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Venue: Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Date and Time: May 12th 2014, 8 pm IST (2:30 pm GMT) Current Standings: *table updated till 11th May Previous meeting: Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 15 runs (30th April 2014, Dubai International Stadium, Dubai). Bhuvneshwar Kumar was awarded ‘Man of the Match’ for his spell of 4-0-17-2. Last five results: Sunrisers Hyderabad- WWLWL Mumbai Indians- LWWLL Top run-scorers: Sunrisers Hyderabad - David Warner (242 runs )...

The Rajasthan-based franchise are yet to announce a replacement for the talented Australian. The Royals are stacked with a strong bowling attack which includes the likes of Tim Southee, James Faulkner, Shane Watson and Dhawal Kulkarni and hence, Richardson’s absence may not hamper the team much. Hailing from South Australia, Richardson plays for Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League and his strong showings there earned him an IPL call....

The Bombay High Court must surely have kept in mind the worsening drought conditions at Maharashtra and gave the order. The replacement venues have not been announced yet and it seems that the final will also have to be moved out of the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. The court also said it would be better to shift the matches outside Maharashtra as the state of the drought in the state is quite pathetic....

Indian pacer Ishant Sharma has been roped in by Kings XI Punjab as a replacement for opener Murali Vijay. The 28-year-old pacer had not found any buyer in the IPL Auction held in Bengaluru in February, but will now turn out for the Glenn Maxwell- led side, who begin their campaign against Rising Pune Supergiant(RPS) in the afternoon game of the double header at Indore on Saturday. In case you didn’t know…...

T20 cricket is essentially considered to be a batsman’s game, the small sized boundaries and larger bat sizes only further tilting the balance in their favour. Every year batsmen make merry on Indian pitches which are dead after the long home season. We see teams scoring incredibly quickly and posting huge totals on the scoreboard, in turn being overhauled by the chasing team. We have had stellar batting performances across the IPL and every edition has had some batsman or the other leaving his stamp on the entire tournament....

In IPL 2017, the fastest a team plays twice is through a total of three tournament matches. There are 10 such two-match rounds in this edition, with RPSG, KXIP and DD playing two of them each, while GL none. The first team to play twice in a round is Rising Pune Super Giant: they take on MI at home (M2) and KXIP away (M4). The fastest a team plays thrice is through a total of five matches....

On the committee’s role in reforming cricket administration in India, he felt, “We are trying our best to be in the saddle. Our commitment was to bring undiluted cricket to the country. The CoA appointed by the Supreme Court are established people in the governance. There is a model constitution put out and the state association will have to put it out. Most of the state associations are co-operating. We are trying to implement the (Lodha panel) recommendations as early as possible....

Last year, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli missed out on a fraction of the tournament due to injury. Similarly, Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Andre Russell was out of the tournament as he was serving a ban. This year, as many as five star players are feared to miss the league due to injuries and a possible ban. Let’s take a look. #5 Sunil Narine – Kolkata Knight Riders – INR 12....

Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland confirmed that Bancroft, captain Steve Smith and his deputy David Warner will leave South Africa and are likely to be punished. Though the punishment is set to be sanctioned in the next 24 hours, it is likely that the players will be handed out a minimum of a one-year ban. If the players are banned, the likes of Warner and Smith won’t be able to take part in the upcoming 2018 IPL....

Though the teams will try to win the tournament, there will be a handful of batsmen and bowlers who fancy their chances of winning the Orange and Purple Caps. For that to happen, they need to play out of their skin and remain consistent throughout the tournament. The IPL will have many batsmen as the favourites for the Orange Cap. Let us take a look at one player from each team, who will end the season as their team’s leading scorer and give a tough competition for his rivals for the Orange Cap....

Surround sound is currently available in lots of consumer devices, including home theaters and gaming consoles, through popular formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. You can even experience surround sound using headphones, thanks to software magic. And now, Apple has introduced surround sound—using Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos—to Apple Music. Here’s what you need to know. What’s New on Apple Music? If you have an Apple Music subscription, you can now listen to a wide selection of songs in Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos as part of your subscription....

So, if you were holding off on purchasing a new pair of wireless earbuds, check out all the major new features that the AirPods Pro 2 bring to the table. 1. Improved Sound Quality and ANC Thanks to its latest H2 chip, a new low-distortion audio driver, and a custom amplifier, the second-gen AirPods Pro delivers notably better sound quality and Active Noise Cancellation (ANC). Apple claims the new earbuds cancel up to twice the amount of noise compared to the outgoing model....

The three basic types of wireless network connections — peer-to-peer, home router, and hotspot — each has its own specific setup and management considerations. Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connections Connecting two wireless devices directly to each other is a form of peer-to-peer networking. Peer-to-peer connections allow devices to share resources (files, a printer, or an Internet connection). They can be made using various wireless technologies, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi being the most popular choices....

Phase One: The Army’s 18th Airborne Corps, reinforced with additional firepower, tanks and Marines, attacks from Albania. A mixed NATO corps goes in from Macedonia. Campaign plan: sweep through Kosovo on two axes, closing a pincers to trap and destroy Serb forces. Penetrating Serb border defenses is one of the toughest challenges. The mountainous terrain on the Albania-Kosovo border is infantry country. Because NATO needs two to three months to assemble an invasion force, the Serbs will have had time to dig in....

The success of these markets rests on privatization and growth. Governments are easing their iron grip on foreign investing just as their ambitious young workers are reaching out for a better life. The Templeton Emerging Markets Fund-the trailblazer in its field-earned 31.4 percent annually over the past five years, 30.5 percent over three years and 14.7 percent in the past 12 months. Most of the funds that buy into these markets are “closedend....

This assurance comes after the IOA President Narinder Batra slammed the ministry for raising “unnecessary issues” about the Commonwealth Games contingent, asking it to apply the same standards of probity for its own bureaucrats. The new development could mean that all the 21 ’extra officials’ named in the list of Indian contingent circulated today could be cleared by the ministry to go to Gold Coast at no cost to the government....

FIFA is proposing to move the event to the winter to avoid playing in the searing heat of Qatar which prevails in the summer. European footballing federations recently met to try and push the event to January, a more favourable month. But, with the Winter Olympics scheduled for February, the IOC wants to avoid any possible clash. In a statement released on Thursday, the IOC said “we are confident that FIFA will discuss the dates with us so as to coordinate them and avoid any effect on the Winter Games....

The International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday that Conlon, compatriot Steven Donnelly and Britain’s Antony Fowler had been given severe reprimands for their breach of the regulations. They would also be obliged to follow and contribute to integrity educational programmes in order to be eligible for Tokyo 2020. Conlon, who vowed in Rio never to fight again in any competition organised by Olympic boxing body AIBA after his quarter-final defeat by Russian Vladimir Nikitin, has since turned professional....

Apple announced iOS 15 and detailed many of its features Monday during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). While the company went over several of the additions to the updated operating system, there just wasn’t enough time to cover all of them. One that managed to slip under the radar is the introduction of an authenticator, similar to Authy or Google Authenticator. MacRumors reports that the included authenticator system will allow iOS users to generate verification codes for their various accounts directly from the iPhone’s Settings app....