The hamstring is healing. Nathan Lyon has ridden 700km in rehabilitation, resumed bowling at Cricket Central in Sydney, and hit every physical marker in his recovery programme. George Bailey and Andrew McDonald turned the injury into something else. When a chief selector questions whether a 567-wicket bowler will return to the top level, and that […]
The hamstring is healing. Nathan Lyon has ridden 700km in rehabilitation, resumed bowling at Cricket Central in Sydney, and hit every physical marker in his recovery programme. George Bailey and Andrew McDonald turned the injury into something else. When a chief selector questions whether a 567-wicket bowler will return to the top level, and that […]
Bangladesh’s 2-1 series win over Australia was the country’s first bilateral ODI series win against them, but it isn’t the story that will matter in two years. What the series produced is a genuine selection crisis at No. 5, 6, and 7, the positions that have defined Bangladesh’s ODI limitations for years. Mosaddek Hossain returned […]
Season 4 ran from June 1 to June 13 at Wankhede Stadium, and every preview was built around the icon players. Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shivam Dube, Tushar Deshpande. Some delivered. None of them produced the most important batting number in the tournament. That belonged to a player most previews barely mentioned, a […]
After 18 Women’s T20 World Cup matches each, the bowling comparison isn’t close. Amelia Kerr has 32 wickets at 11.21. Deepti Sharma has 17 at 27.58. Kerr holds the record for the most wickets in a single edition. On raw numbers, she wins by distance. But the debate about which of these two all-rounders matters […]
South Africa’s opening bowlers dismissed two Australians inside the powerplay and had the game exactly where they wanted it. Marizanne Kapp and Shabnim Ismail had done their jobs. Then Wolvaardt kept Ismail on for a third over against a batter who had already targeted her, and Phoebe Litchfield hit 29 of her 51 runs off […]
Smriti Mandhana arrives at the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup with 519 runs from 22 innings as an opener across the tournament’s history. Laura Wolvaardt topped the 2023 T20 World Cup run charts with 230 runs at 46. On volume, Mandhana leads. But volume is a group-stage metric, and World Cups are not decided in […]
The Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee named two uncapped fast bowlers in India’s 15-member ODI squad for the Afghanistan series: Prince Yadav and Gurnoor Brar. Mohammed Siraj was rested. With the 2027 World Cup now firmly on the horizon, this series was framed explicitly as a trial of bowling profiles rather than a results exercise. These […]
When Kohli announced his Test retirement on May 12, 2025, the tributes came quickly. Aakash Chopra was different. On his YouTube channel, Chopra did not just mourn the end of an era: he issued a structural warning. “He played Test cricket with the intensity of T20s,” Chopra said. “He ran a marathon at the speed […]
Seven players have appeared in every Women’s T20 World Cup since 2009. Most coverage lists the names and marvels at the longevity. The more important question is which of them arrives at the 2026 edition in England still without a title, and how sharp is that absence? Because for three of the seven, this is […]
Three of the world’s top five-ranked T20I teams, Australia (1st), India (3rd), and South Africa (5th), are in the same six-team group at the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup. Only two of them qualify for the semi-finals. One exits in the group stage regardless of form or squad quality. That structural severity has no precedent […]
India won the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. The psychological barrier of being unable to win an ICC title has been removed. But a structural problem persists: an over-reliance on Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur that has caused India’s batting order to collapse in every T20 World Cup knockout since 2018. England 2026 is where […]