Cricket

99 articles tagged with "Cricket"

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 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 23, 2026

Jadeja’s 43 and Archer’s 3 for 20 defend 159 as RR beat LSG by 40 runs at Ekana

Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 43 pushed Rajasthan Royals to 159 and Jofra Archer’s 3 for 20 killed the chase as RR beat Lucknow Super Giants by 40 runs i...

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 22, 2026

How freeing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to open has turned him into the powerplay’s most destructive batter

Rajasthan Royals sat Vaibhav Sooryavanshi down as an impact sub to start the season and got criticised for it. Six games in as an opener, the 15-year-...

Apr 22, 2026

Rohit Sharma back in the nets but still not cleared as Mumbai Indians wait on their opener

Rohit Sharma has resumed batting drills at the Mumbai Indians camp and looks close to a return, but the medical team is yet to clear him from the hams...

Apr 21, 2026

Abhishek Sharma draws level with Virat Kohli on nine T20 hundreds for an Indian batter

Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 135 against Delhi on Tuesday was his ninth hundred in T20 cricket, drawing him level with Virat Kohli for the most by an In...

Apr 21, 2026

Abhishek Sharma’s 135 not out powers SRH to a 47-run win over Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad

Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 135 off 68 balls lifted Sunrisers Hyderabad to 242 for 2 at Uppal, and Delhi Capitals never came close in the chase as SRH...

Apr 21, 2026

Ayush Mhatre ruled out of IPL 2026 with a hamstring tear as CSK lose their leading run-scorer

CSK’s 18-year-old opener Ayush Mhatre is out for the rest of IPL 2026 after tearing his left hamstring against Sunrisers Hyderabad, with Mike Hussey c...

Apr 21, 2026

Sunrisers host Delhi Capitals in Hyderabad as both sides fight for a top-four foothold

Sunrisers Hyderabad welcome Delhi Capitals to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Tuesday night with the table so tight that a single result cou...

Apr 21, 2026

Six games, no defeats: how Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings quietly broke an IPL record that stood for a decade

Punjab Kings have started IPL 2026 better than any team in the competition’s history. Five wins and a no-result from their opening six matches have ta...

Apr 20, 2026

Klaasen, Gill, Kohli, Klaasen again: the IPL 2026 Orange Cap has changed hands three times in a week

Heinrich Klaasen has retaken the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 283 runs after a tournament week in which Virat Kohli briefly led from an Impact Player outi...

Apr 20, 2026

In-form Gujarat Titans host struggling Mumbai Indians at the Narendra Modi Stadium

Gujarat Titans take their three-match winning run into a Monday night fixture with Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad, with Shubman Gill in Orange Cap form a...

Apr 20, 2026

Chakravarthy three-for and Rinku fifty hand KKR their first win of IPL 2026 over Rajasthan

Varun Chakravarthy took 3 for 14 and Rinku Singh’s unbeaten 53 carried KKR to a four-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens, ending a run of...

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

BCCI swaps GT v CSK venues as Ahmedabad elections force April 26 move to Chennai

Chennai Super Kings will host Gujarat Titans on April 26 and travel to Ahmedabad on May 21 after the BCCI swapped venues to work around municipal corp...

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 14, 2026

Dhoni to miss CSK’s KKR clash, return now targeted for April 18 against Sunrisers

MS Dhoni has been ruled out of Tuesday night’s IPL 2026 match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Chepauk, with Chennai Super Kings now targeting April 1...

Apr 13, 2026

CSK host KKR at Chepauk in a bottom-of-the-table clash neither side can afford to lose

Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders meet at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Tuesday sitting ninth and tenth in the IPL 2026 table, and both de...

Apr 13, 2026

Praful Hinge’s three-in-one-over debut hands SRH a 57-run win over unbeaten Rajasthan Royals

Uncapped SRH pacer Praful Hinge became the first bowler in IPL history to take three wickets in his opening over, helping Sunrisers Hyderabad beat a p...

Apr 11, 2026

Priyansh Arya and Shreyas Iyer power Punjab Kings to six-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad

Three half-centuries from Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer helped Punjab Kings chase down 220 with seven balls to spare in Mullanpur...

Apr 9, 2026

Mukul Choudhary’s late assault lifts Lucknow past winless KKR at Eden Gardens

Lucknow Super Giants pulled off a remarkable chase at Eden Gardens on Thursday, beating Kolkata Knight Riders by three wickets after Mukul Choudhary s...

Apr 9, 2026

Winless KKR host in-form Lucknow at Eden Gardens with pressure piling up on Rahane

Kolkata Knight Riders return to Eden Gardens still searching for their first win of IPL 2026 as Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow Super Giants arrive on the back...

Apr 7, 2026

Jaiswal and Sooryavanshi power Rajasthan Royals to 27-run win over Mumbai Indians in Guwahati

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s unbeaten 77 and a 14-ball cameo from 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi tore Mumbai Indians apart in an 11-overs-a-side dash at Barsa...