Every epoch of cricket greatness has an instant where the heroes leave the playing field and enter a new kind of limelight. That moment for Indian cricket occurred when ICC Chairman Jay Shah announced Rohit Sharma as the Brand Ambassador for the 2026 Twenty20 Cricket World Cup, the same tournament he walked into as the […]
Every epoch of cricket greatness has an instant where the heroes leave the playing field and enter a new kind of limelight. That moment for Indian cricket occurred when ICC Chairman Jay Shah announced Rohit Sharma as the Brand Ambassador for the 2026 Twenty20 Cricket World Cup, the same tournament he walked into as the […]
Glenn Maxwell’s IPL tale seems to have a certain poetic quality. It is at the age of 37, by which point most other T20 mercenaries have either transitioned gracefully into a career as a commentator or are thinking up coaching strategies for think tanks, that Maxwell’s trajectory took a downward, awkward turn. Punjab Kings released […]
There was a time in Test cricket when the square cut was a statement of authority, the sort of shot you’d play only after letting bowlers know you were in. For Yashasvi Jaiswal, though, it has become both his crown jewel and his Achilles heel. No other batter since his debut has milked more Test […]
Cricket matches exist in abundance, but the India/Pakistan match-up is a fixture with such an intense and dramatic appeal, it can temporarily stop the planet from rotating for three hours. As every World Cup unfolds, this rivalry has a unique way of adding another layer of tension, pressure, and disappointment as well. On February 15th, […]
Every cricket era has its flashpoint moment. For men’s cricket, it was the first IPL auction in 2008, raw, chaotic, and revolutionary. For women’s cricket, that moment might just be November 27, 2025, at 3.30 pm in Delhi. The WPL is rolling out its first-ever mega auction, and with 277 players (194 Indian, 83 overseas) […]
The 2026 T20 World Cup is expected to be as full of pyrotechnics as any other; however, it has a sense of psychological unease which may distinguish it from all others, not due to larger boundary distances or louder kit, but rather it is the potential for psychological uncertainty in every match-up itself. When examining […]
It is money that did not create modern cricket, but it has made the PSL turn around much quicker than Rashid Khan’s googly. When everyone expected the renewal paperwork would be as routine as the signing of the other 8 teams (Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Quetta Gladiators, Lahore Qalandars & Peshawar Zalmi) were already signed […]
There are bad Test days, and then there are “Guwahati, Day 3” Test days, the kind that make even diehard fans quietly close the scorecard tab and ask the heavens: “How did we get here?” India, already wounded after losing the series opener, watched South Africa stroll to 489 and then flatten their batting in […]
Cricket has seen mystery spinners before the Mendis curveball, the Narine enigma, the Rashid revolution, but Pakistan may have stumbled upon something stranger: a bowler who pauses mid-action long enough for a batter to check his phone notifications. Usman Tariq’s exaggerated two-second freeze before sling-releasing an off-break looks like an error in a video game […]
If there’s one thing Chennai Super Kings have mastered over the years, it’s the art of buying the right chaos. Not the reckless kind, the calculated, Dhoni-coded kind where an all-rounder doesn’t just fill a slot but expands an entire tactical universe. Yet ahead of IPL 2026, CSK walks into the auction hall without Jadeja, […]