Rajasthan Royals team preview | Cellar dwellers last year, new-look RR eye the penthouse
The Hindu
After finishing bottom in 2020, Rajasthan has ambitions of climbing to the top with a new captain and director of cricket, and IPL’s most expensive player ever
It has been a chequered journey for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL. It was the champion — against all odds — in the inaugural edition in 2008. Last season, it finished at the bottom. So this time around, things can only get better for the team, which is sporting a different look. It has a new captain in Sanju Samson, a new director of cricket in Kumar Sangakkara, the most expensive player in IPL history in Chris Morris, not to mention additions such as Shivam Dube and Liam Livingstone; and there is no Steve Smith, the skipper for most of the last two seasons.T20 World Cup 2024: Sandeep Lamichhane to join Nepal team in West Indies for last two league matches
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Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.