Jun 5, 2026
A hat-trick, a five-for and now a World Cup: the rise of Nandani Sharma
Uncapped, 24 and fresh off a record-breaking debut WPL season, the Chandigarh pacer has gone from unknown to India’s World Cup squad in a matter of mo...
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Jun 2, 2026
Australia, the holders, and India’s best chance: the Women’s T20 World Cup is wide open
The Women’s T20 World Cup begins on June 12 with the field harder to call than usual. Australia remain the team to beat, holders New Zealand head a cr...
Jun 1, 2026
776 runs and a clean sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made IPL 2026 his at 15
At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 with the Orange Cap, the MVP award and 776 runs at a strike rate above 237, the most complete individual...
Jun 1, 2026
Afghanistan return to India for a Test, eight years on from their first
A one-off Test and three ODIs against a Gill-led India hand Afghanistan a rare red-ball examination against a top side, and a white-ball series where...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 30, 2026
India open against Pakistan as they chase a first Women’s T20 World Cup title in England
Drawn alongside Australia and South Africa in Group A, India begin their Women’s T20 World Cup against Pakistan on June 14 and finish against the six-...
May 25, 2026
Hazlewood vs Gill at Dharamsala: the first six overs that decide RCB-GT Qualifier 1
Twenty-four came off Hazlewood’s first over the last time these sides met. The Australian’s chance to bury the memory lands on Tuesday night in the hi...
May 25, 2026
HPCA Stadium hosts its first IPL playoff in 16 years as Qualifier 1 lands in Dharamsala
The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association ground gets its first knockout fixture in IPL history on Tuesday when RCB take on Gujarat Titans for a place...
May 24, 2026
Yashasvi Jaiswal walks into Wankhede on Sunday with Rajasthan’s IPL 2026 in his hands
A decade ago he was sleeping in a tent at Azad Maidan and helping food vendors to get by. On Sunday afternoon he opens the batting at Wankhede, knowin...
May 24, 2026
Klaasen’s 606, Cummins’s 3 for 28, Kishan’s best season: how SRH walk into the IPL 2026 Eliminator at Mullanpur
A 55-run thumping of RCB at Uppal, Heinrich Klaasen past 600 runs and a Wednesday night at Mullanpur with the IPL 2026 final four days away. SRH’s cas...
May 23, 2026
Sooryavanshi at Stormont: the case India have to settle before they fly to Belfast
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 15, on top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap charts, and one selection call from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s youngest-India-debutant...
May 23, 2026
Bhuvneshwar and Rabada are tied at 24 wickets, and the Purple Cap tiebreaker is already sitting in one of their lockers
The IPL 2026 Purple Cap race comes down to two bowlers on identical numbers, an economy gap that decides ties, and a playoff schedule that gives both...
May 22, 2026
RCB and Gujarat head to Dharamsala for Qualifier 1 with the IPL 2026 final five days away
Net run rate gave Bengaluru the first seed over Gujarat after both finished on 18 points, and Tuesday’s Qualifier 1 in Dharamsala is the shorter route...
May 21, 2026
Zero Dhoni innings and a 89-run mauling: how CSK’s IPL 2026 came apart
Chennai Super Kings finished IPL 2026 with 12 points, an MS Dhoni who never made it to the crease, and a heavy defeat in Ahmedabad that confirmed what...
May 20, 2026
Five teams, one playoff seat: the IPL 2026 race after KKR beat Mumbai
Rajasthan, Punjab, Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi are all alive for the last spot, but Sunday afternoon in Mumbai is where this is most likely decided.
May 19, 2026
From ₹27 crore for Pant to bottom of the table: how LSG’s IPL 2026 came apart
Lucknow Super Giants paid the most expensive fee in IPL history at the 2025 mega auction and finished 2026 last. The numbers behind a season that neve...
May 18, 2026
Cummins’ 3/28 at Chepauk and a 200th T20 wicket: the spell that bowled SRH into the playoffs
Pat Cummins took three top-order CSK wickets on a slow Chepauk surface and brought up his 200th T20 wicket in the same spell, sealing Sunrisers Hydera...
May 18, 2026
Twenty-four players, eight points, three captains: how Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2026 fell apart
With two rounds to go before the playoffs, the five-time champions sit ninth on eight points. The autopsy is already running and there is no single li...
May 18, 2026
Seven into three: how the IPL 2026 playoff race actually sits after RCB sealed the top
Royal Challengers Bengaluru are in, Mumbai and Lucknow are out, and the remaining seven teams have eight league games to decide who joins them in the...
May 17, 2026
From 6-0 to six losses in a row: how Punjab Kings’ IPL 2026 slipped off a cliff
Punjab Kings went 6-0 across their opening seven matches and now sit one league game from a missed playoff with six straight defeats and a slim points...
May 17, 2026
KKR’s playoff math after the GT win still leans on PBKS slipping and a friendlier net run rate
Beating Gujarat Titans took KKR to 11 points from 12, but even a clean sweep of MI and DC only delivers 15 — and the path past PBKS likely comes down...
May 16, 2026
27 sixes in nine matches and four short of Jayasuriya: Finn Allen has become KKR’s playoff lever
Finn Allen’s 35-ball 93 against Gujarat Titans was the second big knock in eight days and lifts KKR’s playoff chances onto a top-of-the-order template...
May 15, 2026
Akash Singh’s three-fer note celebration was theatre, the figures against CSK were the point
Pulled out for his first match of the season, Akash Singh took 3 for 26 against his old CSK side, dismissing Gaikwad, Samson and Urvil Patel and theat...
May 15, 2026
RCB and GT are level on 16 points and the race for IPL 2026 top spot has gone to net run rate
Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have both reached 16 points from 12 games and the race for the top of the IPL 2026 table now hinges on...