Gujarat Titans’ Kagiso Rabada and teammates celebrate (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Pacer Kagiso Rabada continued to hold on to the Purple Cap despite Gujarat Titans’ commanding 77-run victory over Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League on Saturday, but teammate Rashid Khan made a significant jump in the wicket-taking charts with a match-winning spell in…
Big picture: IPL’s bowling leaders on show For everyone demanding better balance between bat and ball in IPL 2026, Sunday evening is must-see. Two of the season’s best bowling attacks face off, even if neither are in the top-four. One significant factor separates the two teams and may come into play given the match is…
Big picture: Lots at stake for both teams Royal Challengers Bengaluru knew coming into IPL 2026 that they would find a new home in Raipur, at a ground that hasn’t hosted a single IPL game in ten years. Initially, though, it was for all seven games. Later on, it was crunched down to two. The…
Kolkata Knight Riders 147 for 2 (Allen 100*, Axar 1-27) beat Delhi Capitals 142 for 8 (Nissanka 50, Ashutosh 39, Tyagi 2-25, Roy 2-31) by eight wickets Kolkata Knight Riders picked up their fourth win on the trot in IPL 2026, their spin bowlers (12-0-76-3) capturing Delhi Capitals in a vice-like grip and never letting…
Finn Allen (ANI Photo/Rahul Singh) Finn Allen produced one of the most explosive knocks of IPL 2026 as Kolkata Knight Riders crushed Delhi Capitals by eight wickets. Chasing a modest 143-run target, the New Zealand batter stayed unbeaten on 100 off just 47 balls, smashing five fours and 10 sixes to finish the game in…
Sunil Gavaskar (PTI Photo) The balance between bat and ball in modern-day cricket has once again come under the spotlight, with Sunil Gavaskar voicing strong concerns over how heavily the game now favours batters in the T20 era.With massive scores becoming routine in the ongoing IPL 2026 season and totals above 250 no longer considered…
Rishabh Pant’s decline in T20s (Photo: Screengrab/X) Rishabh Pant finally gave Lucknow Super Giants something to cheer about on Thursday night, remaining unbeaten on 32 off 10 balls as LSG edged Royal Challengers Bengaluru by nine runs via the DLS method in Lucknow in match 49 of IPL 2026. While Mitchell Marsh’s blistering 111 and…
Lucknow Super Giants 209 for 3 (Marsh 111, Pooran 38, Pant 32*) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 203 for 6 (Patidar 61, David 40, Prince 3-33, Shahbaz 2-33) by nine runs The orchestrator-in-chief was Mitchell Marsh, who converted his second fifty-plus score of the season into a peerless 56-ball 111, setting up the defence on a…
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar created history during the clash against Lucknow Super Giants by becoming the first fast bowler to complete 200 matches in IPL history. The landmark added another major achievement to Bhuvneshwar’s remarkable T20 career. Earlier this season, he had also become the…
RCB miss their chance to go top of the table. RCB captain Rajat Patidar: I think we were sure of how we wanted to go about the target, we did well, just one or two shots behind. Really good pitch, batting track, was coming nicely on to the bat, just 2-3 shots away. Difficult to…