Apr 27, 2026
9,000 and counting: Virat Kohli’s IPL run column is in a bracket of one
Eleven runs short going into the night and 9,012 by the time Bengaluru had finished off the chase, Virat Kohli became the first batter in IPL history...
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Apr 27, 2026
Six wins, one washout, and a captain who finally trusts his squad: Punjab Kings have built the IPL 2026 team of the season
Punjab Kings sit on top of IPL 2026 with six wins, one no result, and the highest net run rate in the league. After eighteen seasons of nearly always...
Apr 26, 2026
100, then 87: how Sai Sudharsan went from 135 in six games to the most dangerous opener in IPL 2026
After a slow first six matches, Sudharsan has produced a hundred and an 87 in 48 hours, broken Chris Gayle’s fastest-to-2,000 record, and turned Gujar...
Apr 26, 2026
473 balls, 15 years old: how Vaibhav Sooryavanshi rewrote the T20 record book before he could legally drive
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 36-ball century in Jaipur made him the youngest player and the fastest in balls faced to 1,000 T20 runs. The numbers around him...
Apr 26, 2026
Ishan Kishan’s 31-ball 74 in Jaipur is the latest entry in a quietly excellent SRH season
Sunrisers Hyderabad have won four in a row and Ishan Kishan, the man who has driven most of those chases, is starting to look like the best signing of...
Apr 25, 2026
First to 800: Virat Kohli’s IPL boundary count is now its own category
A drive off Kagiso Rabada that ran to long-on took Virat Kohli past 800 fours in the IPL on Friday night, the first batter to get there. Nobody else i...
Apr 24, 2026
Sai Sudharsan to 2,000 IPL runs in 47 innings: the Gayle record is gone
A six off Krunal Pandya at the end of the ninth over was all it took for Sai Sudharsan to become the fastest batter to 2,000 IPL runs on Friday, 24 Ap...
Apr 24, 2026
A busted hamstring, a bad back, a groin strain: how injuries have quietly reshaped IPL 2026
Around 20 players have been ruled out or flagged as unavailable across the first month of IPL 2026, and the season has been shaped as much by what the...
Apr 23, 2026
Two centuries in four games: how Sanju Samson has quietly answered every question about his CSK move
Twelve days after fans were asking whether trading Sanju Samson to CSK was a mistake, the Kerala batter has two IPL 2026 hundreds, five in his career,...
Apr 23, 2026
Prince Yadav’s purple cap run is the one bright note in an LSG season coming apart at the seams
Lucknow Super Giants have lost four in a row and slipped to the foot of the top-four conversation, yet on the Purple Cap list their uncapped fast bowl...
Apr 22, 2026
How freeing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to open has turned him into the powerplay’s most destructive batter
Rajasthan Royals sat Vaibhav Sooryavanshi down as an impact sub to start the season and got criticised for it. Six games in as an opener, the 15-year-...
Apr 22, 2026
Hooda, Vohra or a fresh face: the replacement call Chennai Super Kings have to get right
With Ayush Mhatre ruled out for the rest of IPL 2026, Chennai Super Kings are left with a hole at the top of the order and a shortlist of unsold aucti...
Apr 21, 2026
Abhishek Sharma draws level with Virat Kohli on nine T20 hundreds for an Indian batter
Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 135 against Delhi on Tuesday was his ninth hundred in T20 cricket, drawing him level with Virat Kohli for the most by an In...
Apr 21, 2026
Six games, no defeats: how Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings quietly broke an IPL record that stood for a decade
Punjab Kings have started IPL 2026 better than any team in the competition’s history. Five wins and a no-result from their opening six matches have ta...
Apr 16, 2026
Kohli grabs the Orange Cap on his Impact Sub debut and reminds RCB what they have been missing
Virat Kohli came off the bench at Chinnaswamy on April 15, walked in during the powerplay and struck 49 off 34 balls. By the time RCB were done, he ha...
Apr 12, 2026
Shreyas Iyer’s chase mastery is turning Punjab Kings into IPL 2026’s most complete side
Punjab Kings are unbeaten after four rounds and their captain Shreyas Iyer is putting together a run of chase performances that few in IPL history can...
Apr 8, 2026
Jos Buttler joins T20 cricket’s exclusive 600-six club with a timely fifty in Delhi
Jos Buttler’s 52 against Delhi Capitals did more than end his lean patch. It also made him the fifth batter in men’s T20 history to clear the 600-six...
Apr 8, 2026
Rajasthan Royals are running the Orange and Purple cap races at the top of IPL 2026
Three matches in and Rajasthan Royals already have both the Orange and Purple cap leaders on their books, with Yashasvi Jaiswal out in front with the...
Mar 30, 2026
Rohit Sharma rolls back the years with record-breaking knock against KKR
Rohit Sharma smashed 78 off 38 balls to record his fastest IPL fifty and his 50th half-century in the tournament as Mumbai Indians chased down 221 aga...
Mar 28, 2026
RCB and SRH meet in tonight’s IPL 2026 opener with both sides missing key bowlers
Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru host Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Chinnaswamy Stadium tonight in the first match of IPL 2026, with Josh...
Mar 26, 2026
Defending champions RCB open IPL 2026 against SRH at a Chinnaswamy ready to roar again
Royal Challengers Bengaluru begin their title defence against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday night at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, a ground that has b...
Mar 26, 2026
KKR retire Andre Russell’s No. 12 jersey and appoint him as franchise’s first Power Coach
Kolkata Knight Riders have permanently retired the No. 12 jersey in honour of Andre Russell, who spent 12 years with the franchise and will now join t...
Mar 24, 2026
Aditya Birla consortium buys RCB for $1.78 billion in biggest IPL franchise deal ever
Royal Challengers Bengaluru have been acquired by a consortium led by the Aditya Birla Group, the Times of India Group, David Blitzer’s Bolt Ventures...
Mar 22, 2026
PSL 2026 forced behind closed doors as fuel crisis strips Pakistan cricket of its crowds
The Pakistan Super League will begin on March 26 without spectators after the PCB scaled back the tournament to just two venues in Lahore and Karachi,...