Naman Dhir rescued India by blasting an unbeaten 42 from just 15 balls at Hagley Oval. India had slipped from 93 without loss to 122/4 against New Zealand’s 225/4, before Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel steadied the innings. Dhir then finished the job with two balls spare, closing out the opening T20I by four wickets […]
Arshdeep Singh and Mayank Yadav should share the new ball for India in the second T20I, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar eased back rather than trusted with the opening spell. India won the first match in Christchurch by four wickets, but Bhuvneshwar leaked 49 in four overs on his first T20I appearance since November 2022 as New […]
England must win both remaining fixtures, or beat Sri Lanka and then lean on net run rate. Two defeats have left them pointless. Pakistan won by 87 runs on 20 October, and two days later Sri Lanka chased down 430 even though Harry Brook had made an unbeaten 202. Lahore hosts the remaining league games […]
Amit Mishra’s job is to turn a leaking spin group into a controlled one, starting with a clearer role for captain Axar Patel and a plan for life without Kuldeep Yadav. On 21 October, Delhi appointed him as spin bowling coach, the first coaching post since he retired last year. Kuldeep left for Lucknow Super […]
Arafat Minhas, aged 21, is a left-arm spinner and lower-order batter from Multan who has become Pakistan’s most interesting all-round option. On 20 October in Rawalpindi, he scored a maiden ODI fifty before taking 6 for 40 to beat England by 87 runs. Hasan Nawaz’s 79 was the best top-order score, yet the match belonged […]
Hyderabad’s Tanay Thyagarajan tops the list of standouts after a third consecutive five-wicket innings, but he did not carry the week alone. The second round of the 2026-27 season, which ran between 18 and 21 October, rewarded slow bowlers across the four Elite groups. Left-arm spin, off-spin and seam all produced match-defining spells, and several […]
Tamil Nadu’s captain has done everything asked of him. Sai Kishore has made his case in the plainest terms available: ten wickets in a Ranji match with a hat-trick among them, and he still sits outside every India squad announced so far. His domestic form deserves a call, yet Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav and Washington […]
At St George’s Park in Gqeberha, Temba Bavuma has produced the highest Test score of his career, 179, and it has the strongest claim to being his best century. The match is still unfinished, though, so its final worth hangs on the result. He made it with South Africa wobbling, in the first game after […]
Rohit Sharma owns the most T20I runs by an Indian in New Zealand, 236, while Shardul Thakur holds the wicket record at eight, yet neither is part of the touring group. Among the men who did make the squad, Shreyas Iyer holds the strongest batting numbers and Arshdeep Singh the clearest bowling credentials. India arrived […]
Mishra has the stronger case on form, while Dubey is the better long-term bet. The Uttarakhand left-armer took 59 wickets in eight matches in 2025/26, second only to Auqib Nabi, yet he was overlooked for the Central Zone Duleep Trophy squad, a tournament that begins on 23 August. Dubey, 23, made that group on the […]
Because selectors keep treating him as a replacement instead of a first choice, a five-wicket return on South Africa’s first innings at Gqeberha did not change that: Boland was only in the side because Nathan Lyon was dropped, with the visitors ahead 1-0 in a three-Test rubber. His career average sits below almost every rival, […]