This was the first time in Kohli’s career that RCB had used him as their Impact Player. He had not been part of RCB’s starting XI when they opted to bowl first, and he had been off the field during their last match as well, against Mumbai Indians (MI) on Sunday. Kohli said he had…
Big picture: Can MI match PBKS’s batting firepower? Since Mumbai Indians (MI) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) last met in the second Qualifier last year, when the two teams weren’t too far apart, they have taken completely different paths. If PBKS have smashed their way to second spot (before Wednesday’s game) and are the only unbeaten…
Surrey 193 for 7 (Scholfield 89, Davidson-Richards 35*, Ward 3-38) beat Yorkshire 185 (Winfield-Hill 60, Kalis 38, Moore 3-22, Corteen-Coleman 3-27) by three wickets (via DLS method) Scholfield, the South African-born right-hander who won the most recent of her eight England caps last July, flayed the Yorkshire attack to all parts in a devastating display…
Mulder, the seam-bowling allrounder, was due to play six Championship matches and six T20 Blast fixtures for Essex after joining on a three-month contract. He has featured in both of their first two matches – a win over Hampshire and a defeat to Somerset – but will miss Friday’s fixture at Edgbaston. Source link
He now intends to play two four-day matches for Durham – against Worcestershire (May 8) and Kent (May 15) – and will also consider playing for the Lions in a first-class match against South Africa A at Arundel (May 22) before linking up with England for the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s on…
“The wicket helped. Today there was a little bit of hold for him. The other wickets were quite flat. Today he was a little bit slower through the air, there was more side spin on the ball, there was more drop,” Sridharan Sriram, CSK’s assistant bowling coach, said after the match, which CSK won by…
Below them at No. 4 is RCB’s Rajat Patidar with 195 runs, and a new No. 5, Sanju Samson, the CSK batter moving up fast after a poor start to the season. Samson started with scores of 6, 7 and 9, but has since scored 115 not out – the only century this season so…
Big Picture: Batting leaders vs laggards Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the best batting side so far in IPL 2026. Their top six has the highest run-rate (11.1), the highest average (45.2), and hits boundaries more frequently – every 3.6 balls on average – than the other nine teams in the league. Their opponents on Wednesday,…
Mayank’s journey since then has been far from straightforward. Injuries and long spells of rehabilitation kept him out for over a year. Now, after carefully building up his workload, he’s ready to go again for the first time in IPL 2026. On the eve of LSG’s match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Mayank spent some time…
The struggling Kolkata Knight Riders received a shot in the arm with the return of Varun Chakravarthy, who missed their previous two games due to a finger injury. They also won the toss and elected to chase, something teams tend to do for the fear of dew in night games. Varun replaced Navdeep Saini in…