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Delhi Capitals’ David Miller and skipper Axar Patel run between wickets during the match against Punjab Kings at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala on May 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI Punjab Kings has gone into freefall. In the IPL 2026 fixture at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala on Monday (May 11, 2026), it was Delhi Capitals’ turn to upstage Kings, coming up trumps by three wickets.Chasing 211 in favourable conditions to condemn PBKS to its fourth successive defeat, DC was poor at the beginning of its pursuit and lost the top three within the fifth over. But…

Sooryavanshi. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR In T20 cricket, the six is the shot that changes a match. It shifts momentum, lifts a crowd and alters the terms of a contest in a single stroke. In IPL 2026, the maximum has become the clearest measure of a team’s batting ambition, and more often than not, a reliable indicator of which side walks away with the points. Through 55 matches, teams have hit 1,045 sixes, and are well on course to challenge the all-time record of 1,294 set in 2025.Power-hitting is no longer confined to the death overs. It’s from…

RCB’s Krunal Pandya struggles after hitting a six during the IPL match against MI at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh international cricket stadium in Raipur on May 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The final few balls he faced during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s clash against Mumbai Indians were quite excruciating for Krunal Pandya. Wickets fell like nine pins around him, but the target seemed within reach. With every shot he played, the cramps seemed to get even worse.He decided to fight on rather than surrender to the pain. The two sixes he hit in the 18th over, falling to…

Gujarat Titans Nishant Sindhu during a practice session of the IPL 2026 T20 cricket match between the Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on May 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji It is almost reassuring to watch teams operate with ideological clarity. Such sides rarely stray from the predetermined routes they feel best suited for producing favourable outcomes. Low in surprises, high in efficiency.Over the last four years, Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad have been two teams that have stuck by their own methods.A template game for Titans would see their top-three…

Twin shocks of energy crisis and deficient rainfall will lead to the real GDP growth falling to 6% in FY27 from 7.4% in FY26, a foreign brokerage said on Monday.The shocks will also stoke inflation, and may prod the Reserve Bank to hike key lending rates twice in the current fiscal, HSBC said in a report.”Bringing together both the shocks, and factoring in some fiscal slippage, we forecast GDP to grow 6% in FY27, lower than our previous year’s forecast of 7.4%,” the report said.It warned that the emerging crises will be a major blow to the formal sector, including…

HCA Secretary M. Jeevan Reddy and Ambati Rayudu at a press conference at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. | Photo Credit: Anirudh Velamuri Life, in many ways, has come full circle for Ambati Rayudu. In 2019, before permanently hanging up his boots, he took to social media to allege that corruption was rampant within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA).Seven years later, Rayudu has returned to help shape the very system he once decried.As Head of Cricket Operations, he is now working to usher the HCA into a new era built on transparency, with player welfare at the heart of it.…

CSK’s Urvil Patel after scoring a fifty during the IPL clash against LSG. | Photo Credit: Ragu R The first sign came a fortnight ago.On the eve of an IPL fixture, Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming casually mentioned at a press conference that Urvil Patel was “itching” to play. Around the same time, every clip on the franchise’s social media pages seemed to carry the same soundtrack — the crunch of Urvil’s bat echoing across the nets.Opportunity, however, arrived through misfortune. When Ayush Mhatre was ruled out for the remainder of the season with injury, the door finally…

Vijay Dahiya during a press conference after the IPL match between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, on May 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji IPL 2026 has seen PowerPlay run-rates soar to an all-time high, with teams now scoring at 9.61 runs per over.Sunrisers Hyderabad, turbocharged by a top three of Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head and Ishan Kishan, is at the forefront of it with an eye-watering PowerPlay run-rate of 11.16, the second-best in the league, only behind Rajasthan Royals.Gujarat Titans’ assistant coach Vijay Dahiya acknowledged SRH’s early push as a major…

RCB’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar during the IPL match between LSG and RCB at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on May 7, 2026. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap It has been 16 years since Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been running in to deliver the ball with that aesthetically pleasing action in the IPL. Yes, the wrinkles are more marked now, and the body is demanding more delicate attention. But the effectiveness has barely diminished.The 36-year-old gave another glimpse of his otherworldly accuracy and ability to extract the maximum out of a surface with a four-wicket haul in Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s riveting win over…

Technology-related stocks and growing artificial intelligence-related interest have supported markets in Japan and South Korea despite the Iran war, with the Nikkei 225 and Kospi rising more than 10% and 30%, respectively, over the past month. | Photo Credit: AP Asian stocks were mixed on Monday (May 11, 2026) after Wall Street set more records, and oil surged more than 4% following U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of Tehran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal on ending the war in Iran. The U.S. futures edged lower.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.4% to 62,486.84 after briefing reaching another record high in intraday…