Van der Poel believes riders are the biggest danger in cycling
Mathieu van der Poel aims to retain his Paris Roubaix title this weekend, and when it comes to race safety he feels that riders are the main danger, the Dutchman said on Friday.
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Mathieu van der Poel aims to retain his Paris Roubaix title this weekend, and when it comes to race safety he feels that riders are the main danger, the Dutchman said on Friday.
A bus route has been extended to RHS Garden Bridgewater to make it easier for visitors to travel there using public transport - and they can get cheaper entry tickets as a result. The X50 bus route now runs from Manchester Piccadilly and the Trafford Centre to RHS Bridgewater.
A dominant Kolkata Knight Riders produced a brilliant bowling effort after their batters' sensational display of power-hitting as they thrashed a lacklustre Delhi Capitals by 106 runs and moved to the top of the IPL table in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. Sunil Narine showcased his batting prowess with a blistering 85 while teenager Angkrish Raghuvanshi (54 off 27) impressed with a fluent fifty on his IPL batting debut as KKR posted an imposing 272/7, five runs short of the highest total in the tournament's history. The Capitals never looked like they were in the game be it with the ball or the bat. They crumbled under the pressure of the mammoth total.
Sunil Narine smashed 85 to lead Kolkata Knight Riders to the second-best ever IPL total of 272-7 in a crushing 106-run victory over Delhi Capitals on Wednesday. The mammoth score came just a week after Sunrisers Hyderabad posted the highest ever innings total of 277-3. Kolkata, IPL champions in 2012 and 2014, remain unbeaten from three matches this season after they bowled out Delhi for 166 in 17.2 overs to top the 10-team table. Delhi skipper Rishabh Pant made 55 off 25 balls, his second successive fifty, and Tristan Stubbs hit 54 but the rest of the batting flopped.
Delhi Capitals (DC) will take on two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 16th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, April 3. The Capitals, led by Rishabh Pant, will look to capitalise on their previous victory over the five-time winners, CSK. DC started their IPL 2024 campaign with a four-wicket defeat against Punjab Kings (PBKS). They later lost by 12 runs to the Rajasthan Royals (RR), but in their third encounter, they recovered and stunned defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 20 runs.
Match 16 of the Indian Premier League, 2024, has Delhi Capitals taking on Kolkata Knight Riders at the Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. Delhi Capitals have played three matches in the series and are ranked seventh on the points table, while Kolkata Knight Riders have played two matches in the series and they will be looking to strengthen their hold of the top spot. In the last match played by Delhi Capitals against Chennai Super Kings, DC beat CSK by 20 runs.
Virat Kohli batted out the innings for Royal Challengers Bengaluru with his second straight Indian Premier League half-century on Friday but Kolkata Knight Riders still cruised to a seven-wicket victory. Chasing the home side's 182-6, Kolkata reached their target with 19 balls to spare when skipper Shreyas Iyer hit an unruffled six off Mayank Dagar. Their chase was off to a roaring start with Phil Salt (30) and all-rounder Sunil Narine (47) putting on 86 for the visitors, earning fulsome praise from Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru have played two matches in the series and they are ranked sixth on the points table, while Kolkata Knight Riders have played one match in the series and are ranked fourth on the points table. Both teams last played against each other in Match 36 of the Indian Premier League, 2023 where Vijaykumar Vyshak scored the highest fantasy points for Royal Challengers Bengaluru with 83 match fantasy points while Jason Roy topped the fantasy points leaderboard for Kolkata Knight Riders with 88 match fantasy points.