No teenager had ever finished an IPL season as its leading run-scorer, its most prolific six-hitter, and its most valuable player, until a 15-year-old from Bihar did all three in the same month. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ended IPL 2026 with 776 runs at a strike rate of 237.30 and 72 sixes for Rajasthan Royals, demolishing records […]
No teenager had ever finished an IPL season as its leading run-scorer, its most prolific six-hitter, and its most valuable player, until a 15-year-old from Bihar did all three in the same month. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ended IPL 2026 with 776 runs at a strike rate of 237.30 and 72 sixes for Rajasthan Royals, demolishing records […]
Every preview of Australia’s squad opens with the same question about Sutherland, and it’s the wrong one. Where she bats doesn’t decide matches. Where she bowls does. Her T20I record, 44 wickets at an average of 18.63 and an economy of 6.44 across 48 matches, sits among the best of any seam-bowling all-rounder in this […]
Six of ten franchises are operating below an 80% catching efficiency in IPL 2026. That’s the headline number, but the trend behind it is what makes this season different. According to CricViz, fielding sides have held 541 catches and dropped 153 across 59 matches, producing an overall efficiency of just 77.9%. The 2021 peak of […]
Spinners didn’t suddenly get worse. The conditions that made them dangerous were removed. IPL 2026 produced a record spin economy of 9.26 runs per over, spinners bowled just 29% of total overs, down from 38.3% in 2025, and the 200-run mark was breached 61 times, nine more than any previous IPL edition. The overall run […]
Eight centuries in 18 seasons of IPL playoffs. Shubman Gill has two of them. No one else has more than one. His 129 off 60 against the Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2 2023 is still the highest individual score in any IPL knockout match. His 104 off 53 against Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 2026 […]
Lauren Bell dismissed Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana in the same opening over on May 28, 2026. India were 7 for 2 before the powerplay had started. That one over-explains why Bell matters more to England’s Women’s T20 World Cup campaign than any other bowler in their squad. Sophie Ecclestone will be the spin threat. […]
No 15-year-old in IPL history has walked to the crease and done what Vaibhav Sooryavanshi did to powerplay bowling in 2026. Across 16 innings, he scored 521 runs in the first six overs at a strike rate of 233.63, the first batter in the tournament’s history to pass 500 powerplay runs in a single season. […]
Before May 26, 2026, one captain in IPL history had reached finals in both of his first two seasons. Patidar is now the second. Two captaincy seasons, two finals appearances, one title, and the second final still to play. Hardik Pandya achieved the same feat with the Gujarat Titans in 2022 and 2023. Before May […]
The Mumbai Indians have missed the playoffs in four of the last five seasons. In IPL 2026, they sit ninth, eliminated earlier than any other team, with Hardik Pandya having won just 15 of 39 matches as captain, a 38.46% win rate, the worst in franchise history. The question isn’t whether Hardik continues. That’s settled. […]
Virat Kohli’s 2016 IPL season is the gold standard of individual T20 batting. Nine years later, he is doing something more interesting than replicating it. His IPL 2026 strike rate of 164.38 across 15 matches eclipses his 2016 mark of 152.03, 12 points higher, at age 37, with more urgency and less caution than the […]
SRH’s batting philosophy delivers results in the league stage and falls apart in the knockouts. Nine wins from 14 matches in IPL 2026, four batters crossing 560 runs each, third place, and then a 47-run Eliminator defeat to Rajasthan Royals. The pattern stretches across four seasons: 10th in 2023, runners-up in 2024, sixth in 2025, […]