Bazball’s 27-20 Test record looks like proof a revolution paid off, and in raw terms it did: a win rate that jumped from 39.2 percent to 55.1 percent under Brendon McCullum. But split that record by opponent and the story changes fast. Against Australia and India, the two teams every era gets judged against, England’s […]
Bazball’s 27-20 Test record looks like proof a revolution paid off, and in raw terms it did: a win rate that jumped from 39.2 percent to 55.1 percent under Brendon McCullum. But split that record by opponent and the story changes fast. Against Australia and India, the two teams every era gets judged against, England’s […]
Buttler’s 131 wasn’t a freak occurrence; it was the third time in a decade India’s attack has conceded a genuinely era-defining individual innings, following Shane Watson’s century in 2016 and Evin Lewis’s unbeaten 125 in 2017. Southampton simply added a sharper edge: five bowlers combined to concede 219 runs without taking more than a couple […]
Buttler’s 131 against India didn’t just break a record; it pulled him within nineteen runs of Rohit Sharma’s career T20I total, a gap that looked unbridgeable a fortnight ago. He still trails on centuries, three fewer, and needed forty extra matches just to reach the tally Rohit retired with. The strike rate race, though, already […]
Rana edges it on raw average pace, but Starc’s attack wins the argument as a unit. That’s the split verdict once you strip away the headline number. Rana’s 140.93 km/h average in 2024 Tests beat Starc’s 140.14 km/h by less than a kilometre an hour, practically identical territory. What separates the sides isn’t the frontline […]
Miraz has one series left to prove his ODI captaincy deserves to survive past the deadline nobody has publicly named. Bangladesh’s ranking, not results in isolation, will decide it. A 12-month mandate handed down in June 2025 has already expired without comment from the board, and the only number that matters now sits on a […]
Buttler and Brook didn’t just win a match; they rewrote England’s record book in 103 balls. Batting together at The Rose Bowl after Phil Salt fell in the second over, the pair added 233 for the second wicket, the highest partnership for any wicket in England’s T20I history by 51 runs. Buttler reached a century […]
India have suffered four of their five heaviest-ever T20I defeats by runs inside a single seven-month stretch, running from a South Africa loss in Chandigarh last December to a record 125-run collapse against England at Trent Bridge this month. Three different oppositions have exposed the same top-order fragility against genuine pace and spin. Suryakumar Yadav […]
Two Pakistani players in the Melbourne Renegades squad might not be allowed to play the Big Bash League’s first-ever match on Indian soil this December, because neither Cricket Australia nor the BCCI has ruled on whether they can even enter the country. Mohammad Rizwan and Hassan Khan face the same visa barriers that have kept […]
Brook’s aggressive default and his calm under pressure are the two traits built for Test cricket, since Bazball already runs on exactly that mindset. What won’t transfer automatically is the five-day patience Test captaincy demands, things like declarations, protecting a bowler across a fourth-innings spell, and reading a pitch on day four. Brook has never […]
Two bowlers going down in the same match is unlucky. It becomes something bigger when a batting lineup already struggling to chase has no reserve capable of covering the gap. Harshit Rana and Varun Chakaravarthy both tore hamstrings in the same match at Trent Bridge, and within 48 hours India had lost their fourth straight […]
India have lost back-to-back T20I series, including their heaviest defeat by runs in the format’s history, and the alarm has landed on one gap: a right-handed batter who can survive the new ball in seaming conditions. That gap has a name attached to it. Rahul has not played a T20I since the 2022 World Cup […]