Chahal has more career wickets against England than anyone, but most of that tally was built in India, not on English grounds. Strip out matches hosted in India and at neutral venues, and the genuinely relevant sample shrinks to just seven T20Is: one in 2011, three in the 2018 series, and three in 2022. On […]
Chahal has more career wickets against England than anyone, but most of that tally was built in India, not on English grounds. Strip out matches hosted in India and at neutral venues, and the genuinely relevant sample shrinks to just seven T20Is: one in 2011, three in the 2018 series, and three in 2022. On […]
Ireland’s 2-0 sweep in Belfast ended a 16-series unbeaten T20I run for the reigning world champions. The decider went to the last ball, and India lost by one run. Both of those facts matter. But the single detail that cuts through both results is this: Sanju Samson faced two balls across the entire series, was […]
Stokes reached the same statistical double in far fewer Tests, but Kallis still holds the bigger raw numbers. The real gap is the kind of bowler each man was, not the matches played. Stokes needed 122 Tests for 7,273 runs and 252 wickets, completing the set in his farewell match at Trent Bridge. Kallis took […]
Sri Lanka’s attack didn’t fail because of poor bowling alone; it failed because they had four frontline options for all but a single over. Lahiru Kumara pulled up with a hamstring problem on the first ball of his second over, and the gap never closed. Jangoo and Chase built their world-record 401 against an attack […]
England’s 17-player squad for the five-match T20I series against India carries a selection argument worth reading carefully. James Coles earns his maiden call-up as an uncapped Sussex all-rounder with a dual skill set that is directly relevant to how India have been beating England with spin over the past two years. Whether selectors consciously built […]
England have won every group game at the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, the last of them by nine wickets against defending champions New Zealand at The Oval on June 27. The argument that losing their regular captain made them harder to beat is more complicated than it sounds, and the numbers behind it deserve […]
Jai Moondra’s first ball in international cricket bowled Sanju Samson. Not after the nerves had settled, not when a second spell gave him licence to attack. The very first delivery of his T20I career, at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Belfast on June 26, 2026, rearranged the stumps of one of India’s most experienced […]
None of the players who led India in 2023 are even in the 2026 squad. Jasprit Bumrah captained the three-match August 2023 T20I series in Dublin while Ruturaj Gaikwad served as his deputy, but neither is on the plane this time. Shreyas Iyer takes the captaincy for 2026, Axar Patel goes in as vice-captain, and […]
Three teams on 4 points, one semi-final spot, and a net run rate gap that changes shape every time a wicket falls. Group A has been running on razor-thin margins since the start, and with four matches left, South Africa and Bangladesh aren’t just chasing a result. They’re chasing a number. The maths is unforgiving, […]
Australia lost its first-choice No.3 in the opening match and hasn’t missed a beat. Phoebe Litchfield’s quad injury against South Africa forced a reshuffle that handed Perry a new role in the batting order for three consecutive fixtures. She scored 71 off 48 against Pakistan, took 2/9 with the ball in the same match, and […]
England have already secured the first Group 2 semi-final spot, making the second place the real story of the tournament’s final triple-header day. West Indies need one win against the group’s only winless side to book it. Ireland won the toss, chose to bowl, held West Indies to 128 for 7, and are now in […]