KKR’s 29-run victory over the Gujarat Titans kept their playoff hopes mathematically alive. Finn Allen’s 93 off 35, Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s 82* off 44, and Cameron Green’s 52* combined to post 247/2, a total that papered over a structural crack that has followed this franchise across two seasons. One batting blitz doesn’t fix a year-on-year failure. […]
Nine matches into his debut IPL campaign, Finn Allen has done something no batter in the tournament’s 19-year history has managed: hit 10 or more sixes in a single innings twice within the same IPL season. His 321 runs at a strike rate of 221.37 tell only part of the story. The more important question […]
Seven matches into IPL 2026, the Gujarat Titans sat in the lower half of the table, three wins, four defeats. What followed was one of the most striking reversals of the season. GT won their next five consecutively, climbed to second on the points table with 16 points from 12 matches, and emerged as the […]
Three captains in one season sounds like chaos. It isn’t. The franchise’s 2026 campaign is the first time any IPL side has deployed three different Indian captains in a single season, and the reason has nothing to do with a broken dressing room. Hardik Pandya’s back gave out. Suryakumar Yadav stepped away for the birth […]
PBKS’s five-match losing streak traces back to one number: a bowling economy of 10.77, the worst in the tournament. When your attack can’t defend totals above 200, the entire team structure breaks. The batting unit that carried PBKS through their opening seven matches hasn’t forgotten how to bat; they’ve run out of margin for error […]
Bangladesh beat Pakistan in Mirpur not because the visitors had a bad day, but because the hosts finally had a plan that held across five sessions. The experienced middle order absorbed the new-ball spell, built a total Pakistan couldn’t chase, and then a fast bowler the opposition hadn’t solved dismantled their lower order. That’s not […]
Two deliveries this season have already answered the question. Kartik Tyagi’s 141.4 km/h bouncer struck Patidar’s helmet grill against KKR. Arshad Khan’s short ball drew a top-edged pull that ended his innings at 19 against GT. RCB’s captain is averaging 33.70 at a 192.70 strike rate, elite numbers by any measure, but opposing camps have […]
Only two teams can book their playoff spot without watching anyone else’s scorecard. RCB and GT sit on 16 points each, win their remaining two games, and both reach 20 points, untouchable regardless of what the chasing pack does. Everyone else needs someone to stumble. Match 58 did not just reshuffle the table; it drew […]
Punjab Kings are not losing because their best bowler is failing. They are losing because their best bowler is being used incorrectly. Jansen, a 6-foot-8 left-arm seamer built for new-ball swing and hard-length extraction, has received the new ball exactly twice across 11 innings this season. The result is a 10.04 economy rate, 7 wickets, […]
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has posted 440 runs in 11 matches at a strike rate above 236 and struck two rapid centuries for the Rajasthan Royals this season. None of those numbers has quieted the most significant question following him through this campaign. AB de Villiers publicly wondered how Suryavanshi’s ultra-aggressive game survives the sustained examination that […]