Aminul Islam Bulbul, the former BCB president, just fired off a plea to the ICC. His removal? Illegal, he says—demands the elected board gets put right back in place.

Earlier, Bulbul leaned on government directives and skipped the T20 World Cup, even with ICC begging otherwise.

Now he's begging the ICC to jump into this mess of a standoff.

Delhi Capitals blew it by a single run against Gujarat Titans right there at Arun Jaitley Stadium. They had victory in their grasp during that last over—then crumbled. Down to two runs off two balls, David Miller turned down the single. Dot ball. Run-out. DC finished at 209/8, chasing GT's 210/4.

Earlier, Miller smashed plenty. Still, that call kicked off all the talk. Axar Patel, the skipper, backed it. Pathum Nissanka did too. Sunil Gavaskar liked the thinking, even if Prasidh Krishna's slower bouncer didn't quite get finished off.

Rashid Khan ran the show for GT. Back strong after surgery—3/17. Broke DC's middle order flat.

DC's had these nail-biters before. Harsha Bhogle says the bones of their side still point toward playoffs.

ICC's rolled out the schedules for East Asia-Pacific Qualifiers. Over in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, the U19 Women’s T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier kicks off 8-13 April. Five teams. Round-robin format. Winner books a spot at the 2027 event.

Japan hosts the Men's T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier come May. Nine teams split into groups, then super six. Straight to the chase on who advances.

David Warner's in strife now. Cops in Sydney charged Australia's ex-opener with drink-driving after he blew 0.104 on the breathalyser—twice the legal limit. He'll face court on May 7. Doesn't touch his gig captaining Karachi Kings in PSL 2026, though.

Turning 39 this year, Warner piles on the off-field mess since hanging up the baggy green. He'd been out on the town. Failed the breath test. Just a routine charge, sure, but when it's a bloke like him...

Eyes everywhere in cricket. PSL keeps chugging. That reputational bruise? It'll bite the divisive opener hardest.

Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh's new ad-hoc BCB president, has made restoring cricket's battered reputation his top job. The board was dissolved over election mess, and Tamim wants to respect players, learn from errors, and hold fair elections soon.

Sunil Gavaskar let rip at overseas IPL stars yesterday. He branded the league their personal cash cow—one they barely bother milking properly. Fitness excuses from Mitchell Starc, Matheesha Pathirana, and Cameron Green? Gavaskar wasn't buying it. Bowling just four overs? That's no sweat, he reckoned.

BCCI needs to clamp down hard, he argued. Overseas boards snag the IPL cash even as their players dodge international duties. For that fat payday, Gavaskar wants total buy-in. No half-measures.

Mumbai Indians coach Kieron Pollard’s dropping a timely warning about Rajasthan Royals’ 15-year-old opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Don’t pump up the kid sky-high, he’s saying—then ditch him when he flops, like so many do. That’s the trap with RR’s teenage gun, who’s already blasted 200 runs in four IPL games. Strike rate? A ridiculous 266.66.

He couldn’t stress patience enough for raw talents like this. “Biggest fear,” Pollard put it, “is building them up only to tear them down when things go wrong.” RR’s flying early, sure—fresh off knocking over MI and RCB. Suryavanshi didn’t blink. MI’s scraped one win from three. Now it’s RCB at Wankhede. Both still smarting.

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.

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 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.

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.

Cooper Connolly burst onto the IPL 2026 scene. Unbeaten 72 off 44 balls for Punjab Kings versus Gujarat Titans—five fours, five sixes. The 22-year-old Aussie snagged Player of the Match on debut. Funny thing, he grew up idolizing Shaun Marsh, who pulled off a similar breakout for the same side way back.

Sticking to what he does best, Connolly paced it nicely at first. Then boom—big hits everywhere. That innings delivered PBKS a vital win. It lifts Shreyas Iyer's rebuild, the one packing in talents like Arshdeep Singh. Rain had washed out their opener against KKR at Eden Gardens. PBKS ended up handing over a point there. Connolly's already looking sharp.

Shreyas Iyer called Connolly's rampage against Rashid Khan 'surreal' after that thriller. Aakash Chopra's got PBKS pegged for playoffs with MI, DC, RCB. Connolly might just turn out to be their wildcard.

Delhi Capitals stuck with Sameer Rizvi over Sanju Samson in that gutsy retention move. And boy, IPL 2026's paying off big. The UP kid's smashed an unbeaten 70 chasing down Lucknow Super Giants. Then came 90 off 51 to beat Mumbai Indians. Back-to-back Player-of-the-Match nods. Fire.

Rizvi's holding up those dodgy chases with real guts and muscle—key wins for DC. Sure, he bagged a duck in that 1-run heartbreak against GT, where they posted 209/8 chasing 210. Didn't matter. His runs have fixed the middle order. Axar Patel's skippering the machine just fine.