Cricket loves to talk about evolution until it’s time to evolve. The ICC’s latest working group, led by Roger Twose, has quietly shelved the idea of a two-tier World Test Championship (WTC) system once again, favoring a single 12-team division instead. On paper, it’s a unifying move. In reality, it’s a compromise, a delicate truce […]
Cricket loves to talk about evolution until it’s time to evolve. The ICC’s latest working group, led by Roger Twose, has quietly shelved the idea of a two-tier World Test Championship (WTC) system once again, favoring a single 12-team division instead. On paper, it’s a unifying move. In reality, it’s a compromise, a delicate truce […]
It is a tough time to travel to India for South Africans, and almost like they are walking on fire. They could get through the trip, but they will suffer some form of burnout. In 2015, South Africa was overwhelmed by spin bowling. The 2019 South African team was also hurt by leadership issues and […]
For nearly two years now, since 2022, Shreyas Iyer has proven to be India’s most consistent link for connecting the intentions of the top order with the explosive potential of the lower order; in that time, his average in ODIs has averaged just above 45 with an impressive strike-rate of close to 95. As he […]
What happens when India’s richest spin arsenal risks turning into its biggest headache? Ashwin’s Selection Logic before the South Africa Tests has stirred the pot not as a bowler this time, but as a selector in spirit. With Shubman Gill’s young leadership still being tested, the question isn’t just who plays, but how many. Do India […]
It’s not often that Chennai Super Kings, the masters of loyalty and long-term planning, even consider trading their beloved Ravindra Jadeja. Yet, here we are, a rumor that could make even the calmest CSK fan spill their filter coffee. Sanju Samson to Chennai, Jadeja to Rajasthan, and Sam Curran somewhere in between sounds like a […]
Will the next key move of the Rajasthan Royals not be made by some young talent from Rajasthan but by an experienced English all-rounder with miles to go? There is talk of the RR trading Sanju Samson to CSK in exchange for Sam Curran and Ravindra Jadeja; it seems much like a movie plot than […]
Once, ODI bilateral series played second fiddle to the rest of the International Calendar; now, in our week-long run-up to the start of this week’s series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, they are an unspoken audition for spots in the 2027 Cricket World Cup. Both teams are clearly in an uncertain position when it comes […]
Every coach talks about “man management.” But for Gautam Gambhir, it’s less about management and more about emotional surgery, telling players like Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav they’re too good to play. Sounds cruel? Maybe. But in modern Indian cricket, where talent overflows and burnout lurks in every schedule, Gambhir’s honesty-first approach might just be […]
Every Ranji season offers a couple of hundreds, a gritty five-for, maybe a cameo to spice things up. But this week? This week felt like the domestic equivalent of a Marvel crossover event everyone suddenly developed superpowers. We’re talking Paras Dogra hitting his 34th first-class hundred (yes, he’s basically a secret national treasure now), Meghalaya’s […]
Indian Test cricket has never backed down from making its bold selections understood, but now and again the team comes across a problem so delicious as to seem positively unfair on the opposition. The South Africa series, which is the first home workload of the 2025-27 World Test Championship householders, is one of those occasions. […]
Every WPL off-season has its drama, but UP Warriorz didn’t just pull a plot twist; they detonated the script. When the release list dropped, Warriorz fans collectively stared at it like a math paper they didn’t study for. Sophie Ecclestone? Gone. Kiran Navgire, fresh off three hundreds in four domestic innings? Gone. Even players who […]