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Both teams are neck-and-neck on the points table, but their top-order approaches couldn't be more different this season

Shanaka opted out of a contract with Lahore Qalandars and later joined IPL team Rajasthan Royals

It was the joint-quickest hundred by an MI batter, equalling Sanath Jayasuriya's effort from 2008

Jasprit Bumrah bowled the first ball of a match in IPL 2026 for the first time against Gujarat Titans on Monday, and struck straightaway, breaking his duck in the process

"We shouldn't be allowing Rahul Tewatia or Shahrukh Khan [to face] lots of balls," Matthew Hayden, Gujarat Titans' batting coach, says after the collapse against Mumbai Indians

"It was much needed for the group, it was much needed for Tilak, it was much needed for Mumbai Indians"

Bangladesh lost four wickets for one run when they were close to the finish line, but averted disaster in the end

Here's what the Orange and Purple Cap tables at IPL 2026 look like after Mumbai Indians' dominant win over Gujarat Titans on Monday

Northamptonshire struggle for final-day breakthroughs as former England opener digs in

Ex-captain extends Somerset's early lead at top of Division One with nervy two-wicket win

Australian allrounder was due to play two County Championship matches and the T20 Blast

Three wickets in an over amid his 4 for 29 rocks Essex's run chase

Batter Danish Malewar and fast bowler Krish Bhagat made their debuts for Mumbai Indians

Despite Nick Kelly's 83, New Zealand were bowled out for 198 with Rana bagging his second ODI five-for

Unbeaten 78 follows first-innings 70 to wrap up four-wicket win over Gloucestershire shortly after lunch on day four

South Africa fast bowler Anrich Nortje also left the LSG camp last week

Khuzaima Tanveer, Ajay Kumar, Akshdeep Nath, Harpreet Bhatia and Adeeb Usmani are the players with UAE citizenship

Kelly, the NZ opener, hit a fighting half-century

Shapoor Zadran is suffering from Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare, life-threatening disease, in which the immune system starts failing

Here's a look at what the Orange and Purple Cap tables look like after the KKR vs RR and PBKS vs LSG games on Sunday in IPL 2026

The combination of Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Xavier Bartlett and Vijaykumar Vyshak gives PBKS variety in their bowling attack at IPL 2026

Cooper Connolly, in his first season at the IPL, is Punjab Kings' highest run-getter at the moment, and has made big contributions in two of their five wins so far

Mustafizur Rahman continues to miss out, and Shoriful Islam has been persisted with on a pitch that is likely to assist fast bowlers

Having already lost seamer Ajeet Singh Dale to a hamstring injury on day one, visitors make second substitution when Luke Wells injures his shoulder

Zalmi won by 118 runs are now virtually guaranteed of a place in the top two

They put on 182 in just 80 balls to lead PBKS to the season's highest total

He shares 74-run stand for ninth wicket with Liam Guthrie after lengthy partnership with fellow centurion Nathan McSweeney

Tenth-wicket stand of 32 between Nathan Gilchrist and Ethan Bamber evens contest up after Sam Cook's five-for

Lancs post competitive target thanks to fifties for Ellie Threlkeld and Fi Morris

Lewis Gregory took his first five-wicket haul in three years to restrict Hampshire, despite fifties to Nick Gubbins, Jake Lehmann and Ben Brown

Shafali, playing her 100th T20I, hit a half-century but her side just collapsed after that

KKR spinner says spinners will always go for runs when there is nothing in the surface to help them

Kings bowled out for 196 in pursuit of 208, as Minhas (3 for 32) and Siddle (2 for 28) starred for Sultans

Rohit Sharma is fit again and expected to slot back into the top of the order for Mumbai Indians

After Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy bowled frugal spells to share five wickets, the KKR middle and lower order saw them home

"I showed trust in the spinners that we might get a slog or something to get a wicket."

PBKS made no changes to their team, while LSG brought in Mohsin Khan for his second game of the season

The agent denied that a binding agreement between the league and the player had been reached before Muzarabani ultimately opted to sign a contract with the IPL

KKR, still searching for their first win this season, were unchanged

Pathirana is unlikely to be available for KKR, while RR could consider strengthening their lower middle order

KL Rahul "came out today with very good intent… he was not calculating too much," Ambati Rayudu says of the 34-ball 57

Between them, the inexperienced duo of Shivang Kumar and Sakib Hussain returned 7-0-50-2 as SRH stopped CSK ten runs short

"His appetite to be able to upskill himself is sensational," R Ashwin says of Shreyas Iyer, adding that his batting form is rubbing off on his performance as captain of PBKS

Abhishek Sharma's blazing 59 off 22 balls set up SRH's win as CSK continued to falter in 190-plus chases

Ayush Mhatre will be sent for scans to determine the severity of the injury, says CSK batting coach Mike Hussey

There are major changes on the Orange and Purple Cap tables after Saturday's double-header at IPL 2026

For Bangladesh, Mustafizur Rahman should slot back in if fit, while Soumya Sarkar could be an option in place of the out-of-form Afif Hossain

Dean Foxcroft, playing just his second ODI, scored 59 in 58 balls from No. 6 to lead New Zealand's batting charge against Bangladesh in Dhaka

Stubbs anchored the chase with an unbeaten 60, and with 13 needed off four balls, Miller sealed it with 6, 6, 4

LSG captain Pant is fully fit after recovering from a blow on his left elbow in the previous match