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...
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May 31, 2026
Kohli’s unbeaten 75 carries RCB to back-to-back IPL titles
Royal Challengers Bengaluru became only the third side to defend an IPL crown, beating Gujarat Titans by five wickets in Ahmedabad as Virat Kohli fini...
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 18, 2026
BCCI source calls the Shreyas Iyer captaincy reports baseless as the Suryakumar Yadav question refuses to go away
A second wave of reports has named Shreyas Iyer as the leading candidate to take over from Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain after IPL 2026. A...
May 18, 2026
If Dhoni walks out at Chepauk tonight, the lap of honour is the only goodbye he needs to make
CSK have advertised a lap of honour after tonight’s home game against SRH. With Dhoni 44, a calf-strain season behind him and his 2021 wish for a Chen...
May 15, 2026
CSK rope in left-armer Kuldip Yadav at 30 lakh as Khaleel Ahmed’s full-season replacement
Chennai have signed Delhi pacer Kuldip Yadav at his base price exactly a month after Khaleel Ahmed limped off with a Grade 2 quadricep tear against KK...
May 15, 2026
Marsh blasts 90 off 38 as LSG hammer CSK by seven wickets at Ekana
Mitchell Marsh’s 38-ball 90 and Akash Singh’s 3 for 26 powered Lucknow Super Giants past Chennai Super Kings by seven wickets, leaving CSK’s IPL 2026...
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 12, 2026
RCB chase the top spot back from GT as KKR’s must-win streak rolls into Raipur
RCB went into Tuesday top of the IPL 2026 table and came out of it second. Match 57 against an in-form KKR at Raipur is their chance to climb back.
May 12, 2026
Washington Sundar’s 33-ball fifty hauls GT to the top of the IPL 2026 table
Sai Sudharsan got the headline and Kagiso Rabada the wickets, but Gujarat Titans only had a target to defend at the Modi because Washington Sundar wal...
May 12, 2026
Top of the IPL 2026 table on the line as Gujarat host Hyderabad at the Modi
The Titans and Sunrisers, level on 14 points, meet for the first time this season at the Narendra Modi Stadium tonight, with the winner moving clear a...
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
Net run rate is about to pick the IPL 2026 top four, and RCB are sitting on the biggest cushion
Five teams are within four points of each other heading into the final 18 league fixtures of IPL 2026, and the table is now far more likely to be sett...
May 8, 2026
Honey traps, hotel rooms and dugout access: inside BCCI’s IPL 2026 protocol crackdown
The BCCI is readying an advisory to clean up unauthorised access in IPL 2026, with the Anti-Corruption Unit flagging unknown people in dugouts, team h...
May 5, 2026
Salt flies home for finger scans as RCB hope to have him back for the playoffs
Phil Salt has flown back to England for scans on the finger he hurt diving on April 18, leaving Royal Challengers Bengaluru without their first-choice...
May 5, 2026
Mumbai’s playoff math is brutal, but Bumrah’s drift is the harder fix
Rohit Sharma’s comeback 84 papered over the question Mumbai cannot keep ducking. Three wickets in ten games and three no-balls in one spell suggest Ja...
May 4, 2026
Rohit and Rickelton blow LSG away in Mumbai’s record IPL chase at Wankhede
Mumbai Indians chased down 229 against Lucknow Super Giants at the Wankhede on Monday, sealed by a 143-run opening blitz from Rohit Sharma and Ryan Ri...
May 2, 2026
Three things strapped on, three wickets, three months out: Starc’s debut might still save Delhi’s season
Mitchell Starc’s three for 40 on his IPL 2026 debut ended Delhi Capitals’ three-match losing streak, but the strapping on his arm and the words at the...
May 2, 2026
From a 14-crore reset to the Orange Cap: KL Rahul’s quiet IPL 2026 takeover
A 75 off 40 in Jaipur on Friday took KL Rahul from outside the top five to the top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap standings, and Delhi Capitals’ opener ha...
May 1, 2026
Five-time champions, both running out of road: CSK and MI meet at Chepauk with playoff lifelines fading
Match 44 of IPL 2026 brings CSK and Mumbai Indians together at the Chidambaram Stadium with one side on six points and the other on four. The loser wa...
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 29, 2026
69.21 per cent: how Indian batters have taken over IPL 2026
After 38 matches of IPL 2026, Indian batters are taking up a bigger share of the runs scored than they ever have in this tournament, and the share tha...
Apr 28, 2026
Punjab’s unbeaten run ends in Mullanpur as Sooryavanshi, Ferreira and Dubey blast Rajasthan home
Punjab Kings’ six-win start to IPL 2026 came undone at Mullanpur on Tuesday night, Rajasthan Royals chasing 223 with four balls and six wickets to spa...
Apr 28, 2026
Cramps, not a hamstring: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi cleared to face Punjab at Mullanpur
Rajasthan’s 15-year-old opener limped off in Jaipur on Saturday after his 36-ball 103, sparking a hamstring scare. Three days later, batting coach Vik...