Kusal Mendis finished 2024 as the highest ODI run-scorer globally, 742 runs at 53.0 in 17 matches. Charith Asalanka finished his T20I captaincy averaging 16.44 with the bat across 21 innings. Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to hand Kusal Mendis the Sri Lanka captain of the West Indies duties isn’t a gamble; it’s the most […]
Kusal Mendis finished 2024 as the highest ODI run-scorer globally, 742 runs at 53.0 in 17 matches. Charith Asalanka finished his T20I captaincy averaging 16.44 with the bat across 21 innings. Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to hand Kusal Mendis the Sri Lanka captain of the West Indies duties isn’t a gamble; it’s the most […]
Add Your Heading Text Here Marsh’s ankle injury, confirmed by Cricket Australia on May 26, 2026, is his sixth significant setback since 2021. It rules him out of the Pakistan ODI series and leaves Bangladesh undecided. The question inside CA isn’t whether he can lead a series anymore, it’s whether a player this frequently unavailable […]
Spinners aren’t having a rough patch; they’re being structurally removed. Just 32.48% of balls in IPL 2026 have been bowled by spinners after 34 matches, the fourth-lowest share at that stage in tournament history, down 21.15% from the same point last season. The batting environment driving that shift is the most aggressive the IPL has […]
The 36-ball hundred and the ten sixes are the part everyone remembers. What sits underneath is more important: a strike rate of 232.27 across 251 balls and 14 innings, the highest Smart Stats Impact rating of any batter in the tournament, and a psychological grip on opposition bowling attacks that no 15-year-old has any business […]
The answer is simpler than sixteen years of near-misses would suggest: they stopped trying to outscore their bowling problems and started solving them. At the 2025 mega auction, RCB quietly assembled a seam unit with defined roles, proven operators, and structural depth across all three phases. The results, first team to qualify for the 2026 […]
Kuldeep has been through IPL slumps before and came out the other side. The KKR collapse had a clean second act: move to Delhi Capitals, take 21 wickets, rebuild completely. IPL 2026 was worse than anything from that KKR era , and the escape routes that saved him once aren’t available anymore. He’s 32, batters […]
Six IPL seasons. One franchise change. Six actual matches. Arjun Tendulkar’s debut for Lucknow Super Giants came in the final league game of a last-placed team, a dead rubber against Punjab Kings, with LSG already eliminated and nothing riding on the result. He bowled his four overs, took a wicket, and conceded 36 runs. The […]
Every time Pant has worn the armband in the IPL, his runs have dried up. It’s happened with Delhi Capitals across three seasons. It happened again at Lucknow Super Giants. In IPL 2026, he managed 312 runs in 14 matches at an average of 28.36 a fraction of what he produces when batting without the […]
Chasing 221 against LSG on May 19 was not just a must-win match for Rajasthan Royals; it was a statement of intent heading into the final week of the IPL 2026 league stage. Sooryavanshi’s 93 off 38 balls settled it. RR moved to 14 points, climbed to fourth, and took their playoff destiny entirely into […]
Bangladesh’s 2-0 sweep of Pakistan in May 2026 wasn’t built on helpful pitches or a weak opponent. It was built on a bowling unit that is now structurally different from anything this team has produced before, express pace above 150 km/h, the most consistent spin duo in their Test history, and a senior seamer providing […]
Fifty-three sixes. Thirteen innings. A 15-year-old averaged 4.08 maximums per game in a tournament where the previous record stood for 14 years. Sooryavanshi needs seven more to pass Chris Gayle’s 59 from IPL 2012, a mark that survived Russell, Buttler, and an entire generation of power-hitters built to break it. RR has up to three […]