Axar Patel and Arshdeep Singh weren’t dropped for Zimbabwe; they were protected. Both remain in India’s ODI squad against England, a series that runs until July 19, just four days before the first Zimbabwe T20I on July 23. Sending India’s two most important white-ball bowlers through a third consecutive assignment in under a month made […]
Axar Patel and Arshdeep Singh weren’t dropped for Zimbabwe; they were protected. Both remain in India’s ODI squad against England, a series that runs until July 19, just four days before the first Zimbabwe T20I on July 23. Sending India’s two most important white-ball bowlers through a third consecutive assignment in under a month made […]
Samson’s slump is loud and easy to see. Varma’s problem is quieter and much harder to fix: across 13 T20Is in 2026, he has hit just 14 sixes, and his strike rate against off-spin has fallen to roughly 116, well below what India needs from a No. 5 tasked with accelerating once pace is withdrawn. […]
Smriti Mandhana’s ranking held at 5th because the ICC system doesn’t just count runs, it weighs them against opposition, result, and match stage. Her two biggest scores, 68 against Pakistan and 74 against the Netherlands, came in wins over the tournament’s weaker sides. Against South Africa and Australia, the matches that decided India’s fate, she […]
Samson was the Player of the Tournament at a World Cup India won on home soil three months ago. He lost his T20I spot after three low scores, replaced by a 15-year-old whose entire senior résumé outside the IPL is one innings. That gap between reputation and readiness is the real story here. A debut […]
Stokes ended a 15-year England career by telling teammates in the dressing room before Day 4 began, then letting the ECB announce it to the world mid-session, without ceremony. That’s the culture cricket has built: legends leaving through whatever door happens to be open when the moment arrives, rather than one the sport chooses for […]
Six months before lifting the trophy, Molineux was sidelined by a back injury just three matches into her captaincy, with Australia still chasing a first ICC title in years. She returned to lead the most dominant unbeaten campaign in Women’s T20 World Cup history, finishing as the tournament’s joint-leading wicket-taker among captains. It happened across […]
Since winning the T20 World Cup in Ahmedabad in March, India have lost all three completed T20Is they have played, two to Ireland and one to England, all without Jasprit Bumrah managing away from bilateral cricket. Nowhere has the strain shown more than in the death overs, where Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakravarthy have been […]
Ravi Bishnoi’s 17th over at Old Trafford cost 29 runs and included three back-foot no-balls across the match, the kind of execution fault that turned a tight run chase into a comfortable four-wicket England win. That single over reopened a question that predates the match itself: why India trusted an out-of-favour bowler with an uncertain […]
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is now the youngest player to represent India in international cricket, and the youngest male T20I debutant among full ICC members. Records like that invite an obvious follow-up question, because youngest-ever debuts have produced wildly different careers before. Hasan Raza’s early promise dissolved into obscurity. Aaqib Javed built a decade-long career and a […]
Bangladesh will be without Litton Das for Sunday’s series opener in Harare, a Grade I calf strain that has ruled him out with almost no chance of playing, according to the team’s own physio. That single absence reshapes the top of Bangladesh’s order, while Zimbabwe hand first-time ODI captaincy to Richard Ngarava as they field […]
Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have met 81 times in ODIs, and Bangladesh have won 51 of them, including 18 in a row before the two sides last met in 2022. That history frames Sunday’s series opener at Harare Sports Club, but two individual match-ups sit underneath it: Innocent Kaia’s rediscovered form with the bat, and Nahid […]