India have suffered four of their five heaviest-ever T20I defeats by runs inside a single seven-month stretch, running from a South Africa loss in Chandigarh last December to a record 125-run collapse against England at Trent Bridge this month. Three different oppositions have exposed the same top-order fragility against genuine pace and spin. Suryakumar Yadav […]
Two Pakistani players in the Melbourne Renegades squad might not be allowed to play the Big Bash League’s first-ever match on Indian soil this December, because neither Cricket Australia nor the BCCI has ruled on whether they can even enter the country. Mohammad Rizwan and Hassan Khan face the same visa barriers that have kept […]
Brook’s aggressive default and his calm under pressure are the two traits built for Test cricket, since Bazball already runs on exactly that mindset. What won’t transfer automatically is the five-day patience Test captaincy demands, things like declarations, protecting a bowler across a fourth-innings spell, and reading a pitch on day four. Brook has never […]
Two bowlers going down in the same match is unlucky. It becomes something bigger when a batting lineup already struggling to chase has no reserve capable of covering the gap. Harshit Rana and Varun Chakaravarthy both tore hamstrings in the same match at Trent Bridge, and within 48 hours India had lost their fourth straight […]
India have lost back-to-back T20I series, including their heaviest defeat by runs in the format’s history, and the alarm has landed on one gap: a right-handed batter who can survive the new ball in seaming conditions. That gap has a name attached to it. Rahul has not played a T20I since the 2022 World Cup […]
India won the T20 World Cup on March 8 with the biggest margin ever recorded in a final. A hundred and ten days later, they lost their first match back, and they have not won one since. Six matches without victory, five defeats and one washout is a stretch India have never experienced in the […]
England can end India’s reign atop the T20I rankings this weekend, and it will take just one more win to do it. A win in the 5th T20I would flip the rankings and give England the No.1 spot for the first time since India lifted back-to-back World Cups. India already trail 0-3 in this series […]
Government backing turns a routine T20 fixture into a diplomatic statement, proof that cricket now doubles as soft power between Canberra and New Delhi. When two prime ministers unveil a Big Bash match together, the game stops being just sport. The reveal came at the MCG on Friday, July 10, 2026, during PM Narendra Modi’s […]
Shreyas Iyer has won the toss in every single T20I of his captaincy and still hasn’t found a win. Five games in charge, five results without a victory: two defeats to Ireland, a washout and a defeat against England, then a 125-run humiliation at Trent Bridge. The coin has fallen his way each time, yet […]
The 2026 slide is worse, and it isn’t close once you weigh the context. Losing consecutive bilateral series happened once before, in 2018-19, but that came from a weakened squad missing four first-choice players and recovered within weeks. This time the full-strength era has ended, a fresh captain has lost his first four completed matches, […]
One bowler with an unusual angle did most of the damage. Jai Moondra, a debutant left-armer, dismissed Sanju Samson first ball in both chases and finished the series with five wickets from just two matches. His release angle, not raw pace or turn, was what India’s top order genuinely couldn’t read. Backed by George Dockrell’s […]