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The Bombay High Court directed on Wednesday that all IPL games scheduled to be held in Maharashtra after April 30 must be re-located due to the severe water crisis in the state. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is now faced with the onerous task of deciding on alternate venues for 13 matches, including the IPL final. “I on behalf of DDCA offer that our association is ready to host playoffs matches of IPL, in case they are shifted from Pune....

IPL Chairman and senior BCCI official Rajiv Shukla had revealed on Thursday that all parties involved had decided to follow the court’s orders and that the search for alternate venues had already begun. While various reports suggested that Raipur and Kanpur were the cities in the forefront as likely alternate venues, the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Vishakapattanam, which had hosted a few IPL matches of the Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise in the previous editions of the IPL, seems to have won the race....

What’s the story? With Virat Kohli most likely to miss the first few matches of the Indian Premier League due to an injury he picked up during the recently concluded India-Australia Test series, a massive void would be felt in Royal Challenger’s Bangalore batting line-up. However, coach Daniel Vettori feels that there are a lot of batsmen on the bench who could fill the void left by Kohli. “Fortunately, we have a number of exceptional batsmen who haven’t got many playing chances, like Sarfaraz Khan and Mandeep Singh,” he said....

The batsman who is leading scorer after each match wears this orange cap while fielding. The overall leading run-scorer at the end of the tournament wins the actual Orange Cap award on the day of the season’s final at the presentation ceremony. Brendon McCullum became the first player to wear the Orange Cap, and Shaun Marsh was the first winner of the orange cap award. Last year, it was won by David Warner....

DD, under Shreyas Iyer, put up a clinical performance against KKR the other night to give renewed hopes of resurgence to their fans. They are up against a formidable Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their next fixture. Here, we take a look at five key players who can help them upset CSK in their den. #1 Shreyas Iyer The new skipper of Delhi Daredevils had a dream captaincy debut against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) where he blasted away the KKR bowling attack en-route his 40-ball 93 and showed great tactical nous in the second half of the match to help his team register its second victory in seven games....

KG has taken a toll on his body as he bowled the most number of deliveries in this season for the Proteas. As a result, the pacer suffered a stiff lower back earlier in the fourth Test and is ruled out of the 2018 IPL. Let us take a look at five players who can replace the South African speedster in the Delhi Daredevils squad. #5 Jason Holder The Windies skipper Jason Holder failed to attract any bids despite having a base price of INR 1....

There have been players like Ambati Rayudu and Sanju Samson, who have reinstated their claims as top cricketers of the tournament and there have been uncapped players like Mayank Markande, Ankit Rajpoot and Siddhant Kaul who have impressed with their talents and intelligent understanding of the game. The Indian players have dominated this season more than the overseas recruits. Here we take a look at such Indian cricketers who have stolen the show on numerous occasions....

Chasing a daunting total of 188, SRH lost their opener Alex Hales in the second over. The actual chase for SRH started when their skipper Kane Williamson joined Shikhar Dhawan in the middle. The two experienced batsmen put together a partnership of 176(102) runs and took their side home. Dhawan and Williamson scored 93(50) and 83(53) respectively to help SRH make their highest total of this IPL. With this win, Sunrisers Hyderabad qualified for the playoffs and on the way, they knocked Delhi Daredevils out of the tournament....

One of the significant advantages of IM rods over other methods of fracture fixation is that IM rods share the load with the bone, rather than entirely supporting the bone. Because of this, patients are able to use the extremity more quickly. IM rods cannot be used for all fractures, and there are often associated complaints of pain and other symptoms at the site the IM rods are inserted. Otherwise, the IM rod is designed to stay inside your bone forever....

In this article, we will look at the conditions treated, what the process is, and who performs this procedure. Conditions Intravitreal chemotherapy is used for some cases of retinoblastoma (cancer that starts in the back of the eye, most often found in children). This is a potent therapy usually reserved for those cases in which retinoblastoma tumors are discovered in the vitreous after other treatments have been tried and where treatment possibilities are limited....

Inuyasha is about a young girl who falls into a well and through a dimensional gateway into the warring states period of Japan. On her first day there, a jewel is ripped from her body and shattered into thousands of pieces. She must team up with Inuyasha, a half-demon, to recover all of the pieces before they can be taken and used by demons. RELATED: The Ending to Steins;Gate: Load Region of Déjà Vu, Explained...

“You Look Kinda Dead” is the season’s sixth episode. Episode five, “That Actually Hurt”, left many of the show’s characters in a rough place. Mark had teamed up with Titan (voiced by the marvelous Mahershala Ali, who’s appeared in the MCU and will again) to take on local crime kingpin Machine Head. The fight didn’t go as smoothly as planned. The new Guardians of the Globe jumped in to save the day, but the battle left Mark, Monster Girl, and Black Samson in critical condition....

Because it is a safe surmise that George W. Bush will win, there is a sense in which he can’t win. He has not spent much time–much less than most of his rivals–in Iowa, so he is not apt to win as decisively as he now leads in national opinion polls. Therefore, someone, maybe several someones, will do better than “expected.” It will not be John McCain, who is passing up the straw poll....

Kacey Strough suffered from a pre-existing condition known as a “cavernous malformation” that bled after he sustained a head injury during a game while playing for Bedford (Iowa) High School. According to his attorney, Tom Slater, Strough was allowed to continue practicing and participating in games despite the injury. He later underwent surgery in November 2012 to remove a blood clot near his brainstem. Strough has subsequently been left with permanent impairments and must use a wheelchair....

Andre Russell, with a strike rate of 186.41, holds the record for the best career strike rate in the IPL. Russel’s record is among players who have faced a minimum of 125 balls in the cash-rich league. Among Indian players, this record is held by Rishabh Pant who has a strike rate of 162.69. But when it comes to a single innings in the IPL with a minimum of 25 runs scored, the highest strike rate is owned by Chris Morris....

Sent into bat, the Kings rode on a good start and late fireworks by skipper George Bailey to post an imposing 177/5. Man of the match Bailey played a captain’s knock of 61 from only 32 balls, plundering four boundaries and three sixes at the packed Wankhede stadium. In reply, Mumbai could reach only up to 159/7. The hosts lost early wickets, and the match seemed all but over with Mumbai looking hopelessly placed at 59/6 in 13....

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said shifting IPL matches out of the state could result in a loss of Rs.1 billion to the state exchequer. “Maharashtra will get Rs.100 crore from the IPL. If the matches are shifted out it will be a loss,” Thakur informed mediapersons here, adding that the figures are based on a BCCI study done last year. He was replying to questions posed over a statement by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday that he did not care if the IPL moves out of Maharashtra as water for the people was of utmost priority....

Extra Cover: IPL 2017, Qualifier 1, MI vs RPS: Mumbai Indians’ probable playing XI against Rising Pune Supergiant Here is the probable playing XI for Steve Smith’s side in the Qualifier 1 against Mumbai Indians: Openers Ajinkya Rahane The one big question mark throughout the season for Pune has been the form of Ajinkya Rahane. Although he is one of the most consistent openers in the history of the tournament, he hasn’t done much of note so far in this year’s tournament....

The Gautam Gambhir-led side fought back to an extent after losing five quick wickets courtesy some sensible batting from Suryakumar Yadav and Ishank Jaggi. But the fightback was cut short by a brilliant catch by Mitchell Johnson at long-on, following which MI bundled out KKR for a paltry total of 107. You can watch the brilliant effort by Mitchell Johnson here When and how? It was the 15th over of KKR’s innings and Karn Sharma, who was in the middle of a brilliant spell, had the ball in hand....