The Women’s Premier League was supposed to be the one corner of cricket where logic prevailed. Keep your match-winners, trim the excess, and walk into the auction with confidence. Instead, WPL 2026’s retention list looks like five franchises collectively decided, Let’s shake the table. Seventeen players retained. Dozens released. And not just fringe names, […]
The Women’s Premier League was supposed to be the one corner of cricket where logic prevailed. Keep your match-winners, trim the excess, and walk into the auction with confidence. Instead, WPL 2026’s retention list looks like five franchises collectively decided, Let’s shake the table. Seventeen players retained. Dozens released. And not just fringe names, […]
Each time India travels to South Africa to play a Test match series, there are always two major questions that have been hanging over their heads, such as the clouds that gather later on in the afternoon at Centurion: Who can survive the new ball storm, and who can get left behind by the selectors? […]
Every IPL cycle gifts us one retention rumour that feels less like strategy and more like self-sabotage. This year, SunRisers Hyderabad has embraced that role with surprising enthusiasm. The whispers around the circuit hint at SRH preparing to release Heinrich Klaasen, their most consistent middle-order presence in three seasons, only to buy him back in […]
Every Ashes summer comes with a hint of theatre, but this time Australia has slipped in a plot twist early. Jake Weatherald, yes, the 31-year-old who’s spent years grinding away in Shield cricket, has suddenly found himself in a 15-man Ashes squad. Not as injury cover, not as a warm-up match tourist, but genuinely in […]
There’s an unwritten rule in Australian cricket folklore: if the Gabba is calling, the captain must answer. Yet here we are, days before the Ashes begin, and Pat Cummins, the man who has bowled Australia out of more crises than he’s created, is racing the clock, not England. A long-term back ailment has benched him […]
Cricket has always been about an incredible number of twists and turns, and that was certainly on display in the 4th T20I at Gold Coast. The Australians appeared likely to be chasing a total when they were able to put a stop to India’s run chase that would have allowed them to reach over 180 […]
It is a dramatic calm before a storm as Women’s Premier League (WPL) franchises submit their retention lists. The news isn’t about who is coming in but rather the big-name players who are going out. Each one, Deepti Sharma, Meg Lanning, Sophie Ecclestone, and Amelia Kerr, has already demonstrated she can win matches, and all […]
The IPL is an example of a top-level championship that has shown us over the last ten years that it is the firework shows (the glamour) that are less important than the ability of a team to look at itself and answer some tough questions. For Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), this was the year when […]
Every T20 league eventually reaches its growth-up moment, a point where entertainment, big money, and competitive edge collide with something far more fragile: trust. For the Bangladesh Premier League, that moment has arrived. After months of whispers, doubts, and uncomfortable questions, the BCB has finally moved from suspicion to action. With the 2024 BPL […]
Every few years, cricket throws up a question so absurd that it suddenly starts sounding logical. This week’s version arrived courtesy of Tim David, Axar Patel, and one towering 129-meter missile in Hobart. The ball landed somewhere near Tasmania’s next postcode, India won the game, and Irfan Pathan started a conversation that could change T20 […]
Australian cricket has a funny habit of turning the simplest jobs into nationwide puzzles, none bigger than the Test opener hunt. Twelve months ago, they were so desperate for a partner to Usman Khawaja that they pushed Nathan McSweeney out of his natural No. 3 spot and marched him straight into a Jasprit Bumrah cyclone. […]