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...
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May 23, 2026
Sooryavanshi at Stormont: the case India have to settle before they fly to Belfast
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 15, on top of the IPL 2026 Orange Cap charts, and one selection call from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s youngest-India-debutant...
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 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
Punjab Kings face Lucknow at Ekana needing a win and a Mumbai favour to stay in IPL 2026
A six-game losing run has left Punjab one slip from elimination, and Saturday at Ekana opens with two scenarios: beat Lucknow and wait on Rajasthan’s...
May 22, 2026
RCB and Gujarat head to Dharamsala for Qualifier 1 with the IPL 2026 final five days away
Net run rate gave Bengaluru the first seed over Gujarat after both finished on 18 points, and Tuesday’s Qualifier 1 in Dharamsala is the shorter route...
May 22, 2026
SRH thump RCB by 55 at Uppal but GT keep the second seed on net run rate
Ishan Kishan’s 79, Abhishek Sharma’s 22-ball 56 and Heinrich Klaasen’s 24-ball 51 powered Sunrisers Hyderabad to 255 for 4 at Uppal. Royal Challengers...
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 22, 2026
Top seed for RCB, top-two leap for SRH: what Hyderabad’s Match 67 actually decides
Both teams are already through, but the seeding still matters: RCB go to Hyderabad needing a win for first place, SRH need a thrashing to break into t...
May 22, 2026
Phil Salt is back in India this week, but RCB look set to wait until Dharamsala to play him
The England opener has not played for RCB since the April 18 finger injury. RCB are saving his comeback for Qualifier 1, not Friday night in Hyderabad...
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 21, 2026
Sudharsan 84, Buttler 57 not out: GT crush CSK by 89 runs to lock the IPL 2026 top two
Sai Sudharsan’s fifth straight fifty, a Shubman Gill 23-ball half-century and a Jos Buttler cameo took Gujarat Titans to 229/4 at Ahmedabad before Sir...
May 21, 2026
Dhoni heads home to Ranchi as CSK take on GT without him for their last shot at IPL 2026
MS Dhoni has left the CSK camp ahead of Thursday’s must-win league finale in Ahmedabad, with batting coach Mike Hussey confirming a thumb injury and a...
May 21, 2026
Sandeep Patil names the Kohli-Rohit contradiction nobody else will: ‘It puzzles me’
Former India chief selector Sandeep Patil has called Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s T20I retirements puzzling while both continue to play the format i...
May 21, 2026
Kumble backs Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to break Chris Gayle’s 59-six IPL record
Anil Kumble has publicly tipped the 15-year-old to overhaul Chris Gayle’s 2012 mark of 59 sixes in a season. Sooryavanshi sits on 53 with at least two...
May 21, 2026
GT chase a top-two seed at home, CSK chase a result that buys 48 more hours
Gujarat Titans host Chennai Super Kings tonight in Ahmedabad: GT after a Qualifier 1 berth, CSK with a long-shot equation and one game left.
May 20, 2026
Five teams, one playoff seat: the IPL 2026 race after KKR beat Mumbai
Rajasthan, Punjab, Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi are all alive for the last spot, but Sunday afternoon in Mumbai is where this is most likely decided.
May 20, 2026
KKR chase 148 at Eden Gardens to stay one defeat away from the IPL 2026 playoff line
Cameron Green and Saurabh Dubey took two wickets each in the powerplay before Rinku Singh and Anukul Roy sealed the chase with seven balls to spare.
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
KKR’s playoff door is one Mumbai-shaped loss from closing at Eden Gardens
KKR enter their home game against an already-eliminated Mumbai Indians on 11 points, with a defeat ending their season and a win still needing PBKS to...
May 19, 2026
From ₹27 crore for Pant to bottom of the table: how LSG’s IPL 2026 came apart
Lucknow Super Giants paid the most expensive fee in IPL history at the 2025 mega auction and finished 2026 last. The numbers behind a season that neve...