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...
Indian cricket
28 articles tagged with "Indian cricket"
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...
Apr 17, 2026
Vinod Kambli faces brain stroke risk as Sachin Tendulkar joins support group to fund treatment
A group of Vinod Kambli’s closest friends, Sachin Tendulkar among them, have set up a WhatsApp circle to raise money for the former India batter’s tre...
Apr 13, 2026
Rohit and Kohli both pick up injuries as MI and RCB count the physical cost of Wankhede clash
Rohit Sharma retired hurt with a right hamstring strain while Virat Kohli sat out the field with a left ankle problem during RCB’s 18-run win over Mum...
Apr 10, 2026
India’s oldest Test cricketer CD Gopinath dies at 96
CD Gopinath, the last surviving member of the team that won India’s first ever Test match in 1952, has died peacefully at his daughter’s home in Chenn...
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 5, 2026
IPL 2026’s uncapped Indians are putting the established names on notice
From Sameer Rizvi’s match-winning cameos to Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s record-breaking fifty, the first week of IPL 2026 has belonged to players nobody exp...
Mar 26, 2026
Gaikwad confirms Samson will open alongside him for CSK in IPL 2026
Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad has confirmed that Sanju Samson will be his new opening partner this season, pushing last year’s breakout...
Mar 20, 2026
Sivaramakrishnan quits BCCI commentary panel after 23 years and accuses board of colour discrimination
Former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan has announced his retirement from the BCCI commentary panel, alleging that colour discrimination kept...
Mar 19, 2026
Chahal gives up alcohol and eyes redemption with Punjab Kings in IPL 2026
Yuzvendra Chahal has revealed he stopped drinking alcohol more than six months ago as part of a complete lifestyle overhaul ahead of IPL 2026, with th...