Smriti Mandhana arrives at the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup with 519 runs from 22 innings as an opener across the tournament’s history. Laura Wolvaardt topped the 2023 T20 World Cup run charts with 230 runs at 46. On volume, Mandhana leads. But volume is a group-stage metric, and World Cups are not decided in […]
Smriti Mandhana arrives at the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup with 519 runs from 22 innings as an opener across the tournament’s history. Laura Wolvaardt topped the 2023 T20 World Cup run charts with 230 runs at 46. On volume, Mandhana leads. But volume is a group-stage metric, and World Cups are not decided in […]
The Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee named two uncapped fast bowlers in India’s 15-member ODI squad for the Afghanistan series: Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar. Mohammed Siraj was rested. With the 2027 World Cup now firmly on the horizon, this series was framed explicitly as a trial of bowling profiles rather than a results exercise. These […]
When Kohli announced his Test retirement on May 12, 2025, the tributes came quickly. Aakash Chopra was different. On his YouTube channel, Chopra did not just mourn the end of an era: he issued a structural warning. “He played Test cricket with the intensity of T20s,” Chopra said. “He ran a marathon at the speed […]
Seven players have appeared in every Women’s T20 World Cup since 2009. Most coverage lists the names and marvels at the longevity. The more important question is which of them arrives at the 2026 edition in England still without a title, and how sharp is that absence? Because for three of the seven, this is […]
Three of the world’s top five-ranked T20I teams, Australia (1st), India (3rd), and South Africa (5th), are in the same six-team group at the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup. Only two of them qualify for the semi-finals. One exits in the group stage regardless of form or squad quality. That structural severity has no precedent […]
India won the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. The psychological barrier of being unable to win an ICC title has been removed. But a structural problem persists: an over-reliance on Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur that has caused India’s batting order to collapse in every T20 World Cup knockout since 2018. England 2026 is where […]
England open the 2026 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on June 12 against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston, at home in this format for the first time since 2009. The framing writes itself: hosts, ranked second, drawn with New Zealand and the West Indies in Group 2. The problem is what the last six weeks showed. […]
Juairiya Ferdous scored 50 off 38 balls in Bangladesh’s warm-up against Ireland on June 9 in Loughborough, and Bangladesh still lost by 11 runs. The target was 144. Ferdous hit 10 boundaries at a strike rate of 131.58 and had the chase tracking comfortably. The problem was not the innings. It was everything that came […]
Hardik Pandya picked up a quadriceps strain at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru on June 10, 2026, and was immediately ruled out of India’s three-match ODI series against Afghanistan. BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed the withdrawal to the Times of India. The strain arrived while Pandya was bowling a 10-over assessment spell, not […]
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 has expanded to 12 teams, and the maths are unforgiving. Two groups of six, five round-robin games per side, and only the top two from each group advance. That means four teams in every group go home, a 33% advancement rate compared to 40% under the previous format. Reputation […]
India arrive as ODI world champions , Harmanpreet Kaur’s side beat South Africa by 52 runs in the November 2025 final at Navi Mumbai to claim India’s first-ever Women’s ODI World Cup title. That win has framed every Group 1 preview. But India’s T20I record in 2026 tells a different story: a 4-1 series loss […]