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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...

Apr 19, 2026

Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai Indians captaincy has become the biggest question in IPL 2026

Four straight defeats, a visibly frustrated Bumrah and a fractious dugout have left Hardik Pandya’s captaincy looking less like a project and more lik...

Apr 17, 2026

Five matches, zero wins and no answers: KKR’s 2024 title hangover shows no sign of lifting

Kolkata Knight Riders are bottom of the IPL 2026 table without a single win from five matches, and the problems run so deep that a coaching staff resh...

Apr 16, 2026

De Kock’s century goes to waste and Mumbai Indians are running out of answers

Quinton de Kock played one of the best IPL innings of the season on Thursday night. It did not matter one bit. Punjab Kings chased down 196 inside 17...

Apr 16, 2026

Rajasthan Royals are wasting Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as an impact sub and the teenager knows it

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been one of IPL 2026’s top run-scorers and the most destructive teenager the tournament has seen, yet Rajasthan Royals keep b...

Apr 14, 2026

CSK’s trade of Jadeja and Curran for Sanju Samson is already looking like a masterstroke

Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 115 at Chepauk has turned a bold piece of IPL 2026 trade business into one of the smartest moves Chennai Super Kings have made...

Apr 14, 2026

Rajasthan’s perfect start is over and the IPL 2026 title race is suddenly wide open

Rajasthan Royals’ first defeat of IPL 2026 has cracked the league open, with Punjab Kings, RCB and Sunrisers Hyderabad all ready to make the table the...

Apr 8, 2026

Kohli and Rohit are running out of runway and IPL 2026 feels like the starting line

With Test and T20I cricket behind them, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are using IPL 2026 as the first real audition in a long build-up to the 2027 ODI...

Apr 7, 2026

Delhi Capitals are quietly looking like IPL 2026’s smartest team so far

Two matches in, Delhi Capitals are unbeaten, top 3 of the standings on net run rate among the early leaders, and producing the kind of cricket that su...

Apr 5, 2026

Three matches, three defeats and a growing list of questions for Gaikwad’s CSK

Chennai Super Kings’ 43-run loss to Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Sunday extended their winless start to IPL 2026 to three matches, and the pressure...

Apr 5, 2026

IPL 2026’s uncapped Indians are putting the established names on notice

From Sameer Rizvi’s match-winning cameos to Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s record-breaking fifty, the first week of IPL 2026 has belonged to players nobody exp...

Apr 3, 2026

IPL 2026’s first week has been pure chaos and every team should be worried

Five wins for the chasing side in the first six matches, and not a single team that looks like it has figured out what its best XI should be. The open...

Apr 3, 2026

Two matches, zero wickets and too many runs: has Varun Chakravarthy’s mystery been solved?

Varun Chakravarthy finished the T20 World Cup as joint-highest wicket-taker with 14 scalps, but two IPL 2026 outings for KKR have produced 0 wickets f...

Mar 31, 2026

CSK’s opening night laid bare a problem that goes deeper than Dhoni’s calf

Chennai Super Kings were bowled out for 127 in Guwahati on Monday, their lowest total in an IPL season opener since 2014. The easy explanation is that...

Mar 24, 2026

The IPL keeps creating its own overseas player headache and nobody wants to fix it

Every March the same story plays out: franchises spend crores on overseas stars, half of them pull out or arrive late, and everyone acts surprised. Th...

Mar 21, 2026

Ashwin says KKR bowling has lost its fear factor and the novelty is gone

Ravichandran Ashwin says opposition teams will no longer be scared of Kolkata Knight Riders’ bowling attack after injuries gutted the pace unit and th...

Mar 21, 2026

Cricket Australia’s workload clampdown is costing IPL franchises millions and solving nothing

Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood will all miss the start of IPL 2026 because Cricket Australia says they need rest. The franchises payin...

Mar 15, 2026

Jay Shah says no country is bigger than the ICC but the T20 World Cup saga told a different story

The ICC chairman used a speech at the Indian Business Leader Awards to assert his authority after the Bangladesh withdrawal and Pakistan boycott threa...

Mar 14, 2026

The IPL keeps winning the battle for overseas talent and the PSL cannot close the gap

Blessing Muzarabani is the latest in a growing line of players to break a PSL contract for an IPL deal. The financial gulf between the two leagues mak...