Australia’s top-order puzzle has no settled answer, and Durban only made it messier. Matthew Renshaw hit 190 and 82 from No. 5, yet Travis Head, opening alongside Nic Maddinson, managed just 20. The second Test in Gqeberha begins on 18 October, so selectors must choose who walks out with Head and whether Renshaw’s middle-order form […]
Two innings, two unbeaten hundreds and not a single wicket for India: that is Shai Hope’s record in this T20I series. The sides are locked together at two wins each before Saturday’s decider in Bengaluru, an evening start at 7:00 PM IST, or 7:30 PM Bangladesh time. India have found early breakthroughs in these games, […]
Two of India’s Test regulars opened the Ranji season badly: KL Rahul made 4 and 1, and Yashasvi Jaiswal fell for a duck. New Zealand A await them in the India A squad, with the first game on 24 October, which leaves Round 2 (18 to 21 October) as the only domestic match in which […]
Number three suits the left-hander better, and his latest numbers make that hard to dispute. Three innings there have produced 146 runs at an average of 48.67 and a strike rate of 175.90, far ahead of his two opening knocks. He has also scored 451 runs at a strike rate of 196.94 across his last […]
The deal cuts the purse by Rs 4.6 crore, which leaves Sunrisers Hyderabad with Rs 24.00 crore for the December auction. Delhi Capitals gain Rs 10.35 crore, because they paid Rs 10.75 crore for the bowler in 2025 and now receive the leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari at Rs 40 lakh. The left-armer arrives at a revised […]
India’s attack is bleeding runs because control has vanished, not because wickets have dried up. West Indies have passed 200 three times in four games, and the series is locked at 2-2 ahead of the Bengaluru decider on 17 October. Every frontline bowler used has an economy above nine, and Naman Dhir tops the list […]
The top order is the bigger problem because the bowling has an obvious fix and the batters do not. Rabada is likely to return from his hamstring injury for the second Test, which starts on 18 October, yet no comparable reinforcement exists for a lineup dismissed for 284 and 206 in Durban. Australia lead the […]
Abhishek’s 229 was the better series, even though Sahibzada Farhan‘s 238 owns the record. The Pakistan opener scored more across three Rawalpindi matches, but the India opener did his damage faster, against a deeper attack, and finished with a clean sweep. Raw totals reward volume, while quality asks what those runs did to the match. […]
Rohit gets a voice in the discussion but not the casting vote, and nothing official says otherwise. He is involved in the conversations yet not keen to take the armband back, while the franchise itself has said nothing on record. Hardik’s future is tangled up in the same debate, and the answer may arrive before […]
A player diagnosed with concussion in a Test cannot bat again in that match, and a like-for-like substitute arrives only with the Match Referee’s approval. Steve Smith found out how this works on day four in Durban, when Anrich Nortje struck him on the head during the thirteenth over. He did not pass testing that […]
By attacking the left-hander in two different ways. In the first innings at Durban he tempted a loose drive with a full delivery outside off stump, and in the second he angled a short ball across the batter for a top-edged pull. The outcome was 2 runs from 15 balls and two dismissals, a lot […]