IPL

56 articles tagged with "IPL"

Oct 19, 2026

The IPL auction is pencilled in for 16 December in Goa, the day India play Sri Lanka in Bengaluru

A BCCI logistics message has told the ten franchises to plan for ITC Grand Goa, with a briefing the day before. The formal email confirming it has not...

Oct 6, 2026

Delhi Capitals have not made the playoffs since 2021, and Sourav Ganguly is their new head coach

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly replaces Hemang Badani as Delhi Capitals head coach for IPL 2027, his first head coach job in the IPL.

Sep 18, 2026

The BCCI’s two IPL elections have one candidate each, and the Andaman Islands want in

Indian cricket’s 95th annual general meeting in Mumbai has two uncontested Governing Council seats, a bid for associate membership from a union territ...

Sep 17, 2026

IPL winners list: every champion from 2008 to 2026, and the five finals Chennai lost

Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 in one table, plus the numbers underneath it: who has played the most finals, who has lost the most of them, and...

Sep 16, 2026

The IPL auction returns to India for the first time since Kochi in 2022, and the Impact Player decision waits another month

The BCCI has decided to hold the IPL 2027 mini-auction in India, ending three straight years in Dubai, Jeddah and Abu Dhabi. No city has been named ye...

Sep 8, 2026

Pietersen called out Brook for skipping the IPL, and now he coaches him

The ECB has hired the man it spent a decade avoiding. Kevin Pietersen joins Brendon McCullum’s white-ball staff as a specialist mentor, twelve years a...

Sep 8, 2026

Cricket Australia is selling the Melbourne Renegades outright, and the club opens the season in Chennai

The Big Bash has opened its doors to private owners. Bids are being invited for the whole Renegades licence, and the state chief executives went shopp...

Sep 6, 2026

Eden Gardens pitch report: par scores, records and stats in Kolkata

Par at Eden Gardens has climbed 26 runs since 2023, the largest jump at any established IPL ground. What the ball-by-ball record of 107 matches says a...

Sep 2, 2026

CSK have not had a head coach since July, and Gaikwad says there is no rush

Stephen Fleming left Chennai in July and was named England’s Test coach 17 days later. Seven weeks on, CSK still have no replacement, and their captai...

Aug 24, 2026

Karn Sharma played four times for India, and won three straight IPL titles with three different teams

Karn Sharma has retired at 38 with four India caps, four IPL winners’ medals and 270 first-class wickets. He is still the only player to win three IPL...

Aug 21, 2026

Pujara’s advice to Manav Suthar: play the IPL, just don’t bowl like it

Cheteshwar Pujara has asked India to preserve Manav Suthar for Test cricket after the 24-year-old’s ten-wicket haul in Galle. His concern is not the I...

Aug 18, 2026

Warner moved to the passenger seat, and a Sydney court recorded the conviction anyway

David Warner was fined $1,500 and ordered to fit an alcohol interlock for a year at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday, four months after he pulled up sh...

Aug 17, 2026

The BCCI is putting anti-corruption officers in every state T20 league, and the TNPL is why

For the first time the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit will cover every T20 league run by a state association, after finding bookies in contact with playe...

Aug 16, 2026

IPL pitch report by ground: what a par score really is at each venue

Par is not one number in the IPL, it is a 25 run range that shifts by venue and by era. What the ball by ball record of 1,237 matches says about the s...

Aug 12, 2026

Moises Henriques will captain Portugal in Finland, a month after retiring in Australia

Australia’s most-capped domestic cricketer, and a familiar face from six IPL squads, has been named captain of Portugal for a T20 World Cup sub-region...

Aug 8, 2026

Everyone knows where Hardik Pandya is going next, and nobody actually does

Five franchises are said to be circling, Chennai are said to have offered a swap, and Mumbai Indians say nothing is happening. On the evidence so far,...

Aug 1, 2026

Ashutosh Sharma was signed to hit sixes, and now leads the One-Day Cup wicket charts

A maiden List A five-wicket haul at Chelmsford took Ashutosh Sharma to 13 wickets in four matches, more than any other bowler in the competition. He h...

Jul 31, 2026

Rahane’s retirement leaves KKR a captaincy call, and Rinku Singh is the frontrunner

Ajinkya Rahane’s retirement leaves Kolkata Knight Riders hunting a captain for IPL 2027 with one season left in the current cycle. Rinku Singh is the...

Jul 29, 2026

The IPL is worth 20.6 billion dollars, and this year’s growth came from two boardrooms

Houlihan Lokey’s annual study puts the league up 11.4 per cent, RCB’s brand past 300 million dollars and Lucknow Super Giants flat at zero. The number...

Jul 27, 2026

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi: pitch report, records and stats

Delhi’s ground has produced a perfect ten, a 428 and the highest successful chase in IPL history. Here is the pitch report and the full record book at...

Jul 25, 2026

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad: pitch report, records and stats

The world’s largest cricket ground has staged four IPL finals and two World Cup finals in five seasons. Here is what its pitch actually does, format b...

Jul 23, 2026

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur: pitch report, records and stats

Jaipur’s IPL first-innings average has gone from 142 in 2011 to 225 in 2026, and the chase wins two matches in three. Here is the pitch report and the...

Jul 22, 2026

Raipur Cricket Stadium: pitch report, capacity and records at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh ground

India’s third-largest cricket ground has hosted only twelve senior men’s matches, and nine of them were won by the side batting second. Here is the Ra...

Jul 21, 2026

Ashutosh Sharma joins Hampshire for the One-Day Cup, a day before their campaign starts

The Delhi Capitals finisher, who holds the record for the fastest T20 fifty by an Indian, heads into nine weeks of English 50-over cricket at a county...