an astonishing strike-rate of 209.57. By remaining unbeaten in five of the six innings, he is averaging 197.00.
Rajasthan Royals on Monday withstood the challenge of the defiant Kolkata Knight Riders to win an epic match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Jos Buttler's second century of the season and a five-wicket haul from Yuzvendra Chahal that included a hat-trick helped the Royals edge past KKR, who fell just seven runs short of the 218-run target after a valiant effort with the bat. The match was an edge-of-your-seat thriller, with twists and turns throughout the second innings especially, starting off with Sunil Narine's run-out off the very first delivery of KKR's chase and ending with Obed McCoy taking two wickets in the final over while defending 11 runs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's tearaway paceman Umran Malik has been the toast of the cricket fraternity since the start of this season of IPL as he has impressed everyone with express pace and ability to pick up wickets. Umran made his IPL debut last season for SRH and his performances impressed the team management so much that they decided to retain him despite the fact that he has hardly played any domestic cricket for his state Jammu and Kashmir.
Karthik is making his bat talk in this year's IPL, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar reckons that the veteran keeper-batter can play the role of a finisher for the Indian team in the T20 World Cup later this year. Karthik has been hitting the ball fluently for his new franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore this season.
Proteas wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen will lead South Africa A's one-dayers and T20 squads for their upcoming tour against Zimbabwe XI at Harare Sports Club.
Delhi Capitals' upcoming match against Punjab Kings on Wednesday has been shifted from Pune to Mumbai and will now be played at the Brabourne Stadium. The decision was take by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday. The BCCI announced through a press release that it was changing the venue of the match "to avoid any further incident due to any undetected case during a long-distance bus journey in a closed environment."
Rajasthan Royals spinner Yuzvendra Chahal expressed happiness after he got the first hat-trick of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, against Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday. Jos Buttler's 103-run knock, his second of the season, and Chahal's five-wicket haul, which also included a hat-trick, powered Rajasthan Royals to a thrilling seven-run win against Kolkata Knight Riders here at the Brabourne Stadium. "I had to take wickets in this match to change the result," said Chahal in the post-match presentation.