Jansen is preparing by bowling long spells now, not waiting for the series to start. He took on 26 overs and seven wickets in a domestic match just days before this ODI series, treating it as deliberate conditioning for the leadership role he’s about to inherit. With Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi both out through […]
Jansen is preparing by bowling long spells now, not waiting for the series to start. He took on 26 overs and seven wickets in a domestic match just days before this ODI series, treating it as deliberate conditioning for the leadership role he’s about to inherit. With Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi both out through […]
Eleven of the fourteen players in India’s Asian Games T20I squad also feature in the fifteen-man group named for the West Indies series starting 6 October. The overlap is deliberate, protecting chemistry built in Japan while easing individual workloads across a packed October calendar. Only Nitish Kumar Reddy moves elsewhere, shifted to the ODI group, […]
Parthiv Patel and Pragyan Ojha are the two names being discussed to succeed Ajit Agarkar, whose three-year term ends on 4 October. Whoever takes over walks straight into the unresolved question of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s ODI futures, a rift that reportedly contributed to Agarkar’s own departure. They will also inherit a three-captain structure […]
Mandhana’s T20I strike rate has climbed with almost every high-volume season of her career, from the low-120s in her early years to the mid-140s this year. The surge peaked in the Asian Games semi-final against Bangladesh on 20 September, where a 37 off 19 balls took her past both Suzie Bates and Babar Azam as […]
No single bowler is walking straight into Varun Chakravarthy’s middle-over slot. Kuldeep Yadav gets the recall after six months out, but Ravi Bishnoi, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar all have a claim on those overs too. A side strain has cost India their most economical wicket-taker in the phase that decides T20 games, and BCCI’s […]
Two trophies are sitting in a Dubai office instead of on a shelf at Wankhede, and nobody at the BCCI is promising when that will change. India’s men refused the Asia Cup trophy from Mohsin Naqvi last September, the women repeated the stance this month, and now a letter to Olympic organisers wants the same […]
Raw numbers say Abhishek is 45 points faster than Warner ever managed across his whole career. Context says the gap isn’t nearly that simple, though. T20I scoring has climbed steadily since Warner’s debut back in 2009, and Abhishek built his entire career inside cricket’s most aggressive batting period yet seen. Strip out the era, and […]
Sharma is the more destructive opener by raw scoring speed across a full T20I career, but Allen’s peak moments in the sport’s biggest matches are almost impossible to beat. Both men sit just 34 balls apart in the race to 6,000 T20 runs, a gap that says everything about how closely matched they really are. […]
Seam did far more damage to Australia’s batting than spin across this series, accounting for roughly three-quarters of their wickets lost overall. But that number hides where the real technical failure actually showed up. Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s second-innings spell in Darwin exposed something seam movement alone never could: an inability to read turning deliveries on […]
Agarkar’s legacy as India’s chief selector is best defined by white-ball cricket, where three ICC titles in three years make an almost unarguable case. Three consecutive global trophies, a home World Cup triumph, and the only Asia Cup sweep in recent memory sit alongside a Test record that swings wildly between statement wins and painful […]
Everyone with a cricket opinion has filed the same complaint about this tour. Three Tests squeezed into a spring window nobody asked for, on pitches that supposedly won’t be ready in time. Daryll Cullinan called it a dentist’s appointment tucked in before the real season even starts properly. But that complaint is almost entirely a […]