May 29, 2026
Gujarat get RCB again, at home, five days after a 92-run lesson
Five days after a 92-run hammering in Qualifier 1, Gujarat get RCB again, this time in the final and on their own ground. Here is why they have a chan...
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May 28, 2026
At 37, Virat Kohli is having one of his best IPL seasons and making the retirement question look silly
At 37, Virat Kohli is producing one of the best T20 seasons of his career. The numbers make the constant retirement talk look stranger than ever.
May 27, 2026
RCB walk into the IPL 2026 final on a streak that has not broken in six years
Every IPL since 2020 has been won by the team that came through Qualifier 1. RCB now have four days in Ahmedabad and one knockout fewer to play than w...
May 25, 2026
Ninth out of ten and a Pollard line that gave the game away: Mumbai Indians’ Hardik question is real now
Two bottom-two finishes in three seasons under Hardik Pandya, a 30-run defeat at home to Rajasthan, and a batting coach who refused to defend the capt...
May 22, 2026
Three wickets, MI eliminated, England in July: the case for resting Bumrah on Sunday
Mumbai Indians’ season ends in a dead rubber against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday, and the smartest thing they can do for Jasprit Bumrah is keep him out...
May 21, 2026
Sandeep Patil names the Kohli-Rohit contradiction nobody else will: ‘It puzzles me’
Former India chief selector Sandeep Patil has called Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s T20I retirements puzzling while both continue to play the format i...
May 20, 2026
36 Ranji wickets and an 8 for 90: Agarkar’s ‘body allows only T20s’ line on Shami does not survive his own season
Chief selector Ajit Agarkar explained Mohammed Shami’s Afghanistan snub by saying his body permits only T20 cricket, but the Bengal pacer’s 2025-26 Ra...
May 18, 2026
If Dhoni walks out at Chepauk tonight, the lap of honour is the only goodbye he needs to make
CSK have advertised a lap of honour after tonight’s home game against SRH. With Dhoni 44, a calf-strain season behind him and his 2021 wish for a Chen...
May 16, 2026
Three wickets in ten and pace well below his usual band: MI’s case for resting Bumrah writes itself
Three wickets in ten matches, his delivery speed rarely clearing 140 kmph after three years regularly above that mark, and a run-up marker thrown in f...
May 16, 2026
CSK wake up sixth and out of their own hands as the IPL 2026 playoff math hardens
Mitchell Marsh’s onslaught at Ekana pushed Chennai down to sixth on net run-rate and turned the IPL 2026 playoff route into a two-win-plus-favours scr...
May 15, 2026
Kohli’s 2027 World Cup demand is the most honest thing he has said in years
Virat Kohli’s RCB podcast quote about not being in the space to prove his worth is being read as an ultimatum. It is actually a request for the select...
May 14, 2026
Pujara’s blunt verdict on KKR’s playoff hopes is just the math catching up to a two-year drift
After the Raipur defeat, Cheteshwar Pujara called KKR’s playoffs chances ‘very slim’, and the arithmetic, plus a second straight title defence going s...
May 12, 2026
From 0-3 to genuine contenders: how CSK’s quiet rebuild has the IPL 2026 race watching
CSK’s climb from 0-3 to fifth in the IPL 2026 table is not a miracle so much as a slow, slightly boring fix, and the top four should be paying attenti...
May 10, 2026
The 27-crore captain has run out of credit: how LSG’s IPL 2026 unraveled
LSG’s Chepauk loss confirmed the first IPL 2026 elimination, and the season-long story has been a captain whose form, line-up and bowling depth all ga...
May 9, 2026
India keeps the bilateral cricket lock on Pakistan, but the multilateral exception is the part that shapes the calendar
India’s sports ministry reaffirmed this week that bilateral sporting ties with Pakistan stay frozen, while Pakistani teams remain free to play in Indi...
May 6, 2026
Mathematically alive is not the same as realistically in: KKR’s IPL 2026 playoff path
Seven points from nine, an NRR of -0.539 and five fixtures left, including a trip to RCB. KKR can still reach the IPL 2026 playoffs, but the math is b...
May 5, 2026
Mumbai’s playoff math is brutal, but Bumrah’s drift is the harder fix
Rohit Sharma’s comeback 84 papered over the question Mumbai cannot keep ducking. Three wickets in ten games and three no-balls in one spell suggest Ja...
May 3, 2026
RCB are quietly building another title charge in IPL 2026
Twelve points, the best NRR in the league, the Purple Cap, and a captain who has done this exact dance eleven months ago. RCB are not favourites yet,...
May 2, 2026
Three things strapped on, three wickets, three months out: Starc’s debut might still save Delhi’s season
Mitchell Starc’s three for 40 on his IPL 2026 debut ended Delhi Capitals’ three-match losing streak, but the strapping on his arm and the words at the...
Apr 30, 2026
Sehwag is right about LSG: a team this expensive should not be this confused
With LSG bottom of IPL 2026 after eight matches, Virender Sehwag’s withering critique of the team’s tactics has cut to the heart of a campaign that ar...
Apr 30, 2026
Twenty players and counting: IPL 2026’s injury column is starting to look structural
With around 20 players ruled out or unavailable across the league, the trickle of IPL 2026 injuries has become a flood. The fixture list and the milea...
Apr 25, 2026
KL Rahul’s 152 was the night an Indian finally hit 150 in the IPL, and his side still lost
Rahul’s unbeaten 67-ball 152 was the highest individual IPL score ever made by an Indian. He still ended up on the losing side. There has rarely been...
Apr 24, 2026
Two wins from seven and no net run rate to speak of: Mumbai Indians’ playoff hopes look gone
Mumbai’s 103-run hammering by Chennai at the Wankhede has left them eighth, on four points, with a net run rate of minus 0.736 and seven games to save...
Apr 22, 2026
Pant, Pooran and a run out of games: LSG’s IPL 2026 is slipping away
Lucknow Super Giants are 2-5 and ninth on the ladder after Wednesday’s 40-run defeat to Rajasthan at Ekana, and the Rs 21 crore retention of Nicholas...