Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad said that his side would need to “just put it (defeat) behind us and move on” after a eight-wicket thrashing at the hands of Rajasthan Royals at the ACA Stadium in Guwahati in its first match of the IPL 2026 season. Gaikwad’s team was inserted to bat by the…
Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi celebrates his fifty (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) Rajasthan Royals announced their arrival in IPL 2026 with a commanding eight-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings, powered by a breathtaking innings from teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The Royals’ bowlers set the tone early, restricting CSK to a modest 127 on a pitch that…
Germany return to home soil just three days after coming from behind three times to secure a thrilling 4-3 victory against Switzerland in Bern. Standing in their way is a Ghana side managed by Otto Addo. The Black Stars qualified impressively for the finals by taking 25 points from 10 matches, but they are looking…
Chennai Super Kings suffered its second-heaviest defeat by balls remaining in its history as it got its IPL 2026 campaign off to an inauspicious start against Rajasthan Royals at the ACA Stadium in Barsapara, Guwahati. On a night headlines were expected to be dominated by Sanju Samson’s debut in Chennai Super Kings yellow, the Rajasthan…
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has fined fast bowler Naseem Shah $72,000 for a social media post criticising a politician’s presence at the opening game of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), which has banned spectators. The chief Minister of the Punjab province, Maryam Nawaz, was invited to Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium last Thursday, along with other…
Gujarat Titans opener Sai Sudharsan’s batting in IPL 2025 was poetry in motion. The southpaw was at his elegant best for a major part of the season and eventually scaled a peak when he bagged the Orange Cap prize for his 759-run effort. But the 24-year-old is not resting on past laurels. In fact, Sai Sudharsan,…
Rajasthan Royals’ teenage prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi started the IPL 2026 season with a bang, scoring a 15-ball half-century as he powered the Rajasthan Royals to a dream start in its pursuit of CSK’s target of 127. The 15-year-old smashed four boundaries and five sixes in his whirlwind innings, before eventually falling for 52 to Anshul…
Some victories transcend scorecards and become folklore. March 15, 2001 was one such moment, when India scripted an epic turnaround against Australia at the iconic Eden Gardens, a Test match that remains etched in cricketing memory. Twenty-five years later, nostalgia filled the air as Sourav Ganguly unveiled ‘Miracle at Eden’, a special 100-page publication brought out by…
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly backed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s rotation policy even as Eden Gardens and the Wankhede Stadium missed out on hosting the five Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which will end a busy 2026-27 home season for India. “It’s always great to have big Test matches back…
Italy are one step away from ending their long wait to get back to the World Cup. Italy and Bosnia-Herzegovina meet in a World Cup play-off final with both sides aiming to qualify for the first time since 2014. The Azzurri’s prolonged absence from a competition they have won four times is a source of…
