Cricket has never been a cheap passion. Fans have long complained that major ICC events feel like luxury festivals disguised as tournaments, the kind where you need a credit card, a three-month savings plan, and divine help just to get into the stands. But the 2026 T20 World Cup, hosted jointly by India and Sri […]
Cricket has never been a cheap passion. Fans have long complained that major ICC events feel like luxury festivals disguised as tournaments, the kind where you need a credit card, a three-month savings plan, and divine help just to get into the stands. But the 2026 T20 World Cup, hosted jointly by India and Sri […]
Every fast bowler remembers the moment they first saw the perfect ball. For Shaheen Shah Afridi, that moment came in 2015, not in a net session in Khyber Agency, not in a Pakistan camp, but from thousands of kilometres away as Mitchell Starc tore through the World Cup on Australian soil. At just 16, touring […]
Sometimes cricket will create a performance that is more than great; it is symbolic as well. When Hardik Pandya returned to international play for India at Cuttack, he didn’t hit a score; he made a statement (or rather a declaration). With concerns over his fitness, timing and ability to be reliable for the long haul […]
Occasionally, international cricket presents us with an individual’s performance that will feel both very similar to something we have seen before yet also somehow missed or overlooked, and Arshdeep Singh’s Cuttack cutters are the perfect example of this. Arshdeep started with a two-ball duck for Quinton de Kock, then, after scrambling to get into position, […]
Every Ashes tour begins with a myth: England will arrive, full of optimism and fresh theories, and this time this time they’ll crack the Australian code. But two Tests into the latest series, the old ghost has returned wearing a fresh blazer: the mental frailty of the visiting side. It’s almost poetic that the clearest […]
Two weeks ago, South Africa were the feel-good headline of world cricket, a historic Test series win in India for the first time in a quarter century and a record 359 chase in Raipur that felt like cricketing gentrification: the perennial tourists suddenly behaving like seasoned landlords. And then the switch flipped. Violently. In […]
Every mini-auction has this warning: “Don’t get your hopes up for fireworks.” However, every single time you have an all-rounder walk in and swing a figurative sledgehammer to destroy the firework notion into confetti. Look at what happened to Sam Curran (₹18.5 crore, 2023), or Chris Morris (₹16.25 crore, 2021), two of many examples of […]
Cricket rarely gives you symmetry, but it loves a haunting image. For David Miller, that image was a heartbreak freeze-frame: eyes glazed, shoulders slumped, leaning into his wife Camilla as Cape Town and the cricket world watched South Africa lose a T20 World Cup final by seven runs. One shot. Six needed. A wide full […]
There’s a quiet irony hovering over New Zealand cricket right now: the nation that produces some of the smartest white-ball cricketers on the planet is also the last Test-playing country without a proper T20 franchise league. While Trent Boult spends his summers launching yorkers in the BBL, SA20, and ILT20 collide like festival crowds in […]
There’s a peculiar irony to Australia’s Ashes campaign this summer: the man who hasn’t bowled a competitive ball in nearly five months feels fresher than the one who hasn’t stopped bowling for two. Pat Cummins is poised to reclaim the captain’s blazer in Adelaide, while Josh Hazlewood, forever Australia’s reliability index, has been ruled out […]
There is a beauty to the chaos that is found in an India–South Africa white ball series. The team will dominate in the test format; they will flip the script in the ODIs; and now we have the T20I format as a neutral ground, where just about anything could happen. This comes after South Africa […]