The Kings XI Punjab will now be called Punjab Kings. The idea behind the change is to "add a fresh look and fresh feel," Mohit Burman, one of the co-owners of the franchise, said.

According to Burman, the franchise, which also has Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta and Karn Paul as the other owners, will also unveil a new logo on Wednesday as part of its rebranding strategy. Burman, who is vice-chairman at Dabur India Pvt. Ltd, said the plan to rename the team had been in the works for at least a year.

Burman said that the franchise decided to change the name following not just in-house feedback but also from fans. "We put it to research, both with fans and with closed groups and have finally arrived at the new name," Burman told ESPNcricinfo. "The idea behind the new name is to add a fresh look and a fresh feel to the franchise. As with any product/service, everything has its own life cycle and we believe given the changing ethos and the audience taste we thought it was apt for the brand to go through a complete new refresh."

The franchise has timed the rebranding exercise in the week of the IPL auction. In fact, the new name and the logo will be unveiled the day before the auction - a small one this year - where a total of 61 slots are available for the eight franchises to fill their teams up.

The Kings have the strongest purse this auction at INR 53.9 crore having released several players recently including Glenn Maxwell, Sheldon Cottrell, K Gowtham, who were some of the most expensive buys at the 2020 auction. Overall the Kings have nine slots to fill to reach the maximum squad strength of 25, including five overseas players.

Instability has been among the factors that have hurt the franchise in the 13 seasons, during which they made the playoffs only twice: in 2008 and 2014.

Last year the franchise spent INR 68.5 crore out of the total purse of 85 crore under the new team management led by former Indian captain Anil Kumble, who took charge as the team director. India wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul was named the new captain. Although Rahul was the most consistent performer last season, Maxwell's weak form combined with the close defeats in three crucial matches hurt their playoff chances as they finished sixth.

The Kings are the second franchise to opt for a new name. In 2018, the Delhi Daredevils rebranded themselves as the Delhi Capitals after Indian business conglomerate Jindal South-West (JSW) Group bought a 50% stake in the franchise, which is co-owned by GMR Sports Private Ltd.

KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited, the consortium that owns Kings XI, recently also purchased the Caribbean Premier League team St Lucia Zouks about a year ago.

After delivering a dream performance in front of his home crowd, R Ashwin has asked for more positivity, understanding and pride from the cricket community in India. Ashwin's eight-wicket haul and century led India to a series-levelling win in Chennai where the crowd made him "feel like a hero", cheering every move of his on the ground.

However, one of the other heroes of India's incredible success in Australia and here, Rishabh Pant, was not long ago made to feel like a villain in Indian grounds when the crowds chanted MS Dhoni's name whenever he made a mistake. Ashwin compared the opinion around Pant to the one around a young Australia cricketer when asked what he made of Pant's wicketkeeping.

"I didn't think I would say this but I am coming out and saying it," Ashwin said. "But because you are asking me this question, I couldn't think of anything else. About two months ago we had a cricketer called Cameron Green who made his debut for Australia. Even before he made his debut, everybody said he was the next big thing. And as he was playing, I think he got one fifty in the entire series. I don't think he got a wicket through the series. But how much he was built up and how much confidence he was given back in Australia made me reflect and think about how we as a community treat our cricketers when they come through, the young ones. It gave me a massive perspective.

"Rishabh Pant is an excellent cricketer. There are many more excellent excellent cricketers who are there in the squad and outside of the team scheme as well. They are all excellent cricketers. We believe they are excellent. That is why they end up playing for the country. And when they play for the country, it is almost as if we are searching for what is wrong with them.

"Rishabh Pant was always going to be a good cricketer, he was always going to improve. Only if we back them in such a way that they can improve, they will improve faster. But if you are going to find those loopholes and faults, cricketers are going to take that much longer. It is more of a mindset issue for us. As a community we should be able to embrace how good a cricketer is. We can [choose to] see a lot of positives, but we tend to choose the negatives. If we see a lot more positives, we will see a lot more champion cricketers."

That is not too different with what happened with Ashwin the batsman when he went through a lean phase and started to lose his place in the side in away Tests because of his batting. The turnaround began with the tour of Australia, blossomed with his match-saving effort in Sydney, and the cherry on the cake was the hundred in front of his home crowd.

"The last hundred I scored was in the West Indies in 2016," Ashwin said. "Literally five years ago. A lot of people were frustrated that I have the batting ability but I am not able to contribute. The problem is, in India there are so many opinions and they all lean towards advising you. Nobody pauses to think how the cricketer thinks. And what help is needed. The way I needed some help, I also needed some reassurance, which I got from this batting coach [Vikram Rathour]. During the Covid-19 lockdown I practised a lot at home. Hitting balls against the wall, sweeping, footwork, everything. All put together, it was an outbursting of emotion when I reached the hundred."

Ashwin asked for a similar positive outlook towards the spinning pitches. The one for the second Test in Chennai received criticism from former players - mostly outside India but a few Indian names too - for being too loaded in favour of spin too early into the match.

"Everyone is entitled to their opinion," Ashwin said. "Whoever is giving their opinion are well within their rights. It is us who are reading into it and seeing if it is working or not. As a cricketing fraternity or a country, the way we deal with such accusations needs to get better. We must hold our pride in saying how we are playing good cricket. Test matches are won over a period of time. You play a lot of overs.

"When people give their opinions, I am completely fine with how they have opinions. We will also have our opinions reserved when we tour. We don't complain or crib, we just get on with it. I have never seen any of our greats, be it our coach Ravi Shastri or Sunil Gavaskar. They have been on lots of tours. I have never seen them talking about pitches having a lot of grass. It is more of a mentality. When people come out with such opinions, we should respect them but we should be able to magnanimously deflect them."

The remaining matches of the inaugural season of the Road Safety World Series T20 tournament will be played in Raipur between March 2 and 21 with an extra team in the form of England Legends, while Bangladesh Legends have been roped in to replace Australia Legends, who have pulled out because of Covid-19-related travel restrictions.

The first edition of the tournament, started early last year in Mumbai, had to be aborted after just four games on March 11, not long before the whole of India went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 outbreak. The remainder of the matches, with a tweaked schedule because of the additional team, will now be played at the new 65,000-capacity Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium.

The T20 tournament is an initiative by Road Safety Cell of Maharashtra in association with Professional Management Group - Sunil Gavaskar is the commissioner of the series, while Sachin Tendulkar is its brand ambassador.

"It gives me immense pleasure to welcome the England Legends and the Bangladesh Legends to the Unacademy Road Safety World Series," Ravi Gaikwad, the founder of the competition, said in a press statement. "Their participation will add to the competitive spirit of this exciting series.

"The importance of this series has gained further relevance given the fact that the number of deaths due to road accidents haven't lessened even during the pandemic. We all need to carry on with our efforts to create maximum awareness towards road safety and save as many lives as possible on Indian roads."

Grand Slam winner Stephen Ferris says "questions will be asked" about Andy Farrell's future as Ireland coach if the team's form does not improve soon.

"International rugby is very cut throat," Ferris told BBC Radio Foyle.

"If Ireland have another couple of rocky weeks, there will be questions asked and rightly so. The head coaches are getting paid a lot of money."

"It's going to be an interesting couple of months ahead, " added the former Ireland flanker.

"Some of the other countries used the Autumn Nations Cup as a bit of experiment to see where they were. Ireland dabbled a little bit in that but we're sort of back to the drawing board."

'Ireland never looked very dangerous'

On the scoreboard, Ireland suffered a narrow 15-13 home defeat by the Grand Slam-chasing French on Sunday but Ferris says the gap between the teams was much bigger than the result suggested.

"There wasn't any particular moment in that match where Ireland looked very dangerous.

"There was a (lucky) bounce of a ball for (Ronan) Kelleher's try off a French lineout.

"Unfortunately for Ireland they just didn't show enough enterprise and I think with the Andy Farrell blueprint, there's question marks yet again of where is this Ireland team?

"Chatting to former players and former coaches over the last couple of weekends, we just don't know what kind of direction Ireland are looking to go.

"The scoreline yesterday - yes it was a couple of points and Ireland had a lot of possession - but those last two or three minutes of the game summed it all up with Ireland going backwards.

"There's a lot to work on over the next couple of weeks and a trip to Italy is now looking a little bit daunting."

'I don't see any improvement from Schmidt era'

Ferris says he is struggling to see any revival in Ireland's fortunes since Joe Schmidt's reign ended with a hugely disappointing World Cup in 2019.

"I don't see an improvement from after he took over the reins from Joe Schmidt.

"There was all this talk of a more free-flowing offloading game, playing more heads up, letting the guys have free rein instead of that pragmatic approach of trying to bully the opposition into making mistakes and then capitalising on them. We're not seeing that."

Like Farrell, Ferris has no complaint over the effort of the Ireland players but he believes there has been a dearth of "quality" over the past two weekends.

"At the minute it's a tough place to be and the players need to look at themselves and the coaching staff need to look at themselves and try and come together."

Another former Ireland international David Humphreys told BBC Sport Northern Ireland after Sunday's defeat that Farrell will have to pick his strongest possible for the game in Rome on 27 February but Ferris believes there is an argument for "giving young guys an opportunity".

"Look at France over the last couple of seasons. They really are building nicely towards the 2023 World Cup and I think every Irish fan would really love to see Ireland compete really strongly in the World Cup rather than win maybe a game or two in this Six Nations."

New Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has said USMNT captain Christian Pulisic will be important for his side and will make an impact in the future, despite his lack of appearances this season.

Pulisic, 22, has played 84 minutes out of a possible 450 in the Premier League under Tuchel, who replaced Frank Lampard as coach on Jan. 26.

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"Well today the first change was already made in the first half from injury and Christian was a tight decision on whether he starts again after the Cup game, or if he comes from the bench and another 11 starts," Tuchel said after Chelsea beat Newcastle United 2-0 on Monday.

"Unfortunately we only have three changes which makes it very, very difficult to give time to the players to play what they deserve and to have an impact. It makes it difficult as the third change, you don't want to use that too early.

"So we did what we always do the middle of the match we only think about what can help you win the match.

"Christian absolutely deserved to start, he deserved to come in, so I hope he keeps on going and I'm absolutely sure he will be an important influence for us and make an important impact for us in the future."

After an impressive first season in the Premier League last year, injuries have hampered Pulisic's involvement this term. He has scored twice in all competitions during the 2020-21 season.

He also missed the game against Sheffield United on Feb. 7 due to a family issue.

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12.35pm: And that's a wrap

India 329 and 286 beat England 134 and 164 (Moeen 43, Axar 5-60) by 317 runs

India cruised to victory in a little over a session on the fourth day at Chepauk, Axar Patel collecting a five-wicket haul on debut as England went down by a crushing margin of 317 runs - emphatic retribution after the tourists had gone 1-0 up on this ground less than a week earlier.

Having seen his side dominate the match from toss to finishing tape, Virat Kohli's satisfaction was as palpable at his disgruntlement after the first Test. On a classically subcontinental surface, England twice could barely match the individual contribution of India's first-innings centurion, Rohit Sharma, and were left with precious few scraps with which to slink off to Ahmedabad ahead of the day-night encounter.

The only slight regret for another enthusiastic crowd came in the absence of a R Ashwin landmark for them to acknowledge - he finished with match figures of 8 for 96, narrowly short of becoming only the fourth man to score a century and take ten-for in a Test.

12.12pm: This is England

Not even Sheffield steel will do the job here, as Joe Root falls to Axar Patel for the second time in the match - a ripping delivery that prances to hit the top glove with Root propping forwards. England's captain tarries a while, looking at the pitch and grinning, knowing he hasn't done too much wrong there. But he has to depart for 33, top score in the innings so far (although it won't stop his Test average slipping below 50 again). This is, or was, England under Root, oscillating wildly from success to failure, and their winning run on the road is about to come to a juddering halt in Chennai. India two wickets away.

11.30am: Lunch

England 134 and 116 for 7 (Root 33*) need a further 366 runs to be India 329 and 286
India pocketed four wickets in the morning session as they look to round up England's remaining batsman and move level in the series. R Ashwin claimed two of them, to move within sight of a ten-wicket match haul to go with his hundred, as only Joe Root managed an extended stay at the crease.

To the delight of the Chepauk crowd, Ashwin struck with his first ball as Dan Lawrence gave him the charge and was nutmegged, Rishabh Pant pulling off a difficult leg-side stumping. Ashwin then tied down Ben Stokes for 38 balls of near-strokeless trench warfare, before finally having him caught at slip via an inside edge - the tenth time has dismissed England's allrounder in Tests.

Axar Patel returned to immediate success later in the session, as Ollie Pope sent a slog-sweep straight to deep midwicket, and although Mohammed Siraj dropped Root, the underused Kuldeep Yadav finally found a moment to enjoy as Ben Foakes miscued another sweep for Yadav's first Test wicket since the SCG 2019.

11.25am: Can Kuldeep clean up?

Sidharth Monga writes: Amid the festival-like atmosphere in Chennai, one man will be slightly concerned. Hailed not long ago as India's No. 1 overseas spinner, Kuldeep Yadav is playing his first Test in over two years. Over recent months, there have been several times when you would have thought he will get a game, but the team combinations have demanded either a better batsman or a spinner taking the ball the other way. And now that he has got a game, he has not yet taken a wicket out of the 16 that have fallen. He got just six overs in the first innings, and it took until the 43rd for him to be introduced in the second.

On the sidelines, Washington Sundar has been practising with the pink ball. There might be cause to reinforce the lower-order batting come the day-night Test. Kuldeep will hate to go back to having to wait for his next chance. With the remaining four wickets, it will be great if he can show the team management evidence of his utility. And just then, Mohammed Siraj drops what could have been Kuldeep's first Test wicket in two years. That's how luck rolls at times.

11.10am: Sweep for victory

Axar Patel has switched ends and replaced Ashwin, after a spell of 9-4-14-2, and picks up a wicket almost straight away as Ollie Pope sends an ill-conceived slog-sweep to deep midwicket. India have brought on Kuldeep Yadav at the other end, and even though it looks as if England might make it to lunch, India are closing in.

10.55am: Do as you would be done by

Rishabh Pant was on the receiving end of a smart bit of work behind the stumps by Ben Foakes yesterday, but produced almost a carbon copy to dismiss Dan Lawrence this morning. Say what you like about the pitch, but it's provided the stage for some fantastic keeping.

10.45am: Only one winner

Well, that is a pretty comprehensive working over. Ben Stokes has departed for 8 off 51, as un-Stokesian an innings as you can imagine, and that is pretty much all down to one man - that man - who is heading ever more certainly towards a ten-for to go with his hundred. R Ashwin bowled 38 deliveries to Stokes, with 35 dots before finally picking up the big W. Shake of the head from the batsman as he trudged off, but no doubt about the thick inside edge on to pad before the ball squirted out towards slip. Tenth time he's succumbed to Ashwin... and he could end up facing him in as many as seven more Tests this year. *Gulp*

10.25am: Struggle is real

Just three runs conceded in five overs from R Ashwin so far this morning - and it's been all about the battle with Ben Stokes, who has faced all but three balls from the offspinner. Ashwin is tinkering away, switching from round to over the wicket, testing the batsman with changes of pace and angle of attack. A good contest, in other words. Patel has not quite had the same control, with both batsmen sweeping him, and Ishant Sharma is now on for a burst.

10.05am: Finding a way

England's two best batsmen, the only members of the top six with previous experience in India, are currently trying to save a bit of face for their side. Root has started to find his range with the sweep again, while Stokes is trying to work out how best to manage the threat of Ashwin into the rough outside his off stump.

Before the start of play, England's batting consultant on this tour and a man who was adept at finding his way whatever the conditions, Jonathan Trott, spoke to the host broadcaster.

"It's up to each individual player. They'll all have worked hard on their options against spin. There are good seamers as well in the India side. They've got to work as a pair, rotate the strike, picking up length quickly, move feet and back options. [Method for defence] depends on their contact points. Whether that's using their feet or getting right back on their stumps. We've seen how people who have scored runs have gone about it.

[Toughest conditions for England to face?] "I think so. This wicket is a bit tricky; the last wicket was a bit tricky as well and we scored runs on it. The guys will be confident."

9.52am: Ashwin strikes first ball!

All sorts going on here... Dan Lawrence is the man to depart, done by Ashwin for the second time in the match, and it's thanks to another fine bit of glovework in this Test. Rishabh Pant's wicketkeeping has largely been patronised, given it's his ability with the bat that has got him in the side, but this was a fantastic bit of work, taking the ball down the leg side after Lawrence had been nutmegged on the charge, and then stretching to break the bails as his feet went from under him. Lawrence leapt for his ground but couldn't get back, and heads off disappointed once again: that might be his last on-field act of the tour. India one seventh of the way there, as Stokes walks out into Ashwin's crosshairs.

9.40am: Ax-ing questions

Virat Kohli has started off with Mohammed Siraj, who's had an eventful Test despite initial speculation that he was going to get a "Thanks for coming" in the manner of Adil Rashid at Lord's in 2018, and Axar Patel this morning, keeping the Chepauk crowd waiting in their hopes for more Ashwin heroics. You can bet he'll be on once Ben Stokes walks in... and with Patel starting right on the money to Root, who knows, that might be fairly soon.

9.15am: Finish them

Hello and welcome to the last knockings. India have dominated proceedings in the Chennai rematch and after three days stand on the verge of a series-levelling victory - in Mortal Kombat fashion, it's time to finish their opponent off. Can England produce a show of character in the teeth of certain defeat? Has Joe Root got parting shot innings in him? Will R Ashwin get four more wickets to walk off the pitch and into a very special club? We will find out soon enough.

Joe Root has urged England to learn their lessons quickly following a chastening defeat in the second Test against India in Chennai. England collapsed to 164 all out in their second innings shortly after lunch on day four, as India wrapped up a crushing 317-run victory, their largest win by runs in Tests between the two sides.

The deficit would have been greater still but for a brief flurry of 43 from 18 balls from Moeen Ali at No. 9, but having made only 134 in their first innings, England amassed fewer runs in the match (298) than India's two highest scorers, Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin, who made 306 runs between them, including a century apiece.

"We were outplayed in all three departments this week," Root told the official broadcaster after the game. "It's a bit of an education. We've got to learn from this because sometimes these are the conditions that you come up against.

"We've got to find a way of scoring runs in these conditions, finding ways of building pressure for long periods of time with the ball, and in bowling six balls at one batter. Credit to India, they made that very difficult for us.

"There's a few guys that haven't played a lot in this part of the world. So we got to learn quickly and I think that's one thing that we've done quite well in the recent time, so hopefully we can take that into the rest of this series"

Joe Root

After losing an important toss, England were pushed on to the defensive from the outset thanks to a masterful initiative-seizing innings from Sharma, whose first-day 161 included 80 runs in the first session alone. By the time England's turn came to bat on the second day, India's total of 329 already looked daunting.

"On day one, we could have probably been a little bit tighter and squeezed the game a little bit more, restricted them and made it a little bit harder for them to score as freely as they did," Root admitted. "And then, with the bat, it was obviously quite a challenging wicket from day two onwards, but we're going to have to be quite smart about how we're going to score runs out here, how we're going to build an innings, and we've got to learn from the opposition who played very well in these conditions."

The result was quite the comedown after England's 227-run victory - their match aggregate of 298 was their lowest since the Edgbaston Test against West Indies in 1995, and their second-lowest in Asia behind the Mumbai Test in 1981-82.

However, Root insisted that England were still very much in contention with two Tests to play, including the unknown quantity of the day-night Test at Ahmedabad next week, which will be played with a pink SG ball.

"We are one-all in the series, with two very important games to come and we're very excited about that because of how well we played in the first game," Root said. "We're very much in the series. [The day-night Test] will be very different. We've only played two pink-ball games, one in Australia with a Kookaburra, one in England with the Dukes, so it'll be different again, I'm sure, but it's an exciting opportunity to play at what looks like a fantastic venue.

"Day-night cricket offers something different again, so we are very much looking forward to that. We'll have a little bit of a break now to refresh and have a look at a few things, but it's exciting times.

"It's just very important that we stay level as a team," he added. "We've got to stay very level, and understand that we've played a lot of very good cricket in the recent past. We performed well last week, but we got to learn the lessons. There's a few guys that haven't played a lot in this part of the world. So we got to learn quickly and I think that's one thing that we've done quite well in the recent time, so hopefully we can take that into the rest of this series."

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Aslan Karatsev never had managed to make it into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. Now he just refuses to leave the Australian Open.

Karatsev, a 27-year-old Russian qualifier who is ranked 114th, became the first man in the professional era to reach the semifinals of his first major tennis tournament by beating 18th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday.

"It's an unbelievable feeling,'' Karatsev said. "Of course, it's first time. First time in main draw; first time semis. It's incredible.''

That's a pretty good word for what he has managed to do. Karatsev failed in nine previous attempts to go through qualifying rounds to play at a Grand Slam tournament.

Now he's making the most of it, getting past Dimitrov -- a three-time major semifinalist -- after also eliminating two other seeded players, No. 8 Diego Schwartzman and No. 20 Felix Auger-Aliassime.

"It's great to see. I think it's great to see,'' Dimitrov said about Karatsev's success. "Surprised? No.''

Bothered by back spams that developed Monday, Dimitrov was not at his best. He finished the match barely able to serve -- and barely able to walk up the stairs as he departed Rod Laver Arena.

Dimitrov jumped out to an early lead with three service breaks in the first set. He then held seven break points in Karatsev's first two service games in the second set, but didn't convert any of them.

That's when Karatsev started to believe he could stretch his already remarkable run even further.

"It was really tough in the beginning for me to hold my nerves,'' Karatsev said. "It was tricky. I tried to play in the second set, to find a way how to play."

Dimitrov stopped chasing shots in the third set, then was visited by a trainer and took a medical timeout for treatment on a muscle problem around his lower back.

He hadn't dropped a set in his first four matches here but said he had trouble putting his socks on before the match.

"It started yesterday,'' Dimitrov said, "out of the blue.''

Karatsev is the lowest-ranked man to reach the Australian Open semifinals since Patrick McEnroe -- John's brother -- also was No. 114 in 1991 -- and the lowest-ranked man to reach the semifinals at any Slam since Goran Ivanisevic was No. 125 at 2001 Wimbledon.

Karatsev will play either eight-time champion Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev next. Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev are meeting in a quarterfinal on the other half of the draw on Wednesday, meaning there'll be two Russians in the semifinals at Melbourne Park.

Asked for his thoughts on the possibility of an all-Russian final, Karatsev stuck with what he knows.

"I try not to think about it,'' he said, adding that he simply is "going from match to match.''

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Desirae Krawczyk moved into the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

They will face the winner of the match between the duo of Slovenia's Andreja Klepac and Britain's Neal Skupski and the pairing of Lucie Hradecka from the Czech Republic and Slovakia's Filip Polasek.

Salisbury, 25, is having a fine Australian Open as he and American Rajeev Ram are also into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles as they try to retain the title they won in 2020.

World number 114 Aslan Karatsev beat an injury-hampered Grigor Dimitrov at the Australian Open to become the first man in the Open era to reach the semi-finals on their Grand Slam debut.

An upset Dimitrov was struggling to move by the end of the match after receiving treatment on his back.

Karatsev, 27, will play either world number one Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev for a place in the final.

Karatsev himself looked fatigued in a poor first set, with Dimitrov reeling off five games in a row to take the opener.

He had to stave off five break points in a 13-minute service game in the early stages of the second set before taking advantage when Dimitrov's level dipped.

Dimitrov, a semi-finalist at Melbourne Park in 2017, said he had struggled with pelvic spasms in the build-up to the match and could barely roll in a serve as the match progressed.

He repeatedly mouthed "I'm sorry" at his coaching box and struggled to walk up the stairs at the end of the match.

It is, however, a remarkable achievement for Karatsev, who has been playing Challenger events for much of his career.

He has become the second qualifier to reach the Australian Open semi-finals after Australian Bob Giltinan in December 1977.

Karatsev is also the lowest-ranked man to reach the Australian Open finals since Patrick McEnroe, then ranked 114th, did so in 1991.