Nobody expected Shreyas Iyer to be named India T20I captain on June 6. He hadn’t played a T20I since December 2023. Suryakumar Yadav had just led India to a second consecutive World Cup title. The case for change was hard to construct from the outside. But chief selector Ajit Agarkar didn’t pick Iyer because he […]
Nobody expected Shreyas Iyer to be named India T20I captain on June 6. He hadn’t played a T20I since December 2023. Suryakumar Yadav had just led India to a second consecutive World Cup title. The case for change was hard to construct from the outside. But chief selector Ajit Agarkar didn’t pick Iyer because he […]
India selected Manav Suthar, knowing he had never bowled a ball in Test cricket. Three days later, his 7/62 had powered them to an innings and 300-run win, the largest margin of victory in India’s Test history. The 24-year-old left-arm spinner from Rajasthan was not even guaranteed to play until the morning of Day 1, […]
India’s selectors made two decisions about Suryakumar Yadav in the same announcement. One of them is correct. The other is a structural mistake that will cost India at precisely the wrong moment, when they need a settled middle order for the 2028 T20 World Cup cycle. The problem is that both decisions have been bundled […]
Ollie Robinson hadn’t played a Test in two and a half years. Gus Atkinson was playing his third home Test at Lord’s. Together, they reduced two New Zealand lineups to rubble, bowled a match in 996 balls, and produced the second shortest completed Test at Lord‘s in 150 Tests at the ground. The records that […]
No Bangladesh captain had ever won a bilateral T20I series away from home. Not once, against any Full Member opposition, in any year. Litton Das did it twice in eight months. A 3-0 sweep of West Indies in December 2024 and a 2-1 comeback win in Sri Lanka in July 2025 rewrote the record books […]
Prince Yadav took 16 wickets in IPL 2026 at an economy of 8.08, leading LSG’s attack in a team that finished tenth. A year earlier, he had three wickets at 9.85. Same bowler, same pace, different method, and the difference between those two seasons is the clearest argument any young Indian fast bowler has made […]
Rahmat Shah averages 46.19 in Test cricket, has three centuries and five fifties, and is 30 runs from becoming the first Afghan batter to reach 1,000 Test runs. It has taken eight years and eleven matches. At a normal Test frequency, he’d have reached that milestone before turning 25. The number that defines his career […]
England has already run the experiment and recorded the result. Back-to-back 2-1 T20I series wins against New Zealand and India, six matches, zero overs from Nat Sciver-Brunt, two series victories. A calf tear in late April removed her bowling entirely from England’s preparation window. What it also did was force a clearer picture of what […]
The selection conversation after IPL 2026 has centred on the exciting names, Sooryavanshi, Patidar, and Prince Yadav. A quieter argument deserves equal attention. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, at 36, is the most conditions-specific bowling asset India has for the England T20I series. His IPL 2026 season was not just impressive relative to his age; it was the […]
When Cricket Australia appointed Sophie Molineux as Alyssa Healy’s all-format successor in January 2026, the headline obscured the more consequential decision beneath it. Gardner was elevated to co-vice-captain alongside Tahlia McGrath, a first for a player who had been one of three candidates interviewed for the captaincy itself. That structural change puts Australia’s most decisive […]
In February 2024, the BCCI made one of its most public statements of authority, and Shreyas Iyer lost his central contract. Twenty-eight months later, in June 2026, he was handed the India T20I captaincy. Between those two dates lies one of Indian cricket’s most compelling comeback stories, mapped by IPL dominance, Champions Trophy heroics, and […]