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NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans were dealt a surprise blow ahead of their IPL 2026 clash against Rajasthan Royals as regular captain Shubman Gill missed the match due to a muscle spasm. In his absence, Rashid Khan stepped in to lead the side, assuring fans that the issue wasn't serious and Gill should return soon. Rajasthan, led by Riyan Parag, won the toss and chose to bat first, aiming to put up a big total on a high-scoring pitch.Explaining the situation, Rashid said, "We wanted to bowl first. Gill ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): KL Rahul's record-breaking dominance over Mumbai Indians (MI) pacer Deepak Chahar came to an end during a challenging outing on Saturday in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Before the DC vs MI match, Rahul had scored 160 runs off 103 balls in 13 innings against Chahar, maintaining a remarkable strike rate of 155.3 and had never been dismissed by the pacer in the tournament's history. This made him the highest-scoring ba ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): KL Rahul's record-breaking dominance over Mumbai Indians (MI) pacer Deepak Chahar came to an end during a challenging outing on Saturday in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Before the DC vs MI match, Rahul had scored 160 runs off 103 balls in 13 innings against Chahar, maintaining a remarkable strike rate of 155.3 and had never been dismissed by the pacer in the tournament's history. This made him the highest-scoring ba ...Read More >
New Delhi: After 200 and above becoming a norm, Delhi Capitals' first home game brought a semblance of normalcy back into run-scoring in IPL 2026. Not only did the home team correctly called at the toss and chose to field, they ensured that Mumbai Indians could never break free in their innings of 162 for six. On a Feroz Shah Kotla track that had cracks where the ball gripped on landing, Delhi bowlers, particularly pacers Lungi Ngidi and Mukesh Kumar, varied their pace cleverly. They also nev ...Read More >
CHENNAI, India(AP) -- Opening batters Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh gave Punjab Kings a flying start to a target of 210 as they overhauled Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League on Friday. Impact substitute Arya set the tone with 39 runs off 11 balls as he and Singh rumbled to 68-1 in the powerplay. Captain Shreyas Iyer's 26-ball half-century and Cooper Connolly's 36 ensured Punjab reached 210-5 with eight balls to spare and won by five wickets. Chennai thought it put up a defe ...Read More >
Mumbai: When playing evening T20 games in the subcontinent, the team bowling second mostly finds itself under pressure because dew makes the ball difficult to grip. In their first home game of the season, at the M A Chidambaram Stadium, on Friday, Chennai Super Kings had reasons to worry after losing the toss against Punjab Kings and being put into bat. At the break, though the dew had yet to set in, which was good news for the home side bowlers. Having posted a total of 209/5 they would have ...Read More >
The TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 is in the second round of the tournament. The second match of round two was played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Punjab Kings (PBKS). As PBKS beat CSK by 5 wickets. Shreyas Iyer for PBKS won the toss and elected to field first, as they came into the game with an unchanged side. The home team, CSK, made one change after their first match loss to the Rajasthan Royals (RR); Mathew Short was replaced by Prashant Veer. Yet again, a tough start for Sa ...Read More >
Chennai, April 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Priyansh Arya's opening blitz of 39 off 11 balls and skipper Shreyas Iyer's fifty propelled Punjab Kings to their second victory in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, beating Chennai Super Kings by five wickets at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday. Priyansh Arya ignited the chase with an impressive start, setting the tone for Punjab Kings' pursuit of 210 against Chennai Super Kings. Brought in as a substitute, Arya made his intentions c ...Read More >
KOLKATA, India (AP) - Sunrisers Hyderabad notched a commanding 65-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday to become the first team this Indian Premier League season to successfully defend a total. Abhishek Sharma (48) and Travis Head´s (46) power-hitting in the first six overs propelled Hyderabad and Heinrich Klaasen added 52 off 35 balls as the Sunrisers reached 226-8. Finn Allen (28) provided an early threat to chase down a big total when the New Zealand opener smashed boundaries off ...Read More >
KOLKATA, India(AP) -- Sunrisers Hyderabad notched a commanding 65-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday to become the first team this Indian Premier League season to successfully defend a total. Abhishek Sharma (48) and Travis Head's (46) power-hitting in the first six overs propelled Hyderabad and Heinrich Klaasen added 52 off 35 balls as the Sunrisers reached 226-8. Finn Allen (28) provided an early threat to chase down a big total when the New Zealand opener smashed boundaries off ...Read More >
The TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 have been off to a flyer with the first round of the matches have concluded. In the second round, the first fixture was KKR vs SRH. Both franchises came in this match after a defeat in their opening game against the Mumbai Indians (MI) and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, respectively. KKR won the toss and elected to field first, as Ajinkya Rahane's side came in with an unchanged XI from their 6-wicket loss against MI. On the other hand, SRH made one ch ...Read More >
Granted teams batting first haven't had it safe in recent times and the pressure of breaching 200 has gone through the roof. But Chennai Super Kings also possess a fantastic winning record defending modest totals. Whatever happened to that conviction in Guwahati on Monday evening in their first game of IPL 2026? Skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad says it has taken a hit. "We could have been better in batting, taken the game deep, shown some batsmanship, maybe taken the game till 150-160," he said after th ...Read More >
The TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, match no.6, is underway between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. The Knights won the toss and elected to field first, and SRH scored 226/8 in their 20 overs. Coming out to chase, KKR were off to a flyer as they scored 25 runs off the first over. However, after that, during the last ball of the powerplay, it led to a comedy of errors as Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Cameron Green were involved in a funny ...Read More >
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 continues this evening as the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) host Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Eden Gardens. Both franchises are seeking their first victory of the season after suffering defeats in their respective opening fixtures. With the match scheduled to begin in the evening, ground staff have prepared a surface expected to favour stroke-play, though evening dew may influence the decision at the toss. You can follow KKR vs SRH IPL 2026 live scorecard here. ...Read More >
Injury woes continue to plague the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as Dewald Brevis has been ruled out of the team's IPL 2026 opener against Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Guwahati on Monday (March 30). The South African batter picked up a side strain during training, ruling him out of CSK's first game. Head coach Stephen Fleming confirmed the development in the pre-match press conference the eve of the clash. It is unclear whether Brevis will be fit for CSK's second game - at home against Punjab Kings (PB ...Read More >
LUCKNOW, India(AP) -- Impact player substitute Sameer Rizvi struck a half-century as Delhi Capitals overcame a top-order order collapse and beat Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets in its opening game of the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. Rizvi anchored Delhi to 145-4 in 17.1 overs with an unbeaten 70 off 47 balls after coming in for Thangarasu Natarajan in the fourth over. Lucknow had earlier collapsed to 141 all in 18.4 overs after Delhi skipper Axar Patel won the toss on a wicket where ...Read More >
The TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, match no. 5 have concluded, as Delhi Capitals beat Lucknow Super Giants by 6 wickets. With this hefty win, DC goes to the top of the table. The Capitals won the toss and elected to field first. Surprising everyone, Rishabh Pant opened the batting for LSG; however, he had a short stint in the new role. The LSG captain was dismissed unluckily at the non-striker end, after Mitchell Marsh's straight drive hit Mukesh Kumar's hand and ended up on the stumps ...Read More >
Delhi Capitals pacer Lungi Ngidi has produced a potential ball of the tournament by clean bowling explosive West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran. The South African dismissed Pooran with a beautifully disguised slower delivery during the 5th match of IPL 2026 against Lucknow Super Giants at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bowl first. Lucknow Super Giants have deployed a strong top order featuring Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Ma ...Read More >
Hyderabad Kingsmen vs Multan Sultans - Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, 7 pm local time Winless after two games, Hyderabad Kingsmen will try to get off the mark tonight. Opening bowling with Maheesh Theekshana and Riley Meredith had worked for them last time, and they may want to replicate that. The batting, on the other hand, has looked shaky: not one of their batters has fifty runs; of the ones with 30 runs, only Hassan Khan (45 runs at 161) has scored at a rapid strike rate. That is something they w ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: Chennai Super Kings have before been in the kind of situations they found themselves in against Rajasthan Royals on Monday. But usually, on those occasions they had experience in the batting order to bail them out -- be it a MS Dhoni, a Suresh Raina or a Faf du Plessis in their element.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!However, trading experience for fresh faces in a new-look batting order while in a rebuilding phase, meant that the five-time champions coul ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH, India(AP) -- Cooper Connolly marked his Indian Premier League debut with an unbeaten half-century in Punjab Kings' three-wicket win over Gujarat Titans on Tuesday. Batting at No. 3, the 22-year-old Australian smashed 72 not out off 44 balls with five sixes and five fours as last year's finalist survived a middle-order collapse to reach 165-7 with five balls to spare. Fast bowler Vijayakumar Vyshak (3-34) and experienced spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (2-28) had earlier bowled well in the ...Read More >
New Chandigarh, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Fast bowler Vijaykumar Vyshak took three wickets as Punjab Kings (PBKS) restricted Gujarat Titans (GT) to 162/6 in 20 overs in their first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, being played at the PCA's New International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh on Tuesday. Asked to bat first after losing the toss, the Gujarat Titans got off to a strong start with captain Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan looking in good touch. The duo scored freely and t ...Read More >
Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag brushed aside criticism over his leadership after guiding his side to a dominant win over Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2026. Parag said outside opinions and unnecessary noise do not affect him as he looks to lead RR with clarity and confidence. Parag began his first full season as RR captain on a strong note, leading from the front as the Royals secured an emphatic eight-wicket win in Guwahati on March 30. The victory not only marked a perfect start to their c ...Read More >
Assam (Guwahati) [India], March 31 (ANI): Former India captain Anil Kumble dissected Rajasthan Royals' (RR) clinical new-ball bowling display against Sanju Samson, highlighting how the opening spells set the tone in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 clash against Chennai Super Kings (CSK). The Super Kings opener Samson, who was dismissed early in the innings by left-arm seamer Nandre Burger, proved to be a key turning point, with CSK struggling to recover from the early blows after the Roy ...Read More >
Guwahati, Mar 30 (PTI) Rajasthan Royals' teen batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on Monday said the team's senior players and support staff, including head coach Kumar Sangakkara, have given him the freedom to keep playing his attacking game. The 15-year-old prodigy blazed away to a 15-ball fifty to power RR to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in their IPL opener here, three days after his birthday. While he missed the cake cutting on the day of his birthday as he had ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 31 (ANI): Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batting coach Michael Hussey admitted his side was outplayed by Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 opener on Monday in Guwahati. He noted that the pitch, which had been under covers, offered early movement that CSK's batters struggled to adapt to. Hussey, however, remains optimistic, expecting significantly improved batting performances going forward in the tournament. Fiery bowling spells from Jof ...Read More >
IPL 2026 rain rules explained with points split, DLS method, minimum overs rule, and cut-off timings for RR vs CSK match in Guwahati. With dark clouds hovering over the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati and intermittent drizzle already reported, fans are nervously eyeing the radar for the high-profile Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings opener. While the drainage in Guwahati is top-tier, a total washout or a truncated game triggers a specific set of IPL 2026 regulations. Here is the br ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 30 (ANI): Following Rajasthan Royals (RR)'s win over five-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) opener, batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi spoke on his equation with opening partner Yashasvi Jaiswal and his birthday celebrations after recently turning 15. It was another Suryavanshi special, the second-fastest fifty by an RR batter in IPL history, which helped RR to a one-sided win over CSK by eight wickets in Guwahati on Monday. Whil ...Read More >
Guwahati, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag hailed his side's collective execution after they crushed Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in their IPL 2026 opening game at the ACA Stadium on Monday. "I got lucky with the toss, but I think the way we executed it, we had like a couple of days' practice, I think, before CSK arrived, and it was a red-soil wicket, but then it was a lot of rain as well, so we knew the moisture was going to play a part. I think everyone e ...Read More >
Guwahati, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Teenage opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who lit up the ACA Stadium with a blistering 52 off 17 balls in Rajasthan Royals securing an eight-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings, said the team's focus was on dominating the powerplay in a modest chase of 128 at the ACA Stadium. "I didn't really do anything outside - there was supposed to be a cake cutting, but I went to sleep early to avoid the cake-smearing (on how he celebrated his birthday last week). The plan to ...Read More >
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