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.

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.

Mumbai Indians snag a huge boost. Will Jacks joins the squad this week, fresh off missing the first four IPL 2026 matches. England's all-rounder lit up the Ashes and that T20 World Cup semi-final run—226 runs, nine wickets in the bag. Kieron Pollard, MI coach, confirmed it all right as the team's been scraping by.

One win in four outings. Desperate times. Jacks brings the bang-up top-order hitting plus that nagging off-spin, exactly what they need after collapsing 18 runs short against RCB at Wankhede. Chasing 240/4, they limped to 222/5. He touches down just before the Punjab Kings clash.

Squad lists check out. Jacks slots in, bang on cue for MI's fightback.

Peshawar Zalmi grabbed their PSL 2026 stranglehold tighter. They smashed 196/6, then bowlers choked Multan Sultans' reply dead. Sultans faced 51 needed off five overs last up—didn't get close. Twenty-four run win. Zalmi's now got five from six, tops the table by three points. Title talk's buzzing.

That defense? Turned Sultans' chase into a total crumble. Pressure moments exposed their top order, but Zalmi's attack just kept swinging. Bowling depth shone through when it counted most. Sultans folded from 146/4.

Zalmi's rolling now. Playoffs in sight. Sultans? Picking up the pieces after that hiding.

England quick Brydon Carse won't play IPL 2026 for Sunrisers Hyderabad. He hurt his right hand in training. That's the second season running he's pulled out without a single game—last year it was a toe injury.

SRH can't catch a break with injuries. Left-armer David Payne, who'd come in for Jack Edwards, twisted his ankle and he's done for the season. Two games. Two wickets. Pat Cummins, SRH skipper, gets back April 25 against Rajasthan Royals. Cleared back scans down in Sydney. Lumbar bone stress reaction sidelined him to one match since last July.

SRH still hammered Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs at Uppal. Batted first for 216/6. Bowled 'em out for 159. Cummins stepping up now might just shore up that pace battery as they keep grinding.

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.

Prasidh Krishna's grabbed the IPL 2026 Purple Cap lead. Ten wickets from four games. That matchwinning 4/28 powered Gujarat Titans to a seven-wicket romp over Lucknow Super Giants, chasing 165 after Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler smacked fifties—their 84-run stand sealing it once LSG stumbled to 164 for 8. He overtook Ravi Bishnoi for top spot.

Rajat Patidar's exploded into second in the Orange Cap race with 195 runs, thanks to his 53 off 20 balls—4 fours and 5 sixes—in RCB's 18-run win over Mumbai Indians. Virat Kohli chipped in a gritty 50 off 38 there, jumping into the top five. RCB's batting lit up Wankhede with 240 for 4, Phil Salt's 78 the highlight.

GT's jumped into the top five now. LSG's middle order looks shaky after that narrow escape against KKR. Sunday's double-header with them cranks up the race.