Cricket rarely provides clear conclusions to a player’s career. Most legends fade, grow old, or simply disappear. However, Virat Kohli, as expected, did neither in 2025. Rather than fade, grow old, or exist, he treated 2025 like a greatest hits collection released after announcing his retirement from Test cricket. Kohli announced he would retire […]
Cricket rarely provides clear conclusions to a player’s career. Most legends fade, grow old, or simply disappear. However, Virat Kohli, as expected, did neither in 2025. Rather than fade, grow old, or exist, he treated 2025 like a greatest hits collection released after announcing his retirement from Test cricket. Kohli announced he would retire […]
There are withdrawals, and then there are structural tremors. Ellyse Perry pulling out of WPL 2026 firmly belongs to the latter category. When a player who once felt like RCB’s entire batting insurance policy suddenly disappears, the ripple effects travel far beyond a team sheet. Perry wasn’t just RCB’s leading run-scorer in their 2024 title […]
In contrast to what could be described as “cricketing schizophrenia” by India’s men in blue during 2025, 2026 may be either the solution or the last straw. In 2025, the Indians were a perfect example of the two sides of Jekyll and Hyde: they were an absolute juggernaut with respect to their performance in white […]
There was a time when Australian cricket seasons followed a predictable rhythm: summer dominance at home, long winters spent squinting at overseas tours on dodgy time zones. But 2026 laughs at that tradition. This is a calendar that bends geography, challenges comfort zones, and quietly reshapes how Australia prepares for global dominance. The men […]
Cricket has a cruel sense of humour. Vaishnavi Sharma’s international career should have begun with a wicket off her 12th ball. Instead, it began with a dropped catch at short fine leg and a debut figures sheet that read 0 wickets. For many young spinners, that moment becomes a psychological pothole. For Vaishnavi, it quietly […]
Test cricket rarely suffers from an identity crisis. It knows exactly what it is: slow-burn drama, attrition dressed as art, patience weaponised. And yet, in the past three years, one ideology has dared to poke the five-day beast with a stick and shout, “Run towards the danger.” Bazball didn’t just tweak tempo; it detonated convention. […]
Can four Tests really outweigh twelve? In most cricketing years, volume beats virtue. Piling up runs across continents, grinding through five-match series, surviving the attrition of the calendar, that’s traditionally how Team of the Year spots are earned. And yet, 2025 laughed at that convention. Bavuma played only four tests, but he was captain […]
The Adelaide Strikers’ BBL 2025-26 is off to a shaky start; with three games under their belt, the Strikers are sitting with just one win – that’s a precarious position for a team that will soon be competing at full strength. The Strikers lost by chasing down a total of 180 runs against the Brisbane […]
In an era where franchise loyalty in T20 cricket lasts about as long as a powerplay, Mohammad Nawaz’s annual return to the Bangladesh Premier League feels almost rebellious. The BPL has changed faces, franchises, owners, and reputations, not always for the better. Yet Nawaz keeps coming back, season after season, quietly ignoring the noise. Instead, […]
Cricket has always pretended to be a meritocracy skill over reputation, form over folklore. But 2025 gleefully ripped that illusion apart. It was a year where giants lifted trophies and, paradoxically, slipped on banana peels laid by history’s underdogs. India won the Champions Trophy under Rohit Sharma. RCB finally discovered what silverware feels like. India […]
It has been relatively recent that a significant portion of India’s winning ways in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) were due to both the Indian batting unit and their ability to score big runs by hitting boundaries. That is no longer the case, and it is a fairly subtle change for the Indian cricket team in 2025. […]