Jun 1, 2026
Afghanistan return to India for a Test, eight years on from their first
A one-off Test and three ODIs against a Gill-led India hand Afghanistan a rare red-ball examination against a top side, and a white-ball series where...
Cricket Features
19 articles tagged with "Cricket Features"
May 24, 2026
Yashasvi Jaiswal walks into Wankhede on Sunday with Rajasthan’s IPL 2026 in his hands
A decade ago he was sleeping in a tent at Azad Maidan and helping food vendors to get by. On Sunday afternoon he opens the batting at Wankhede, knowin...
May 24, 2026
Klaasen’s 606, Cummins’s 3 for 28, Kishan’s best season: how SRH walk into the IPL 2026 Eliminator at Mullanpur
A 55-run thumping of RCB at Uppal, Heinrich Klaasen past 600 runs and a Wednesday night at Mullanpur with the IPL 2026 final four days away. SRH’s cas...
May 19, 2026
From ₹27 crore for Pant to bottom of the table: how LSG’s IPL 2026 came apart
Lucknow Super Giants paid the most expensive fee in IPL history at the 2025 mega auction and finished 2026 last. The numbers behind a season that neve...
May 15, 2026
Akash Singh’s three-fer note celebration was theatre, the figures against CSK were the point
Pulled out for his first match of the season, Akash Singh took 3 for 26 against his old CSK side, dismissing Gaikwad, Samson and Urvil Patel and theat...
May 15, 2026
RCB and GT are level on 16 points and the race for IPL 2026 top spot has gone to net run rate
Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have both reached 16 points from 12 games and the race for the top of the IPL 2026 table now hinges on...
May 14, 2026
After 101, 57 and now 75 not out, Tilak Varma is the through-line MI can take from a broken IPL 2026
Mumbai Indians are out of IPL 2026 but Tilak Varma, at 23, is making the case that the franchise’s next batting era is already in his hands. The 101 n...
May 11, 2026
MI and LSG out, eight in the chase: where the IPL 2026 playoff math lands after Sunday’s double-header
Two teams went out across the May 10 double-header, four playoff spots remain, and the math now points at six teams who can still get to the 16-point...
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 2, 2026
From Cameron Green to Nicholas Pooran, IPL 2026’s biggest investments have not paid off
IPL 2026 has produced its share of auction-day losers. Cameron Green’s Rs 25.20 crore is yet to translate into a season at KKR, Nicholas Pooran’s Rs 2...
May 1, 2026
Nine years on, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is leading the Purple Cap again
A 36-year-old who hasn’t been the headline name in years is the most productive bowler in IPL 2026, and the longer story under the scorecard is RCB ge...
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 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 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
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 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 10, 2026
Ink barely dry on T20 trophy but Gambhir is already planning India’s next World Cup assault
Less than 24 hours after India retained the T20 World Cup, head coach Gautam Gambhir outlined his blueprint for the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa...
Mar 9, 2026
How Sachin Tendulkar helped Samson turn shattered dreams into a Player of the Tournament performance
Sanju Samson has revealed that months of conversations with Sachin Tendulkar pulled him out of a dark patch and reshaped his approach before the T20 W...
Mar 6, 2026
Sanju Samson has found his stage at the T20 World Cup
From fringe player to India’s most dangerous batter at the tournament, Sanju Samson’s T20 World Cup 2026 has been a career-defining run of form that e...