BCCI has never faced this much organised pushback on the Impact Player rule before. A franchise feedback window has closed, a formal review is underway, and the same substitute rule already disappeared from India’s domestic T20 competition months ago. Sachin Tendulkar used cricket’s biggest stage to call for it to go, and a majority of […]
BCCI has never faced this much organised pushback on the Impact Player rule before. A franchise feedback window has closed, a formal review is underway, and the same substitute rule already disappeared from India’s domestic T20 competition months ago. Sachin Tendulkar used cricket’s biggest stage to call for it to go, and a majority of […]
Shahid Afridi didn’t hold back. Pakistan’s wholesale Edgbaston overhaul, seven players axed, two coaches gone, five uncapped debutants summoned, drew the sharpest public criticism the PCB has faced from a legend in years. The trigger was brutal: an innings-and-103 defeat at Headingley followed by a 194-run loss at Lord’s, with the tourists bowled out for […]
After 168 Tests, Joe Root sits within touching distance of the most famous number in cricket. Sachin Tendulkar retired with 15,921 Test runs, a mark nobody has ever got genuinely close to threatening. Root has. The volume is already there and the gap keeps shrinking with every fresh century. What matters now isn’t whether he […]
Smriti Mandhana passed Suzie Bates on August 30, 2026, during India’s Women’s Asia Cup opener against Thailand in Dubai, scoring 19 runs to become the second-highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket history. She now sits on exactly 10,756 career runs, just 112 short of Mithali Raj’s long-standing all-time mark of 10,868 runs. That gap has […]
Two separate India squads take the field on the very same days this September and October, and selectors have already picked both groups in full. The BCCI is sending a full-strength T20 side to the Asian Games in Japan while a second group hosts West Indies for three ODIs at home, and the two campaigns […]
England must hold a top-8 spot in the ICC Men’s ODI rankings by March 31, 2027 to reach the World Cup in South Africa automatically. West Indies sit three places below them right now, and the ratings gap between the two sides is thinner than the table itself suggests. Harry Brook’s rebuild since the 2025 […]
It isn’t the batting order or the captaincy record. Three failed campaigns in 2026, against South Africa, England, and at the T20 World Cup, all collapsed in the same passage of play: the closing five overs with the ball in hand. India conceded more runs per over at the death than any semi-finalist at the […]
It means England’s seam-friendly pitches wasn’t only shaped by conditions, but potentially by the ball manufacturer too. Root was dismissed lbw in all three of his innings against Pakistan, and he believes a firmer, heavily lacquered seam is behind it, denting pitches and holding shape longer than in previous years. He isn’t alone: Ben Duckett […]
Nortje’s answer starts with his hands, not his fitness. An injury ended his IPL 2026 stint with Lucknow Super Giants after one match, but he returned in Europe with a modified grip, thumb pointing upward and seam tilted to the side, built to reduce arm rotation through release. The early results back it up. In […]
Shubman Gill has turned almost every fifty into a hundred this WTC cycle, converting at 83 percent while the rest of India’s top order struggles to clear even a third of that mark. Run totals get the headlines, but conversion rate is the number that actually separates a batter cashing in from one merely getting […]
Yash Thakur’s route to an India T20I cap ran through Nagpur, not Mumbai or Bangalore, built on years of unglamorous death-overs wickets in domestic cricket rather than a single viral IPL spell. The 27-year-old Vidarbha pacer has picked one target to measure himself against: Jasprit Bumrah. Nothing about his rise looks like a shortcut. It […]