May 16, 2026
CSK wake up sixth and out of their own hands as the IPL 2026 playoff math hardens
Mitchell Marsh’s onslaught at Ekana pushed Chennai down to sixth on net run-rate and turned the IPL 2026 playoff route into a two-win-plus-favours scr...
IPL 2026
376 articles tagged with "IPL 2026"
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
Akash Singh’s three-fer note celebration was theatre, the figures against CSK were the point
Pulled out for his first match of the season, Akash Singh took 3 for 26 against his old CSK side, dismissing Gaikwad, Samson and Urvil Patel and theat...
May 15, 2026
Sooryavanshi earns maiden India A call-up as Tilak Varma leads ODI tri-series squad
The 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals opener has been named in India A’s 15-member squad for the ODI tri-series in Sri Lanka in June, with Tilak Varma as c...
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 15, 2026
Kohli’s 2027 World Cup demand is the most honest thing he has said in years
Virat Kohli’s RCB podcast quote about not being in the space to prove his worth is being read as an ultimatum. It is actually a request for the select...
May 15, 2026
RCB rope in 38-year-old Richard Gleeson at 1.6 crore as the Thushara saga closes
Royal Challengers Bengaluru have signed England seamer Richard Gleeson at 1.6 crore as a replacement for Nuwan Thushara, ending the months-long NOC st...
May 15, 2026
CSK rope in 25-year-old Dian Forrester at 75 lakh as Overton’s thigh ends his IPL 2026
Jamie Overton’s right-thigh injury has ended his IPL 2026, and Chennai Super Kings have moved fast on a replacement, signing South African all-rounder...
May 15, 2026
RCB and GT are level on 16 points and the race for IPL 2026 top spot has gone to net run rate
Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have both reached 16 points from 12 games and the race for the top of the IPL 2026 table now hinges on...
May 15, 2026
Eight teams, four spots, ten days: how the IPL 2026 playoff race actually sits with two rounds left
LSG and MI are out, RCB and GT are on 16, SRH and PBKS are scrambling, and four more sides still believe. Here is the math of the last week of the IPL...
May 15, 2026
Dhoni pulls out of CSK’s Lucknow trip at the last minute as the IPL 2026 comeback wait drags on
MS Dhoni stayed back in Chennai on Wednesday rather than fly out with the CSK squad to Lucknow ahead of Friday’s must-win game against LSG, despite hi...
May 14, 2026
CSK take their playoff push to Lucknow without Overton as eliminated LSG host the rematch
Chennai Super Kings head to Ekana looking for a fourth straight win without Jamie Overton, whose season-ending thigh injury leaves them short on overs...
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
Tilak Varma’s unbeaten 75 off 33 carries MI past PBKS at Dharamsala as Punjab’s slide stretches to five
Mumbai Indians needed 15 from the last over against Xavier Bartlett, but Tilak Varma struck two sixes off the final two balls he faced to finish unbea...
May 14, 2026
Pujara’s blunt verdict on KKR’s playoff hopes is just the math catching up to a two-year drift
After the Raipur defeat, Cheteshwar Pujara called KKR’s playoffs chances ‘very slim’, and the arithmetic, plus a second straight title defence going s...
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 14, 2026
PBKS need Dharamsala to halt the slide as MI roll in eliminated and short of Pandya
Punjab Kings can settle the playoff math themselves with a Thursday win in Dharamsala, but they take on an eliminated Mumbai Indians side with Hardik...
May 13, 2026
Kohli’s unbeaten 105 ends the duck streak and pushes RCB back to the IPL 2026 top spot
Two ducks into one century: Virat Kohli’s 105 off 60 at Raipur drives Royal Challengers Bengaluru past Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets and back t...
May 13, 2026
Harsh Goenka’s four-captains tweet has IPL 2026’s captaincy carousel turning early
The LSG owner’s brother says at least four IPL captains will not lead their teams next season, with a couple potentially gone before this campaign eve...
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 13, 2026
Chakaravarthy walks with a crutch and brace as KKR sweat on their must-win at Raipur
The mystery spinner picked up the issue against SRH, aggravated it against DC and is now a serious doubt for KKR’s must-win against RCB. Shane Watson...
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...