Lancashire topped the North Group in 2025 with nine wins from 14 games and reached Finals Day every year. The 2026 format tightens the schedule to 12 matches across a group of six, which suits a squad with its depth far more than it suits anyone chasing them. Jos Buttler, Phil Salt, and Liam Livingstone […]
Lancashire topped the North Group in 2025 with nine wins from 14 games and reached Finals Day every year. The 2026 format tightens the schedule to 12 matches across a group of six, which suits a squad with its depth far more than it suits anyone chasing them. Jos Buttler, Phil Salt, and Liam Livingstone […]
Dhoni hasn’t played a single game this season. Thirteen matches, zero appearances, and the injury timeline that was supposed to explain it stopped making sense weeks ago. A calf strain became a warm-up aggravation, became a thumb problem, and became a quiet return to Ranchi while CSK fought for their playoff lives without him. At […]
Varun Chakravarthy has a confirmed hairline fracture in his left foot and has bowled in two matches since. He hasn’t taken a wicket in either. KKR needs to beat the Delhi Capitals on May 24, or their season ends. That pressure is real, the injury is real, and the two are now pulling directly against […]
PBKS looked unstoppable through the first six matches of IPL 2026. Six wins, tournament-best powerplay metrics, and Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy drawing early praise. Underneath that run, their death-over economy was already bleeding at 10.1 RPO. The batting masked it. The NRR, which never climbed above +0.300 despite the dominance, quietly signalled how thin the margins […]
Before SRH, Heinrich Klaasen was an IPL afterthought. Four appearances for Rajasthan Royals. Three for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Negligible returns at both. Three seasons at Sunrisers Hyderabad later, he holds the IPL 2026 Orange Cap with 508 runs in 12 matches, an average of 50.80, and a strike rate of 153.93. The franchise didn’t just […]
After DC’s May 17 win over Rajasthan Royals at Arun Jaitley Stadium, head coach Hemang Badani said something no coach should ever have to say about their home ground. The admission wasn’t frustrating at the moment; it was a structural confession about a problem that has defined DC’s entire season. Their away form is genuinely […]
Gaikwad’s batting isn’t just underperforming; it’s structurally breaking CSK’s innings before the middle order can save them. Thirteen matches in, he’s scoring at 120.68, the lowest among any batter with 200-plus runs this season. No other opener in IPL 2026 is consuming balls at this rate without the compensation of a big average. The problem […]
Ruturaj Gaikwad answered the question that 35,000 people at Chepauk were actually asking, and he answered it with a “maybe.” Dhoni has missed 13 consecutive games this season, sidelined by injuries that have kept him firmly in the dugout. One fixture remains: the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on May 21. That’s the window. That’s the […]
Virat Kohli named James Anderson, Lasith Malinga, and Sunil Narine as the bowlers who troubled him most across formats at the RCB Innovation Lab Indian Sports Summit in Bengaluru on May 19, 2026. These aren’t tributes to famous names. They’re precise technical admissions. Each bowler dismantled a separate layer of Kohli’s game. The pattern connecting […]
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 […]