Sanju Samson smashed an unbeaten 115 off 56 balls—15 fours, four sixes—to haul CSK to 212 for 2. That set up a 23-run win over DC right there at Chepauk. He'd timed it so calmly, finally busting CSK's home jinx. Coach Eric Simons couldn't help drawing MS Dhoni parallels.

After a rocky start to the season, Samson put it down to self-belief. He anchored the innings just right. DC? They scrambled to 189 all out chasing on that batting beauty. Nowhere near enough.

CSK's first win. Gaikwad's leading in this post-Dhoni captaincy stretch, Dhoni finishing things off. Hopes alive again.

Rohit Sharma's IPL 2026 got off to a rough start. He retired hurt on 19 off 13 balls in Mumbai Indians' clash with Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Wankhede—hamstring issue suspected, scans pending to gauge how bad. That puts his spot in MI's next outing against Punjab Kings on April 16 up in the air.

Phil Salt, RCB's opener, just shut down the noise about his shaky run. Blasted 78 off 36 balls to win the match, snagged Player of the Match in that nail-biter. "Impact matters more than consistent big scores every game," he said afterward, shrugging off the weight of milestones. Down-to-earth stuff from the keeper-batter who's now lighting it up for RCB with Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, and Suyash Sharma.

Tim David added his own twist to RCB's 18-run win. Umpires nailed him with a 25% match fee fine plus one demerit point. Level 1 Code of Conduct breach—he ignored their ball-change calls twice in the 18th over.

Punjab Kings nicked a pulsating 6-wicket chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad right there at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium. SRH's openers Abhishek Sharma, blasting 74 off 28 balls, and Travis Head, 38 off 23, tore into the powerplay for 105 runs—looked like 250 was on. Shreyas Iyer, though, pulled a clever trick. Part-timer Shashank Singh.

He clocked 120kph with cutters in that key over. Ended up 3-20-2. SRH stopped at 219/6. Arshdeep Singh chipped in 4-50-2.

PBKS openers Priyansh Arya (57 off 20) and Prabhsimran Singh (51 off 25) rattled up 99 in reply. Iyer's unbeaten 69 off 33 got them over the line in 18.5 overs. Follows their rain-washed no-result with KKR.

SRH now two losses deep. They fell 5 wickets short to LSG last time, scraping 156/9.

BCCI's shaking things up for IPL 2026. They've flipped the venues on CSK vs GT clashes because of Gujarat's municipal elections hitting April 26. That afternoon game? Now it's off to Chennai. The May 21 night slot moves to Ahmedabad instead. Calendar's otherwise untouched.

CSK couldn't be riding higher after those straight Chepauk wins—like the 32-run thumping of KKR while guarding 192/5. GT hit back quick enough, though. Seven-wicket canter past LSG. Now these venue switches hand CSK a spin-happy home pitch right off the bat. Points table just got a bit more interesting.

Rajasthan Royals manager Romi Bhinder's in hot water—a show-cause notice from BCCI's ACSU after he pulled out his phone in the dugout during that RCB match. Broke PMOA rules flat out. Those ban devices to stop any whiff of unfair edges. He's sent over an apology, backed by medical records on lung troubles and other health woes.

No bad intent here, sources reckon. Light slap on the wrist, probably. All this amid RR's 57-run drubbing by Sunrisers Hyderabad at Uppal. They crumbled to 159 chasing 217. Bit of backstory: Vaibhav Suryavanshi had peeked at a screen before, went viral. Probe's zeroed in on the rule violation, though.

RR just wants it forgotten fast. Turnaround on the points table awaits.

Lucknow Super Giants nicked a last-ball three-wicket thriller over Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. Chasing 182, they had Mukul Choudhary to thank—his unbeaten 54 off 27 balls, packed with seven sixes and that helicopter flick he loves. LSG were down at 128/7, still needing 54 from 24 balls. Somehow, they pulled it off.

Ayush Badoni got them going first, 54 off 34 with seven fours and a couple of sixes. But Choudhary? Kid's a Dhoni fan from way back. Practices the helicopter every day, smacking 100-150 sixes in the nets. Deep breaths between those massive hits. Faced 25 of the last 30 balls. Vaibhav Arora went hard with 4-38-2, Anukul Roy matched him at 4-32-2. Sunil Narine kept it tight, 4-13-1. Didn't matter. Earlier, Ajinkya Rahane cracked 41 off 24—four fours, two sixes—while Ajinkhav Raghuvanshi chipped in 45 from 33, five fours and a pair of sixes. KKR posted 181/4.

Choudhary's feat puts him alongside Kieron Pollard—only two with a fifty-plus in death overs during a winning IPL chase. LSG now on back-to-back triumphs after SRH. They're climbing. KKR? Stuck ruing that washout versus PBKS.

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal's the new BCB president. The board got dissolved after those dodgy October 2025 elections. Now he's heading up an 11-member ad-hoc committee. Three months to sort out the chaos.

Big shake-up. Tamim's jumping in to get trust back in Bangladesh cricket.

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.

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.

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.