Twenty-four sixes in five matches. Eighty-nine runs in a World Cup final off 46 balls. Three consecutive scores above 80 in the knockout stage. Three hundred and twenty-one runs at a strike rate close to 200, two more than Virat Kohli’s record that stood for twelve years. Sanju Samson didn’t just have a good tournament […]
Twenty-four sixes in five matches. Eighty-nine runs in a World Cup final off 46 balls. Three consecutive scores above 80 in the knockout stage. Three hundred and twenty-one runs at a strike rate close to 200, two more than Virat Kohli’s record that stood for twelve years. Sanju Samson didn’t just have a good tournament […]
Sanju Samson won Player of the Tournament with 321 runs in five innings at a strike rate close to 200. Will Jacks took nine wickets and scored 226 runs at a strike rate above 176, winning four Player of the Match awards in one tournament. Jasprit Bumrah took 4 for 15 in the final. Those […]
Annabel Sutherland scored 129 and took 6 for 61 from 23 overs. In a five-day Test that lasted three days, those two numbers explained almost everything. Australia defeated India by ten wickets at the WACA, completing a result that was comfortable from the moment Sutherland began her first-innings century and never stopped being comfortable after […]
Before Sanju Samson opened the batting, India had the lowest scoring rate among full-member teams in the first ten overs against spin, 6.95 runs per over. After the batting order change that brought Samson to the top and moved Ishan Kishan to number three, that number rose to 8.64. That single tactical adjustment, quietly made […]
Bangladesh missed the T20 World Cup. The squad that returns to international cricket against Pakistan does so knowing that the next major target, the 2027 ODI World Cup, requires a completely different approach to the fifty-over format. This series isn’t a routine bilateral. It’s the first real test of whether Bangladesh’s ODI rebuild has a […]
Seven for 25 from 11 overs. Northern Districts all out for 82. Central Districts ahead by 291 runs. Those numbers tell you a match was won. They don’t tell you about the five deliveries in the middle of it that made cricket history. Brett Randell dismissed five batters in five consecutive balls in Napier, a […]
India were 92 without loss at the end of the powerplay. That number tells you everything about how the T20WC 2026 Final began. Abhishek Sharma walked out to open the batting against New Zealand at Narendra Modi Stadium and immediately made the match about one question: how many, not whether. His 52 off 21 balls, […]
Finn Allen hit a century off 33 balls in the semi-final. Mitchell Santner has kept India’s middle order quiet in T20 internationals for years. Glenn Phillips can end a match in four overs with bat, ball, or a single throw from the boundary. New Zealand’s route to beating India in the final runs directly through […]
Mitchell Santner didn’t come to Ahmedabad to be polite about it. Asked about facing India in the T20WC Final on their home soil, in front of 100,000 people, the New Zealand captain said he wouldn’t mind breaking a few hearts to win the trophy. That’s not bulletin-board material; that’s a captain telling you exactly how […]
India’s batting order has a pattern that New Zealand’s coaching staff will have mapped in detail. Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, and Shivam Dube are four left-handers who could all bat in the top six. Offspin turns away from every one of them. Cole McConchie gives Mitchell Santner a weapon that doesn’t need to […]