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Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel, right, and coach Hemang Badani during the IPL T20 match against Chennai Super Kings at the Arun Jaitley cricket stadium in New Delhi on May 05, 2026. | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY Comfort has eluded Delhi Capitals at home in IPL’s 19th edition. The Axar Patel-led franchise has won just…
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Rajasthan Royals’s Dhruv Jurel during a practice session ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) – 2026 match against Delhi Capitals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan on Thursday, April 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR About 300 kms separate Delhi and Jaipur. The difference in quality of the cricket played…
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Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma plays a shot during the IPL 2026 match against Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad on April 21, 2026 | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal In Abhishek Sharma’s T20 playbook, the white Kookaburra ball is an object destined to be dispatched into the stands at every available opportunity. At the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium…
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma. File | Photo Credit: ANI India’s T20 World Cup-winning stars Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel were noticeable additions to the National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) Registered Testing Pool, which was dominated by athletics, for the second quarter of the ongoing year. Abhishek and Axar have replaced Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer in…
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Axar Patel tries to stop a boundary during the T20 World Cup semifinal match between India and England at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on March 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Even during peak traffic hours along the banks of the Sabarmati, it rarely takes more than 90 minutes to travel the 60-odd kilometres…
To the fore again: Kuldeep’s bag of tricks proved too much for the Pakistan batters. | Photo Credit: AP A nervy evening at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium turned into a night of celebration for India as Suryakumar Yadav’s team maintained its stranglehold over Pakistan. In a Group-A battle of the arch-rivals at the Asia…
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England players are seen during a practice session ahead of the first Twenty20 international match in Kolkata on January 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With the change in colours of the ball and clothing, India, mostly with a different set of personnel, will be keen to live up to its World champion’s tag in…
File photo of Axar Patel. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Openers are the only ones with a fixed slot in the Indian T20 line-up and the batting order that follows will be made up of “multiple floaters”, new vice-captain Axar Patel said on Monday (January 20, 2025) while spelling out the team’s strategy ahead…
Axar Patel’s rescue act (86, 118b, 6×4, 6×6), which included an 84-run ninth-wicket partnership with Arshdeep Singh, prevented India-D’s Duleep Trophy fixture against India-C from turning into a one-sided affair here on Thursday (September 5, 2024). Axar sparked the contest to life in the second session, pulling the crowd back which was otherwise falling into…
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Suryakumar Yadav in action during the first T20 International cricket match of a series between India and Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, in Pallekele on July 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI India all-rounder Axar Patel says new T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav is a bowlers’ captain, who allows them the freedom to…
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