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India Today
07-08-2025
- Sport
- India Today
Blow for Bengaluru stadium: Local T20 tournament moved ahead of Women's World Cup
The fourth edition of the Maharaja T20 Trophy, a franchise-based T20 tournament, has been moved out of Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium. According to ESPNcricinfo, the decision was taken after the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) failed to obtain police clearance to host the tournament, which features six development comes just weeks after a damning judicial commission report deemed the M Chinnaswamy Stadium fundamentally unsafe for large-scale events. The Justice John Michael D'Cunha Commission, constituted to investigate the 4 June stampede during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) IPL victory celebrations, found the stadium's 'design and structure' to be inherently 'unsuitable and unsafe' for events attracting large crowds. The incident claimed 11 lives and left over 50 people loss of the Maharaja T20 Trophy is a significant blow for Bengaluru's iconic venue, particularly with the Women's World Cup approaching. Five matches, including the tournament opener between India and Sri Lanka on 30 September, are scheduled to be hosted at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The Maharaja Trophy will now be held at the Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Cricket Stadium in Mysuru. The two-week competition, running from 11 to 28 August, will take place behind closed doors, with no spectators in attendance, according to a statement from the cricketer Gundappa Viswanath, commenting on the tournament's relocation, said:'It has happened before in Mysuru and it has always been a good centre. Mysuru has always been a rich catchment area for Karnataka cricket, and it is great to see T20 cricket return to Mysuru. It's called the Maharaja Trophy, so it is a fitting venue.'The opening day on 11 August will feature the Gulbarga Mystics facing the Mangaluru Dragons in the afternoon, followed by defending champions Mysore Warriors taking on last year's runners-up Bengaluru Blasters in a highly anticipated evening clash. Double-headers will continue throughout the league phase, culminating in the play-offs from 26 August and the final on 28 six franchises — Mysore Warriors (defending champions), Bengaluru Blasters, Hubli Tigers, Gulbarga Mystics, Shivamogga Lions, and Mangaluru Dragons — will battle for supremacy. The tournament features top Karnataka talent including Prasidh Krishna, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, and Manish SCHEDULE – MAHARAJA T20 TROPHY11 AugustGulbarga Mystics vs Mangaluru Dragons – 3.15 pmBengaluru Blasters vs Mysore Warriors – 7.15 pm12 AugustHubli Tigers vs Shivamogga Lions – 3.15 pmMysore Warriors vs Gulbarga Mystics – 7.15 pm13 AugustBengaluru Blasters vs Hubli Tigers – 3.15 pmMangaluru Dragons vs Shivamogga Lions – 7.15 pm14 AugustMysore Warriors vs Mangaluru Dragons – 3.15 pmGulbarga Mystics vs Bengaluru Blasters – 7.15 pm15 AugustShivamogga Lions vs Bengaluru Blasters – 3.15 pmHubli Tigers vs Mangaluru Dragons – 7.15 pm16 AugustShivamogga Lions vs Gulbarga Mystics – 3.15 pmadvertisementMysore Warriors vs Hubli Tigers – 7.15 pm17 AugustMangaluru Dragons vs Bengaluru Blasters – 3.15 pmMysore Warriors vs Shivamogga Lions – 7.15 pm18 AugustMysore Warriors vs Bengaluru Blasters – 3.15 pmGulbarga Mystics vs Hubli Tigers – 7.15 pm19 AugustGulbarga Mystics vs Shivamogga Lions – 3.15 pmMangaluru Dragons vs Hubli Tigers – 7.15 pm20 AugustGulbarga Mystics vs Mysore Warriors – 3.15 pmHubli Tigers vs Bengaluru Blasters – 7.15 pm21 AugustMangaluru Dragons vs Mysore Warriors – 3.15 pmBengaluru Blasters vs Shivamogga Lions – 7.15 pm22 AugustHubli Tigers vs Gulbarga Mystics – 3.15 pmShivamogga Lions vs Mangaluru Dragons – 7.15 pm23 AugustHubli Tigers vs Mysore Warriors – 3.15 pmBengaluru Blasters vs Gulbarga Mystics – 7.15 pm24 AugustBengaluru Blasters vs Mangaluru Dragons – 3.15 pmShivamogga Lions vs Mysore Warriors – 7.15 pm25 AugustShivamogga Lions vs Hubli Tigers – 3.15 pmMangaluru Dragons vs Gulbarga Mystics – 7.15 pm26 AugustQualifier I – 3.15 pmEliminator – 7.15 pm27 AugustQualifier II – 7.15 pm28 AugustFinal – 7.15 pm- EndsMust Watch
News18
17-07-2025
- Sport
- News18
KL Rahul To Ajit Agarkar: Indians To Score Test Century At Lord's
1/10 2/10 In India's 2nd innings of the 1979 Lord's Test, Gundappa Viswanath scored 113 runs from 337 balls as a No. 4 batter. (Picture Credit: X/@ICC) 3/10 Dilip Vengsarkar has scored three Test centuries at Lord's. He scored 103 runs from 295 balls in 1979, 157 runs from 264 balls in 1982, and an unbeaten 126 runs from 213 balls in 1986. (Picture Credit: X/@ICC)
The Hindu
16-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Sunil Gavaskar: Any lingering doubts about Bavuma as a player and captain will be put to rest after WTC win
What delicious, smile-inducing moments we have seen in the first fortnight of June. The first was when Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the IPL trophy after a long wait of 18 years. If that was a feel-good moment, then perhaps even more emotional was South Africa winning a world title after a wait of around 27 years by clinching the World Test Championship, beating Australia in the final. That at the helm of this historic win was a player who was not widely accepted as a captain by many people from the other community makes this win an even more seminal moment in the history of South African cricket. After this win, where he had such a major role to play not only as a captain but as a top-order batter, any lingering doubts about him as a player and captain will be put to rest. By all accounts, Temba Bavuma is a popular captain in the dressing room and even the players from the other community like him. He isn't loud or demonstrative with his demeanour, actions or words, and that has made him a wonderful role model. In the way he walks out to bat and carries himself on the field, he is so much like that genius, Gundappa Viswanath. Of course, with no disrespect at all to the Proteas captain talent-wise, there's no comparison, as Vishy, being a genius, is incomparable. This loss would be a bitter pill to swallow for the Australians, as they usually win the final most times they play. Pat Cummins was once again terrific with the ball, but tactically, he could have tried a few things differently. With the ball turning a fair bit on the third day itself, Nathan Lyon continued to bowl over the wicket to both the right-handers, Aiden Markram and Bavuma, during their long partnership. If he had gone round the wicket, he would have brought both the outside edge and inside edge of the bat into play, with the ball turning as well as going straight through. The fast bowlers also hardly tried the short ball to cause any false shot or ruffle the batter. In fact, the bouncer is becoming more of a rarity in today's cricket, and that's why more and more batters have almost forgotten how to use the depth of the crease and play off the back foot. The scoring avenues that open up when a batter also uses the back foot are far greater than off the front foot, but apart from Steve Smith, most of the modern batters with their legs spread wide in the stance are unable to transfer the balance to their back foot and so miss out on more scoring opportunities. While there would be questions asked about the fall of 32 wickets in the first three days, most had to do with the fallout of the T20 format and not much to do with the pitch. The T20 format makes a batter look to clear his front foot so he can swing his bat freely for the lofted shot. At the Test level though, and that too in England with the Dukes ball, it is crucial for the batter to get his front foot as close to the ball as possible to negate the movement. Most batters got out playing away from their body, possibly because of coming to the Test match after the IPL. Markram made the adjustment beautifully after his first-innings duck, where he too got out playing away from his leg guards. A wonderful century, and as he said, the most important runs he has ever scored for his country. Those runs and the lion-hearted bowling of Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi helped South Africa to a long-awaited world title in cricket, and hopefully removed the chokers tag forever. Related Topics WTC
