Jun 6, 2026
Kohli ruled out of the Afghanistan ODIs after a hamstring injury in the IPL final
Virat Kohli will miss India’s three-match ODI series against Afghanistan after the hamstring problem he carried through the IPL 2026 final, with Rutur...
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Jun 1, 2026
776 runs and a clean sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made IPL 2026 his at 15
At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 with the Orange Cap, the MVP award and 776 runs at a strike rate above 237, the most complete individual...
May 31, 2026
Kohli’s unbeaten 75 carries RCB to back-to-back IPL titles
Royal Challengers Bengaluru became only the third side to defend an IPL crown, beating Gujarat Titans by five wickets in Ahmedabad as Virat Kohli fini...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 31, 2026
RCB chase a second straight title as Gujarat sweat on Siraj for the IPL 2026 final
The IPL 2026 final lands in Ahmedabad on Sunday with the toss, the dew and Mohammed Siraj’s fitness all hanging over a rematch RCB won by 92 runs.
May 29, 2026
Gujarat get RCB again, at home, five days after a 92-run lesson
Five days after a 92-run hammering in Qualifier 1, Gujarat get RCB again, this time in the final and on their own ground. Here is why they have a chan...
May 28, 2026
At 37, Virat Kohli is having one of his best IPL seasons and making the retirement question look silly
At 37, Virat Kohli is producing one of the best T20 seasons of his career. The numbers make the constant retirement talk look stranger than ever.
May 27, 2026
RCB walk into the IPL 2026 final on a streak that has not broken in six years
Every IPL since 2020 has been won by the team that came through Qualifier 1. RCB now have four days in Ahmedabad and one knockout fewer to play than w...
May 26, 2026
Patidar’s 33-ball 93 sends RCB to the IPL 2026 final with a 92-run win over Gujarat
Patidar’s unbeaten 93 off 33, a strike rate of 281.81 and the fastest 90+ innings in IPL history, turned Qualifier 1 inside out at the HPCA Stadium.
May 25, 2026
Hazlewood vs Gill at Dharamsala: the first six overs that decide RCB-GT Qualifier 1
Twenty-four came off Hazlewood’s first over the last time these sides met. The Australian’s chance to bury the memory lands on Tuesday night in the hi...
May 25, 2026
HPCA Stadium hosts its first IPL playoff in 16 years as Qualifier 1 lands in Dharamsala
The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association ground gets its first knockout fixture in IPL history on Tuesday when RCB take on Gujarat Titans for a place...
May 23, 2026
Kohli walks past Travis Head at Uppal as RCB lose by 55 but keep IPL 2026 top spot
Virat Kohli’s running row with Travis Head spilled into the post-match handshake line at Uppal on Friday, with the RCB batter walking straight past th...
May 22, 2026
RCB and Gujarat head to Dharamsala for Qualifier 1 with the IPL 2026 final five days away
Net run rate gave Bengaluru the first seed over Gujarat after both finished on 18 points, and Tuesday’s Qualifier 1 in Dharamsala is the shorter route...
May 22, 2026
Sudharsan 638, Gill 616, Kohli 542: the Orange Cap race walks into the IPL 2026 playoffs
Sai Sudharsan reclaimed the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 84 off 53 against CSK on Thursday, going 22 clear of Shubman Gill and 96 ahead of Virat Kohli wit...
May 22, 2026
Top seed for RCB, top-two leap for SRH: what Hyderabad’s Match 67 actually decides
Both teams are already through, but the seeding still matters: RCB go to Hyderabad needing a win for first place, SRH need a thrashing to break into t...
May 22, 2026
Phil Salt is back in India this week, but RCB look set to wait until Dharamsala to play him
The England opener has not played for RCB since the April 18 finger injury. RCB are saving his comeback for Qualifier 1, not Friday night in Hyderabad...
May 21, 2026
Sandeep Patil names the Kohli-Rohit contradiction nobody else will: ‘It puzzles me’
Former India chief selector Sandeep Patil has called Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s T20I retirements puzzling while both continue to play the format i...
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
PBKS host the team that beat them in the 2025 final as RCB head to Dharamsala one win from sealing the top two
Royal Challengers Bengaluru travel to Dharamsala on Sunday with a chance to lock in their playoff berth and a top-two finish against a Punjab Kings si...
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 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
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
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 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...