Kannanur Lokesh Rahul (born 18 April 1992) is an Indian international cricketer who plays as a right-handed wicket-keeper batsmen for Karnataka at the domestic level and is the captain for Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League. He generally plays as an opener in Test and T20 formats of the game and plays in the middle order in the ODIs. Rahul is an occasional wicketkeeper in the shorter formats of the game
Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, generally known as Ekana Cricket Stadium, is an international cricket stadium in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh state in India. This arena have seating capacity of 50,000, thus it is the fifth largest international cricket stadium in nation. Formerly known as the Ekana International Cricket Stadium, it was renamed in honour of former Prime minister
The Arun Jaitley Stadium is a cricket stadium owned and operated the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) and located on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi. It was established in 1883 as the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, and named after the nearby Kotla fort. It is the second oldest functional international cricket stadium in India, after the Eden Gardens of Kolkata. As of 25 October 2019, it has hosted
The 2023 Indian Premier League (also known as TATA IPL 2023 for sponsorship reasons and sometimes referred to as IPL 2023 or IPL 16) is the ongoing 16th season of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in India. It is owned and operated by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Background The league returned to its original home-and-away format after a period
The Second Test in the Australian cricket team’s tour of India in early 2001 was a Test match played over five days at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from 11–15 March 2001. India won the match by 171 runs after being forced to follow-on, only the third time this has happened since Test cricket began in 1877. The Australian team, rated as the best in the world, had won 16
The Second Test in the Indian cricket team’s tour of Australia for the 2007–08 summer was a Test cricket match played over five days at the Sydney Cricket Ground from 2 to 6 January 2008. Australia won the match by 122 runs with minutes to spare at the end of the fifth day. The match attained notoriety owing to the number of wrong umpiring decisions given by
The India cricket team toured Australia from November 2020 to January 2021 to play four Tests, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The Test series formed part of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship, and the ODI series formed part of the inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. In February 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced
The Australian cricket team toured India in September 2022 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches as a preparatory series before 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, after which they have returned in February and March 2023 to play four Test and three One Day International (ODI) matches. In August 2022, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the schedule for the T20Is. In
The Border–Gavaskar Trophy is a Test cricket series played between India and Australia. It is played via the International Cricket Council’s future tours. As of January 2021, India holds the trophy after defeating Australia in 2020-21 by two Tests to one, with one drawn match. If a series is drawn, the country holding the trophy retains it. The series is named after distinguished former
National Highway 9 (NH 9) is a National Highway in India in east-west direction. It starts at Malout in Punjab and ends at Pithoragarh in Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand. It passes through the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. After renumbering of all national highways by National Highway Authority of India in 2010, the current NH 9 was formed by merging segments of five separate national highways in 2010; these were Old NH 10 (Fazilka-Delhi section),