India won the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. The psychological barrier of being unable to win an ICC title has been removed. But a structural problem persists: an over-reliance on Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur that has caused India’s batting order to collapse in every T20 World Cup knockout since 2018. England 2026 is where […]
India won the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. The psychological barrier of being unable to win an ICC title has been removed. But a structural problem persists: an over-reliance on Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur that has caused India’s batting order to collapse in every T20 World Cup knockout since 2018. England 2026 is where […]
England open the 2026 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on June 12 against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston, at home in this format for the first time since 2009. The framing writes itself: hosts, ranked second, drawn with New Zealand and the West Indies in Group 2. The problem is what the last six weeks showed. […]
Juairiya Ferdous scored 50 off 38 balls in Bangladesh’s warm-up against Ireland on June 9 in Loughborough, and Bangladesh still lost by 11 runs. The target was 144. Ferdous hit 10 boundaries at a strike rate of 131.58 and had the chase tracking comfortably. The problem was not the innings. It was everything that came […]
Hardik Pandya picked up a quadriceps strain at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru on June 10, 2026, and was immediately ruled out of India’s three-match ODI series against Afghanistan. BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed the withdrawal to the Times of India. The strain arrived while Pandya was bowling a 10-over assessment spell, not […]
The Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 has expanded to 12 teams, and the maths are unforgiving. Two groups of six, five round-robin games per side, and only the top two from each group advance. That means four teams in every group go home, a 33% advancement rate compared to 40% under the previous format. Reputation […]
India arrive as ODI world champions , Harmanpreet Kaur’s side beat South Africa by 52 runs in the November 2025 final at Navi Mumbai to claim India’s first-ever Women’s ODI World Cup title. That win has framed every Group 1 preview. But India’s T20I record in 2026 tells a different story: a 4-1 series loss […]
New Zealand’s title defence generates headlines through retirement stories: Devine, Bates, Tahuhu, three legends, one final campaign. But the absence that most threatens back-to-back titles is quieter and far more operationally specific. Eden Carson, the 24-year-old off-spinner who took nine wickets at an economy of 6.39 across six bowling innings in the 2024 title run, […]
Twelve months ago, Suryakumar Yadav averaged 65.18 in IPL 2025, won the MVP award, and carried the Mumbai Indians into the playoffs. In March 2026, he led India to back-to-back T20 World Cup glory. IPL 2026 should have been a celebration. Instead, he averaged 17.73 across 11 innings, his worst IPL return since 2017, scored […]
When the BCCI named India’s T20I squad for Ireland and England on June 6, 2026, not one RCB player made the cut, despite the franchise having just defended the IPL title, only the third side in history to do so. Their captain, Rajat Patidar, scored 813 runs across two seasons at a strike rate of […]
Bangladesh is in Group 1 of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 alongside Australia, India, and South Africa, three of the four best pace attacks in the format, with a collective batting strike rate of around 123 against a top-tier benchmark above 136. That gap has ended matches before the lower order arrives. But one […]
Every Group 1 preview lists the Netherlands as the charming debutant who qualified and will go home quietly. That reading ignores what the Dutch have actually done: beaten Bangladesh on English soil for the first time, knocked out higher-ranked Scotland in qualifying, and built a squad whose best batter has played county cricket in England […]