RECORDS SHATTERED, JAWS DROPPED: IPL 2026 Week 4 Was Pure Madness And We Can't Stop Watching

Centuries that shouldn't exist. Chases that defied physics. A 15-year-old rewriting history twice in one season. This wasn't cricket. This was chaos.

Forget everything you thought you knew about T20 cricket. IPL 2026's Week 4 (Matches 30-36) just ripped up the record books, set them on fire, and asked what's next. Seven matches. Seven stories. Zero dull moments. Buckle up.

THE WEEK THAT BROKE CRICKET

It started on Sunday, April 20, with Gujarat Titans hosting Mumbai Indians and Kagiso Rabada sending stumps cartwheeling at a blistering 152.1 kmph. GT reduced MI to tatters early, but then Tilak Varma and Naman Dhir launched a rescue mission. Varma's counter-attack was nothing short of supernatural. He blazed to a century off just 45 balls, carrying MI to 199/5 and a massive 99-run win. Rabada finished with 3 for 33, but his team finished with nothing.

Two days later in Lucknow, Rajasthan Royals climbed to second in the points table with 10 points after beating LSG, while the hosts sank to ninth. RR are flying. LSG are drowning. That's just IPL life.

SAI SUDHARSAN ENTERS THE HISTORY BOOKS

April 24, Chinnaswamy. Sai Sudharsan, shaking off a string of quiet performances, returned to his scintillating best. He and Shubman Gill put on a massive 128-run opening stand, before Sudharsan blazed his way to a brilliant 100 off just 58 balls: 11 fours, five sixes. Oh, and he became the fastest player to reach 2,000 IPL runs (47 innings), breaking Chris Gayle's long-standing record. Chris Gayle. Let that sink in.

GT posted 205/3, but Washington Sundar dropped Virat Kohli on the very first ball of the chase. That reprieve proved to be the definitive turning point. Kohli made them pay. RCB chased it down with 7 balls to spare.

APRIL 25: THE DAY T20 CRICKET LOST ITS MIND

Saturday delivered a double-header for the ages.

In Delhi, KL Rahul hammered 152* off 67 balls, the highest IPL score ever by an Indian batter, smashing 9 sixes and 16 fours as DC posted 264/2. Unreal. But the reply was even more unreal. Prabhsimran Singh (76 off 26), Shreyas Iyer (71* off 36), and Priyansh Arya (43 off 17) powered Punjab to 265/4, the highest successful run chase in T20 history. PBKS broke their own 2024 record. They remain unbeaten. They are a different breed.

Meanwhile in Jaipur, 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashed his second IPL hundred, a 37-ball 103, as RR posted 228/6. Fewest innings to score 4 hundreds in men's T20s: 26, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. He is fifteen. FIFTEEN. But SRH chased 229 with an over and a half remaining, powered by Abhishek Sharma (57 off 29) and Ishan Kishan (74 off 31), who put on 132 off just 55 balls for the second wicket. The century went in vain. The boy wonder lost. The crowd still gave him a standing ovation.

THE STANDINGS PICTURE

Punjab Kings lead the table with 11 points from 6 games, still unbeaten. RR sit second with 10 points, while RCB and SRH are locked together on 8. MI and CSK, three IPL titles between them this decade, are stuck on 4 points and looking nervous.

STARS OF THE WEEK

• KL Rahul 152* (67 balls). Record. Done.
• Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 103 (37 balls). He's 15. Stop.
• Tilak Varma 100 (45 balls). MI's saviour.
• Sai Sudharsan 100 (58 balls) + broke Gayle's record.
• Ishan Kishan 74 (31 balls). Chase machine.

Next week? Honestly, we're scared to find out.