Every IPL season produces records. IPL 2026 produced something different. The individual highlights received attention: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi‘s 72 sixes, KL Rahul’s unbeaten 152, and the Punjab Kings’ pursuit of 265. But the collective picture went largely unexamined at the time. Taken together, the season’s numbers build a case that no major T20 competition has seen […]
Every IPL season produces records. IPL 2026 produced something different. The individual highlights received attention: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi‘s 72 sixes, KL Rahul’s unbeaten 152, and the Punjab Kings’ pursuit of 265. But the collective picture went largely unexamined at the time. Taken together, the season’s numbers build a case that no major T20 competition has seen […]
Kolkata Knight Riders paid ₹25.20 crore for Cameron Green at the IPL 2026 auction, a record fee for an overseas player that eclipsed the ₹24.75 crore spent on Mitchell Starc. They were buying an all-rounder: top-order runs, reliable overs, and the XI balance that premium players are supposed to provide. What they received across 13 […]
England in June is not a batting paradise. Edgbaston, Headingley, and Lord’s offer genuine seam movement and pace carry that punish one-dimensional batting orders. The team that lifts the trophy on 5 July needs more than one brilliant batter at the top; it needs four or five who can handle lateral movement and score through […]
Six appearances, twenty-two group-stage matches, two wins in total. That is Bangladesh Women’s full T20 World Cup record heading into England in 2026. For every edition from 2016 through 2023, they didn’t win a single game. The 2024 tournament brought one win against Scotland, the first in a decade, and the ceiling held. Now, for […]
Nineteen IPL seasons. More than 9,300 runs. Four centuries in a single year. And yet the fastest fifty of Virat Kohli’s career arrived on 31 May 2026, in the IPL final, at 37 years old, hobbling with a knee injury, with four wickets down in the chase. He reached fifty off 25 balls against the […]
No teenager had ever finished an IPL season as its leading run-scorer, its most prolific six-hitter, and its most valuable player, until a 15-year-old from Bihar did all three in the same month. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ended IPL 2026 with 776 runs at a strike rate of 237.30 and 72 sixes for Rajasthan Royals, demolishing records […]
Every preview of Australia’s squad opens with the same question about Sutherland, and it’s the wrong one. Where she bats doesn’t decide matches. Where she bowls does. Her T20I record, 44 wickets at an average of 18.63 and an economy of 6.44 across 48 matches, sits among the best of any seam-bowling all-rounder in this […]
Six of ten franchises are operating below an 80% catching efficiency in IPL 2026. That’s the headline number, but the trend behind it is what makes this season different. According to CricViz, fielding sides have held 541 catches and dropped 153 across 59 matches, producing an overall efficiency of just 77.9%. The 2021 peak of […]
Spinners didn’t suddenly get worse. The conditions that made them dangerous were removed. IPL 2026 produced a record spin economy of 9.26 runs per over, spinners bowled just 29% of total overs, down from 38.3% in 2025, and the 200-run mark was breached 61 times, nine more than any previous IPL edition. The overall run […]
Eight centuries in 18 seasons of IPL playoffs. Shubman Gill has two of them. No one else has more than one. His 129 off 60 against the Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2 2023 is still the highest individual score in any IPL knockout match. His 104 off 53 against Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 2026 […]
Lauren Bell dismissed Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana in the same opening over on May 28, 2026. India were 7 for 2 before the powerplay had started. That one over-explains why Bell matters more to England’s Women’s T20 World Cup campaign than any other bowler in their squad. Sophie Ecclestone will be the spin threat. […]