A trade built around two underperforming all-rounders can sound like two teams swapping problems rather than solving them. This one is more specific than that. Both the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders had wretched 2026 seasons, and the deal that keeps resurfacing in reports addresses what actually went wrong for each of them. […]
A trade built around two underperforming all-rounders can sound like two teams swapping problems rather than solving them. This one is more specific than that. Both the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders had wretched 2026 seasons, and the deal that keeps resurfacing in reports addresses what actually went wrong for each of them. […]
A debut defeat is not a verdict on a captaincy, and India’s own recent history makes that case more clearly than any single result could. The four men who have led India in T20Is over the last nine years produced wildly different outcomes, and the result of their first match predicted almost none of them. […]
Hardik Pandya has not been traded to the Kolkata Knight Riders yet, but the talks are real. Multiple rounds of discussions between KKR and the Mumbai Indians have taken place, with the Rajasthan Royals also in the running and reportedly offering Yashasvi Jaiswal as part of a competing bid. No deal has been confirmed by […]
When Sanju Samson moved from Rajasthan Royals to Chennai Super Kings in November 2025 for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran, both sides called it a balanced exchange. One full season later, the gap between what each franchise received makes that claim difficult to defend. Samson produced his best IPL season for CSK, won Player of […]
Group 1 of the Women’s T20 World Cup reaches its final afternoon on June 28 at Lord’s, with India, South Africa, and Bangladesh all able to influence each other’s fates. Australia is already through. Behind them, India and South Africa sit level on six points, and the number that separates them has nothing to do […]
India’s new T20I era opens in Belfast on Friday with Shreyas Iyer as captain, Suryakumar Yadav dropped entirely, and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the squad for the first time. The BCCI’s case for Iyer isn’t built on sentiment or on a rotation policy that needed a fresh name. It rests on something more specific: a […]
Australia has not had to replace Alyssa Healy’s results at the top of the order in this tournament, just her method. Georgia Voll has stepped into the opening slot with a calmer, more ground-based game that still scores at nearly 140. The approach is different. The problems she creates for bowlers are not easier to […]
India has never lost a T20I to Ireland across eight matches since 2009, and their 2024 World Cup eight-wicket win extended that perfect record with something very close to ease. Now, Shreyas Iyer’s side arrives in Belfast for two matches from June 26 with several regulars rested or dropped, and with Rohit Sharma now retired […]
In six ODIs across Pakistan and Bangladesh, Australia posted under 230 in five of them. Two 2-1 series defeats followed, one to Pakistan, then a historic first-ever ODI series loss to Bangladesh. The same squad turned around and whitewashed Bangladesh 3-0 in T20Is. The two-format split tells a clear story: Australia know how to win […]
India’s bowlers looked surgical against Pakistan and the Netherlands. Then came June 21 at Old Trafford. Marizanne Kapp walked in with South Africa needing 136 off 85 balls and two wickets already down. She left with an unbeaten 81 off 45 balls, four sixes, and a six-wicket win with five balls to spare. A death-over […]
India travels to Belfast for two T20Is against Ireland on June 26 and 28 without either of their primary seam-bowling all-rounders. Hardik Pandya was already ruled out. Now Nitish Kumar Reddy is out too, with a left quadriceps fiber disruption confirmed by the BCCI on June 23. Suryansh Shedge, uncapped, 23, and primarily a finisher, […]