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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.