Shashank Kishore

1 week ago | espn.in | Shashank Kishore

Two senior officials of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) - secretary A Shankar and treasurer ES Jairam - have resigned from their positions citing "moral responsibility" for Wednesday's stampede at Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) IPL 2025 victory celebration. The resignation letters have been submitted to KSCA president Raghuram Bhat. During the event, planned to celebrate RCB's first IPL title win in 18 attempts, 11 people died, and several others were injured.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Shashank Kishore

The Bengaluru Police have filed a first information report (FIR) against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) franchise over the deaths of 11 people and injuries to many more in a stampede during the event held on Wednesday to celebrate RCB winning the IPL. In the FIR, a copy of which has been seen by ESPNcricinfo, RCB were listed as the first accused.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Shashank Kishore

The celebrations following Royal Challengers Bengaluru's long-awaited IPL triumph are set to reach a crescendo on Wednesday afternoon, as the franchise prepares to honour its beloved champions at home. Even as the franchise announced grand plans of an open-bus parade along a 2km stretch from Vidhana Soudha to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in the evening, the city's traffic police had already begun working overtime to manage crowds and traffic movements around the city's CBD.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Shashank Kishore

"Relax, rejuvenate, get a massage, and be in a great mindspace."That is Shreyas Iyer's agenda ahead of Tuesday's IPL 2025 final, where he'll have the chance to win a second straight title as captain, this time with Punjab Kings (PBKS), following his success with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) last year. Iyer played a truly special innings to get there. His unbeaten 41-ball 87 in Qualifier 2 against Mumbai Indians (MI) took PBKS to their second IPL final, their last one coming way back in 2014.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | Shashank Kishore

B Sai Sudharsan had just missed a scoop off a full Trent Boult delivery. Unhappy that the umpire had not called it a leg-side wide, he signalled for a review. At that stage, Gujarat Titans (GT) needed 99 off 48 to knock Mumbai Indians (MI) out of IPL 2025. It was a proper dogfight. As the third umpire did his work, and concluded that Sai Sudharsan had moved across his stumps too much, Hardik Pandya called his quicks for a conference.