Jul 14, 2026
Stephen Fleming steps down as CSK head coach after 18 years
Chennai Super Kings and Stephen Fleming have parted ways after an 18-year association, ending one of the most successful captain-coach eras in franchi...
Indian cricket
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Jul 10, 2026
MS Dhoni’s cricket records: the milestones that define his career
He is the only captain to win all three major ICC white-ball trophies and the only keeper past 100 ODI stumpings. Here are the records that define MS...
Jul 10, 2026
Big Bash League to open its 2026-27 season in Chennai, its first match outside Australia
The Big Bash League will begin its 2026-27 season at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, the first time the Australian T20 competition has staged a matc...
Jul 2, 2026
Sanju Samson’s slump has reopened India’s most awkward selection call
Three single-figure scores in a row, and a 15-year-old with 776 IPL runs waiting in the same squad. Sanju Samson’s form has handed India a selection q...
Jul 1, 2026
Two World Cups, two group exits: India can’t keep delaying their T20 rebuild
India just won the 50-over World Cup, but a second straight group-stage exit at the Women’s T20 World Cup shows the shortest format still exposes the...
Jun 29, 2026
Iyer’s India open the England T20Is at Chester-le-Street after the Ireland sweep
India open a five-match T20I series in England on Wednesday at Chester-le-Street, fresh off a chastening 2-0 sweep by Ireland that left Shreyas Iyer’s...
Jun 16, 2026
India have the balance to end their T20 World Cup wait, but Australia loom
India have never won a Women’s T20 World Cup, but the way they dismantled Pakistan in Birmingham hinted at a side that finally has the bat and the bow...
Jun 8, 2026
BCCI weighs a five-year cooling-off rule for retired players who join overseas leagues
The board has given preliminary approval to a policy that would shut retired India cricketers out of the domestic game for five years if they sign up...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 23, 2026
Vijay Shankar walks away from Indian cricket at 35 to chase a franchise passport
Vijay Shankar has retired from Indian domestic cricket and the IPL to play overseas franchise leagues, ending a 14-year career that produced 21 white-...
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 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 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 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 14, 2026
From back-to-back ducks to a record-setting 105: Kohli’s IPL 2026 reset in six days
Two ducks in successive games against LSG and MI gave way to an unbeaten 105 against KKR, five major records and RCB back on top of the IPL 2026 table...
May 13, 2026
Sai Sudharsan is the fastest player to 2,000 IPL runs and still the most argued-about opener in the league
Three straight 500-run seasons, the fastest 2,000 IPL runs by innings and a strike-rate debate that refuses to die — the curious case of Gujarat’s Sai...
May 9, 2026
India keeps the bilateral cricket lock on Pakistan, but the multilateral exception is the part that shapes the calendar
India’s sports ministry reaffirmed this week that bilateral sporting ties with Pakistan stay frozen, while Pakistani teams remain free to play in Indi...
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...
Apr 27, 2026
9,000 and counting: Virat Kohli’s IPL run column is in a bracket of one
Eleven runs short going into the night and 9,012 by the time Bengaluru had finished off the chase, Virat Kohli became the first batter in IPL history...
Apr 26, 2026
473 balls, 15 years old: how Vaibhav Sooryavanshi rewrote the T20 record book before he could legally drive
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 36-ball century in Jaipur made him the youngest player and the fastest in balls faced to 1,000 T20 runs. The numbers around him...
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 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 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...