South Africa's David Miller and Kagiso Rabada greet Indian players after winning the second Twenty20 cricket match between India and South Africa in Cuttack, India, Sunday, June 12, 2022.)

India vs South Africa, 2nd T20 Highlights: South Africa outclassed India by four wickets in a one-sided second T20 International on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Batting first, India managed only 148 for six in 20 overs with Dinesh Karthik’s unbeaten 30 off 21 balls helping the hosts reach a respectable total and Shreyas Iyer’s sedate 40 off 35 balls being the saving grace at the top-order. Anrich Nortje took two wickets while Wayne Parnell and Kagiso Rabada were economical with a wicket each. In reply, Heinrich Klaasen’s superb 81 off 46 balls laced with seven fours and five sixes, made it a walk in the park for the Proteas as they knocked off the runs in 18.2 overs despite Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s fantastic figures of 4 for 13.

IPL MEDIA RIGHTS 2023-27 - LIVE BLOG

IPL Media Rights e-Auction: All the updates

The IPL media rights is expected to fetch a lot of money © IPL

Rights crosses INR 100-crore mark /match

Unconfirmed yet reliable information tickling from the sources of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have revealed to Cricbuzz that the media rights value has crossed INR 100 crore, the first milestone in the sale of the IPL properties.

At the time of going to print, the information is that the fight for the digital rights has been intense with two parties not willing to give up. Who the bidding parties are a matter of confidentiality.

Having crossed the INR100 crore barrier, the overall value has shot up to INR 41000 crores at this stage, given that the number of games in the 2023-27 cycle will be a minimum of 410. That is INR 5000 crore more than the overall base price of the full rights package. The base price for all packages was around Rs 90 crore.

The Virat Kohli rut: What's gone wrong?

In IPL 2022, Kohli has found himself in quicksand and the harder he's tried, the deeper he's gone down © BCCI

"During the last match (against Mumbai Indians) I told Daniel Vettori (then RCB coach) that I felt like I could hit every ball of the first over from Tim Southee for a six," exclaimed a jubilant Virat Kohli after Royal challengers Bangalore's annual green-jersey fixture against Gujarat Lion in which he hit his third century of IPL 2016. Kohli had already embarked on a journey in which he scaled peaks that were previously unthought of. He arrived in that edition of IPL having already broken the T20 International record for most runs in a calendar year with just three months into 2016.