Every World Cup final arrives with its own subplot, but this one feels like a chess match disguised as cricket. India has looked like a team that knows how to start a fire; South Africa has shown they know how to survive inside it. In their league clash at Vizag, India reduced the Proteas to […]
Every World Cup final arrives with its own subplot, but this one feels like a chess match disguised as cricket. India has looked like a team that knows how to start a fire; South Africa has shown they know how to survive inside it. In their league clash at Vizag, India reduced the Proteas to […]
Every few years, a fast bowler enters a zone so pure, so ruthlessly precise, that even seasoned batters look like they’ve accidentally walked into the wrong net session. Right now, that bowler is Josh Hazlewood. At the MCG, he returned Test-match numbers in a T20I, 3 for 13 in four overs against an India line-up […]
Sometimes a T20 innings doesn’t unravel; it gets disassembled, piece by piece, by a bowler who decides the format doesn’t matter. At the MCG, India walked in expecting Australia’s familiar discipline. What they weren’t ready for was the Test-match mischief hiding inside Josh Hazlewood’s T20 spell. India lost four wickets inside the powerplay, only the […]
Every time South Africa tours the subcontinent, there’s a familiar script: a rocky start, a brave recovery, and a lingering sense that one extra Test might have tilted the whole story. Their recent 1–1 draw in Pakistan felt exactly like that kind of unfinished chapter. Rawalpindi showed what they could be; Lahore reminded them what […]
Some teams build legacies on power. Others rely on depth. India, in the past three years, has built its own something far less predictable: nerve. The kind of cold-blooded, late-overcomposure that turns ordinary games into folklore. Think about it: a run-out in the 44th over at Lord’s in 2022 to seal their first ODI series […]
Every cricketing generation produces one player who feels like he wandered straight out of a kid’s imagination and into an international stadium. For New Zealand, that kid is Rachin Ravindra, the indoor-nets dreamer who once recreated “Desert Storm” on a scoring app and now hears actual crowds chanting his name in Dharamsala. There’s something […]
Zimbabwe learned that cricket is all about narrow margins when they played in Harare on Friday. The visitors were unable to get into a groove right from the start and failed to hit a single boundary in the first three overs, which sent up warning signs quickly for the home team. Although a six by […]
The Hundred, which has been known for disrupting the typical schedule of a cricket calendar, is taking its innovative spirit to the next step with its biggest shake-up yet – in 2026, it will transition from an open draft to an all-out player auction style model – similar to the high-stakes drama seen in the […]
A few of the most emotional moments in the world of cricket are chasing a semi-final World Cup, but for Jemimah Rodrigues, that moment came on top of weeks of private struggle. Just before making an undefeated 127 off of Australia, Rodrigues was battling with such bad anxiety that it left her “numb” and made […]
Nineteen years ago, Andrew Flintoff walked off an Australian ground with the look of a man who had just seen cricket’s gods laugh in his face. England had been thrashed 5–0 in the 2006–07 Ashes, and Freddie, standing in as captain for the injured Michael Vaughan, carried the burden of that defeat like an anvil. […]