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Tom Banton sidelined by finger injury. No games played in IPL 2026.
Tom Banton won't bat again this IPL. A finger injury rules him out.
Gujarat Titans signed the England opener for his first stint since 2021. Zero games. Now they turn to Connor Esterhuizen, a 24-year-old South African keeper-batter. Player of the Series on T20I debut vs New Zealand. He steps in straightaway.
Documentary leaks reveal taped talks on match-fixing and biased picks in Canada's T20 World Cup loss to NZ.
ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit opened a probe into Cricket Canada. They cite code breaches in a T20 World Cup match against New Zealand.
A documentary called 'Corruption, Crime and Cricket' spilled the details. Leaked tapes show selection rigged. The captain's over raised flags. Governance crumbled under admins.
Canada's game softened as players chased cash over runs. Officials picked sides for bribes. That T20 clash exposed it. ICC acts now. Matches lose bite without clean calls.
Emerging boards copy this mess. Funds flow in. Rules bend. Canada vs NZ wasn't isolated. Leaks prove patterns. Sport pays when boards rot from inside.
Hamstring. Achilles.
Josh Hazlewood stood at Chinnaswamy's end. He delivered 1 for 20 against LSG. Thirteen dots on a two-paced pitch. RCB won. Home streak intact.
Missing 151 days, he'd first hurt his hamstring. Achilles and tendon followed. Calf tore last. He rushed back for the Ashes. Wanted T20 World Cup spots too. Body rebelled. IPL start delayed. Early rust showed. Hard lengths fixed it. Rhythm returned.
Franchise schedules pile up. International windows clash. Players push limits. Recoveries shorten. Tendons snap. Calves rip. Management lags behind. Tours demand full squads. Boards eye cups. Bodies break. Hazlewood's haul hints at rhythm regained. Rush less. Heal properly.
De Kock's 112* off 60 sparks talk over Rickelton for MI's overseas opener role.
Quinton de Kock stood tall at Wankhede. Unbeaten 112 off 60 balls. Eight fours. Seven sixes. Mumbai Indians posted 195 for 6. Punjab Kings chased it in 16.3 overs. Won by seven wickets. Prabhsimran Singh made 80 not out off 39. Shreyas Iyer added 66 off 35.
De Kock's knock beat Ryan Rickelton's claim. Both overseas openers. MI coach Mahela Jayawardene sees competition. Aaron Finch praised de Kock's mindset. Relaxed. Experience counts. Rickelton waits. De Kock delivered. Arshdeep Singh took 3 for 22 for PBKS. Marco Jansen 1 for 30. MI lost fourth straight.
PBKS top table. Four wins. Prabhsimran's bat flashed. Wankhede crowd quiet. De Kock walked off head high. Selection battle heats. Form versus pedigree. MI picks soon. One spot. Two contenders. Numbers talk. De Kock's eight sixes linger.
North Zone won the final on first-innings lead. Sushma Verma faced 498 balls.
Sushma Verma scored 237 off 498 balls. Second-highest score in women's first-class cricket. North Zone took the Inter-Zonal multi-day trophy. First-innings lead sealed it.
Key partnerships held firm. She survived chances. Broke Mithali Raj's record. Fell two short of 242. Prep work paid off. Nets against pace bowlers. Focus stayed sharp. 'Lost it on two balls only,' she said.
Multi-day tests demand patience. 498 balls test endurance. South Zone couldn't break through. Trophy to North Zone. Her average climbs.
Chakravarthy grabs Buttler and Sundar to cross 100 KKR wickets. Gill surges ahead of Kohli.
Gill picked up the ball from outside off and lofted it over cover. Four. Then another, wristier this time. KKR's spinners watched from mid-off as Gujarat Titans edged closer to 181.
He fell short of the target, caught by Green off Arora for 86 off 50 balls—eight fours, four sixes. GT still won by five wickets in 19.4 overs at Motera. Gill's knock lifted him to 251 runs, past Kohli's 228 for the Orange Cap. His third win pushed GT into the top four.
Varun Chakravarthy leaked 34 in four overs but snared two. Those strikes—Buttler and Sundar—took him to 102 for KKR. First Indian to 100 wickets for the franchise, in 88 matches. KKR stayed stuck on zero from six.
Lungi Ngidi tops Delhi Capitals attack sans Starc. Dipping slower ball key variation.
Lungi Ngidi leads DC's pace attack without Mitchell Starc. That dipping slower ball came from Dwayne Bravo. He refined it over years. The T20 World Cup tested it. IPL sharpened it further.
Batsmen now pick pure pace. Ngidi added flight and revs. The dip fools them. With Starc out, he steps up. DC trains at BCCI's CoE in Bengaluru—lights sessions, full camp—for next games.
Modern batting demands variations. Intent-driven batsmen smashed seamers flat. Ngidi's slower balls bite back. Bravo spotted the skill early. Ngidi listened. Data shows slower balls take wickets at 7.2 economy in IPL slogs. His run at 6.8.
Rabada's early strikes and Siraj pairing choke KKR's total before Gill's chase seals GT's streak.
Look, here's the thing. Kagiso Rabada grabs 3 for 29, two in the powerplay. GT restricts KKR to 180 at Motera. They chase it in 19.4 overs. Shubman Gill's 86 off 50 does the rest.
Rabada nails the bounce there. Pairs with Mohammed Siraj's 2 for 23. KKR's Cameron Green fights hard, 79 off 55. But he jams 4 off 11 late. Last four overs? Just 23 runs. GT smells blood early.
KKR winless in seven now. GT grabs third straight win. Rabada says bounce helped, strategy with Siraj set from ball one. Intent merchants like Green can't save death-over flops. Powerplay wins IPL games. GT knows it.
Arshdeep's 3/22 sparked PBKS chase led by Prabhsimran's 80*. MI's De Kock ton went in vain.
Punjab Kings beat Mumbai Indians by seven wickets at Wankhede. They chased 196 in 16.3 overs. MI made 195 for six.
Prabhsimran Singh hit 80 not out off 39 balls. Eleven fours. Two sixes. Shreyas Iyer scored 66 off 35. Arshdeep Singh took three for 22. MI's Quinton de Kock carried his bat with 112 off 60. Eight fours. Seven sixes. Naman Dhir made 50 off 31.
PBKS now lead the table with nine points from five games. Four wins. One no result. MI sit ninth with two points. One win from five. Hardik Pandya said his side must answer hard questions. Take ownership. Fourth loss in a row. Crowd calls it the cathedral. Empty echoes tonight.
Washington Sundar barely gets a crack at bowling in GT's four games—just four overs total. Instead, he's thriving in those tricky Powerplay slots.
Washington Sundar snagged a wicket in the Powerplay. GT's opener. Crowd murmured.
That Impact Player rule? It's flipped his role upside down. Across four games for Gujarat Titans, he's sent down just four overs—way off his Pune stint back in 2017. Teams swap in specialists now. Allrounders aren't bowling as much. Sundar thrives batting up top. Ready for whatever. Loves those Powerplay bursts, he told the Times of India.
Look at the numbers. IPL allrounders used to average 5.8 overs a match pre-rule. Down to 3.2 now. Sundar dodged that early this season. Matthew Hayden's coaching him. Bat contributions too. His four overs? Economy under 6. Subs mean pure bowlers, pure batters. Sundar adapts. Bowls tight on call. Bats higher up.
The ball angled in from Hazlewood's hand, thudding into Patidar's pads just short of leg stump. First over back at Chinnaswamy after 151 days sidelined. RCB beat LSG while he found his hard lengths.
He leaked just 20 off four overs. Thirteen dots choked the chase. Variable bounce aided him; he stuck to back-of-length probes. RCB's unbeaten home run stretches on. Kohli came in as Impact Player again, knee and ankle taped, made 49 off 34. But Hazlewood's rhythm looked the sharper story—less rust than his debut suggested. Coach's faith in the Aussie quick pays early dividends.
Injury shadows lift slow in T20. Hazlewood gripped the old ball tighter by over three. RCB face DC next; Axar and Kuldeep wait. Patidar's middle-overs blitz looms large there. Hazlewood bowls over the wicket, stares down the variable strip. Chinnaswamy faithful remember his Gabba growl from the commentary box.
BCB rolled out lifetime 'Captains Cards' for 33 skippers since 1977. Tamim Iqbal pushed the plan through. Cardholders get event access, parking, health insurance—the works players receive.
That's every captain Bangladesh has had. Current ones included. He spotted the disconnect between board and former leaders. Now they hold permanent perks. No more waiting at Mirpur gates.
Bangladesh cricket shifts. Old guards link to the board's new welfare efforts. Skippers who led the team get lasting benefits. Tamim's step matches runs to leadership. Ethical observers nod. Others will follow.
Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel, fresh off their T20 World Cup triumph, slot into NADA's RTP for Q2 2026. They're taking over from Mandhana and Iyer.
India's T20 World Cup standouts Abhishek Sharma and Axar Patel just landed in the National Anti-Doping Agency's Registered Testing Pool for Q2 2026. Out go Smriti Mandhana and Shreyas Iyer. The list hits 348 athletes now, with 14 cricketers such as Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Jasprit Bumrah still on it.
Closer watch on the big names. That's NADA's angle before those key tournaments hit. Abhishek plays for SRH. Axar captains DC. Both fresh off international wins. He's even talked about folding national team standards into IPL pressures.
Peter Moores, Nottinghamshire's coach, grabbed the sub rule for that edge. Glamorgan skipper Kiran Carlson?
Substitute rule in county cricket draws debate.
Peter Moores' Nottinghamshire grabbed it two rounds in. Gained an edge. The coach admits the laws sit too loose right now. Glamorgan's Kiran Carlson spots real problems too. Tactics twist games unfairly, he says (per BBC Sport).
Subs can jump in mid-match under the rule. Picture the IPL Impact Player, but counties skipped the guardrails. Batter slips in to bowl. Bowler pops up late to bat. Balance tips hard. Moores' crew snagged those key moments and won. Others aren't happy. Early numbers? Twelve subs so far. Seven flipped the outcomes.
Counties test T20 futures. Current rules allow role switches. Referees review before season deepens.
Wiaan Mulder's out for the County Championship trip to Warwickshire. That's after he'd played the opening two matches.
Essex allrounder Wiaan Mulder's headed back to South Africa. Personal reasons. He's missing their County Championship clash with Warwickshire, but the club's right behind him—they'll let everyone know when he's due back.
He played his part in Essex's opener, that win against Hampshire, then the loss to Somerset. Without him around, though, the side's depth gets a proper early test this season.
Sahibzada Farhan, Pakistan's opener, puts T20 batting power down to one thing—total clarity. "If you are in two minds, your body doesn't generate momentum to hit the ball well." Smashing Jasprit Bumrah? That gave him a real lift. Focus stays sharp against the best.
He's been on a tear lately in the PSL for Multan Sultans. All this as IPL chatter swirls. Bumrah's hit a rough patch at MI—wicketless over five games. Went at 0/35 against RCB last time out. Economy holding at 8.75, though.
Farhan's just 25. Doubt kills intent in T20s. Especially facing top-shelf pace.
Peshawar Zalmi racked up 196 for six, thanks to Kusal Mendis' 68. Multan Sultans pushed hard late on.
Peshawar Zalmi smashed Multan Sultans by 24 runs. That tightens their hold on top spot in the PSL 2026 table even more. Kusal Mendis went off for 68, firing them to 196-6. Five wins from six now. Unbeaten run rolls on.
Sufiyan Muqeem grabbed 3/30 to lead the attack. Iftikhar Ahmed chipped in with his all-round effort too. Multan Sultans scrapped to 172-8 despite needing 51 off the final five overs. Weren't quite enough. Zalmi's bowlers shut the door.
Zalmi's run just keeps stretching out. Chasing teams feel the squeeze now. League's getting hotter by the match.
KKR skipper cops a fine for dragging his feet on the over-rate. That came in a 32-run loss where Noor Ahmad's 3/21 almost snatched an unlikely win.
Chennai Super Kings romped to a 32-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders right there at MA Chidambaram Stadium. They racked up 192/5. Bowlers then squeezed KKR to 160/7. Noor Ahmad shone brightest for them—4-21-3 at 5.25 an over. Didn't matter in the end.
Sanju Samson anchored CSK's innings with 48 off 32 balls, cracking four fours and three sixes. Ayush Mhatre chipped in 38 off just 17—six fours, two sixes. Dewald Brevis wasn't far behind at 41 off 29, same boundary count. KKR pushed back. Ajinkya Rahane made 28 off 22 with two sixes. Angkrish Raghuvanshi got 27 in 19 balls. Rovman Powell finished 31 not out off 22. Ramandeep Singh topped them with 35 off 23. CSK's bowlers delivered. Syed Khaleel Ahmed snared 1/24 in 3.5 overs at 6.26. Anshul Kamboj took 2/32, economy 8.00. Akeal Hosein grabbed 1/26 at 6.50.
KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane copped a INR 12 lakhs fine after the match. Slow over-rate. IPL Code Article 2.22. First offence. CSK stay hot off that 23-run beating of Delhi Capitals. KKR? Still smarting from LSG's 3-wicket heist.
Former World Cup winner Krish Srikkanth tore into Lucknow Super Giants' overseas trio—Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran—for bombing out there. Bench them now, he says. LSG's third loss in five games drops them to seventh, scraping by with four points.
Against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, LSG crumbled to 146 all out in 20 overs. Their lowest total this season. That slow pitch didn't help. RCB knocked it off in 15.1 overs. Five-wicket win. They leap to the top with four victories from five.
Rishabh Pant copped a Josh Hazlewood bouncer. Hurt bad. LSG's batting just keeps sinking deeper.
Srikkanth's rant hits as LSG slumps hard. Those overseas big guns? Silent at a batting paradise.
Quinton de Kock belted out an unbeaten 112. Still, Punjab Kings made light work of chasing 196, thanks to Prabhsimran Singh's dashing 80 not out.
Mumbai Indians took a 7-wicket hammering from Punjab Kings right there at Wankhede. Quinton de Kock smashed an unbeaten 112 off 60 balls—8 fours, 7 sixes—to drag MI to 195/6. Naman Dhir chipped in with a brisk 50 off 31. Didn't matter. PBKS romped home at 198/3 in 16.3 overs. Prabhsimran Singh blazed 80* off 39. Shreyas Iyer added 66 off 35.
Arshdeep Singh ripped through with 3/22. MI's attack? Leaky tap. De Kock slotted back in as opener—Rohit Sharma's out with that hamstring tweak from the RCB match, where he'd retired hurt on 19 off 13. Hardik Pandya said at the toss Rohit might sit out more. That knock? De Kock's 25th IPL fifty as keeper-batter. Beats MS Dhoni's 24. Now second to KL Rahul.
MI grabbed 21-year-old Punjab seamer Krish Bhagat for base price INR 30 lakh. Replaces injured Atharva Ankolekar—knee problem from Ranji Trophy. PBKS shrugged off their SRH win. MI? Still licking wounds from that 18-run defeat to RCB.
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