Two names, and only two, have run this setup for years, and Mithali Raj says that gap should embarrass everyone involved in selection. Speaking to PTI on July 16, the former captain argued the senior job should have changed hands two or three years ago already. Her real complaint sits one level below that, though, […]
Two names, and only two, have run this setup for years, and Mithali Raj says that gap should embarrass everyone involved in selection. Speaking to PTI on July 16, the former captain argued the senior job should have changed hands two or three years ago already. Her real complaint sits one level below that, though, […]
Virat Kohli is precisely one big innings away. His run through England’s bowling attack has pulled him level with Viv Richards on fourteen fifty-plus ODI scores against the same opposition, and one more score at Lord’s would send him clear of that mark entirely. He reached the number on Thursday at Sophia Gardens, batting through […]
Three centuries fell in the same T20 match for the first time ever on July 15 at Oakland Coliseum, and two of them grabbed every headline going. Nicholas Pooran’s 31-ball hundred and Steve Smith’s unbeaten 110 dominated the recaps, while the third, Andries Gous’s 132 off 51 balls, carried a different kind of weight entirely: […]
Sri Lanka’s franchise league opened its sixth season with five hundred drones lighting up the sky at a venue it had never used before, and the spectacle answers less than it appears to. Two of the tournament’s five teams had no confirmed owner as recently as May, the fallout from two terminations for unpaid contractual […]
A photograph answers it best: an eight-year-old boy standing between Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie outside a Darwin cricket centre in 2003. That boy is now the most likely opener to walk out for Australia when the Baggy Green returns to Marrara Stadium this August, against the same opponent, Bangladesh, that Australia beat on that […]
Luvnith Sisodia was the better buy, and it isn’t close. He cost less than half of Karun Nair’s price and still outscored him by nearly a hundred runs, then lifted the trophy Nair never got near. Nair arrived as the headline signing, a national name captaining the defending champions. Sisodia arrived from the domestic pool […]
India won this one from the bottom of the card up. Axar Patel and Washington Sundar put together an unbroken 102-run stand while Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli managed just 16 runs between them inside the first ten overs. Shubman Gill’s 80 kept the chase alive before a hamstring injury forced him off, and three […]
Root’s ODI numbers since the start of 2024 read better than Kohli’s entire career average, and Edgbaston did nothing to change that picture. Root made 76 not out in a losing cause. Kohli lasted five balls for five runs in a winning one, his first innings back from injury in roughly six months. The career […]
Samit Dravid just delivered the rarest kind of season: real batting output paired with genuine wicket-taking form, not just a famous surname carrying the headlines. Ten innings for Bengaluru Blasters brought 191 runs, then eleven bowling spells produced 14 wickets at an average under twenty-five. That combination is exactly what franchise recruiters hunt for when […]
Because Kohli and Rohit no longer have another format to fall back on, and India’s team management is now asking them to sit out ODIs anyway. Gautam Gambhir’s coaching staff wants a structured rest plan through bilateral series before the 2027 World Cup, giving fringe players real game time without ever dropping the senior trio […]
Kohli needs one big innings. Rohit needs a three-match heist. Both stand a genuine chance of erasing Rahul Dravid’s all-time bilateral ODI runs mark for an Indian batter in England, a tally that has stood since 2011. Arriving at Edgbaston as red-ball retirees now fully focused on the fifty-over game, the pair open India’s three-match […]