Sometimes, the loudest story in an IPL auction isn’t about who was bought, it’s about who wasn’t even in the room. Ben Stokes skipping the IPL 2026 auction quietly created exactly that kind of vacuum. Here was England’s Test captain, one of cricket’s great momentum-shifters, absent while franchises scrambled for balance, muscle, and leadership. Ironically, […]
Sometimes, the loudest story in an IPL auction isn’t about who was bought, it’s about who wasn’t even in the room. Ben Stokes skipping the IPL 2026 auction quietly created exactly that kind of vacuum. Here was England’s Test captain, one of cricket’s great momentum-shifters, absent while franchises scrambled for balance, muscle, and leadership. Ironically, […]
There are Test hundreds that arrive with fireworks, and then there are Test hundreds that arrive like a clenched fist, stubborn, bruised, and earned inch by inch. Jacob Bethell’s maiden Test century at the SCG belonged firmly to the latter category. On a tour where England’s batting has often resembled a highlight reel audition gone […]
The process of selecting ODI squads by India recently is also somewhat ruthless in nature. India does not host large press events for the selection of squads, nor do they recall former players emotionally; rather, they solely select the individuals that will provide the greatest advantage for the team moving forward. Although the 15-player squad […]
Cricket craves certainty. The schedule, the umpire is impartial; there are the Duckworth-Lewis tables to provide mathematically correct justice. However, it isn’t long before the game reminds itself of something that should be obvious – International Cricket does not operate in isolation. It operates in the Real World. Where you have politics, diplomacy, terror warnings, […]
New Zealand cricket has an amusing irony. While we typically equate them with green tops, grey days, and balls that swing round corners, there’s no doubt about it now, the Black Caps have totally ‘gone full subcontinent.’ After being knocked out of the tournament before even getting a game in during 2024, it seems like […]
Cricket has always loved youth, pace, and novelty, but every few seasons, it forgets one inconvenient truth: T20s are won by skill density, not birth certificates. As the countdown to the 2026 T20 World Cup begins, Sikandar Raza, at 39, is quietly performing one of cricket’s oldest magic tricks, making age irrelevant. Although he […]
For nearly a decade, the Pakistan Super League has lived by a familiar rhythm: six teams, a tight window, controlled chaos. But stability, in cricket leagues, often masks pressure building underneath. In 2026, that pressure finally finds release. The PSL is expanding to eight teams, the biggest structural change since the league’s birth in 2016. […]
Day three at the SCG was supposed to be a contest. Instead, it felt like a slow, public unravelling of England’s Ashes philosophy. Not just a bad day, England have had plenty of those this series, but a revealing one. A day where cheerful defiance curdled into performative optimism, and where Australia’s two most contrasting […]
Cricket has always rewarded those who bend its rules without quite breaking them. Glenn Phillips, however, seems determined to bend himself instead. In a sport obsessed with match-ups, Phillips occasionally forgets the most basic one of all: which hand he bats with. Two days before the New Year, during New Zealand’s Super Smash, he took […]
Test cricket has a funny way of revealing truth under pressure. In the Ashes 2025–26, while England searched desperately for control, Australia found clarity at the very top. Travis Head’s blazing 163 at the SCG wasn’t just another Ashes hundred; it was a statement about how modern Test opening has evolved. At stumps on Day […]
The Rajasthan Royals trade of Sanju Samson for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran presented far too much easy-to-write material. It is no surprise that Sanju Samson’s trade is the only conversation about the Rajasthan Royals. As an advantage to the Rajasthan Royals from adding Ravindra Jadeja, it gave them the ability to market and sell […]