Sony LIV turned Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s expected international debut into a subscription campaign, only for Team India’s management to have entirely different plans. Millions of fans paid the price.

Virat Kohli has been named India’s most valuable celebrity with a brand value of ₹3,542 crore in the debut Fortune India–Interbrand rankings, leaving Bollywood legends Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in the dust, because apparently, a cricket bat swings harder than a movie camera.

Tamim Iqbal is the new BCB president, and no, that isn’t a headline from a satirical cricket fiction novel. It’s real, it happened, and honestly, given how Bangladesh cricket administration has carried on these past few months, it was probably the only appointment that didn’t require a probe committee to sort out.

Just two months after lifting the T20 World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav has been removed as India’s T20I captain and dropped from the squad altogether. BCCI, selectors, and Gautam Gambhir have decided it’s time to move on.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s IPL 2026 awards haul is the stuff of legend, or at least the stuff of a 15-year-old who clearly didn’t get the memo that cricket is a game of patience.

There’s something deeply troubling about the way cricket has embraced Vaibhav
Suryavanshi in the past year. Not because he doesn’t deserve the acclaim—he
manifestly does. But here’s what keeps me awake at night: he shouldn’t have had
to carry that burden. A personal column on the impossible standard we’ve set
for a 15-year-old cricket prodigy.

Rajasthan Royals manager Romi Bhinder’s phone dugout moment during the RCB game looked like a straightforward rule break,until the medical emergency story emerged. Here’s the human side of the IPL 2026 controversy.