None of the players who led India in 2023 are even in the 2026 squad. Jasprit Bumrah captained the three-match August 2023 T20I series in Dublin while Ruturaj Gaikwad served as his deputy, but neither is on the plane this time. Shreyas Iyer takes the captaincy for 2026, Axar Patel goes in as vice-captain, and […]
None of the players who led India in 2023 are even in the 2026 squad. Jasprit Bumrah captained the three-match August 2023 T20I series in Dublin while Ruturaj Gaikwad served as his deputy, but neither is on the plane this time. Shreyas Iyer takes the captaincy for 2026, Axar Patel goes in as vice-captain, and […]
Three teams on 4 points, one semi-final spot, and a net run rate gap that changes shape every time a wicket falls. Group A has been running on razor-thin margins since the start, and with four matches left, South Africa and Bangladesh aren’t just chasing a result. They’re chasing a number. The maths is unforgiving, […]
Australia lost its first-choice No.3 in the opening match and hasn’t missed a beat. Phoebe Litchfield’s quad injury against South Africa forced a reshuffle that handed Perry a new role in the batting order for three consecutive fixtures. She scored 71 off 48 against Pakistan, took 2/9 with the ball in the same match, and […]
England have already secured the first Group 2 semi-final spot, making the second place the real story of the tournament’s final triple-header day. West Indies need one win against the group’s only winless side to book it. Ireland won the toss, chose to bowl, held West Indies to 128 for 7, and are now in […]
A trade built around two underperforming all-rounders can sound like two teams swapping problems rather than solving them. This one is more specific than that. Both the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders had wretched 2026 seasons, and the deal that keeps resurfacing in reports addresses what actually went wrong for each of them. […]
A debut defeat is not a verdict on a captaincy, and India’s own recent history makes that case more clearly than any single result could. The four men who have led India in T20Is over the last nine years produced wildly different outcomes, and the result of their first match predicted almost none of them. […]
Hardik Pandya has not been traded to the Kolkata Knight Riders yet, but the talks are real. Multiple rounds of discussions between KKR and the Mumbai Indians have taken place, with the Rajasthan Royals also in the running and reportedly offering Yashasvi Jaiswal as part of a competing bid. No deal has been confirmed by […]
When Sanju Samson moved from Rajasthan Royals to Chennai Super Kings in November 2025 for Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran, both sides called it a balanced exchange. One full season later, the gap between what each franchise received makes that claim difficult to defend. Samson produced his best IPL season for CSK, won Player of […]
Group 1 of the Women’s T20 World Cup reaches its final afternoon on June 28 at Lord’s, with India, South Africa, and Bangladesh all able to influence each other’s fates. Australia is already through. Behind them, India and South Africa sit level on six points, and the number that separates them has nothing to do […]
India’s new T20I era opens in Belfast on Friday with Shreyas Iyer as captain, Suryakumar Yadav dropped entirely, and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the squad for the first time. The BCCI’s case for Iyer isn’t built on sentiment or on a rotation policy that needed a fresh name. It rests on something more specific: a […]
Australia has not had to replace Alyssa Healy’s results at the top of the order in this tournament, just her method. Georgia Voll has stepped into the opening slot with a calmer, more ground-based game that still scores at nearly 140. The approach is different. The problems she creates for bowlers are not easier to […]