IPL 2026

382 articles tagged with "IPL 2026"

Apr 26, 2026

Bottom and second-bottom meet at Ekana as LSG host KKR with playoff hopes already paper-thin

Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders walk into Sunday’s evening match with seven points between them. One of them will leave with the season...

Apr 26, 2026

CSK host Gujarat at Chepauk with Sanju Samson on a roll and Shubman Gill the only thing keeping GT alive

Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans both come into Sunday’s afternoon match with three wins and four losses from seven games. They are not the same...

Apr 26, 2026

Ishan Kishan’s 31-ball 74 in Jaipur is the latest entry in a quietly excellent SRH season

Sunrisers Hyderabad have won four in a row and Ishan Kishan, the man who has driven most of those chases, is starting to look like the best signing of...

Apr 25, 2026

Rahul and Rana put on 220, the second-biggest stand in IPL history, and Kohli-de Villiers escape by nine

KL Rahul’s 152 not out and Nitish Rana’s 91 dragged Delhi Capitals to 264 for 2 against Punjab Kings, and the 220 they put on for the second wicket fe...

Apr 25, 2026

Sooryavanshi’s 36-ball century is wasted as Abhishek and Kishan chase 229 in Jaipur

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 103 off 37 balls, the third-fastest century in IPL history, was undone in Jaipur as Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan put on 132...

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 25, 2026

Punjab chase 265 in 18.5 overs to break the highest successful T20 chase ever set

Shreyas Iyer’s Punjab Kings hauled down 265 against Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium to set the highest successful chase in IPL and T20 hist...

Apr 25, 2026

Sooryavanshi at Jaipur for the first time as RR look to break a five-match losing run against Sunrisers

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been the powerplay’s most destructive batter in IPL 2026. He gets his first home game on Saturday, against the team that has...

Apr 25, 2026

Punjab Kings take their unbeaten run to Delhi as Priyansh Arya tests Axar Patel’s powerplay plans

Punjab Kings have won every match they’ve finished in IPL 2026 and sit top of the table on 11 points. Delhi Capitals, sixth on six points, get them at...

Apr 25, 2026

First to 800: Virat Kohli’s IPL boundary count is now its own category

A drive off Kagiso Rabada that ran to long-on took Virat Kohli past 800 fours in the IPL on Friday night, the first batter to get there. Nobody else i...

Apr 24, 2026

Sai Sudharsan to 2,000 IPL runs in 47 innings: the Gayle record is gone

A six off Krunal Pandya at the end of the ninth over was all it took for Sai Sudharsan to become the fastest batter to 2,000 IPL runs on Friday, 24 Ap...

Apr 24, 2026

Kohli’s 81 and a Padikkal blitz get RCB home as Sudharsan’s hundred is not enough in Bengaluru

Virat Kohli made 81 off 44 and Devdutt Padikkal 55 off 27 as Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased 206 with seven balls to spare at the M Chinnaswamy Sta...

Apr 24, 2026

A busted hamstring, a bad back, a groin strain: how injuries have quietly reshaped IPL 2026

Around 20 players have been ruled out or flagged as unavailable across the first month of IPL 2026, and the season has been shaped as much by what the...

Apr 24, 2026

Cummins back in India on Friday and set for Sunrisers’ trip to Jaipur against Rajasthan Royals

Pat Cummins cleared his fitness test in Australia this week and is flying back to rejoin Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday evening, with head coach Daniel...

Apr 24, 2026

Two wins from seven and no net run rate to speak of: Mumbai Indians’ playoff hopes look gone

Mumbai’s 103-run hammering by Chennai at the Wankhede has left them eighth, on four points, with a net run rate of minus 0.736 and seven games to save...

Apr 23, 2026

Patidar’s RCB host Shubman Gill’s Gujarat at Chinnaswamy with both captains in serious form

Royal Challengers Bengaluru welcome Gujarat Titans to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday evening in match 34 of IPL 2026, a meeting between two of th...

Apr 23, 2026

Two centuries in four games: how Sanju Samson has quietly answered every question about his CSK move

Twelve days after fans were asking whether trading Sanju Samson to CSK was a mistake, the Kerala batter has two IPL 2026 hundreds, five in his career,...

Apr 23, 2026

Sanju Samson’s 54-ball 101 and Akeal’s 4 for 17 hand MI their biggest IPL defeat as CSK win by 103

Chennai Super Kings tore Mumbai Indians apart at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday, 23 April 2026, bowling the hosts out for 104 after Sanju Samson’s u...

Apr 23, 2026

Starc cleared to fly to India and is in line for his Delhi Capitals debut against Rajasthan on May 1

Mitchell Starc has been cleared by Cricket Australia to travel to India after shaking off the shoulder and elbow problems that have kept him out since...

Apr 23, 2026

Rohit, Dhoni and a Wankhede night: MI and CSK meet with seventh and eighth separated by run rate

Mumbai Indians host Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede on Thursday night with both teams on four points and their biggest names, Rohit Sharma and MS...

Apr 23, 2026

Jadeja’s 43 and Archer’s 3 for 20 defend 159 as RR beat LSG by 40 runs at Ekana

Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 43 pushed Rajasthan Royals to 159 and Jofra Archer’s 3 for 20 killed the chase as RR beat Lucknow Super Giants by 40 runs i...

Apr 22, 2026

Pant, Pooran and a run out of games: LSG’s IPL 2026 is slipping away

Lucknow Super Giants are 2-5 and ninth on the ladder after Wednesday’s 40-run defeat to Rajasthan at Ekana, and the Rs 21 crore retention of Nicholas...

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 22, 2026

Rohit Sharma back in the nets but still not cleared as Mumbai Indians wait on their opener

Rohit Sharma has resumed batting drills at the Mumbai Indians camp and looks close to a return, but the medical team is yet to clear him from the hams...