Devdutt Padikkal

43 articles tagged with "Devdutt Padikkal"

Sep 4, 2026

Padikkal and Siraj are in South Zone’s squad, and East Zone have Shami and Mukesh Kumar

India’s player of the series in Sri Lanka and one of his Test team-mates were added to South Zone’s squad on Friday. The Duleep Trophy final starts at...

Aug 27, 2026

Dinusha batted seven hours for 133 not out, and India settled for a 1-0 series win

Sri Lanka began the last day 16 in front with four wickets standing. They batted through all of it, declared, and the Colombo Test was drawn.

Aug 23, 2026

Padikkal has a hundred in each Test of this series, and Pant retired hurt on 3 after a blow to the wrist

India closed the first day in Colombo on 300 for 5. Devdutt Padikkal made 117, his second Test century in successive matches, and Rishabh Pant left th...

Aug 22, 2026

India are fifth in the WTC table, and Gambhir says the rankings do not matter

India’s head coach was asked in Colombo whether his Test side is struggling, and would not accept the question. Gambhir has the Galle win and two whit...

Aug 19, 2026

Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less

India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the...

Aug 17, 2026

Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind

India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...

Aug 16, 2026

India lose seven for 172 after Padikkal’s 167, and Galle has produced 116 overs in two days

India closed day two at Galle on 460 for 9, having lost seven wickets for 172 runs in the only session and a half the weather allowed. Devdutt Padikka...

Aug 15, 2026

Padikkal’s first Test hundred is India’s first at No. 3 by a left-hander since Ganguly

Devdutt Padikkal reached three figures off 134 balls in Galle after Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out in a tangle with the bowler and KL Rahul retired hurt...

Aug 13, 2026

India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...

Aug 10, 2026

Sarfaraz Khan replaces Sudharsan for the Sri Lanka Tests, 21 months after his last one

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has not cleared in time for Galle, and India have turned to a batter who last played a Test in November 2024. Sarfaraz Khan joins...

Aug 9, 2026

India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it

India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...

Aug 8, 2026

Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon

India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.

Jun 7, 2026

India’s batting riches are turning selection into a happy problem

Five fifties in one declared innings, two wicketkeepers in the same XI and a No. 7 making runs: India’s Test batting has become so deep that the only...

May 13, 2026

Kohli’s unbeaten 105 ends the duck streak and pushes RCB back to the IPL 2026 top spot

Two ducks into one century: Virat Kohli’s 105 off 60 at Raipur drives Royal Challengers Bengaluru past Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets and back t...

Apr 29, 2026

RCB return to Ahmedabad less than a week on from chasing 206 in Bengaluru, with Gujarat asked the same question again

Royal Challengers Bengaluru travel to the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday night to face Gujarat Titans, less than a week after Virat Kohli’s 81 off...

Apr 27, 2026

Hazlewood four-for and a Bhuvneshwar three rip Delhi for 75 as RCB cruise home in 6.3 overs

Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowled Delhi Capitals out for 75 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Monday and chased it down with nine wickets and 81 deliver...

Apr 25, 2026

First to 800: Virat Kohli’s IPL boundary count is now its own category

A drive off Kagiso Rabada that ran to long-on took Virat Kohli past 800 fours in the IPL on Friday night, the first batter to get there. Nobody else i...

Apr 24, 2026

Kohli’s 81 and a Padikkal blitz get RCB home as Sudharsan’s hundred is not enough in Bengaluru

Virat Kohli made 81 off 44 and Devdutt Padikkal 55 off 27 as Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased 206 with seven balls to spare at the M Chinnaswamy Sta...

Apr 5, 2026

Tim David blitzes 70 off 25 balls as RCB post IPL 2026’s highest total to crush CSK

Tim David smashed an unbeaten 70 off 25 balls as Royal Challengers Bengaluru posted 250 for 3, the highest score of IPL 2026, and crushed Chennai Supe...

Mar 29, 2026

Duffy’s dream debut hands RCB a record-breaking opening night

New Zealand seamer Jacob Duffy took 3 for 22 on his IPL debut as Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased down 202 in just 15.4 overs to beat Sunrisers Hyde...

Mar 28, 2026

Kohli and Padikkal power RCB to six-wicket win over SRH in IPL 2026 opener

Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased down 202 with 26 balls to spare at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on a night that began with tributes...

Mar 29, 2022

From Shreevats Goswami to Ruturaj Gaikwad, know the Indian T20 League Emerging Player of the Year awardees

Mustafizur Rahman is the only overseas player to win the Emerging Player of the Year in the Indian T20 League.

May 9, 2021

Full Timeline: How COVID disrupted T20 Cricket’s Biggest League

It began with a trickle, then snowballed into a storm. Here’s how the second wave of the deadly coronavirus ended up suspending the Indian T20 League

Apr 23, 2021

Padikkal’s maiden ton and record partnership with Kohli – Key stats from Bangalore’s win

Devdutt Padikkal is the third-youngest player in the Indian T20 League to score a century.