May 19, 2026
Sooryavanshi’s 93 off 38 lifts RR past LSG’s 220 to seal fourth in IPL 2026
Rajasthan Royals chased down 221 with five balls and seven wickets to spare, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 93 off 38 doing the heavy lifting on a first Jaipu...
IPL Playoffs
48 articles tagged with "IPL Playoffs"
May 18, 2026
Three in, one slot left: how the IPL 2026 playoff race looks after SRH joined the locked top
Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad are confirmed in the IPL 2026 playoffs. Punjab Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capi...
May 18, 2026
Cummins’ 3/28 at Chepauk and a 200th T20 wicket: the spell that bowled SRH into the playoffs
Pat Cummins took three top-order CSK wickets on a slow Chepauk surface and brought up his 200th T20 wicket in the same spell, sealing Sunrisers Hydera...
May 18, 2026
SRH chase 181 at Chepauk to seal an IPL 2026 playoff spot
Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down 181 with five wickets and six balls to spare at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, sealing a playoff berth alongside Gujarat...
May 17, 2026
From 6-0 to six losses in a row: how Punjab Kings’ IPL 2026 slipped off a cliff
Punjab Kings went 6-0 across their opening seven matches and now sit one league game from a missed playoff with six straight defeats and a slim points...
May 17, 2026
Venkatesh and Kohli set up 222 as RCB beat PBKS by 23 runs and seal the first IPL 2026 playoffs spot
Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first team into the IPL 2026 playoffs after posting 222 at Dharamshala and holding Punjab Kings to 199, stretch...
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...
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
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 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
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 12, 2026
From 0-3 to genuine contenders: how CSK’s quiet rebuild has the IPL 2026 race watching
CSK’s climb from 0-3 to fifth in the IPL 2026 table is not a miracle so much as a slow, slightly boring fix, and the top four should be paying attenti...
May 12, 2026
Dhoni back at full nets but CSK keep the IPL 2026 return on ice
MS Dhoni is close to full fitness and back doing full net sessions, yet CSK are refusing to put a date on his IPL 2026 return as the team’s playoff ma...
May 11, 2026
MI and LSG out, eight in the chase: where the IPL 2026 playoff math lands after Sunday’s double-header
Two teams went out across the May 10 double-header, four playoff spots remain, and the math now points at six teams who can still get to the 16-point...
May 10, 2026
RCB host Mumbai in Raipur with the IPL back at the venue and MI staring at elimination
Royal Challengers Bengaluru welcome Mumbai Indians to the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium on Sunday with Hardik Pandya back from a back spasm and a...
May 9, 2026
CSK host LSG at Chepauk as Ruturaj squeezes every point out of the top-four chase
Chennai welcome a bottom-of-the-table Lucknow to MA Chidambaram on Sunday afternoon, but with four matches from the league phase end neither side has...
May 8, 2026
Finn Allen smashes 47-ball century as KKR thump Delhi by eight wickets at the Jaitley
Finn Allen’s unbeaten 100 from 47 balls, with ten sixes, blew Delhi Capitals apart as Kolkata Knight Riders breezed to an eight-wicket win at the Arun...
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...
May 6, 2026
Mathematically alive is not the same as realistically in: KKR’s IPL 2026 playoff path
Seven points from nine, an NRR of -0.539 and five fixtures left, including a trip to RCB. KKR can still reach the IPL 2026 playoffs, but the math is b...
May 6, 2026
BCCI shifts the IPL 2026 final to Ahmedabad as Bengaluru loses hosting rights
The IPL 2026 playoffs schedule lands across three venues, with Dharamshala, New Chandigarh and the Narendra Modi Stadium taking the four matches. The...
May 3, 2026
RCB are quietly building another title charge in IPL 2026
Twelve points, the best NRR in the league, the Purple Cap, and a captain who has done this exact dance eleven months ago. RCB are not favourites yet,...
Apr 29, 2026
From 1-3 to 6-3 in three weeks: how SRH turned IPL 2026 around
Sunrisers Hyderabad lost three of their first four matches and the season looked over before April had really started. They are now third in the table...
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 16, 2026
De Kock’s century goes to waste and Mumbai Indians are running out of answers
Quinton de Kock played one of the best IPL innings of the season on Thursday night. It did not matter one bit. Punjab Kings chased down 196 inside 17...