Australian cricket has always loved a good contradiction. We celebrate patience, yet fast-track prodigies. We preach long apprenticeships, then hand leadership to teenagers who already look annoyingly comfortable under floodlights. Oliver Peake is the latest paradox, a player whose CV already reads like a mid-career professional, not an Under-19 captain packing for Africa. As […]
Australian cricket has always loved a good contradiction. We celebrate patience, yet fast-track prodigies. We preach long apprenticeships, then hand leadership to teenagers who already look annoyingly comfortable under floodlights. Oliver Peake is the latest paradox, a player whose CV already reads like a mid-career professional, not an Under-19 captain packing for Africa. As […]
For a franchise without an owner, the Multan Sultans are suddenly worth more than ever. That’s the delicious irony at the heart of the PCB’s late pivot: just weeks before PSL 11 begins on March 26, the league has decided to auction one of its most stable, successful teams. After briefly flirting with the […]
The home should be a shelter for you. But for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the home stadium was a place where chaos, excitement, and sometimes even the players would create drama. After winning their first-ever IPL Title in 2025, things took an odd turn for the team. A historic victory, followed by a tragic stampede […]
Under-19 World Cups rarely reward reputation alone. They reward readiness, adaptability, and nerve. Group D of the 2026 Men’s Under-19 World Cup reflects that reality perfectly. South Africa and the West Indies arrive as former champions. Afghanistan arrives with momentum. Tanzania arrives with freedom and nothing to lose. Group D has eight such players […]
Some time ago, Ravindra Jadeja seemed to have become a fixed entity in ODIs, as he was guaranteed to bowl 10 stingy overs, pick up 2 wickets, and always provide a last-ditch effort with the bat, which would guarantee frustration to opposition captains. However, as age does, cricket occasionally removes those guarantees. India won […]
There are moments in cricket when even the fielders forget their jobs and become spectators. Smriti Mandhana’s frozen stare at mid-off, eyes darting to the big screen, was one of them. Lauren Bell had just bent a 111.6 kph outswinger away from Harleen Deol, a delivery so mischievous it sent the wicketkeeper one way and […]
Some players collect runs. Alyssa Healy collects moments. The kind that tilt finals, rewrite record books, and quietly force future generations to bat differently. If women’s cricket has spent the last decade searching for its “big-match blueprint,” Healy has been scribbling the answers in bold ink, often at inconvenient times for opposition bowlers. Between […]
For nearly two decades, Virat Kohli’s ODI greatness has been built not on audacity, but on denial of risk, denial of chaos, denial of the spectacular for the sake of the inevitable. While others flirted with disaster-chasing strike rates and highlights, Kohli perfected something far harder: inevitability. You knew the ending before the innings began. […]
Australian cricket has always had a peculiar sense of timing. Careers don’t just rise or fall; they swerve. Few players understand this better than Sean Abbott, a man currently living in the uncomfortable space between “almost there” and “not quite needed yet.” Omitted from Australia’s 15-man T20 World Cup squad for the February 7 tournament […]
Youth World Cups are funny things. They look like stepping stones, but often behave like crystal balls. Careers don’t begin here, but reputations certainly do. Group A of the 2026 ICC Under-19 Men’s World Cup, co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Namibia, is a perfect case study in that unpredictability. But look closer, and the group […]
The No. 3 position for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2026 is now one of the most coveted spots on the team. After an injury-ridden season in which he was electrifying, Devdutt Padikkal has exploded onto the scene with 721 runs in just 8 matches of the Vijay Hazare Trophy (average 103) while RCB […]