The venue for the IPL 2026 final has been shifted from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad. “Owing to certain requirements from the local association and authorities that were beyond the scope of BCCI’s established guidelines and protocols, the venue has been shifted and reassigned,” the BCCI said in a statement. While the final will be played at…
Delhi Capitals (DC) head coach Hemang Badani has said that his team has not come to terms with the pitches at their home ground in Delhi. He added that home sides don’t have a say in choosing the surfaces they play on, and that the BCCI “look after the surfaces”, which has been the case…
After Chennai Super Kings (CSK) traded Sanju Samson in at the cost of Ravindra Jadeja, the wicketkeeper-batter started IPL 2026 with three single-digit scores, all of which resulted in losses for his new franchise. Samson has turned things around so much that he’s scored three fifty-plus scores in seven innings since, including a match-winning 87…
This was Samson’s third score of 80+ in IPL 2026 with his new franchise and whenever he has crossed 40, CSK have won. This comes as a continuation of his strong form in the back-end of the 2026 T20 World Cup where Samson was the player of the tournament in India’s triumph. “On the batting…
PBKS are currently No. 1 on the table and SRH are third, but both sides are coming into the game on the back of losses – two on the trot for PBKS and one for SRH – in games where their respective opening pairs failed to fire. SRH coach Daniel Vettori sees parallels between the…
Cricket Australia (CA) are looking to move to the next phase of their BBL privatisation plan by testing Melbourne Renegades, Perth Scorchers and Hobart Hurricanes on the open market to see what sales valuations they could yield, despite defiance from New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland stalling the process last week. Queensland joined NSW last…
It’s a shift Rohit has been a face of, one of the veterans of the game changing his style of play effectively to stay in touch with the modern game. With Rickelton and Quinton de Kock as the other senior openers in the side, MI did have batters who could do a similar job in…
Delhi Capitals (DC) have used 20 players in IPL 2026. Not the most, that record belongs to Mumbai Indians (MI), who have used 24, but among the highest. DC have also used seven of their eight overseas players, again, only behind MI’s eight. But now, finally, when “we don’t have any other option but to…
“We are in that space that the management, or coach or even captain – Surya[kumar Yadav] is pretty close to him, he is the vice-captain of the squad – and Rohit [Sharma] is around, they can probably honestly sit and have a chat,” Veda said on ESPNcricinfo’s TimeOut show. “Ask him: ‘are you feeling 100%…
Numbers one to five on the Orange Cap table look exactly like they did after Sunday’s double-header: Abhishek Sharma (Sunrisers Hyderabad, 440 runs); KL Rahul (Delhi Capitals, 433 runs); Heinrich Klaasen (Sunrisers Hyderabad, 425 runs); Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Rajasthan Royals, 404 runs); B Sai Sudharsan (Gujarat Titans, 385 runs). But moving fast past the big group…