Jos Buttler celebrates his hundred   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Rajasthan Royals  220 for 3 (Buttler 124, Samson 48) beat  Sunrisers Hyderabad  165 for 8 (Pandey 31, Mustafizur 3-20, Morris 3-29) by 55 runs David Warner's absence from the Sunrisers Hyderabad XI made no change to the team's performance on the field, as they lost to Rajasthan Royals by 55 runs, staying at the bottom of the IPL 2021 points table. The Sunrisers' sixth loss in seven games was set up by Jos Buttler's maiden T20 century, who pumped 11 fours and eight sixes in his 64-ball 124. That helped Rajasthan Royals post 220 for 3, with Buttler hitting his last 74 runs in only 25 balls after getting to fifty in 39 deliveries. It was the first time in Warner's career that he was dropped by the Sunrisers. His previous 20 missed games for the franchise were either due to a ban (17 games for the Newlands ball-tampering scandal) or because of internat...

  Kieron Pollard says a silent prayer after single-handedly taking Mumbai Indians home   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Mumbai Indians  219 for 6 (Pollard 87*, de Kock 38, Curran 3-34) beat  Chennai Super Kings  218 for 4 (Rayudu 72*, Ali 58, du Plessis 50, Pollard 2-12) by four wickets Kieron Pollard's stunning onslaught took the Mumbai Indians to an improbable win over the Chennai Super Kings in a run-fest in Delhi. The defeat also ended the Super Kings' five-match winning streak. Chasing 219, Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock gave Mumbai a start of 71 in 7.4 overs. After that it was all Pollard, who smashed an unbeaten 87 off 34 balls. During the course of his knock, he muscled six fours and eight sixes and, with a little bit of help from Krunal and Hardik Pandya, brought it down to 16 needed from the final over. With Dhawal Kulkarni at the other end, Pollard decided he was going to face all six balls from Lungi Ngi...

  Punjab Kings  179 for 5 (Rahul 91*, Gayle 46, Jamieson 2-32) beat  Royal Challengers Bangalore  145 for 8 (Kohli 35, Brar 3-19, Bishnoi 2-17) by 34 runs In three previous IPL matches, stretched across as many seasons, Harpreet Brar had failed to take a wicket with his left-arm spin, while being dispatched at close to ten an over. All that was forgotten in the space of seven incredible deliveries, as Brar extracted three of the most prized scalps in the tournament without conceding a single run, to set the Punjab Kings up for a precious and timely victory over the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad. Brar's dismissals of Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers ensured that the closing overs of the Kings' defence of 180 were a formality, as the Royal Challengers could manage only 145 for 8 and lost by 34 runs - their second defeat in three matches, meaning they squandered the chance to leapfrog the Chennai Super Kings at ...

  Prithvi Shaw slammed 50 off 18 balls   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Delhi Capitals  156 for 3 (Shaw 82, Dhawan 46, Cummins 3-24) beat  Kolkata Knight Riders  154 for 6 (Russell 45*, Gill 43, Yadav 2-13) by seven wickets Prithvi Shaw provided a masterclass in how to kill a T20 chase in the first over, as the Delhi Capitals romped to a commanding seven-wicket win against the Kolkata Knight Riders. Having put up 154 for 6 thanks to a late Andre Russell flourish, the Knight Riders might have thought they had a fighting chance to defend that total if they bowled well. However, Shaw took one over to blow that idea to smithereens. Shivam Mavi, who had given up only 13 runs in four overs in the Knight Riders' last game against the Punjab Kings, ended up giving that many off just his first three legal balls this time around. At the end of the first over, Mavi might have thought that the first ball ...

  Mumbai Indians  172 for 3 (de Kock 70*, Krunal 39, Morris 2-33) beat  Rajasthan Royals  171 for 4 (Samson 42, Buttler 41, Chahar 2-33) by seven wickets Quinton de Kock's unbeaten 70 off 50 balls consolidated the Mumbai Indians' position in the top four on the points table as they defeated the Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in Delhi. Chasing for the first time in IPL 2021, de Kock's knock ensured Mumbai never let the asking rate become an issue. Krunal Pandya supported him well with a 26-ball 39 as Mumbai reached the target with nine balls to spare. Earlier, Rohit Sharma put the Royals in on a pitch he reckoned was much better to bat on than the slow tracks of Chennai. Jos Buttler (41 off 32) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (32 off 20) gave the Royals a 66-run start in 7.4 overs before both fell to Rahul Chahar. Sanju Samson, too, struck a 27-ball 42 but Shivam Dube's 35 off 31 didn't let the Royals reach where they wanted to. Buttler, Jaiswal make up for slo...

  Chennai Super Kings  173 for 3 (Gaikwad 75, du Plessis 56, Rashid 3-36) beat  Sunrisers Hyderabad  171 for 3 (Pandey 61, Williamson 26*, Ngidi 2-35) by seven wickets Four contrasting half-centuries told the story of the Chennai Super Kings' seven-wicket victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad, with the victors climbing back to the top of the IPL 2021 points table. The vanquished, meanwhile, remained in last place. David Warner chose to bat in the tournament's first game in Delhi, saying he did so "because we haven't done it yet", in an effort to change the Sunrisers' fortunes. However, a middling effort with the bat gave the team only a par total of 171 for 3. Warner himself scored a laboured half-century while the returning Manish Pandey made 61 off 46, but both left the strong feeling that some runs had been left out in the middle. That was proven true when Ruturaj Gaikwad continued his resurgence with an incandescent 75 off 44 - not hitting...