India won the T20 World Cup on March 8 with the biggest margin ever recorded in a final. A hundred and ten days later, they lost their first match back, and they have not won one since. Six matches without victory, five defeats and one washout is a stretch India have never experienced in the […]
India won the T20 World Cup on March 8 with the biggest margin ever recorded in a final. A hundred and ten days later, they lost their first match back, and they have not won one since. Six matches without victory, five defeats and one washout is a stretch India have never experienced in the […]
England can end India’s reign atop the T20I rankings this weekend, and it will take just one more win to do it. A win in the 5th T20I would flip the rankings and give England the No.1 spot for the first time since India lifted back-to-back World Cups. India already trail 0-3 in this series […]
Government backing turns a routine T20 fixture into a diplomatic statement, proof that cricket now doubles as soft power between Canberra and New Delhi. When two prime ministers unveil a Big Bash match together, the game stops being just sport. The reveal came at the MCG on Friday, July 10, 2026, during PM Narendra Modi’s […]
Shreyas Iyer has won the toss in every single T20I of his captaincy and still hasn’t found a win. Five games in charge, five results without a victory: two defeats to Ireland, a washout and a defeat against England, then a 125-run humiliation at Trent Bridge. The coin has fallen his way each time, yet […]
The 2026 slide is worse, and it isn’t close once you weigh the context. Losing consecutive bilateral series happened once before, in 2018-19, but that came from a weakened squad missing four first-choice players and recovered within weeks. This time the full-strength era has ended, a fresh captain has lost his first four completed matches, […]
One bowler with an unusual angle did most of the damage. Jai Moondra, a debutant left-armer, dismissed Sanju Samson first ball in both chases and finished the series with five wickets from just two matches. His release angle, not raw pace or turn, was what India’s top order genuinely couldn’t read. Backed by George Dockrell’s […]
A first Test series win over Sri Lanka in 23 years now comes with an asterisk. West Indies were docked two points for bowling too slowly in the second Test at North Sound, a sanction confirmed by match referee Javagal Srinath on July 8. Captain Roston Chase accepted the penalty without contest, sparing his side […]
Rawal won’t play the first Women’s Test ever staged at Lord’s, and her replacement has already proven she belongs. A stitched-up knee sustained fielding for India A in Taunton has cost the opener her second Test cap, handing Priya Punia an unexpected route into the senior side. Punia arrives on the back of 171 runs […]
Because a captain who reads franchise conditions for sixteen matches a season is being asked to read Belfast, Manchester and Nottingham in real time, and the transition has broken down in full view. Four completed matches into the job, Iyer remains winless, and India have already lost a series to a team that had never […]
England are winning the pace battle because Jofra Archer and Josh Tongue bowling attack the same length from completely different angles, giving India no time to pick either threat before it’s too late. Add Sam Curran’s leg-cutter and Saqib Mahmood’s new-ball control, and India have faced four bowlers capable of ending an innings inside six […]
Because the same batting unit that won a World Cup months ago now cannot survive a fast bowler in helpful conditions, and each defeat is worse than the one before it. Bowled out for 76 at Trent Bridge and beaten by 125 runs, the heaviest margin in the format’s history for this team, India have […]