Winning is reassuring. Winning by a large margin can be dangerous because a large margin may cause some teams to feel they are finished. The 4-1 win over New Zealand in the recent T20I series is on the edge of this danger. On paper, it was extremely dominating: big totals, extreme power plays, and a […]
Winning is reassuring. Winning by a large margin can be dangerous because a large margin may cause some teams to feel they are finished. The 4-1 win over New Zealand in the recent T20I series is on the edge of this danger. On paper, it was extremely dominating: big totals, extreme power plays, and a […]
Cricket has an interesting tendency to be skeptical of the new player until that player clears the sight screen for the first time. As India approaches the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup as a team determined to become the first to successfully defend its title, one name will sit in the middle of optimism […]
Pat Cummins’s absence from a global tournament should feel like a crisis. For most teams, losing their all-format spearhead weeks before a World Cup would trigger emergency meetings and sleepless nights. Yet Australia’s reaction to Cummins being ruled out of the T20 World Cup 2026 has been almost calm. The 2024 T20 World Cup […]
Cricket loves prodigies, but it respects late bloomers. And Corbin Bosch, assembling 5,500-piece Lego fortresses while quietly assembling a Test career at 31, might be one of South Africa’s most unlikely modern success stories. When he walked out for his debut in the 2024 Boxing Day Test against Pakistan, he wasn’t just filling in for […]
For three games, India was virtually unbeatable against New Zealand. The Indians chased with clinical precision, bowled with deadly accuracy, and had a batting lineup that seemed to have all the pieces for success going forward into the future. Then there was Vizag, where an Indian loss of 50 runs to New Zealand wasn’t just […]
Every T20 World Cup has a silent monarch. Raw hitting in 2007, death-overs in 2016, spin bowling in 2026. As the tournament moves into India and Sri Lanka, the conditions are whispering an old subcontinent truth: while batters can entertain, it’s the spin bowlers who will determine the outcome of matches. The slow surfaces […]
Across nine editions of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, only a handful of spells have truly broken games, spells so ruthless that they’re still whispered about years later. While five five-fors and beyond make the official honor roll, only three performances crossed into the realm of cricketing folklore. These aren’t just spells of […]
The 2018 U-19 Cricket World Cup will produce its own quiet moment that will reshape the destiny of a country’s cricket team. For Afghanistan, that moment was created by the calmness, clarity, and timing of Faisal Khan, who scored a record 163 against Ireland in Harare, but this was more than a record; this was […]
The lead guitar player steps up to the stage at Wembley only to discover that his vintage Fender Stratocaster, the same guitar he had used to develop the lead parts of his songs for years, now sat 600 miles away in a living room. Not just a nightmare, but the real thing, Quinton de Kock […]
Although RCB began their WPL season without Ellyse Perry, a star who has captivated cricket fans worldwide, the writing was on the wall for an average to sub-par middle table finish. Although there is no way to replace an aura with another player, as long as the decision-making process is based on logic, then Nadine […]