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.” […]
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 […]
Every IPL season throws up a trade that looks minor on paper but ends up shifting the entire balance of a squad. Delhi Capitals believe they’ve pulled off one of those moves. By bringing in Nitish Rana for his existing ₹4.2 crore fee, they didn’t just sign a middle-order batter; they quietly addressed three issues […]
Some events in the world of cricket may seem as if they were destined to happen, while others are built solely through one’s determination to put forth effort, to persevere despite exhaustion of any industrial-type machine, or both. Mushfiqur Rahim reaching 100 Tests is the latter. No other Bangladesh player has traveled along that lengthy […]
Just when you think you’ve seen it all in Indian cricket, comes a plot twist no author would dare to script: losing your captain to a neck spasm after three deliveries in a Test you must win. Yet here it is. Shubman Gill, fresh from walking into the captaincy for a new era, strode away […]
Four years ago, Mitchell Starc walked into an Ashes opener like a man auditioning for his own job. Today, he walks into another Ashes opener as the only fast bowler Australia can’t afford to lose. That arc alone is wild enough to make a Netflix producer raise an eyebrow. In 2021, Starc was the […]
While the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 2025 season were a combination of experienced veterans, younger players, and professional coaches, for a great deal of the year, it seemed like they were trying to create a puzzle and finding themselves missing some of the key pieces. While statistically, finishing the 2025 IPL season in […]