Bengal cricket is once again flirting with its favorite off-field habit, shaking up the captaincy just when the team is still figuring itself out. This time, the debate surrounds a 23-year-old left-hander who has been gunning his way into Bengal folklore: Abishek Porel. Fresh from Delhi Capitals’ renewed faith for IPL 2026 and currently serving […]
Bengal cricket is once again flirting with its favorite off-field habit, shaking up the captaincy just when the team is still figuring itself out. This time, the debate surrounds a 23-year-old left-hander who has been gunning his way into Bengal folklore: Abishek Porel. Fresh from Delhi Capitals’ renewed faith for IPL 2026 and currently serving […]
Every time a Test match collapses inside three days in India, social media becomes a courtroom, and the pitch is guilty until proven innocent. Yet, on the opening day of the Ashes 2025-26 in Perth, 19 wickets tumbled like loose change, and the global reaction? “What a fantastic day of Test cricket!” That contrast […]
Every IPL auction cycle gives us one big surprise, but CSK releasing Matheesha Pathirana, the same bowler they once protected like family silver, feels like the twist no one saw coming. This is the same Pathirana who tore through line-ups in 2023 with 19 wickets in 12 matches, an outrageous average of 19.52, and ice-cold […]
Every single Cricket Auction is made up of an array of purse numbers and Player Names, but the WPL 2026 Auction feels more than that – It’s a Tipping Point. On Nov 27 in Delhi, 277 Registered Players (two hundred and seventy-seven) are going to compete for just 73 available spots; that’s approximately a 1 […]
Indian Test cricket wasn’t supposed to look like this, especially not under Gautam Gambhir, a coach whose early success in T20s made it seem like everything he touched would turn to gold. Yet here we are, staring at a home series defeat last year and now another wobble, the kind of pattern India simply doesn’t […]
Cricket at an international level has a unique pattern of returning to some of the same players who have been a part of that team from years ago. When it seemed like South Africa would finally accept the loss of Anrich Nortje as a former player (the World Cup failure, his injury lay off; experimenting […]
Each Ashes series is preceded by two big “what ifs “: do the English actually believe they can win? And will the Australians get tired or back down first? On Day One at the WACA in Perth, one of these questions was answered with an almost shocking clarity. The English team did not simply prove […]
While every auction is filled with its own drama, this year’s WPL 2026 season may be the first to truly smell like it is time to hit the reset button. The top eight will have their usual marquee names, while there are 277 players to choose from in the pool, and only 73 spots on […]
The Ashes has always been cricket’s most brutally truthful truth serum, and for England, that truth has been harshest under the Australian sun. Since their miracle 3–1 triumph in 2010–11, they’ve played 15 Ashes Tests in Australia and have not won a single one, losing 13 and clinging to just two draws like a traveller […]
Indian Test cricket has always flirted with extremes, either the pitch behaves, or it behaves like a Bollywood villain. Kolkata chose the second role. Inside three days, an Eden Gardens surface that was supposed to offer controlled turn instead produced chaotic, uneven bounce that even seasoned batters couldn’t decode. India’s spinners looked overfed, South Africa […]
In days of yore, when we’re not talking about centuries past, a visiting team getting a victory in India in a test match would have been akin to finding a comet. A rare occurrence; a wondrous thing; an event whose timing could only be described as impossible. However, South Africa’s 30-run victory over India at […]