India’s 2017 sweep worked because of three overlapping ideas: bat first past 450, let spin carry the workload across three different angles, and never let Sri Lanka settle into one method of survival. Those principles still hold true, even though most of the players who executed them are gone. Ashwin retired in December 2024, Pujara […]
India’s 2017 sweep worked because of three overlapping ideas: bat first past 450, let spin carry the workload across three different angles, and never let Sri Lanka settle into one method of survival. Those principles still hold true, even though most of the players who executed them are gone. Ashwin retired in December 2024, Pujara […]
Mayank hunts wickets with raw pace. Bumrah has spent a career proving that control wins more matches than speed ever will. The numbers back that up directly: Mayank’s wickets have cost more runs per over than Bumrah paid even in his earliest seasons, and the gap says more about method than talent. Here is what […]
Easwaran carries a century’s worth of first-class cricket over Sooryavanshi, literally: 100-plus matches and a 48.44 average against eight matches and 17.25. Yet East Zone handed the thinner résumé the vice-captaincy for this Duleep Trophy. The gap on paper isn’t close, and pundits like Harsha Bhogle have said so in public. Sooryavanshi’s talent was never […]
Masood kept batting after Jayden Seales broke his index finger, then finished the innings on 109. That decision to carry on ultimately cost him the rest of this series entirely. The century itself was routine by his own standards, his seventh in Tests and his second in as many matches. What wasn’t routine was doing […]
A senior BCCI official confirmed on July 31 that Bumrah has recovered from his impact injury and cleared every fitness test the COE mandated, with both Sri Lanka Tests now firmly in his sights. That’s the reassuring part of the story. What the headline conveniently skips is what clearance actually required him to prove physically, […]
There is no known precedent for a 15-year-old holding a zonal vice-captaincy in Indian domestic cricket, and selectors buried that fact inside a routine squad announcement. Ishan Kishan was named captain for the Duleep Trophy 2026-27, and the deputy slot went to a batter with just eight first-class matches to his name. Mohammed Shami and […]
Root needs 1,921 more runs to pass Tendulkar’s 15,921 as Test cricket’s all-time leading run-scorer, and the answer to how long that takes depends entirely on which version of his batting shows up. At his post-2022 form, the gap closes inside 23 matches. At his full career rate, it takes 38. Everyone covering this story […]
At the same 61-Test mark, the gap between them is startlingly small: just 0.059 of a ratio point. That number undercuts most of what gets said about this comparison, since Kallis is usually treated as untouchable and Jadeja as merely useful by comparison. A widely repeated claim in 2025 said Jadeja had broken Kallis’ all-time […]
Merit shows up in a spreadsheet before it shows up in a story. Saransh Jain earned his maiden Test call-up at 33 not because his father once bowled for Madhya Pradesh, but because eleven domestic seasons produced 188 first-class wickets at 27.30 and 2,223 runs at 31.75. Fifty-four matches without a franchise bid built a […]
Ajinkya Rahane’s 112 at the MCG outweighs every other innings in his career because of the stakes riding on it, not the shot-making. He retired from international cricket on July 30, 2026, after an 85-Test career built on twelve centuries, yet only one of them gets mentioned when people sum up his story. That knock […]
West Indies’ pace attack was ruthless, bowling Pakistan out for 120 to seal a 90-run win at Tarouba on July 28, 2026. Every wicket in the match fell to fast bowlers, a first for a Caribbean Test and only the sixth in history. Jayden Seales sealed the chase with 5 for 20, his fourth Test […]