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 […]
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 […]
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 […]