Saransh Jain’s Test cap arrived twelve years after his numbers first looked ready for it. He built 188 first-class wickets and over 2,200 runs while younger spinners held India’s bowling attack ahead of him. A five-year stretch on the fringes between 2014 and 2019 nearly buried his chance completely. He still won a Ranji Trophy […]
Jai Moondra is the name to watch this September. The Rotterdam Dockers picked the Irish left-arm quick in round one of the draft, and he justified it early, dismissing Sanju Samson with his first ball in Ireland colours. Six franchises across the Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland launch cricket’s newest ICC-sanctioned league on August 26, and […]
Smith’s team did not drop a specialist spinner at the SCG because they fancied an experiment. Injuries and a hard, green surface pushed the selectors into a corner, and Beau Webster’s part-time off-spin still bailed out an attack built entirely around Starc, Boland and Neser. That win came at the one Australian ground where the […]
Bangladesh’s bowlers have carried two completely different results in the space of six days. The same batting order that helped beat Australia in Darwin was skittled for 64 in Mackay, and the gap between those two results comes entirely from the bat, not the ball. Shoriful Islam’s return from injury gave the attack a sharper […]
Article 2.12 is the ICC’s physical-contact clause, and it rarely leaves the code book. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Asitha Fernando were fined and given a demerit point after their heads made contact following Jaiswal’s dismissal in Colombo, and the article used against them separates this from a routine send-off, since it demands actual physical touch rather […]
Once. Across three innings and 168 runs in this series, Rishabh Pant’s aggression against a fresh ball has genuinely hurt India exactly one time, in the first innings at Galle. The other two innings show the same instincts working in India’s favor rather than against it, which makes the criticism louder than the actual pattern […]
Great Barrier Reef Arena hosted its first-ever Test on 22 August 2026, and the match was already over by mid-afternoon the following day. Australia dismissed Bangladesh for 64, replied with 210, then bowled the tourists out again for 95 to win by an innings and 51 runs inside two days. It is becoming a habit: […]
Ishan Kishan’s recall for the Asian Games sits at the end of a two-year exile that began with a mental-fatigue break and a refusal to play Ranji Trophy cricket. He lost his central contract for that decision. What has followed since January 2026 is a domestic and international scoring streak substantial enough that selectors keep […]
Three times in three innings, Travis Head has fallen the same way: playing away from his body outside off stump and chopping the ball onto his stumps. It happened twice in Darwin and once more at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay, where Bangladesh’s collapse for 64 should have been routine. The timing matters. […]
Pakistan’s selectors left out Shaheen Shah Afridi because his red-ball numbers no longer justify an automatic spot, not because of any injury. Aaqib Javed made the call on July 5, alongside dropping Hasan Ali and Noman Ali, saying the squad needed more pace for two crucial tours. Since returning from a knee injury, Shaheen has […]
Matt Renshaw is Australia’s most logical replacement, already inside the squad with a Sheffield Shield average of 49.90 and three centuries last season. Ricky Ponting escalated the debate on Channel 7 during the second Bangladesh Test in Mackay, when Marnus Labuschagne fell for four playing across the line yet again. The technical problem is specific: […]