There’s something almost mystical about India’s No. 3 spot in ODIs, a batting position that has produced both classical run-sculptors and cold-blooded chase-machines. And right now, Virat Kohli is reminding the cricketing world why this slot is more throne than batting position. With 237 runs in just two innings against South Africa, including 135 in […]
There’s something almost mystical about India’s No. 3 spot in ODIs, a batting position that has produced both classical run-sculptors and cold-blooded chase-machines. And right now, Virat Kohli is reminding the cricketing world why this slot is more throne than batting position. With 237 runs in just two innings against South Africa, including 135 in […]
The IPL loves irony. The moment you call something mini, it finds a way to become anything but. And the 2026 auction set in Abu Dhabi is shaping up to be the kind of “mini” event that drains major franchise wallets and ignites bidding wars with the subtlety of a T20 powerplay. The twist […]
There are Test matches that explode into legend because of miracle comebacks, Kolkata 2001, Edgbaston 2005, Gabba 2021. Christchurch 2025 does the opposite: it slows its way into memory. No late surge. No counter-punching innings. Just two men, one a rising batting force, the other a veteran fast bowler with a tailender’s reputation, choosing to […]
South Africa has spent years living in the strange twilight zone of global tournaments good enough to excite, flawed enough to disappoint, and forever haunted by the mythic “what if.” Yet as the 2025 T20 World Cup looms, something feels different. The calendar, the form cycle, the squad maturity curve, everything has quietly aligned in […]
The desert vipers have recently been a thorn in the side of franchises competing against them in the knockout round of each of the past three ILT20 seasons. Two final appearances in three years may be no accident, but they are a statement. As we enter ILT20 2026, that statement will grow louder, sharper, and […]
Every World Cup cycle has its sacrificial lamb, a player who does almost everything right, but still ends up wearing the unlucky tag because the team room suddenly gets crowded. For India in late 2025, that player is Rinku Singh. The same Rinku whose strike-rate reads like an IPL highlight reel. The same Rinku who […]
The Gulf Giants have an element of showmanship. They can go from being champions one year and a bit off in their second year, but then suddenly – boom – they are back at it again with the confidence and style of a franchise that always seems to know the way up to the top […]
Now and then, cricket delivers a month that feels less like a statistical chapter and more like a thesis statement. November was exactly that, a stretch where three men from three nations reminded the world that spin bowling isn’t a dying art in an era of power-hitting; it’s the sport’s oldest form of disruption. South […]
Every IPL cycle brings one domestic pacer who rises quietly, refuses to fade, and suddenly becomes the auction room’s most whispered name. This time, it’s Jammu & Kashmir’s Auqib Nabi, the right-arm seamer whose work in the 2025-26 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has been nothing short of a fast-bowling audition for the big stage. […]
Every U19 World Cup has had an incredibly alluring promise: somewhere in those 41 games, there will be a new superstar creating history and sharpening their legend. But the 2026 version of the World Cup (a 50-over ODI tournament running from January 15 to February 6) comes with an added element; for the first time […]
Cricket loves its debates: Bradman vs the universe, Tendulkar vs Lara, Warne vs Murali. But few arguments evoke as much tribal passion as: Who is the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time? For decades, that conversation began and ended with three words: Wasim. Akram. Period. And then at the Gabba, Mitchell Starc did […]