Jun 5, 2026
A hat-trick, a five-for and now a World Cup: the rise of Nandani Sharma
Uncapped, 24 and fresh off a record-breaking debut WPL season, the Chandigarh pacer has gone from unknown to India’s World Cup squad in a matter of mo...
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Jun 1, 2026
Rishabh Pant steps down as LSG captain after IPL 2026 wooden-spoon finish
Two seasons after a record ₹27 crore move to Lucknow, Rishabh Pant has handed back the captaincy, with the franchise finishing bottom of the IPL 2026...
May 31, 2026
RCB chase a second straight title as Gujarat sweat on Siraj for the IPL 2026 final
The IPL 2026 final lands in Ahmedabad on Sunday with the toss, the dew and Mohammed Siraj’s fitness all hanging over a rematch RCB won by 92 runs.
May 31, 2026
India and England head to Taunton for a T20I decider with the World Cup looming
India and England go to Taunton on Tuesday with their T20I series level at 1-1 and the last word before the Women’s T20 World Cup up for grabs.
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...
May 29, 2026
Gill’s 104 powers Gujarat to a record 215 chase and into the IPL 2026 final
A fifth IPL hundred from the Gujarat captain turned a daunting 215 into a comfortable night, and sent his team back to the final for a shot at RCB.
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 26, 2026
Patidar’s 33-ball 93 sends RCB to the IPL 2026 final with a 92-run win over Gujarat
Patidar’s unbeaten 93 off 33, a strike rate of 281.81 and the fastest 90+ innings in IPL history, turned Qualifier 1 inside out at the HPCA Stadium.
May 25, 2026
Hazlewood vs Gill at Dharamsala: the first six overs that decide RCB-GT Qualifier 1
Twenty-four came off Hazlewood’s first over the last time these sides met. The Australian’s chance to bury the memory lands on Tuesday night in the hi...
May 23, 2026
Shreyas Iyer’s first IPL century lifts PBKS past LSG and leaves Sunday’s MI-RR to decide their season
Punjab Kings escaped Lucknow with 15 points and a captain’s hundred, but their playoff seat now depends on whether Rajasthan Royals can win at Wankhed...
May 23, 2026
Kohli walks past Travis Head at Uppal as RCB lose by 55 but keep IPL 2026 top spot
Virat Kohli’s running row with Travis Head spilled into the post-match handshake line at Uppal on Friday, with the RCB batter walking straight past th...
May 23, 2026
Bhuvneshwar and Rabada are tied at 24 wickets, and the Purple Cap tiebreaker is already sitting in one of their lockers
The IPL 2026 Purple Cap race comes down to two bowlers on identical numbers, an economy gap that decides ties, and a playoff schedule that gives both...
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 22, 2026
Sudharsan 638, Gill 616, Kohli 542: the Orange Cap race walks into the IPL 2026 playoffs
Sai Sudharsan reclaimed the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 84 off 53 against CSK on Thursday, going 22 clear of Shubman Gill and 96 ahead of Virat Kohli wit...
May 21, 2026
Zero Dhoni innings and a 89-run mauling: how CSK’s IPL 2026 came apart
Chennai Super Kings finished IPL 2026 with 12 points, an MS Dhoni who never made it to the crease, and a heavy defeat in Ahmedabad that confirmed what...
May 20, 2026
First Indian to 50 sixes in an IPL season: Sooryavanshi back on top of the Orange Cap race
A 93 off 38 in Jaipur pulled Vaibhav Sooryavanshi past Mitchell Marsh on the IPL 2026 Orange Cap leaderboard and into a small list of records nobody h...
May 16, 2026
PBKS host the team that beat them in the 2025 final as RCB head to Dharamsala one win from sealing the top two
Royal Challengers Bengaluru travel to Dharamsala on Sunday with a chance to lock in their playoff berth and a top-two finish against a Punjab Kings si...
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 14, 2026
Tilak Varma’s unbeaten 75 off 33 carries MI past PBKS at Dharamsala as Punjab’s slide stretches to five
Mumbai Indians needed 15 from the last over against Xavier Bartlett, but Tilak Varma struck two sixes off the final two balls he faced to finish unbea...
May 14, 2026
Rinku Singh’s new trigger movement has him unbeaten for four straight innings
The KKR finisher has piled up 207 runs at a strike rate over 170 in his last four innings, with coach Abhishek Nayar pointing at a small walk-across c...
May 11, 2026
Kohli’s first-ball duck off Chahar leaves him in back-to-back IPL territory not seen since 2022
Virat Kohli charged at Deepak Chahar’s opening delivery in Raipur and chipped a leading edge to Raj Bawa at mid-off. The golden duck makes it consecut...
May 10, 2026
Urvil Patel’s 13-ball fifty hands CSK a five-wicket win and knocks LSG out at Chepauk
Urvil Patel matched the IPL record for the fastest fifty as Chennai Super Kings chased down 204 with four balls to spare, ending Lucknow Super Giants’...
May 10, 2026
Mehidy’s five-for and Pakistan’s 386 leave Bangladesh 34 ahead at stumps despite Awais’s debut hundred
Pakistan recovered after the rain but were dismissed for 386 in reply to Bangladesh’s 413, and the hosts closed day three of the Mirpur Test 7 for 0 a...