Look, here's the thing—Mitchell Starc's cleared by Cricket Australia. Elbow and shoulder injuries from Ashes and Big Bash behind him. The 36-year-old lands with Delhi Capitals for IPL 2026. Eyes debut May 1 against Rajasthan Royals.

He took 14 wickets in 11 games for DC last season. Recovered fully now. Joins fellow Aussies Josh Hazlewood at RCB and Pat Cummins at SRH inbound too. DC lost by 47 runs to SRH last outing—195 for nine chasing 243.

Sunil Gavaskar blew his top at RCB calling three medical timeouts for Rasikh Salam's cramps right in the middle of MI's chase at Wankhede. Players ought to just walk off the field, he fumed, instead of dragging things out in that sticky humidity.

RCB hung on to defend 240/4, winning by 18 runs as MI limped to 222/5. Phil Salt smashed 78 off 36. Virat Kohli made 50. Rajat Patidar fired 53 off 20. Tim David unbeaten on 34 from 16 balls. Sherfane Rutherford's 71* off 31—nine sixes—almost dragged MI over the line.

Rasikh Salam battled through with figures of 2.5-23-1 despite the cramps. Gavaskar's outburst? It taps into the mounting irritation over these constant stoppages.

Harmanpreet Kaur's got India charging toward the T20 World Cup in England. Redemption's the word after those past heartbreaks. She's leaning on the 2025 ODI World Cup win, plus all that fresh talent bubbling up from the WPL. Her own growth? She stacks it right up there with Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni.

BCCI's stepping up its game on prep work these days. That fuels her push. Strong showing ahead—mixing the old hands with the kids to finally beat those familiar rivals.

Gujarat Titans wrapped up a seven-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2026's 19th match at Ekana Stadium. Prasidh Krishna ripped through with 4/28. That kept LSG to 164/8. GT knocked off 165/3 in just 18.4 overs. Shubman Gill made 56 off 40 balls. Jos Buttler cracked 60 off 37.

Aiden Markram's 30 off 21 topped LSG's scores—on a pitch that bit back hard. Mohammed Siraj snared 1/19. Kagiso Rabada got 1/54. Ashok Sharma claimed 2/32. Early wickets shook GT. But Gill and Buttler glued it together. Two wins in a row now. After that one-run squeaker against Delhi Capitals.

LSG's sixth loss straight. Kane Williamson pointed to batters wrestling tricky pitches.

Wasim Jaffer reckons CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad should swing harder right from the off. No more hunting those fat hundreds. Instead, pile on the risks early. His IPL 2026 strike rate? Just 103.70. And the returns—6, 28, 7, 15—haven't exactly set pulses racing. Aaron Finch agrees. Time to switch that mindset. Dominate quick.

CSK finally notched a win against DC. Their first one. Gaikwad copped a slow over-rate fine anyway. Even with Samson's century in the mix.

Pathirana's got his no-objection certificate from Sri Lanka Cricket. Passed that fitness test, no sweat. He'll link up with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2026, landing April 17 and ready to roll from April 19 against Rajasthan Royals.

A calf injury from the T20 World Cup kept him out of the early games. KKR could sure use him now—bolstering the bowling attack. They just dropped a 3-wicket loss to LSG at Eden Gardens, where they managed 181/4.

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.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru piled on 240/4 at Wankhede, leaving Mumbai Indians short by 18 runs in IPL 2026's 20th match. Phil Salt tore into them for 78 off 36 balls—six fours, six sixes—then Rajat Patidar fired 53 off just 20, their 131-run partnership off 56 balls ripping the heart out of MI's bowling.

Virat Kohli chipped in with a calm 50 off 38. RCB's total loomed large. MI clawed back through Ryan Rickelton's 37, Suryakumar Yadav's 33, Hardik Pandya's 40. Sherfane Rutherford stood tall, unbeaten on 71 from 31 balls with nine sixes. Krunal Pandya grabbed 1/26. Suyash Sharma snared 2/47. Jacob Duffy picked up 1/58. Trent Boult ended with 1/50 for MI. Still, they finished at 222/5.

RCB bounces back from that Rajasthan Royals defeat. MI, coming off a rain-hit loss to RR, deals with Rohit Sharma's hamstring—scans ahead. Tim David loses 25% of his match fee for mouthing off at the umpire.

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.

Ollie Pope's building a proper shout for an England Test recall. After that Ashes axe, he fought back hard—smashed 103 in the County Championship at the Kia Oval. Test spots? They're wide open this stacked summer.

Jamie Smith chipped in with 166. Together, they carved out a 200-run stand. Surrey racked up the runs against Leicestershire, who opted to field first and paid for it dearly. Shoaib Bashir grabbed career-best bowling figures too.

England's chasers hitting stride. Tough Tests loom. Pope, Smith, Bashir—these knocks might just nudge the selectors.

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.