Phil Salt is expected back with Royal Challengers Bengaluru later this week after scans cleared his left finger injury. He picked it up in April diving to save a boundary against Delhi Capitals. RCB qualified for the playoffs without him, though it's still unclear whether he'll feature against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday.

Ravindra Jadeja's announced his retirement from international cricket effective immediately. He played 50 Tests, 197 ODIs and 74 T20Is for India.

The timing is sharp: the announcement came as BCCI selectors held a press conference explaining omissions from the upcoming squad. Fitness concerns and form were cited for Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, and Axar Patel all being left out. Now Jadeja's exit removes one of those names from the conversation entirely—no comeback speculation, no workload-management debate. The BCCI will name replacements like Manav Suthar and Harsh Dubey for the upcoming series.

Rain halted the IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in Kolkata. Officials are monitoring conditions for a possible resumption.

KKR beat Gujarat Titans by 29 runs at Eden Gardens just before this, while MI won their last outing against Punjab Kings by 6 wickets. Hardik Pandya captains MI for the 2026 season.

Young pacers Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar have been named in India's ODI squad for the Afghanistan series after strong domestic performances and IPL showings. The selection committee confirmed both on May 19.

Yadav plays for Lucknow Super Giants, while Brar represents Gujarat Titans. Both will now compete in the ODI series that follows the one-off Test, giving India deeper pace options heading into the limited-overs leg.

Quinton de Kock and Raj Angad Bawa are out for the season. De Kock's left wrist took a tendon injury, Bawa's right thumb a ligament tear — both confirmed on the eve of Mumbai's match against Kolkata Knight Riders.

Mumbai posted 147 for 8 at Eden Gardens, and KKR reached 114 for 3 in 13.3 overs chasing a revised target. The match remained live.

Hardik Pandya stays captain. Jasprit Bumrah's fit despite a minor knee issue.

Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets at MA Chidambaram Stadium. They reached 181 for five in 19 overs after CSK posted 180 for seven.

Ishan Kishan made 70 off 47 balls, seven fours and three sixes. Heinrich Klaasen hit 47 off 26, six fours and two sixes. Their 75-run stand got SRH home with an over left.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Punjab Kings by 23 runs in the 61st match of IPL 2026 at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium. RCB posted 222 for 4 and restricted Punjab Kings to 199 for 8.

Venkatesh Iyer remained unbeaten on 73 off 40 balls while Rasikh Salam claimed 3 for 36. Virat Kohli scored 58 and Devdutt Padikkal added 45 in RCB's total. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 for 38 to extend his lead on the Purple Cap with 24 wickets. Jitesh Sharma led RCB in the absence of injured captain Rajat Patidar.

The win made RCB the first team to qualify for the IPL 2026 playoffs. Punjab Kings suffered their sixth straight loss and sit on the brink of elimination with one game left. Punjab Kings fast bowling coach James Hopes admitted the team was always chasing momentum with the ball.

The ICC released the full fixture list for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup on Friday. The tournament runs in Sri Lanka from October 2026 with 20 teams split into a Super 12 format. Five teams qualified directly from the 2024 edition, while Sri Lanka, Pakistan and England locked in spots via rankings. Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland earned the remaining berths at the qualifier in Nepal.

Rajasthan Royals skipper Riyan Parag expressed frustration after his team's sloppy fielding contributed to their defeat against Delhi Capitals. The team suffered its third successive defeat and sits sixth in the points table with two games left.

Rajasthan Royals posted 193 for 8 and Delhi Capitals reached 197 for 5 in 19.2 ov. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi broke the record for the most sixes hit by an Indian batter in an IPL season by hitting 3 sixes. Delhi Capitals also secured a win against Rajasthan Royals while keeping themselves in contention.

Rajasthan Royals find themselves on the brink of elimination from the top four race. Delhi Capitals kept themselves in the playoffs race with the victory. RCB became the first team to qualify for the IPL 2026 playoffs after defeating Punjab Kings.

Ravi Shastri wants selectors to fast-track teenage opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for a senior debut as early as next month against Ireland. The 15-year-old just earned his India A call-up on the back of strong domestic performances.

Sanjiv Goenka, RPSG Group owner, backed the selection. The teenager has built genuine national momentum — Goenka himself flagged the excitement around what's coming.

Shastri reckons Sooryavanshi could become India's youngest international debutant. That's how sharp the teenager looks.

Kolkata Knight Riders posted 247 for 2 at Eden Gardens and beat Gujarat Titans by 29 runs. Finn Allen hammered 93 off 35 with ten sixes. Angkrish Raghuvanshi stayed unbeaten on 82 off 44, and Cameron Green added an unbeaten 52 off 28.

Shubman Gill said Gujarat Titans didn't deserve to win after dropping four catches. GT's chase fell short at 218 for 4 despite B Sai Sudharsan finishing unbeaten on 53 off 28 and Gill's own 85 off 49.

Sunil Narine was Player of the Match in his 200th IPL game. B Sai Sudharsan reached 3000 T20 runs in a record 78 innings. KKR stay in the playoff hunt.

Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 113 off 63 balls to guide Royal Challengers Bengaluru past Punjab Kings by five wickets in IPL 2026. RCB chased 192 and finished at 194 for 4 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Kohli spoke after the win about the nerves that still come with IPL innings—how they sharpen rather than dull him. In a recent chat with KL Rahul, he's been thinking through how T20 demands keep shifting: the bowlers are quicker, the fields tighter, the margins thinner. At 35, he's still hunting answers, not resting on them.

Rajasthan Royals chased down 175 with four balls to spare, Sanju Samson finishing unbeaten on 72 to steer them home. The win comes at a cost for Mumbai: Hardik Pandya went down with an ankle injury during the match and is expected to miss the next few games.

The International Cricket Council has suspended Cricket Canada's funding for the next six months over governance breaches and weak financial oversight. National team and high-performance programmes will keep running without immediate disruption.

Cricket Canada pulls 63 percent of its revenue from the ICC, which makes this suspension a serious jolt — though the governing body hasn't signalled any further action. The move follows repeated reviews of the board's internal controls.

Mumbai Indians chased 201 to defeat Punjab Kings by six wickets at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium. Tilak Varma hit an unbeaten 75 off 33 balls with six fours and six sixes to guide MI home in 19.5 overs. Shardul Thakur took four for 39 to hold PBKS to 200 for eight.

Jasprit Bumrah captained MI for the first time due to Hardik Pandya's back spasms and Suryakumar Yadav's personal reasons. Bumrah won the toss and chose to bowl first against PBKS. PBKS opener Prabhsimran Singh scored 57 off 32 balls with six fours and four sixes.

Azmatullah Omarzai made 38 off 17 balls for PBKS and later took two for 36. MI's Ryan Rickelton contributed 48 off 23 balls in the chase. PBKS suffered a fifth straight loss after Delhi Capitals chased 211 to beat them by three wickets at the same venue.

Bangladesh opener Shadman Islam won't play the second Test against Pakistan in Sylhet after sustaining a chest injury during the first match in Mirpur. Zakir Hasan steps in as opener for Saturday's decider.

Islam copped the blow attempting a catch and was the team's leading run-scorer before the injury forced him out. The physio confirmed he's sidelined for the clash.

Delhi Capitals chased down 211 at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium on Saturday, holding their nerve in the final overs for a three-wicket win. Punjab Kings had posted 210 for five — Shreyas Iyer unbeaten on 59 off 36 balls, Priyansh Arya on 56 off 33 — but couldn't close it out.

Axar Patel (56 off 30) and David Miller (51 off 28) did the heavy lifting for DC, putting on a stand when the match hung in balance. Mitchell Starc took 2-57 and Mukesh Kumar claimed 1-31 for the winners. Arshdeep Singh returned 2-21 for PBKS, but it wasn't enough.

After the loss, Shreyas Iyer pointed to poor fielding and sloppy bowling execution on a seaming pitch — the kind where hard lengths win, and he felt PBKS never found either. They've now lost four straight. KL Rahul made nine off eight in the chase and sits second on the Orange Cap table with 477 runs from 12 innings at a strike rate of 177.98, but it's cold comfort when the team keeps folding.

Cricket South Africa postponed announcing South Africa's Women's T20 World Cup squad. Internal reviews are still underway, but the team must be lodged with the ICC before early June.

The tournament runs June 12–July 5 in England and Wales. South Africa sits in Group A alongside Australia, Bangladesh, India, Netherlands and Pakistan. Group B has England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Sri Lanka and West Indies. Six nations have already named their squads; CSA joins several others still waiting.

Shabnim Ismail's retirement U-turn means she's back in contention for the pace attack. Marizanne Kapp has recovered from recent illness and is available. Those two alone reshape what CSA's selectors can build around.