87 runs from 8 innings. Average 10.87. Strike rate 116, the worst T20 World Cup 2026 campaign by any established top-order batter in the tournament. England lost the semifinal to India by 7 runs, chasing 254 in Mumbai. Buttler scored 25. Buttler’s response to the most damaging tournament of his career was to spend a […]
87 runs from 8 innings. Average 10.87. Strike rate 116, the worst T20 World Cup 2026 campaign by any established top-order batter in the tournament. England lost the semifinal to India by 7 runs, chasing 254 in Mumbai. Buttler scored 25. Buttler’s response to the most damaging tournament of his career was to spend a […]
Ashleigh Gardner will become the seventh Australian woman to play 100 T20 Internationals when she faces West Indies in St Vincent. Her T20I career batting average is 19.93 with an economy rate of 6.07, consistent enough to confirm her bowling value, modest enough to confirm her batting has not matched her ODI returns of 104 […]
Phil Salt scored 403 runs at a strike rate of 175.98 in RCB’s maiden IPL title campaign in 2025. Jacob Bethell scored a century against India in the T20 World Cup 2026 semifinal and was England’s standout batter across the tournament. Salt managed only 130 runs across the full World Cup. Tim David has 846 […]
KL Rahul as an IPL opener: 4260 runs from 100 matches at an average of 48.96 and strike rate 137.15. One of only five batters in IPL history to pass 4000 runs in the opening position. Six seasons of 500-plus runs as a designated opener. In IPL 2025 at Delhi Capitals, he opened once, scoring […]
Australia retained the Ashes 3-1. England’s only win in the series came in Melbourne, their first Test win in Australia in almost 15 years. Two matches in the series finished in two days, the first Ashes series with two two-day Tests since 1888. England’s ODI record under McCullum stands at four wins and eleven defeats. […]
Priyansh Arya struck at 176.15 in the power play in IPL 2025. Prabhsimran Singh struck at 154.77. Combined, they produced nearly 400 power-play runs between them last season. Shreyas Iyer at No.3 scored 604 runs in 17 innings at an average of 50.33 and strike rate 175.07 across IPL 2025, sixth highest in the tournament. […]
India posted 253 for 7 against England in the semifinal. Jacob Bethell scored a century in reply. Jasprit Bumrah took the final over with England needing 14. South Africa and Afghanistan both scored 187 and needed two Super Overs to separate them. Zimbabwe bowled Australia out in Colombo. Pakistan needed Faheem Ashraf to rescue them […]
The IPL 2026 season begins on March 28 with Royal Challengers Bengaluru hosting Sunrisers Hyderabad at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The first phase runs twenty matches through to April 12, with evening starts at 7:30 PM IST and weekend afternoon games at 3:30 PM. The Mumbai Indians face the Kolkata Knight Riders the following […]
Pakistan were 69 for 5. They were eventually bowled out for 114. Nahid Rana dismissed Sahibzada Farhan, Shamyl Hussain, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Rizwan, and Salman Agha in a single spell that didn’t rely on raw pace; it relied on hard lengths, precise seam presentation, and a surface at Shere Bangla National Stadium that rewarded exactly […]
Three T20 World Cup titles: 2007, 2024, 2026. The first team to defend a T20 World Cup. Nine matches in 2026, eight wins, 96-run final margin, 255 for 5, the highest total in final history. Bumrah 14 wickets at 12.42. Samson 321 runs at a strike rate close to 200. The debate about whether India […]