6 h. ago Who is Vaibhav Suryavanshi? The youngest cricketer in IPL history being compared to Brian Lara and Yuvraj Singh

Suryavanshi hit a six off his very first ball in the IPL when appearing for Rajasthan Royals as a 14-year-old against Lucknow Super Giants

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21 h. ago Youngest cricketer in IPL history hits six with his first ball of tournament

At just 14 years and 23 days old, Vaibhav Suryavanshi began his already historic IPL career by hitting six runs off his first ball, but the wonderkid couldn't help Rajasthan Royals to a win

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8 d. ago Celtic Full Honours List: How many trophies have Celtic won in their history

Celtic could claim their fourth successive Scottish Premiership title this weekend - but how many trophies have they won in their history?

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1 week ago Harry Brook makes England promise as new captain gives up £550k payday

Harry Brook was named England's white-ball cricket captain earlier this week and has snubbed the chance to play in the Indian Premier League to focus on his new duties

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1 week ago New skipper Harry Brook promises full focus on England after IPL withdrawal

Brook has been unveiled as Jos Buttler’s successor after withdrawing from a lucrative deal with the Delhi Capitals

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2 w. ago Carl Hooper’s life in sport: from West Indies to Australia via county cricket

The West Indies batter on his effortless style, playing with his idols and how leadership brought out the best in himBy Wisden Cricket MonthlyBorn in Georgetown, Guyana, Carl Hooper, 58, played 102 Test matches for the West Indies between 1987 and 2003, scoring nearly 6,000 runs, taking 114 wickets with his wily off-spin and captaining the side in 22 of those appearances. Known as one of the most stylish, if not necessarily most consistent, batters of the era, he also played 227 ODIs and had five prolific seasons with Kent, making 22 first-class centuries in 85 matches for the club.Hooper returned to the county game with Lancashire in 2003 and is one of only three players to have scored a first-class century against all 18 first-class counties. “He was so talented, yet he didn’t understand just how good he was,” wrote Brian Lara of his former teammate. “People would ask why he didn’t do full justice to his brilliance, and you know what, there is no clear reason for it.” Continue rea...

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3 w. ago Grand Designs fans slam 'worst property in show's history' as host Kevin McCloud makes comparison

Grand Designs viewers were left far from impressed as they saw architect Howard and interior designer Sarah undertake their most "radical" project yet in Worthing, West Sussex.

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3 w. ago The Spin | Snubbed by Stokes and Brooks, feverish IPL might not be for you too – and that’s fine

A pub visit with the T20 extravaganza on in the background said much about its appeal and status in EnglandA man walks into a pub, orders a drink and sits down. On two huge screens either side of the bar, the 2025 Indian Premier League is taking place, not that this establishment’s punters are paying it much attention. April and the English domestic cricket season are just around the corner as, 5,000 miles away, the 18th edition of the IPL has just begun. The tournament will roll on until the end of May, a juggernaut with Ceat tyres. Ceat, helping the world move safely and smartly.Now I know what you are thinking: it’s that time of year when a sniffy English cricket writer has a pop at the razzmatazz of the IPL while getting misty-eyed about a county seamer hooping a Dukes about on damp English loam. Well, not quite. That was the old me. Wonder Cement stands for fairness, integrity and pursuit of truth. It’s only right that they are the official sponsor of the next paragraph. Contin...

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3 w. ago The Spin | Snubbed by Stokes and Brook, feverish IPL might not be for you too – and that’s fine

A pub visit with the T20 extravaganza on in the background said much about its appeal and status in EnglandA man walks into a pub, orders a drink and sits down. On two huge screens either side of the bar, the 2025 Indian Premier League is taking place, not that this establishment’s punters are paying it much attention. April and the English domestic cricket season are just around the corner as, 5,000 miles away, the 18th edition of the IPL has just begun. The tournament will roll on until the end of May, a juggernaut with Ceat tyres. Ceat, helping the world move safely and smartly.Now I know what you are thinking: it’s that time of year when a sniffy English cricket writer has a pop at the razzmatazz of the IPL while getting misty-eyed about a county seamer hooping a Dukes about on damp English loam. Well, not quite. That was the old me. Wonder Cement stands for fairness, integrity and pursuit of truth. It’s only right that they are the official sponsor of the next paragraph. Contin...

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4 w. ago Jofra Archer concedes 76 runs in four overs to record IPL’s most expensive spell

Archer suffered at the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad trio of Travis Head, Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen.

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4 w. ago Universality by Natasha Brown review – a fabulous fable about the politics of storytelling

A terrific second novel from the British author of Assembly examines what it means to be truthful – and who really benefits when facts come to lightMiriam Leonard, AKA Lenny, one of a tight core of characters at the heart of Natasha Brown’s terrific second novel, would probably dislike Universality intensely. Then again, she might love it, because an unpredictability of opinion is her stock in trade: a newspaper columnist who has recently sashayed from the comment pages of the Telegraph to those of the Observer, her views on class, race, sex, the economy and, latterly, the iniquity of diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are uncompromisingly held and vociferously broadcast, but only opaquely coherent. To keep moving is the trick.Lenny is making a better fist of survival than many of those around her, with her exceptionally neat formula for wooing readers, which involves alighting on a news story and making “a lofty comparison”: “Obscure elements of European history are best, b...

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