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Jun 29, 2026
The semi-finals are set at The Oval with Australia chasing a seventh title. They are still the favourites, but the chasing pack has rarely looked this...
Jun 20, 2026
The 2024 champions sit fourth in their group after three games, and with Sophie Devine’s international career winding down, their title defence in Eng...
Jun 19, 2026
The squad is due any day, and the noise around Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli is back. Here is why that is the wrong argument to be having.
Jun 17, 2026
Phoebe Litchfield and Ashleigh Gardner are sidelined by injury, yet Australia have brushed aside South Africa and Bangladesh without a stumble. Their...
Jun 16, 2026
India have never won a Women’s T20 World Cup, but the way they dismantled Pakistan in Birmingham hinted at a side that finally has the bat and the bow...
Jun 15, 2026
The defending champions have stumbled and the favourites have separated themselves. After one round of the Women’s T20 World Cup, here is how the cont...
May 29, 2026
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...
May 28, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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,...
