May 3: IPL 2024 Evening News - Top updates on players, teams, stats, points table, and more

1. Mohammad Kaif, Irfan Pathan burst strike rate hypocrisy

Travis Head's innings against Rajasthan opened up fresh discussions on Virat Kohli's strike rate in IPL 2024 as former cricketers Irfan Pathan and Mohammad Kaif stated that every cricketer should be treated equally. (READ MORE)

2. Mitchell Marsh explains reason behind dropping Jake Fraser-McGurk

Marsh explained that the team management was happy with the services of Travis Head and David Warner as openers and didn’t consider any change to that - which forced Fraser-McGurk to miss out. (READ MORE)

3. Shahrukh Khan opens his relationship with Dinesh Karthik

KKR co-owner Shahrukh Khan opened up on his former Knight Dinesh Karthik and mentioned that he wished the keeper-batter to play the same brand of cricket for KKR. (READ MORE)

4. Ricky Ponting delves into transformation of T20 cricket

Ricky Ponting professed that absurd scores such as 300 were never conceived by him as attainable but believes that time has changed with new rules. (READ MORE)

5. Nitish Reddy has all the makings of being the next all-rounder for India: Wasim Jaffer

Wasim Jaffer heaped praise on Nitish Reddy for his brilliant knock and even took to X to brand the youngster as the future all-rounder for the Indian team. (READ MORE)

6. Aakash Chopra analyses MI’s batting issues ahead of KKR clash

Aakash Chopra opined Mumbai Indians’ top order has let them down in the last three away games. He also highlighted the form of ace batter Suryakumar Yadav, reflecting on his early dismissals. (READ MORE)

7. Abhishek Nayar praises Shreyas Iyer after World Cup setback

KKR assistant coach Abhishek Nayar was effusive in his praise for captain Shreyas Iyer, hailing the mental toughness the right-handed batter has shown amid tumultuous times. (READ MORE)

8. Romario Shepherd owns up disappointing bowling performances in IPL 2024

Ahead of MI's match against KKR, Romario Shepherd hoped to augment his performances with the ball for the remainder of the tournament. (READ MORE)

9. Chennai Super Kings pacer Mustafizur Rahman gets departing gift from MS Dhoni

Before saying goodbye to CSK, Mustafizur received a departing gift from the legend MS Dhoni. Dhoni provided the left-arm pacer a signed jersey of his with a warm note on it. (READ MORE)

10. Nitish Reddy lauds Bhuvneshwar Kumar's class act against RR

Reddy talked about how he felt a sense of security after he saw the experienced pacer bowl the final over of the game and revealed how happy he was to get the win. (READ MORE)