New Zealand’s title defence generates headlines through retirement stories: Devine, Bates, Tahuhu, three legends, one final campaign. But the absence that most threatens back-to-back titles is quieter and far more operationally specific. Eden Carson, the 24-year-old off-spinner who took nine wickets at an economy of 6.39 across six bowling innings in the 2024 title run, […]
New Zealand’s title defence generates headlines through retirement stories: Devine, Bates, Tahuhu, three legends, one final campaign. But the absence that most threatens back-to-back titles is quieter and far more operationally specific. Eden Carson, the 24-year-old off-spinner who took nine wickets at an economy of 6.39 across six bowling innings in the 2024 title run, […]
Twelve months ago, Suryakumar Yadav averaged 65.18 in IPL 2025, won the MVP award, and carried the Mumbai Indians into the playoffs. In March 2026, he led India to back-to-back T20 World Cup glory. IPL 2026 should have been a celebration. Instead, he averaged 17.73 across 11 innings, his worst IPL return since 2017, scored […]
When the BCCI named India’s T20I squad for Ireland and England on June 6, 2026, not one RCB player made the cut, despite the franchise having just defended the IPL title, only the third side in history to do so. Their captain, Rajat Patidar, scored 813 runs across two seasons at a strike rate of […]
Bangladesh is in Group 1 of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 alongside Australia, India, and South Africa, three of the four best pace attacks in the format, with a collective batting strike rate of around 123 against a top-tier benchmark above 136. That gap has ended matches before the lower order arrives. But one […]
Every Group 1 preview lists the Netherlands as the charming debutant who qualified and will go home quietly. That reading ignores what the Dutch have actually done: beaten Bangladesh on English soil for the first time, knocked out higher-ranked Scotland in qualifying, and built a squad whose best batter has played county cricket in England […]
Nobody expected Shreyas Iyer to be named India T20I captain on June 6. He hadn’t played a T20I since December 2023. Suryakumar Yadav had just led India to a second consecutive World Cup title. The case for change was hard to construct from the outside. But chief selector Ajit Agarkar didn’t pick Iyer because he […]
India selected Manav Suthar, knowing he had never bowled a ball in Test cricket. Three days later, his 7/62 had powered them to an innings and 300-run win, the largest margin of victory in India’s Test history. The 24-year-old left-arm spinner from Rajasthan was not even guaranteed to play until the morning of Day 1, […]
India’s selectors made two decisions about Suryakumar Yadav in the same announcement. One of them is correct. The other is a structural mistake that will cost India at precisely the wrong moment, when they need a settled middle order for the 2028 T20 World Cup cycle. The problem is that both decisions have been bundled […]
Ollie Robinson hadn’t played a Test in two and a half years. Gus Atkinson was playing his third home Test at Lord’s. Together, they reduced two New Zealand lineups to rubble, bowled a match in 996 balls, and produced the second shortest completed Test at Lord‘s in 150 Tests at the ground. The records that […]
No Bangladesh captain had ever won a bilateral T20I series away from home. Not once, against any Full Member opposition, in any year. Litton Das did it twice in eight months. A 3-0 sweep of West Indies in December 2024 and a 2-1 comeback win in Sri Lanka in July 2025 rewrote the record books […]
Prince Yadav took 16 wickets in IPL 2026 at an economy of 8.08, leading LSG’s attack in a team that finished tenth. A year earlier, he had three wickets at 9.85. Same bowler, same pace, different method, and the difference between those two seasons is the clearest argument any young Indian fast bowler has made […]