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.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
86 articles tagged with "Royal Challengers Bengaluru"
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 11, 2026
Kohli’s first-ball duck off Chahar leaves him in back-to-back IPL territory not seen since 2022
Virat Kohli charged at Deepak Chahar’s opening delivery in Raipur and chipped a leading edge to Raj Bawa at mid-off. The golden duck makes it consecut...
May 11, 2026
Bhuvneshwar’s fourth 20-wicket IPL season puts him level with Bumrah and back in the India conversation
Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s 4 for 23 against Mumbai Indians in Raipur on Sunday lifted him to 21 wickets for the season, his fourth IPL campaign with 20-plus...
May 10, 2026
Net run rate is about to pick the IPL 2026 top four, and RCB are sitting on the biggest cushion
Five teams are within four points of each other heading into the final 18 league fixtures of IPL 2026, and the table is now far more likely to be sett...
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 7, 2026
Marsh’s 49-ball century ends LSG’s losing streak as Rathi defends 20 against RCB
Mitchell Marsh hammered the fastest LSG hundred in IPL history and Rishabh Pant added a 10-ball cameo as Lucknow held off RCB by 9 runs (DLS) at Ekana...
May 7, 2026
Hardik out a week, Suryakumar pulled back for family as MI head to Raipur short of captains
Mumbai Indians fly to Raipur for Sunday’s clash with Royal Challengers Bengaluru without their captain or his designated stand-in, with Hardik Pandya...
May 7, 2026
Bottom-placed LSG hunt first home win as Patidar’s RCB roll into Ekana
Lucknow Super Giants meet third-placed Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Ekana on Thursday with no playoff math left to chase, only the search for a firs...
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 5, 2026
Salt flies home for finger scans as RCB hope to have him back for the playoffs
Phil Salt has flown back to England for scans on the finger he hurt diving on April 18, leaving Royal Challengers Bengaluru without their first-choice...
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,...
May 2, 2026
From Cameron Green to Nicholas Pooran, IPL 2026’s biggest investments have not paid off
IPL 2026 has produced its share of auction-day losers. Cameron Green’s Rs 25.20 crore is yet to translate into a season at KKR, Nicholas Pooran’s Rs 2...
May 1, 2026
Nine years on, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is leading the Purple Cap again
A 36-year-old who hasn’t been the headline name in years is the most productive bowler in IPL 2026, and the longer story under the scorecard is RCB ge...
Apr 30, 2026
Arshad Khan’s three for 22 and a Holder all-round night give Gujarat their revenge in Ahmedabad
Gujarat Titans bowled Royal Challengers Bengaluru out for 155 at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday and chased the target down with 25 balls to spa...
Apr 29, 2026
RCB return to Ahmedabad less than a week on from chasing 206 in Bengaluru, with Gujarat asked the same question again
Royal Challengers Bengaluru travel to the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday night to face Gujarat Titans, less than a week after Virat Kohli’s 81 off...
Apr 27, 2026
9,000 and counting: Virat Kohli’s IPL run column is in a bracket of one
Eleven runs short going into the night and 9,012 by the time Bengaluru had finished off the chase, Virat Kohli became the first batter in IPL history...
Apr 27, 2026
Hazlewood four-for and a Bhuvneshwar three rip Delhi for 75 as RCB cruise home in 6.3 overs
Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowled Delhi Capitals out for 75 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Monday and chased it down with nine wickets and 81 deliver...
Apr 27, 2026
Kohli back at the Kotla, Rahul against his old club: DC and RCB meet in the IPL 2026 playoff race
Virat Kohli returns to Delhi in form, KL Rahul faces the RCB side he has scored more runs against than any other, and the Arun Jaitley Stadium hosts a...
Apr 26, 2026
100, then 87: how Sai Sudharsan went from 135 in six games to the most dangerous opener in IPL 2026
After a slow first six matches, Sudharsan has produced a hundred and an 87 in 48 hours, broken Chris Gayle’s fastest-to-2,000 record, and turned Gujar...
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
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 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 21, 2026
Abhishek Sharma draws level with Virat Kohli on nine T20 hundreds for an Indian batter
Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 135 against Delhi on Tuesday was his ninth hundred in T20 cricket, drawing him level with Virat Kohli for the most by an In...