The IPL economy has seen some chaotic overbidding over the years, but few price tags aged as awkwardly as Venkatesh Iyer’s ₹23.75 crore haul at the 2025 Auction. What was meant to be a blockbuster reunion between KKR and one of its most explosive Indian batters ended with a season that felt more like a […]
The IPL economy has seen some chaotic overbidding over the years, but few price tags aged as awkwardly as Venkatesh Iyer’s ₹23.75 crore haul at the 2025 Auction. What was meant to be a blockbuster reunion between KKR and one of its most explosive Indian batters ended with a season that felt more like a […]
For a decade and a half, India at home was the closest thing cricket had to a cheat code. You could rotate captains, break in new batters, even misread a pitch – and still walk away with a win. That’s why the current picture under Gautam Gambhir feels so out of place. Four home defeats […]
Every IPL cycle brings a few eyebrow-raising calls, but now and then, a franchise drops a decision that feels like it escaped the quality-control department. Chennai Super Kings, preparing to release Matheesha Pathirana, a bowler they once proudly declared as their next death-overs heir, is exactly one of those moments. With retentions due on […]
Every dominant era eventually reaches its moment of uncomfortable self-reflection, and for India, that moment arrived with a thud in Kolkata. A 30-run defeat, their first home Test loss to South Africa in 12 years, wasn’t just an upset; it felt like a warning letter. The kind you pretend isn’t serious until you realize Simon […]
Every once in a while, cricket tosses up a milestone so absurdly clean, so statistically perfect, that it feels like the sport is showing off. Shai Hope’s unbeaten 109 at Napier was one of those. It didn’t just save West Indies from yet another collapse; it rewrote the geography of ODI batting. With that century, […]
Ashes fever has a strange habit of erupting long before the first delivery is bowled, and this time the sparks were lit by two men who never miss a microphone: Stuart Broad and Steven Smith. Broad declared without blinking that this is “the worst Australian team since 2010” and “the best English team since then.” […]
Round 5 of Ranji Trophy seemed to be an opportunity for the domestic game to exclaim loudly, “See me!” As the schedule paused for white ball competitions, teams devoted all they had to these final rounds of first-class cricket. And while there were victories by Mumbai, Karnataka, Vidarbha, and Saurashtra, it was a rout by […]
Although it is rare for an association of young, unknown teens to become world-famous in such a short time span, it has happened in the past (Virat Kohli in 2008, Shubman Gill in 2018, and Brian Lara in the late 1980s). This is where many of the youth of today start to develop as cricketers. […]
Behind every Test Series is an untold sub-plot that does not appear in the match report, a different battle that is fought, not in the center of the field, but behind the scenes of the practice net. While India was falling back to South Africa at the Eden Gardens Test, another story began unfolding away […]
Australia hasn’t had a cricketing enigma like Cameron Green in a long time. At 26, he’s still young enough to be mistaken for the kid brother tagging along with “Dad’s Army,” yet he’s old enough in cricket years to have already lived three different batting identities. In the last 18 months, Green has been Australia’s […]
Cricket has always flirted with chaos, but the Abu Dhabi T10 has turned that chaos into a business model. Eight captains from Pollard’s towering swagger to Shakib’s icy calm assembled under the Zayed Cricket Stadium lights to open the 2025 edition, and the mood felt less like a press conference and more like a blockbuster […]