Two balls into the third over, Abhishek Sharma swung through the line and put another one into the Durham stands without breaking stride. It was routine violence by his standards, except this particular six carried a number attached to it: his 100th in T20 Internationals, reached in fewer deliveries than any batter from a full-member […]
Two balls into the third over, Abhishek Sharma swung through the line and put another one into the Durham stands without breaking stride. It was routine violence by his standards, except this particular six carried a number attached to it: his 100th in T20 Internationals, reached in fewer deliveries than any batter from a full-member […]
Malan and Buttler are the two names worth knowing on English soil, but for different reasons. Dawid Malan’s 77 not out at Trent Bridge in 2022 stands as the single best score by an England batter against India at home, delivered in a series decider after England had lost the first two matches. Buttler’s reputation […]
Ambati Rayudu’s advice to India’s selectors on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was never about holding him back. It was about not overcoaching him. His view was simple: leave the technique alone, let him keep playing his natural game, and trust that English wickets will offer him a fairer examination than Ireland’s did. That’s a specific, testable claim […]
Ben Stokes finished his Test career with 15 Player of the Match awards from 122 appearances, a conversion rate of one every 8.1 Tests. That places him third all-time among players with double-digit tallies, behind only Jacques Kallis and Muttiah Muralitharan, and ahead of every other name usually mentioned in the same breath, Root and […]
Amanjot Kaur never bowled a ball at this tournament, never faced a delivery, never appeared at Lord’s. Her back injury in February removed her from selection entirely, and the reigning ODI world champions spent five group games trying to compensate for it. They won three, lost the one that mattered, and finished third in Group […]
India left Belfast with a 2-0 series defeat that ended 16 unbeaten T20I series, their first bilateral loss in the format in nearly three years. Jai Moondra’s five-wicket debut on the way to the Player of the Series award did the visible damage, and he fully earned it. But the problem beneath it was more […]
Chahal has more career wickets against England than anyone, but most of that tally was built in India, not on English grounds. Strip out matches hosted in India and at neutral venues, and the genuinely relevant sample shrinks to just seven T20Is: one in 2011, three in the 2018 series, and three in 2022. On […]
Ireland’s 2-0 sweep in Belfast ended a 16-series unbeaten T20I run for the reigning world champions. The decider went to the last ball, and India lost by one run. Both of those facts matter. But the single detail that cuts through both results is this: Sanju Samson faced two balls across the entire series, was […]
Stokes reached the same statistical double in far fewer Tests, but Kallis still holds the bigger raw numbers. The real gap is the kind of bowler each man was, not the matches played. Stokes needed 122 Tests for 7,273 runs and 252 wickets, completing the set in his farewell match at Trent Bridge. Kallis took […]
Sri Lanka’s attack didn’t fail because of poor bowling alone; it failed because they had four frontline options for all but a single over. Lahiru Kumara pulled up with a hamstring problem on the first ball of his second over, and the gap never closed. Jangoo and Chase built their world-record 401 against an attack […]
England’s 17-player squad for the five-match T20I series against India carries a selection argument worth reading carefully. James Coles earns his maiden call-up as an uncapped Sussex all-rounder with a dual skill set that is directly relevant to how India have been beating England with spin over the past two years. Whether selectors consciously built […]