From time to time, Team India’s ODI successes were always the result of batting epic moments, huge tons, mathematical chases, and the odd miraculous partnership. However, for the first time in an ODI series (for India), since 1996 – 2025 saw the story change. Unassuming, almost devious, India quietly morphed back into a bowler-led ODI […]
From time to time, Team India’s ODI successes were always the result of batting epic moments, huge tons, mathematical chases, and the odd miraculous partnership. However, for the first time in an ODI series (for India), since 1996 – 2025 saw the story change. Unassuming, almost devious, India quietly morphed back into a bowler-led ODI […]
South African T20 leagues have a habit of throwing up familiar silhouettes. A backlift that feels borrowed, a jersey number that triggers nostalgia, and suddenly, fans start asking dangerous questions. When Joburg Super Kings opened their SA20 2025–26 campaign with a 22-run win over Pretoria Capitals on December 27, Matthew de Villiers’ modest 10-ball 13 […]
There’s a peculiar irony in modern IPL auctions: teams obsess over pace, yet sometimes overlook a pacer who actually ticks most tactical boxes. Jhye Richardson, going unsold at the IPL 2026 auction again, falls squarely into that category. A 29-year-old Australian quick with powerplay skill, death-overs control, and international pedigree failing to attract even a […]
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is supposed to breathe history slowly. Boxing Day Tests usually unfold like long novels, with momentum swings, fifth-day nerves, and crowd roars that simmer for hours. Instead, this Ashes clash read like a short story with an abrupt ending. Two days. Thirty-six wickets. Twenty of them tumbling on day one alone. […]
Indian selection debates rarely whisper they arrive with noise, irony, and timing sharp enough to hurt reputations. Ishan Kishan’s return to India’s ODI setup ahead of the January 2026 home series against New Zealand fits that script perfectly. Not long ago, he was the forgotten man. Now, after a shock T20 World Cup 2026 call-up, […]
If 2025 had a personality for Team India’s ODI cricket, it would be calm, ruthless, and occasionally poetic. The Men in Blue didn’t just win matches; they controlled narratives. Eleven wins from fourteen games (a 78.57% success rate) tell one story, but the real tale hides inside individual innings that bent games to India’s will. […]
Cricket franchises often talk about “planning for the future,” but few actually show the patience to live by it. Sunrisers Hyderabad did exactly that with Brydon Carse retaining a player who hasn’t bowled a single ball for them in the IPL yet. On paper, it looks like misplaced faith. In reality, it might be quite […]
Every IPL auction has its oddities, but IPL 2026 quietly produced one of the strangest: Alex Carey didn’t even turn up. In a marketplace where franchises threw INR 8.6 crore at Josh Inglis despite limited availability and snapped up inexperienced wicketkeepers like Tom Banton and Jack Edwards, a seasoned international keeper-batter chose silence over the […]
For 25 years, England’s fast bowlers have flown to Australia with hope, skill, and often a sinking feeling by Boxing Day. The Ashes graveyard is littered with heroic spells that never quite earned individual immortality. From Harmison’s bounce to Anderson and Broad’s relentless excellence, no England bowler had been Player of the Match in an […]
Over ten years of England touring Australia was more of an occasion for an annual reminder of gravity than a cricket match – inevitable, unforgiving, and usually painful. From the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in January 2011 to the unforgettable Saturday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), 5,468 days elapsed before an English Test team […]
There is no king to crown, there is an empty throne, and as we’ve seen on opening day in Mirpur, what would be the BPL’s succession battle is now a bloody contest. It feels disorienting, does it? A BPL season without Tamim Iqbal is akin to a Dhakaiya wedding without the biryani, technically operational, […]