Mitchell Santner didn’t deflect or find excuses after India’s 96-run victory in Ahmedabad. His post-match comments identified the exact phase that decided the final, the powerplay. India’s openers produced 92 without loss in the first six overs. New Zealand lost early wickets attempting their chase and were rebuilding when they should have been accelerating. Santner’s […]
Mitchell Santner didn’t deflect or find excuses after India’s 96-run victory in Ahmedabad. His post-match comments identified the exact phase that decided the final, the powerplay. India’s openers produced 92 without loss in the first six overs. New Zealand lost early wickets attempting their chase and were rebuilding when they should have been accelerating. Santner’s […]
Sanju Samson scored 321 runs in five matches at a strike rate close to 200. That single campaign, in the 2026 tournament, overtook a record that Virat Kohli had held for over a decade, 319 runs in the 2014 edition, by just two runs. The margin is almost absurdly thin. The context is completely different. […]
Two ICC trophies in consecutive tournaments. A batting order restructured around powerplay aggression rather than traditional accumulation. A spinner brought back from the fringes and turned into India’s most dangerous middle-over weapon. Gautam Gambhir made decisions that looked like risks and turned them into a system. The Champions Trophy 2025 proved the system could win […]
A Canadian left-hander scored 110 off 65 balls against New Zealand. An American all-rounder averaged above seventy with the bat while also bowling economically. A Sri Lankan middle-order batter accumulated 205 runs at a strike rate above 150. None of these players were household names before the tournament began. All of them will be discussed […]
Twenty-four sixes in five matches. Eighty-nine runs in a World Cup final off 46 balls. Three consecutive scores above 80 in the knockout stage. Three hundred and twenty-one runs at a strike rate close to 200, two more than Virat Kohli’s record that stood for twelve years. Sanju Samson didn’t just have a good tournament […]
Sanju Samson won Player of the Tournament with 321 runs in five innings at a strike rate close to 200. Will Jacks took nine wickets and scored 226 runs at a strike rate above 176, winning four Player of the Match awards in one tournament. Jasprit Bumrah took 4 for 15 in the final. Those […]
Annabel Sutherland scored 129 and took 6 for 61 from 23 overs. In a five-day Test that lasted three days, those two numbers explained almost everything. Australia defeated India by ten wickets at the WACA, completing a result that was comfortable from the moment Sutherland began her first-innings century and never stopped being comfortable after […]
Before Sanju Samson opened the batting, India had the lowest scoring rate among full-member teams in the first ten overs against spin, 6.95 runs per over. After the batting order change that brought Samson to the top and moved Ishan Kishan to number three, that number rose to 8.64. That single tactical adjustment, quietly made […]
Bangladesh missed the T20 World Cup. The squad that returns to international cricket against Pakistan does so knowing that the next major target, the 2027 ODI World Cup, requires a completely different approach to the fifty-over format. This series isn’t a routine bilateral. It’s the first real test of whether Bangladesh’s ODI rebuild has a […]
Seven for 25 from 11 overs. Northern Districts all out for 82. Central Districts ahead by 291 runs. Those numbers tell you a match was won. They don’t tell you about the five deliveries in the middle of it that made cricket history. Brett Randell dismissed five batters in five consecutive balls in Napier, a […]