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Teams defending their IPL titles: Dhoni tames Gayle, ABD and Kohli; MI’s last win | Cricket News

Teams defending their IPL titles: Dhoni tames Gayle, ABD and Kohli; MI’s last win | Cricket News

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3 min readJun 1, 2026 05:33 PM IST Royal Challengers Bengaluru waited 17 years to win the Indian Premier League (IPL). And then, they suddenly had two trophies in two years. With the victory over Gujarat Titans on Sunday, RCB have become just the third team to have succesfully defender their IPL title, with the only other sides being Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, teams that Bengaluru have shared a rivalry with but never quite matched in terms of trophy count until now. RCB are still a long way from equalling MI or CSK’s records though – the latter two sides have won a record five titles each. Here we take a look at the two previous IPL finals in which a team won the trophy for a second consecutive time. 2011 IPL final: CSK beat RCB by 58 runs CSK had won the IPL for the first time in 2010 and in the next one year, the tournament went through a bit of a storm. Founder and league commissioner Lalit Modi had been …

Pandya’s disappears momentarily on Instagram days after end of MI’s IPL campaign

Pandya’s disappears momentarily on Instagram days after end of MI’s IPL campaign

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3 min readUpdated: May 27, 2026 07:55 PM IST Hardik Pandya’s Instagram account appeared deactivated for a few hours just three days after the end of Mumbai Indians’ rather disastrous 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign. While speculation brewed online on why this may have happened, the handle reappeared a few hours later. The speculation was further fuelled by the fact that five-time IPL champions MI had a rather dismal campaign this season. MI finished second to bottom in the league table, tied on eight points with bottom-placed Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) having won just four out of the 14 matches they played and lost 10. Pandya himself had a rather forgettable outing individually. He scored 206 runs in 10 matches but finished with a strike rate of just 138.25, a far cry from the 163.50 he managed last season and well below the kind of strike rate he is known to maintain. Pandya also managed just four wickets in the nine innings that he bowled in and ended with an economy of 11.42. Pandya was …

Mumbai Indians IPL 2026 review: Hardik Pandya took the heat, but MI’s disaster ran far deeper than captaincy alone

Mumbai Indians IPL 2026 review: Hardik Pandya took the heat, but MI’s disaster ran far deeper than captaincy alone

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“It has been a season of what-ifs and overall disappointing for all of us.” From left, Mumbai Indians’ Raj Bawa, captain Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah after Chennai Super Kings won the IPL 2026 match, in Chennai (PTI) That one line from Kieron Pollard on Sunday perhaps summed up Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2026 campaign better than the points table could. A season that began with hopes of building on last year’s playoff finish slowly spiralled into confusion, inconsistency and collective underperformance. While captain Hardik Pandya inevitably became the face of the criticism, Mumbai’s collapse ran far deeper than leadership alone. For one of the rarest times in franchise history, almost nothing aligned — not Rohit Sharma’s form, not Suryakumar Yadav’s explosiveness, not Tilak Varma’s consistency, and not even Jasprit Bumrah’s brilliance could rescue them from a season that never truly took flight. On paper, Mumbai looked one of the strongest squads in the competition. The experts could not agree more. Most, if not all, had the five-time champions in their predicted playoffs line-up. And why …

R Ashwin backs Hardik Pandya’s captaincy despite MI’s disaster IPL season

R Ashwin backs Hardik Pandya’s captaincy despite MI’s disaster IPL season

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3 min readMay 15, 2026 12:32 PM IST Hardik Pandya may have missed out on his team’s most recent matches this month, but sharp layers of criticism over the Mumbai Indians’ underwhelming IPL 2026 season have unfailingly fallen on him. MI lost seven of the nine matches under Hardik before he was sidelined by an injury earlier this month. In the last three matches in his absence, Mumbai have won two matches under two different captains, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah. While Suryakumar led in a win and defeat against Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Bumrah oversaw Thursday’s win over Punjab Kings in Dharamsala. The scrutiny over Hardik’s captaincy has only heightened in recent weeks with the rumour mill floating stories of internal rifts in the MI camp yet again. Despite the underwhelming skipper Hardik found some support from his former India teammate, R Ashwin. “Honestly, when you have seasons like this, to pin the blame on the captain is quite unfair. Nobody has turned up. The team has failed to turn up …

Mahela Jayawardene reacts to MI’s elimination from IPL 2026 Playoffs race: ‘Not good enough’

Mahela Jayawardene reacts to MI’s elimination from IPL 2026 Playoffs race: ‘Not good enough’

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Mumbai Indians (MI) head coach Mahela Jayawardene admitted the five-time champions were “not good enough” this season after their playoff hopes ended with a narrow two-wicket defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Raipur on Sunday. “It’s disappointing, we’ve had our opportunities, we were not good enough, we were not consistent enough with the ball, with the bat and that showed the margins,” Jayawardene said after the match. “I think, you know, we were probably 2-3 wins away from being in the same group of contenders to get into that playoff, but we didn’t get those wins and today was another classic example that we were short,” he added. The MI coach said injuries and niggles disrupted the side throughout the campaign and forced several changes to the playing XI. ALSO READ | RCB on top after Bhuvneshwar’s masterclass and Krunal’s rearguard “What probably you guys didn’t know is we had a lot of injuries, a lot of niggles, guys getting injured, not available, some players were not there as well, so that was mostly forced …

Suryakumar Yadav stares into distance after MI’s IPL 2026 campaign ends in heartbreak: ‘Hard pill to swallow’

Suryakumar Yadav stares into distance after MI’s IPL 2026 campaign ends in heartbreak: ‘Hard pill to swallow’

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Mumbai Indians officially became the first team to be eliminated from the playoff race in IPL 2026 after a heartbreaking defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Raipur on Sunday. The five-time champions failed to defend 15 runs in the final over as RCB chased down 167 in a last-ball thriller at their adopted home ground — the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium. Suryakumar Yadav, who filled in as captain in place of the injured Hardik Pandya, admitted the early elimination was a bitter pill to swallow. Mumbai Indians’ captain Suryakumar Yadav during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 T20 cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Mumbai Indians (PTI) The season never quite went the way Mumbai intended, as they failed to build any momentum. Their elimination had long seemed inevitable before it was officially confirmed in Raipur, where the defending champions beat them by two wickets. It was Mumbai’s eighth loss of the season in 11 matches. And even though they still have three league games left to play, Suryakumar admitted it was …

Ro-Ry, MI’s 6-hitting machines get roaring, as their talisman Rohit Sharma returns

Ro-Ry, MI’s 6-hitting machines get roaring, as their talisman Rohit Sharma returns

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Synopsis: A 143-run stand for the opening wicket between Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma helps MI chase down 229 runs against LSG. Sunday may have been optional nets, but Rohit Sharma spent an hour honing his batting skills under the evening sun. It was perhaps an indication that he was fit and raring to go, and on Monday, with Mumbai Indians (MI) needing to win to halt their losing streak, he delivered with the bat, much to the delight of the capacity crowd at the venue. The Wankhede Stadium roared in delight as Rohit Sharma made his way down the stairs and into the middle to bat for the first time in three weeks. Playing as an impact sub, he would have hoped for an easy chase to mark his return, but his bowlers were not as grateful, conceding 228 runs in 20 overs. If there was pressure, it did not show early. It was Ryan Rickelton who took charge. Fresh from a century in the previous home game against SRH, the left-hander started briskly, …

Ryan Rickelton–Rohit Sharma Ignite MI’s Chase of 229 vs LSG

Ryan Rickelton–Rohit Sharma Ignite MI’s Chase of 229 vs LSG

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The fifties from Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma have put the Mumbai Indians at the top in the 229-run chase against the Lucknow Super Giants at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. After being invited to bat first, Mitchell Marsh and Josh Inglis opened the innings while Deepak Chahar opened the bowling attack. The duo made a decent start, before AM Ghazanfar bagged the wicket of Josh Inglis 13 runs. The wk-batter tried for a pull shot but did not connect well and went to mid on where Suryakumar Yadav took the catch safely. Nicholas Pooran who came to bat at No.3, went on to deal with maximums as the side scored 90 runs in the powerplay. In the 7th over the side reached 100 run mark and went to continue their onslaughter. He fifty came from 16 deliveries which included 7 sixes and 1 four. Mumbai Indians bowlers had no answers for Pooran’s aggression. On the other hand, Mitchell Marsh have been keeping up with Pooran scoring at 180+ strike rate. He got dismissed for 63 runs …

MI’s Rohit Sharma returns from injury, set to play against Lucknow Super Giants at Wankhede | Cricket News

MI’s Rohit Sharma returns from injury, set to play against Lucknow Super Giants at Wankhede | Cricket News

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3 min readUpdated: May 4, 2026 07:25 PM IST Mumbai Indians welcomed Rohit Sharma back into the fold in the match against Lucknow Super Giants at the Wankhede on Monday. Rohit, who hasn’t played for close to three weeks after suffering a hamstring injury, is likely to slot in at the top of the order with Ryan Rickelton. “Corbin Bosch comes in for Trent Boult and also our very own Rohit Sharma is back,” stand-in skipper Suryakumar Yadav said at the toss. Mumbai, however, will be without regular skipper Hardik Pandya, who wasn’t feeling well, according to Surya. He’s (Hardik) not well tonight, so just going into his shoes. But yeah, the rest, everything is fine,” he said. On April 12, Rohit was batting on 19 off 13 balls when he limped off the field in MI’s chase of a mammoth target of 241 against RCB on April 12. MI went on to lose the match by 18 runs. He seemed to be fine for much of the game and fielded for the entirety of …

Former India cricketers question MI’s decision as Impact Sub Shardul Thakur ends up neither batting nor bowling

Former India cricketers question MI’s decision as Impact Sub Shardul Thakur ends up neither batting nor bowling

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3 min readApr 30, 2026 01:21 PM IST There is rarely an occurrence where an impact player ends up having no impact in a game, quite literally. On Wednesday night during the IPL 2026 game between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad, fast-bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur was introduced as an impact substitute, but he neither batted nor bowled as MI were condemned to their sixth loss of the season. Thakur was brought in during the second innings after the end of the PowerPlay, which meant there was no chance for him to bat. However, the Mumbai cricketer also ended up not bowling a single over in a game where SRH chased down 244 in just 18.4 overs. Former Indian cricketer Murali Kartik said he did not understand the call from MI to not give Thakur even one over after introducing him. “I don’t understand it at all. Why did they even bring him in? Maybe they forgot about him. Only god can tell us why this was done,” he said on Cricbuzz. With a host of …