Every IPL auction comes with its own plot twist, but the 2026 mini auction has a particularly spicy undercurrent: teams are desperate for overseas batting. Not just any batting proven, pressure-resistant, end-of-over ice and powerplay clarity. With 350 players listed, including 110 overseas names, franchises are looking for that rare mix of reliability and explosiveness […]
Every IPL auction comes with its own plot twist, but the 2026 mini auction has a particularly spicy undercurrent: teams are desperate for overseas batting. Not just any batting proven, pressure-resistant, end-of-over ice and powerplay clarity. With 350 players listed, including 110 overseas names, franchises are looking for that rare mix of reliability and explosiveness […]
The IPL auction is many things: chaotic, cut-throat, occasionally illogical, but it has never lacked Caribbean flavour. Yet the 2026 mini-auction brings a twist worthy of a cricket thriller: four West Indies stars, all priced at the top bracket of ₹2 crore, re-enter the ring after going completely unsold last year. Akeal Hosein, Jason Holder, […]
Each time Suryakumar Yadav steps onto the field to bat, one consistent response can be seen throughout the crowds of India: hope/anticipation/excitement that he will fix it! But as of late, this spark has started to dim. After just five runs when he came to the middle at Mullanpur, Surya was dismissed. He had nicked […]
Cricket has never been a cheap passion. Fans have long complained that major ICC events feel like luxury festivals disguised as tournaments, the kind where you need a credit card, a three-month savings plan, and divine help just to get into the stands. But the 2026 T20 World Cup, hosted jointly by India and Sri […]
Every fast bowler remembers the moment they first saw the perfect ball. For Shaheen Shah Afridi, that moment came in 2015, not in a net session in Khyber Agency, not in a Pakistan camp, but from thousands of kilometres away as Mitchell Starc tore through the World Cup on Australian soil. At just 16, touring […]
Sometimes cricket will create a performance that is more than great; it is symbolic as well. When Hardik Pandya returned to international play for India at Cuttack, he didn’t hit a score; he made a statement (or rather a declaration). With concerns over his fitness, timing and ability to be reliable for the long haul […]
Occasionally, international cricket presents us with an individual’s performance that will feel both very similar to something we have seen before yet also somehow missed or overlooked, and Arshdeep Singh’s Cuttack cutters are the perfect example of this. Arshdeep started with a two-ball duck for Quinton de Kock, then, after scrambling to get into position, […]
Every Ashes tour begins with a myth: England will arrive, full of optimism and fresh theories, and this time this time they’ll crack the Australian code. But two Tests into the latest series, the old ghost has returned wearing a fresh blazer: the mental frailty of the visiting side. It’s almost poetic that the clearest […]
Two weeks ago, South Africa were the feel-good headline of world cricket, a historic Test series win in India for the first time in a quarter century and a record 359 chase in Raipur that felt like cricketing gentrification: the perennial tourists suddenly behaving like seasoned landlords. And then the switch flipped. Violently. In […]
Every mini-auction has this warning: “Don’t get your hopes up for fireworks.” However, every single time you have an all-rounder walk in and swing a figurative sledgehammer to destroy the firework notion into confetti. Look at what happened to Sam Curran (₹18.5 crore, 2023), or Chris Morris (₹16.25 crore, 2021), two of many examples of […]
Cricket rarely gives you symmetry, but it loves a haunting image. For David Miller, that image was a heartbreak freeze-frame: eyes glazed, shoulders slumped, leaning into his wife Camilla as Cape Town and the cricket world watched South Africa lose a T20 World Cup final by seven runs. One shot. Six needed. A wide full […]