Finn Allen hit a century off 33 balls in the semi-final. Mitchell Santner has kept India’s middle order quiet in T20 internationals for years. Glenn Phillips can end a match in four overs with bat, ball, or a single throw from the boundary. New Zealand’s route to beating India in the final runs directly through […]
Finn Allen hit a century off 33 balls in the semi-final. Mitchell Santner has kept India’s middle order quiet in T20 internationals for years. Glenn Phillips can end a match in four overs with bat, ball, or a single throw from the boundary. New Zealand’s route to beating India in the final runs directly through […]
Mitchell Santner didn’t come to Ahmedabad to be polite about it. Asked about facing India in the T20WC Final on their home soil, in front of 100,000 people, the New Zealand captain said he wouldn’t mind breaking a few hearts to win the trophy. That’s not bulletin-board material; that’s a captain telling you exactly how […]
India’s batting order has a pattern that New Zealand’s coaching staff will have mapped in detail. Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, and Shivam Dube are four left-handers who could all bat in the top six. Offspin turns away from every one of them. Cole McConchie gives Mitchell Santner a weapon that doesn’t need to […]
Anil Kumble has seen enough ICC finals to know where matches get lost. His view before the T20WC Final is clear: give Jasprit Bumrah the new ball, target New Zealand’s openers immediately, and don’t wait until the powerplay damage is already done. It’s a direct challenge to India’s default bowling template, and given what Finn […]
India almost certainly won’t drop Varun Chakravarthy for the final. But the fact that the question is being asked at all tells you something important about how his tournament has ended. Earlier in this T20 World Cup, Chakravarthy was among the most threatening bowlers in the competition. By the semi-final, England’s batters were reading him […]
Rachin Ravindra came into this tournament known as a batter who bowls. He is leaving it as something considerably more dangerous. His 11 wickets in the T20WC have matched Daniel Vettori’s record for the most by a New Zealand spinner in a single men’s campaign, and he has done it not through mystery spin or […]
Five matches. Five different reasons a semi-final becomes unforgettable. Since the T20WC began, the last-four stage has consistently delivered the tournament’s defining moments, not always the highest scores, but always the sharpest pressure. Here are the five semifinals that stand above everything else. Why the 2026 T20 World Cup Semi-Final Tops the List […]
The highest combined match total in T20WC history is 499 runs, set at Wankhede Stadium when India and England turned a 2026 semi-final into the greatest run-fest the tournament has ever seen. That match sits at the top of a list that shows just how dramatically T20 scoring has changed since the first edition in […]
India has won every match that has mattered in this tournament. But two players have been carrying question marks into each game, Abhishek Sharma at the top of the order and Varun Chakravarthy in the middle overs. In a final against New Zealand, those question marks don’t quietly sit in the background anymore. They become […]
England needed 254 to reach the T20WC Final. Harry Brook was gone early. The required rate was climbing past 13. And then Jacob Bethell hit 105 off 48 balls. It wasn’t enough; England fell short, but for a long stretch of that chase at Wankhede Stadium, one 21-year-old made the impossible look genuinely possible against […]
He is 37. His recent numbers have raised questions. Australia is in a transition phase, and younger players are pushing for spots in the middle order. By almost every conventional measure, the conversation about this particular player’s international future should be winding down. It is not. The veteran all-rounder has confirmed he has not set […]