Jun 5, 2026
KS Bharat retires from international cricket at 32 after a long wait behind Pant
India’s long-serving Test reserve keeper has walked away from the international game at 32, with a move to the overseas T20 circuit the likely next st...
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May 22, 2026
Dharamsala, Mullanpur, Ahmedabad: the IPL 2026 playoff map after Bengaluru loses the final
BCCI has locked in the IPL 2026 playoff venues, with Dharamsala opening proceedings on May 26 and Ahmedabad replacing Bengaluru as the host of the fin...
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
Two unbeaten hundreds and still no ODI slot: Sanju Samson’s Afghanistan snub
The CSK wicketkeeper-batter has been left out of India’s ODI squad for the Afghanistan series despite a 170-strike-rate IPL 2026, with Ishan Kishan pi...
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 19, 2026
India name Gill-led squads for Afghanistan as Rahul takes Test deputy job from Pant and Bumrah rests
Ajit Agarkar’s selection committee handed the Test vice-captaincy to KL Rahul, rested Jasprit Bumrah for both formats, and capped three uncapped playe...
May 18, 2026
BCCI source calls the Shreyas Iyer captaincy reports baseless as the Suryakumar Yadav question refuses to go away
A second wave of reports has named Shreyas Iyer as the leading candidate to take over from Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain after IPL 2026. A...
May 18, 2026
Prince Yadav’s IPL 2026 surge pushes him into the frame for an India ODI debut against Afghanistan
India’s selectors meet on Tuesday to finalise the ODI and Test squads for next month’s Afghanistan series, and LSG pacer Prince Yadav has worked his w...
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 15, 2026
CSK rope in left-armer Kuldip Yadav at 30 lakh as Khaleel Ahmed’s full-season replacement
Chennai have signed Delhi pacer Kuldip Yadav at his base price exactly a month after Khaleel Ahmed limped off with a Grade 2 quadricep tear against KK...
May 15, 2026
Sooryavanshi earns maiden India A call-up as Tilak Varma leads ODI tri-series squad
The 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals opener has been named in India A’s 15-member squad for the ODI tri-series in Sri Lanka in June, with Tilak Varma as c...
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
Afghanistan Test puts BCCI selectors in a corner over handing fresh caps to Nabi and Brar
Selectors are wary of handing out Test caps in a fixture that brings no WTC points, leaving the conversation around Auqib Nabi, Gurnoor Brar and Princ...
May 9, 2026
Sanju Samson moves ahead of Shreyas Iyer in race to replace Suryakumar as India’s T20I captain
Fresh reports place Sanju Samson at the front of the BCCI’s thinking to take India’s T20I captaincy from Suryakumar Yadav, with Shreyas Iyer’s strong...
May 8, 2026
How the BCCI’s batting-friendly directive has redrawn home advantage in IPL 2026
A board-controlled blueprint of uniform grass cover, minimal seam and spin, and 77-metre boundaries has put a central curator at every venue and erase...
May 8, 2026
Honey traps, hotel rooms and dugout access: inside BCCI’s IPL 2026 protocol crackdown
The BCCI is readying an advisory to clean up unauthorised access in IPL 2026, with the Anti-Corruption Unit flagging unknown people in dugouts, team h...
May 7, 2026
Mullanpur and Dharamshala host the IPL 2026 playoffs, and Punjab Kings could play every game at home
The BCCI has split the IPL 2026 knockouts across Dharamshala, Mullanpur and Ahmedabad, handing the second-placed Punjab Kings a structural quirk: ever...
May 6, 2026
BCCI shifts the IPL 2026 final to Ahmedabad as Bengaluru loses hosting rights
The IPL 2026 playoffs schedule lands across three venues, with Dharamshala, New Chandigarh and the Narendra Modi Stadium taking the four matches. The...
May 4, 2026
Mittal family land Rajasthan Royals in $1.65 billion takeover after Somani deal collapses
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Adar Poonawalla have agreed a $1.65 billion deal for the IPL franchise, with Mittal taking 75% and Poonawalla 18%. The...
May 2, 2026
Harmanpreet to lead, Mandhana deputy: India name 15 for Women’s T20 World Cup 2026
India have named their 15-member squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 in England, with Harmanpreet Kaur leading for the fifth time and Smriti...
May 1, 2026
India to name Women’s T20 World Cup squad on Saturday before England tour
Selection chair Amita Sharma’s panel meets at BCCI headquarters in Mumbai on Saturday to unveil the 15 names for England, with squads for the upcoming...
May 1, 2026
Riyan Parag fined 25% match fee and given a demerit point for vaping in the Rajasthan dressing room
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag has been hit with a 25 per cent match-fee fine and a demerit point after a broadcast camera caught him using a va...
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...