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Henry Crocombe tore through Leicestershire. Four for 28 in the first innings.
Henry Crocombe ripped through with 9 for 69. Sussex demolished Leicestershire by 222 runs in the County Championship opener. They won big anyway, points deduction or not.
Ollie Robinson and Crocombe grabbed five wickets apiece earlier. That left Leicestershire all out for 245, chasing Sussex's 361. A 116-run lead they enforced. Game over.
Gujarat Titans scraped their first win. Shubman Gill's 70 and Rashid Khan's 3/17 edged them past Delhi Capitals by a whisker at Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Gujarat Titans bagged their first IPL 2026 win. A nail-biter by one run against unbeaten Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Shubman Gill shook off that neck spasm—missed just one game—and cracked 70 off 45 balls. Four fours, five sixes. Anchored GT's 210 for 4 nicely. Jos Buttler raced to 52 off 27 with three fours and five sixes of his own. Washington Sundar pitched in 55 off 32.
DC scrambled to 209 for 8. Twenty overs chasing that monster total. KL Rahul hung tough—92 off 52, eleven fours, four sixes—backed by Pathum Nissanka's 41 off 24 and David Miller's unbeaten 41 off 20. Mukesh Kumar snared 2 for 55. Lungi Ngidi got 1 for 24. Kuldeep Yadav picked up 1 for 42. Rashid Khan's 3 for 17 shone bright. Prasidh Krishna added 2 for 52. Wasn't quite enough for GT. They'd dropped a six-run loss to Rajasthan Royals before this. DC had chased down Mumbai Indians in six wickets.
GT's middle order drew heat—no wins in two. Gill back. Sai Sudharsan feeling good. That lifted them into the clash. DC banked on Sameer Rizvi's middle-order sparks for the perfect streak. Mitchell Starc's sidelined injured till at least April 20.
Cameron Green’s first ball back since the T20 World Cup? Disaster.
Lucknow Super Giants nicked a three-wicket thriller over Kolkata Knight Riders. Right on the final ball at Eden Gardens. They chased 182, coasting at 181/4 before the drama kicked in.
Cameron Green chipped in with 32* off 24 balls—three fours, a six—during KKR's innings. But he bled 28 runs in his penultimate over. Ended up at 14 an over overall. Figures of 2/28.
Mukul Choudhary hammered 30 off the last two overs. Sealed it for LSG. They finished 182/7. KKR's third loss now. Death bowling's coming back to bite them hard.
Green back bowling since the T20 World Cup. Didn't go to plan in the clutch. LSG dragged themselves out of a hole.
Xavier Bartlett struck early. KKR wobbling at 25/2.
Xavier Bartlett made Eden Gardens his playground. The Punjab Kings pacer shredded through KKR's top order on that green-tinged pitch, grabbing Finn Allen and Cameron Green with test-match lengths—two wickets in just 1.4 overs. KKR chose to bat first under gloomy skies, but they crashed to 25/2. Then heavy rain hit after 3.4 overs. No result. Crucial IPL 2026 points gone.
KKR's hurting bad now. They're winless, coming off a 65-run hiding from SRH and a 3-wicket loss to LSG. Rinku Singh's batting at No. 6 as vice-captain, carrying the load without injured spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine. Harshit Rana and Akash Deep are out too. Cameron Green's back's sore—he's batting only.
Shreyas Iyer's PBKS sits pretty. Two wins in a row, like that 5-wicket chase of CSK's 209. His leadership—straight after KKR's 2024 title—keeps PBKS sharp and together. KKR? Pace attack's a mess, middle order crumbling. Eden's drenched. Rescheduling can't come soon enough.
Avesh Khan smashed that final ball right back near the rope. SRH weren't happy.
Sunrisers Hyderabad could file a formal complaint with the BCCI. That's over Lucknow Super Giants quick Avesh Khan supposedly swatting the ball back with his bat near the rope on the last ball of their game. SRH insists it hadn't crossed the boundary. Runs lost there. Might've pushed their 156/9 total higher—LSG nicked a five-wicket win chasing 160 anyway.
Avesh ended up with 2/36. Controversy's bubbling, though, after SRH's close loss. Rishabh Pant's unbeaten 68 sealed it. Pat Cummins, the captain, is out till April 17 for back scans. Ishan Kishan steps in to lead a side already hit by early blows.
Shreyas Iyer's pulled down that Instagram post. You know the one—a cheeky joke about rain handing KKR a point on a platter.
Shreyas Iyer's sister Shresta yanked her viral Instagram video after threats rolled in and backlash hit hard. She'd posted a cheeky joke about Punjab Kings handing a point to KKR in that rain-soaked washout. Just banter, she said—took it down anyway, out of respect for her brother, PBKS captain, and the whole squad. No apology needed.
PBKS and KKR split the points. Fans lost it. Shresta caught the worst of the fury in those heated IPL clashes. Shreyas, though—he's steering a fresh-look PBKS now, Arshdeep Singh and the rest alongside him. They're chasing some real standing.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru piled up their third-highest IPL total, 250/3 right there at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Crushed Chennai Super Kings by 43 runs. Phil Salt knocked 46 off 30 balls. Devdutt Padikkal fired 50 from 29. Then Rajat Patidar, unbeaten on 48 off just 19, smashed six sixes. Tim David? He walked in during the 15th over and blazed 70* off 25—with eight sixes. First time that's happened in T20s.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, CSK skipper, chose to bowl first. Bad call. They leaked runs everywhere, but those last four overs? 78 of 'em. Fifth-highest in IPL history. Death-over economy at 16.65, the worst in IPL 2026. Bhuvneshwar Kumar snared 3/41. Didn't matter. CSK collapsed to 207 all out. Sarfaraz Khan made 50. Prashant Veer got 43.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar hit his 200 IPL wickets milestone for RCB's bowlers. Suyash Sharma chipped in with 1/21. Sealed the deal. CSK's now 0-3, coming off that PBKS defeat. Dewald Brevis close to a return.
Potts and Roach bag three each to bowl Kent out for 197 in Canterbury.
Durham grabbed the upper hand in their County Championship clash with Kent at Canterbury, rain be damned. Matthew Potts and Kemar Roach each snared three wickets to bundle Kent out for 197—Sam Northeast falling just short of a ton on 94.
They wasted no time enforcing the follow-on. Durham rattled along to 83 for 2 in their second dig, a 221-run lead already in the bank. Rain finally chased them off. Didn't matter.
Innings victory in sight now. Kent's in a real scrap.
Ravi Bishnoi ripped through with 4 for 41. Tushar Deshpande held firm in the last over.
Rajasthan Royals hung on by their fingernails. They defended 210 to edge Gujarat Titans by six runs in a Narendra Modi Stadium thriller. Dhruv Jurel went off for 75 off 42 balls—five fours, five sixes—while Yashasvi Jaiswal's 55 got them to 210/6. GT's Rashid Khan picked up 1/39. Kagiso Rabada snared 2/42.
Sai Sudharsan looked silk-smooth in the chase, 73 off 44 balls keeping GT alive. Then Ravi Bishnoi tore in with 4/41. Middle order collapsed. Momentum swung hard. Jos Buttler nicked off early for 26. Tushar Deshpande held his nerve in the last over, defending 11 off it. GT finished 204/8.
RR's bowlers showed real depth there. This came right after their rain-hit 27-run win over MI.
GT must hurt after that 1-run scrape past DC. RR just keeps rolling early on.
Sameer Rizvi pocketed back-to-back player of the match awards. And boy, did he earn this one—90 off 51 balls that sent Mumbai Indians tumbling.
Delhi Capitals shook off that GT gut-punch. Chased 163 for a six-wicket win over Mumbai Indians at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Eleven balls spare. Sameer Rizvi smashed 90 off 51, seven fours and seven sixes—back-to-back Player-of-the-Match nods. Pathum Nissanka chipped in 44 to get them rolling steady.
MI scraped 162/6. Suryakumar Yadav topped it with 51. Axar Patel snagged 1/22. Mukesh Kumar grabbed 2/26. Lungisani Ngidi went for 1/34, T Natarajan 1/24—DC's attack squeezed hard. Rohit Sharma scratched 35. Spinners strangled the middle order flat.
Rizvi's 90 came right after his 70* against LSG. DC stuck with the retention, passed on that Sanju Samson swap. MI's already tripping after the RR defeat.
Bangladesh cricket's in turmoil. Seven board resignations hit hard this week—including four that dropped on April 4 alone—sparked by ongoing probes and the World Cup snub.
Bangladesh cricket's in absolute meltdown. Four Bangladesh Cricket Board directors quit in a single day—pushing the total to seven—right in the thick of an election probe, the T20 World Cup no-show, and whispers of political meddling. BCB president Aminul Islam insists he'll be the last to go. No malpractice here, he says.
Sports ministry's barking for board stability. Crisis everywhere you look. Stronger ties? Those plans are lost in the mess.
PBKS top order caught fire chasing 210 at Chepauk. They left CSK staggering through a sixth straight home loss.
Punjab Kings pulled off a five-wicket chase of 210 in just 18.4 overs at MA Chidambaram Stadium. Shreyas Iyer wasn't going anywhere, unbeaten on 50 from 29 balls with four fours and three sixes. Priyansh Arya had torn into them earlier—39 off 11, three fours and four sixes—while Prabhsimran Singh chipped in 43 off 34, six fours and a six. Cooper Connolly's 36 off 22, all six fours, sealed it.
CSK racked up 209 for five. Ayush Mhatre led the way with 73 off 43—six fours, five sixes—Shivam Dube unbeaten on 45 from 27 balls, five fours and a six. Ruturaj Gaikwad scratched around for 28 off 22. PBKS bowlers hit back hard. Vyshak Vijaykumar grabbed two for 38 off four. Yuzvendra Chahal one for 21 in three. Xavier Bartlett one for 48 off four. Marco Jansen one for 43 in four. Gaikwad, CSK's captain, ripped into the bowling. Off day, he called it.
Iyer talked up the team's internal competition after. They play to impress each other, not outsiders, he said. Saba Karim pointed to Iyer's flawless timing.
CSK sit at 0-2 now, fresh off a 43-run loss to RCB. Death bowling's killing them—111 runs leaked in 40 balls at 16.65 an over. PBKS? Undefeated at 2-0, even with that rain-wrecked no-result against KKR. Coach Fleming touched on auction misses. Impact Player headaches too.
Abbott struck early blows. But Critchley nearly reached a ton, and Allison cracked a fifty.
Essex wrapped up day one on 219 for three against Hampshire. Matt Critchley wasn't done yet—97 not out—and he'd stitched together an unbroken 152-run fourth-wicket partnership with Charlie Allison, who's 60 not out. Abbott grabbed early scalps. Kyle Abbott, that is. He rattled Essex down to 67 for three.
Noah Thain stepped in as sub for the injured captain Tom Westley. First time that's happened, thanks to the ECB's fresh injury substitution rules. Game on.
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