There’s a peculiar irony in modern Indian cricket: you can be the ODI captain, a three-format superstar, and still find yourself watching a T20 World Cup from the couch. Shubman Gill’s omission from India’s 2026 T20 World Cup squad feels shocking on the surface, but dig deeper, and it starts to look like a calculated […]
There’s a peculiar irony in modern Indian cricket: you can be the ODI captain, a three-format superstar, and still find yourself watching a T20 World Cup from the couch. Shubman Gill’s omission from India’s 2026 T20 World Cup squad feels shocking on the surface, but dig deeper, and it starts to look like a calculated […]
Indian cricket always has a new year question of “what is the tone for this team?” This time around, that tone begins January 11 to January 31 when India plays host to New Zealand in a home white-ball series. The 5 matches (three One Day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals) against an opponent they have […]
Quietly, the Women’s Premier League has evolved as a venue for bowlers to test themselves. The Sixes get all the publicity, while the money that players earn during the auctions gets all of the attention; however, the teams competing in the Women’s Premier League have slowly but surely been determined by which team can better […]
The ICC Under-19 World Cup has always been marketed as cricket’s crystal ball, a place where future superstars first step into the global spotlight. But in 2026, there’s another, subtler audition underway. While teenage prodigies sharpen their cover drives, a carefully curated group of match officials is being trusted with the game’s most delicate responsibility: […]
A quicker injury to India’s middle-order batsman (in terms of being replaced) than a top-order batting collapse late at night with the light fading occurs often in an Indian cricket match. Therefore, the news that Tilak Varma, India’s most consistent middle-order batsman over the last year in T20I, would be missing the first three T20I […]
There are Ashes series that have ended with handshakes; there are others that have left an England team standing before the departures lounge and trying to figure out why they’ve been left behind once again. The 4-1 drubbing of England by Australia during the 2025–26 Ashes falls into the latter category. At face value, this […]
There was a time not too long ago when England’s Test cricket felt rebellious again. Sixes flew, declarations came early, and defeats were shrugged off like moral victories. “Bazball” wasn’t just a tactic; it was a mood. When Brendon McCullum walked in after Joe Root’s 2022 resignation, English cricket desperately needed oxygen, and for a […]
There’s a delicious irony about the Women’s Premier League in 2026: while teams tweak combinations and franchises juggle late withdrawals, the league itself feels more stable and more visible than ever. Four seasons in, the WPL no longer needs permission to matter. It simply does. What has truly changed, though, is access. With Star […]
For a league once accused of running on emotion more than economics, the Pakistan Super League just produced its loudest financial statement yet. Hyderabad and Sialkot didn’t quietly slip into the PSL as expansion teams; they arrived kicking the auction doors off. When franchise fees crossed PKR 1.8 billion. This wasn’t just two new […]
For a franchise that thrives on noise, nostalgia, and near-perfect planning, the Chennai Super Kings have been unusually quiet about Jamie Overton. And that silence is precisely what makes him interesting. IPL 2026 has been framed as CSK’s great reset, with Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran traded out, Sanju Samson traded in, and a youth-driven […]
RCB has long been a paradox of sorts in regards to their “cricket” – massive star power with no major trophy to show for it; they’ve shown much promise, but so far, no payoffs. The opposite appears to be true for the women’s version of the league; this year, the 2026 Women’s Premier League seems […]