England Under-19 cricket has always lived in an interesting contradiction: it wants instant results, but it’s really about long-term bets. Appointing Thomas Rew as captain for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia feels like both a bold present-day call with one eye firmly on the future. At just 18, Rew is already […]
England Under-19 cricket has always lived in an interesting contradiction: it wants instant results, but it’s really about long-term bets. Appointing Thomas Rew as captain for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia feels like both a bold present-day call with one eye firmly on the future. At just 18, Rew is already […]
Indian cricket has never lacked talent. What it occasionally lacks is predictability. And nothing exposes that contradiction better than Shubman Gill, India’s all-format poster boy, watching the 2026 T20 World Cup squad announcement from the outside. The irony is this: after being recalled to the T20I team before the 2025 Asia Cup, Gill was […]
There is a specific kind of romance attached to the Gujarat Titans. Since their inception, they have operated like a high-functioning stock portfolio: low-risk assets yielding high returns, relying on gritty pragmatism rather than glitzy superstars. But the IPL 2026 auction on December 16 signaled a departure from that script. By trading away the explosive […]
Australians are very fond of retaining The Ashes, they are extremely fond of doing so at home; however, there is a rather unpalatable reality that lies beneath the celebratory champagne toasts in Adelaide – for Australia have not won an Ashes series in England since 2001 – which equates to nearly 26 years of close […]
There was a time when the biggest Indian stars viewed their domestic cricket career as nothing more than an old passport – it is important to have, but generally stored away in the cupboard, rather than retrieved to use. That era has also quietly ended. The Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) will begin the 2025-26 season […]
Every T20 league eventually exposes a philosophical fault line. In SA20, that line runs straight through Paarl and Johannesburg. On one side, the Paarl Royals have doubled down on conditions, nuance, and tactical suffocation, slow pitches, clever bowling, and patience as a weapon. On the other hand, the Joburg Super Kings are rebooting almost entirely, […]
Delhi Capitals have often been IPL’s great underachievers, rich in talent, poor in timing. But something felt different on December 16 at the IPL 2026 auction table. No headline-grabbing bidding wars. No impulse buys. Just quiet, deliberate squad-building, the kind that doesn’t trend on social media but wins tournaments. DC didn’t just fill gaps; […]
Indian cricket is full of sudden departures; however, Ishan Kishan’s departure felt all too unexpected. A player who hit the fastest double-century in ODI history barely one year prior simply disappeared in December 2023, with “personal reasons” being the explanation for this abrupt exit. Just two months after stepping away, Kishan lost his central contract. […]
Cricket has a funny way of saving its most outrageous scripts for the least expected names. Jack Wildermuth, a seam-bowling allrounder whose previous highest BBL score was a modest 31, didn’t just announce himself at the Gabba; he detonated the competition’s sense of logic. Two days after Brisbane Heat chased down 257 for 6, […]
In Indian T20 cricket, patience is often seen as a weakness. In many cases, players are elevated far too rapidly and conversely dropped with the same speed at which they were selected. This is something that Ishan Kishan has experienced firsthand. It is not just that it has been some time since Ishan last played […]
Ashes series are rarely lost in a single session, but they are often defined there. England’s latest Ashes campaign barely lasted 11 days, yet its post-mortem may take far longer because this wasn’t a failure of belief or ambition. It was a failure of timing. Under Bazball, England promised fearlessness. What they instead encountered […]