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10-team IPL begins today after mega auction reset. Here’s how the squads stack up

15th edition of IPL features 10 teams for the first time since 2011. Many names synonymous with certain franchises have been shuffled around, and there are few clear favourites.

‘I wasn’t perfect. I love loud music, smoked, drank, bowled a bit of leg spin’: Warne on himself

Shane Warne arrived as an oasis in the desert of despair, sent by the cricketing gods to slake the thirst of an entire generation of cricket lovers.

Jason Roy butchered Lahore Qalandars in PSL. Pakistanis guessing which IPL team will buy him

A fan argued that Jason Roy had previously gone unsold in IPL because the batting talent the Indian league has is unreal.

Industrialist Sanjiv Goenka wins IPL’s new Lucknow franchise with bid of over Rs 7,000 crore

International equity investment firm CVC Capital won the Ahmedabad franchise with a bid of Rs 5,600 crore. The two new teams will be part of the 2022 IPL tournament.

IPL match between DC & SRH to go ahead despite bowler T Natarajan testing positive for Covid

The Sunrisers Hyderabad left-arm pacer is currently asymptomatic and his six close contacts have been isolated, according to a BCCI release.

Taliban bans IPL broadcast in Afghanistan over presence of ‘female spectators’

Ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the international sporting community has been concerned about the fundamentalist group’s position on women participating in sports.

Porn films not the first Raj Kundra controversy. His life can inspire ‘how not to make money’

Actor Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra has courted trouble through the years, from cricket betting and gold scandal to alleged deals with gangsters and now porn films.

Bombay HC sets aside arbitration award directing BCCI to pay over Rs 4,800 crore to DCHL

The arbitrator appointed by the court had held the termination of DCHL's IPL team Deccan Chargers Hyderabad illegal and the sum plus 10% interest to be computed from 2012.

KKR bowler Pat Cummins allocates donation to UNICEF Australia’s India Covid Crisis Appeal

Fast bowler Cummins urged people to donate to the initiative as Australian Cricket works to raise funds for India Covid Crisis Appeal. Cummins earlier said he was donating USD 50,000 to PM CARES.

IPL suspended indefinitely after multiple Covid cases in bio-bubble

The announcement came after SRH wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha tested positive. CSK bowling coach L Balaji and KKR bowlers Varun Chakravarthy & Sandeep Warrier had tested positive Monday.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.