India’s new T20I era opens in Belfast on Friday with Shreyas Iyer as captain, Suryakumar Yadav dropped entirely, and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the squad for the first time. The BCCI’s case for Iyer isn’t built on sentiment or on a rotation policy that needed a fresh name. It rests on something more specific: a […]
India’s new T20I era opens in Belfast on Friday with Shreyas Iyer as captain, Suryakumar Yadav dropped entirely, and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the squad for the first time. The BCCI’s case for Iyer isn’t built on sentiment or on a rotation policy that needed a fresh name. It rests on something more specific: a […]
Australia has not had to replace Alyssa Healy’s results at the top of the order in this tournament, just her method. Georgia Voll has stepped into the opening slot with a calmer, more ground-based game that still scores at nearly 140. The approach is different. The problems she creates for bowlers are not easier to […]
India has never lost a T20I to Ireland across eight matches since 2009, and their 2024 World Cup eight-wicket win extended that perfect record with something very close to ease. Now, Shreyas Iyer’s side arrives in Belfast for two matches from June 26 with several regulars rested or dropped, and with Rohit Sharma now retired […]
In six ODIs across Pakistan and Bangladesh, Australia posted under 230 in five of them. Two 2-1 series defeats followed, one to Pakistan, then a historic first-ever ODI series loss to Bangladesh. The same squad turned around and whitewashed Bangladesh 3-0 in T20Is. The two-format split tells a clear story: Australia know how to win […]
India’s bowlers looked surgical against Pakistan and the Netherlands. Then came June 21 at Old Trafford. Marizanne Kapp walked in with South Africa needing 136 off 85 balls and two wickets already down. She left with an unbeaten 81 off 45 balls, four sixes, and a six-wicket win with five balls to spare. A death-over […]
India travels to Belfast for two T20Is against Ireland on June 26 and 28 without either of their primary seam-bowling all-rounders. Hardik Pandya was already ruled out. Now Nitish Kumar Reddy is out too, with a left quadriceps fiber disruption confirmed by the BCCI on June 23. Suryansh Shedge, uncapped, 23, and primarily a finisher, […]
Australia’s Bangladesh tour was supposed to settle batting questions before the 2027 World Cup. It settled one of them, but not the one the selectors wanted. Cooper Connolly’s emergence handed the middle order a genuine new option with momentum behind it. Marnus Labuschagne’s performances, examined honestly, present a problem. With fifteen months until the tournament […]
The Instagram activity on June 8, 2026, SKY removing Mumbai Indians from his bio, unfollowing the franchise, deleting over 100 MI-related posts, has turned a quiet off-season into an active trade conversation. No official move has been confirmed, and the trade window hasn’t opened. But three franchises that missed the 2026 playoffs carry structural gaps […]
India and Bangladesh meet on June 25 with Group 1 qualification on the line, not just points. A Bangladesh victory would force India into a must-win final game against Australia, while an Indian win sends them through. South Africa’s shock win over India at Old Trafford four days earlier left three teams locked on four […]
England’s lower-order problem has been one of the defining constraints on this team for years. Freya Kemp and Dani Gibson have spent the past six months dismantling it one innings at a time. The unbeaten 61-run partnership against Scotland at Headingley on June 20 was the clearest public evidence yet of what those two have […]
San Francisco Unicorns have played two MLC 2026 matches, used both overseas strike-bowling slots on Ravichandran Ashwin and Haris Rauf, and gotten zero wickets from either. The two haven’t shared a field yet, and captain Matthew Short now faces a selection call every few days for the rest of the group stage with no obvious […]