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Rajasthan limped past the finish line in the last of their regular-season matches of IPL 2023. A four-wicket win over the equally out-of-form Punjab Kings took them to 14 points, though that is unlikely to be enough for a place in the play-offs. Despite another superb half-century from Yashasvi Jaiswal, the Royals made hard work of a tricky chase. Here are our takeaways from the game. Jurel seals it with a six Before taking strike for the final over, Dhruv Jurel had faced 20 balls of spin bowling this IPL. He had made just 19 runs off those. So the…

Overview As they settle into their seats, thousands of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) fans will glance wistfully at the opposition dugout. Gautam Gambhir is now a mentor for Lucknow Super Giants. In the seven seasons he spent as KKR captain, they won two titles (2012 and 2014) and made the play-offs on three other occasions. Only once, in 2013, did they win less than 50 per cent of their league matches. Since Gambhir left after the 2017 campaign, they have won more than seven games in a season just once. Even a victory probably won’t be enough for KKR to…

During the 2018 Australia tour, Ishant Sharma of Delhi Capitals (DC) sought advice from Jasprit Bumrah regarding his bowling. On his part, Bumrah suggested Ishant that he needs to develop a ‘slow seam delivery’. “I asked Jasprit Bumrah what he thought about my bowling in T20s during the Melbourne Test in 2018. He told me that I have a brilliant length, but I need to develop a slow seam delivery, which would deceive a batter. So thereafter, I worked on delivering the knuckle ball,” said Ishant in the fourth episode of The DC Podcast (Season 3). The experienced pacer, aged…