Defending champions New Zealand have lost both opening matches at this World Cup and sit fifth in Group 2 on a net run rate of -0.200. One structural fact behind the slump has gone largely unspoken: the opening role Suzie Bates owned for two decades hasn’t been filled by her replacement, and the top order […]
Defending champions New Zealand have lost both opening matches at this World Cup and sit fifth in Group 2 on a net run rate of -0.200. One structural fact behind the slump has gone largely unspoken: the opening role Suzie Bates owned for two decades hasn’t been filled by her replacement, and the top order […]
Chaudhary took 1 for 14, scored 18 off 13 balls, and held two catches in a four-wicket win over Bangladesh in Chattogram on June 17. That is what the debut actually produced, measured against a build-up that spent most of its words on everything except the cricket. The COVID stranding, the postman job in Brisbane, […]
After 57 innings opening in ODIs, Gill averages 57.72 at a strike rate of 99.35, numbers that exceed any Indian opener at the same stage. That record is the starting point for a conversation India’s team management shouldn’t actually be having. The “move him to No. 3” argument misses two things: India already tested it […]
It’s not a last-minute venue swap for the league’s fourth season. The brand-new Fairplex ground is a purpose-built test bed for cricket’s long-awaited LA28 debut, designed from the ground up to scale between regular season play and global competition. Officials broke ground this spring with clear event alignment, turning a long-talked-about pipeline into tangible infrastructure […]
Root’s recall reshapes the batting order mostly by what it doesn’t change: the top five of Gay, Duckett, Bethell, Root, and Brook stay exactly as it was at Lord’s. The real shake-up sits lower down and in the bowling attack, where Stokes and Atkinson are both out following a curfew breach, Jordan Cox debuts at […]
Deepti Sharma took 5 for 10 against Pakistan at Edgbaston on June 14, career-best figures, the third best in Women’s T20 World Cup history, and the performance that made her Women’s T20I cricket’s all-time leading wicket-taker. India won by 64 runs. What matters more than the record is what it confirms: Deepti has become a […]
The hamstring is healing. Nathan Lyon has ridden 700km in rehabilitation, resumed bowling at Cricket Central in Sydney, and hit every physical marker in his recovery programme. George Bailey and Andrew McDonald turned the injury into something else. When a chief selector questions whether a 567-wicket bowler will return to the top level, and that […]
Bangladesh’s 2-1 series win over Australia was the country’s first bilateral ODI series win against them, but it isn’t the story that will matter in two years. What the series produced is a genuine selection crisis at No. 5, 6, and 7, the positions that have defined Bangladesh’s ODI limitations for years. Mosaddek Hossain returned […]
Season 4 ran from June 1 to June 13 at Wankhede Stadium, and every preview was built around the icon players. Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shivam Dube, Tushar Deshpande. Some delivered. None of them produced the most important batting number in the tournament. That belonged to a player most previews barely mentioned, a […]
After 18 Women’s T20 World Cup matches each, the bowling comparison isn’t close. Amelia Kerr has 32 wickets at 11.21. Deepti Sharma has 17 at 27.58. Kerr holds the record for the most wickets in a single edition. On raw numbers, she wins by distance. But the debate about which of these two all-rounders matters […]
South Africa’s opening bowlers dismissed two Australians inside the powerplay and had the game exactly where they wanted it. Marizanne Kapp and Shabnim Ismail had done their jobs. Then Wolvaardt kept Ismail on for a third over against a batter who had already targeted her, and Phoebe Litchfield hit 29 of her 51 runs off […]