The RCB auction is typically full of excitement, with many top players receiving large sums for their contracts. At the same time, there is always a great deal of speculation surrounding whether RCB has finally cracked the code to success. While there was certainly much noise around some of the larger bidders and name players […]
The RCB auction is typically full of excitement, with many top players receiving large sums for their contracts. At the same time, there is always a great deal of speculation surrounding whether RCB has finally cracked the code to success. While there was certainly much noise around some of the larger bidders and name players […]
You can say that there is an adage in Cricket which states that when you are winning, you should not make any changes to your successful team. Apparently, the Indian selectors threw this handbook into the fire. With the 2026 T20 World Cup scheduled for kickoff on February 7th, in both India and Sri Lanka, […]
For years, Travis Head felt like a paradox Australia hadn’t solved. Immensely talented, aesthetically fearless, yet perpetually on trial. In a system that reveres resilience and values scar tissue, Head initially looked like a man playing Test cricket with T20 instincts and not always getting away with it. By the end of 2020, he wasn’t […]
Each Indian Domestic Season begins with a quiet tone until the calm is shattered. Selection earthquakes are often disguised within typical List A games. It’s easy to view on paper as a 50-over tournament from December 24 through January 18. There are 38 teams divided into four Elite Groups and one Plate Group. In truth, […]
England Under-19 cricket has always lived in an interesting contradiction: it wants instant results, but it’s really about long-term bets. Appointing Thomas Rew as captain for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia feels like both a bold present-day call with one eye firmly on the future. At just 18, Rew is already […]
Indian cricket has never lacked talent. What it occasionally lacks is predictability. And nothing exposes that contradiction better than Shubman Gill, India’s all-format poster boy, watching the 2026 T20 World Cup squad announcement from the outside. The irony is this: after being recalled to the T20I team before the 2025 Asia Cup, Gill was […]
There is a specific kind of romance attached to the Gujarat Titans. Since their inception, they have operated like a high-functioning stock portfolio: low-risk assets yielding high returns, relying on gritty pragmatism rather than glitzy superstars. But the IPL 2026 auction on December 16 signaled a departure from that script. By trading away the explosive […]
Australians are very fond of retaining The Ashes, they are extremely fond of doing so at home; however, there is a rather unpalatable reality that lies beneath the celebratory champagne toasts in Adelaide – for Australia have not won an Ashes series in England since 2001 – which equates to nearly 26 years of close […]
There was a time when the biggest Indian stars viewed their domestic cricket career as nothing more than an old passport – it is important to have, but generally stored away in the cupboard, rather than retrieved to use. That era has also quietly ended. The Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) will begin the 2025-26 season […]
Every T20 league eventually exposes a philosophical fault line. In SA20, that line runs straight through Paarl and Johannesburg. On one side, the Paarl Royals have doubled down on conditions, nuance, and tactical suffocation, slow pitches, clever bowling, and patience as a weapon. On the other hand, the Joburg Super Kings are rebooting almost entirely, […]