Five zonal captaincy appointments rarely make headlines, but this year’s list reads like a shortlist for who leads India in Tests once Shubman Gill’s cycle ends. Ruturaj Gaikwad gets West Zone, Rajat Patidar leads Central, and three other players in their prime carry zones into the 63rd edition. BCCI has historically used this tournament to […]
Five zonal captaincy appointments rarely make headlines, but this year’s list reads like a shortlist for who leads India in Tests once Shubman Gill’s cycle ends. Ruturaj Gaikwad gets West Zone, Rajat Patidar leads Central, and three other players in their prime carry zones into the 63rd edition. BCCI has historically used this tournament to […]
Sam Curran, Will Jacks and Trent Boult are the three Hundred stars from Reliance’s London franchise most likely to shape Mumbai’s next auction plans, each for a different reason. Curran gives Mumbai the seam-bowling all-rounder profile it has chased for years, Jacks is already inside the fold from last year’s mega auction, and Boult remains […]
Jurel gets the nod, and it is not particularly close once you factor in personnel. India’s 15-player Sri Lanka squad, announced July 28, gives selectors a like-for-like alternative in Jurel that Padikkal cannot offer: wicketkeeping cover for Pant plus a substantial middle-order bat. Harsha Bhogle’s preferred Galle XI, floated ahead of the July 30 opener, […]
Mushfiqur is about to do something no Bangladesh cricketer of his generation has managed: play a Test on Australian soil. The BCB confirmed on July 27 that none of the 15 players picked for this tour has ever featured in a Test there. He debuted in 2005, played across England, South Africa, the West Indies […]
Nair’s case starts with a gap: South Zone’s Test regulars are all unavailable, leaving someone to open against a genuine attack. He gets that chance from August 30, when South Zone begin at the semifinal stage, skipping the group phase as last season’s runners-up. Nine years after his one true peak in an India shirt, […]
He’s a 16-year-old from Sydney grade cricket who just became one of the most talked-about names in Cricket Australia’s under-19 setup. Neel Patel earned his spot through raw volume, becoming one of the youngest players ever to pass 1,000 runs in a single Sydney Premier Cricket First Grade season. That performance was enough for the […]
On raw output, Mandhana is well clear: 143 runs in four innings to Jemimah Rodrigues’s 118 in five for The Hundred Women’s 2026. But team context flips part of that story, since Rodrigues plays for the competition’s unbeaten leaders while Mandhana’s side sits in more modest company. One is outscoring everyone in a mid-table shirt, […]
Nobody has ever defended a TNPL title, and Tiruppur Tamizhans open their defence against the exact team they beat in last year’s final. That rematch alone tells you where the tenth edition’s centre of gravity sits from day one. Their maiden title came by the largest winning margin any TNPL final has produced, built on […]
BCCI split the season because a block left players no recovery time and pushed first-class cricket into the harshest weeks of the northern winter. The 2026-27 domestic calendar carries 1,788 matches across age groups and formats, opening with the Duleep Trophy on August 23 and closing with the Ranji final on March 3. Between the […]
Only one MI London team is actually struggling, and the other one is quietly having a strong Hundred campaign. The men sit third after three matches, two wins from three, including a last-ball chase against Southern Brave. The women are bottom of the table, no wins from three, a run of defeats that keeps getting […]
A 15-player cap and a six-team draw make Olympic selection tighter than almost anything the BCCI has ever handled before. Expect a squad built around white-ball specialists rather than household names, since several of India’s biggest stars have already stepped away entirely from the format cricket will actually play at the Games. The names left […]