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Injured Ravindra Jadeja ruled out of IPL 2022
Jadeja sustained the injury on his rib during CSK's match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on May 4. He missed team's last game, against Delhi Capitals on Sunday. "Ravindra Jadeja reported a bruised rib and was unavailable for Chennai Super Kings' game against Delhi Capitals on Sunday. He was under observation and based on medical advice he has been ruled out for the rest of the IPL season," CSK said in a statement.
Iga Swiatek starts Italian Open title defense with a win
In the process, Swiatek, stretched her run to 24 matches, the longest streak since Serena Williams won 27 straight matches in 2015. The 20-year-old Polish player will meet the former World No.1 Victoria Azarenka in next round. Returning to action for the first time in two-and-a-half weeks, Swiatek dropped serve twice in the opening set of her first round match against Elena-Gabriela Ruse, but it didn't matter much in the end: Breaking Ruse seven times in 12 opportunities.
IPL 2022: Hopefully, AB de Villiers will be at RCB next year in some capacity, says Virat Kohli
Kohli and de Villiers shared a great bonding while turning out for RCB for almost a decade before the latter announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in November last year. De Villiers' association with RCB began in 2011 after spending three seasons at Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals).
IPL 2022: Pant happy with close to perfect game; Samson rues lack of runs, wickets
His words turned out to be true as pace trio Mitchell Marsh, Chetan Sakariya and Anrich Nortje took two wickets each in restricting Rajasthan to 160/6. In reply, Marsh came out to lead the chase with a 62-ball 89 while Warner hanged around to play the anchor, remaining unbeaten on 52 off 41 balls as Delhi chased down the total with 11 balls remaining to win a crucial match by eight wickets, keeping them alive in the race for playoffs.
IPL Turning Point: Last six overs wobble causes Rajasthan's downfall against Delhi
Ashwin's charge on throwing his hands at everything had been working well till Jaiswal fell in the ninth over to Mitchell Marsh. The right-hander had been stuck till then and broke the shackles by dancing down the pitch to hit Kuldeep Yadav for six over long-off and then took a four off Sakariya with a cheeky ramp over keeper's head.
IPL 2022: Ashwin's fifty, Padikkal's 48 carry Rajasthan Royals to 160/6 against Delhi Capitals
For Delhi, Chetan Sakariya was the standout with the ball, picking 2/23 while Mitchell Marsh and Anrich Nortje took two wickets each. Pushed into batting first, Jos Buttler had been kept quiet by Sakariya's left-arm pace. Eventually, Sakariya got Buttler out when he got one to move one full ball in, with the Englishman hitting straight to mid-on off a thick inner edge.
Italian Open: Rafael Nadal beats John Isner to reach third round
The Spaniard, beaten by Carlos Alcaraz in last week's Madrid Open quarterfinals, returned to his favourite surface with straight sets win over American Isner. Nadal has been untouchable at the Foro Italico for much of his career and he immediately looked settled in his return games against Isner, countering the American's huge serve with his trademark spinning groundstrokes.
Thomas and Uber Cup: Indian men's and women's teams lose final group tie
Both teams had already ensured their berths in the quarterfinals after winning their first two group ties but needed to win on Wednesday to top their respective groups. However, the Indian women's team lost 0-5 to South Korea while the men went down 2-3 against Chinese Taipei.
IPL 2022: It's a do or die clash for Delhi Capitals, says David Warner
Till now in IPL 2022, Delhi have had an inconsistent campaign, unable to string consecutive wins and are now at fifth place with 10 points. With their net run rate taking a hit due to 91-run loss to Chennai Super Kings at the same venue on Sunday, the match against Rajasthan becomes all more crucial for Delhi to have a chance at making the playoffs.
Wasim Jaffer advises Virat Kohli to take a break post IPL 2022
The 33-year old batter has scored just 216 runs in 12 matches at an average of 19.64 and strike rate of 111.34. It has also seen him bag three ducks, a rare unthinkable phenomenon for someone of Kohli's stature.
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