Cricket franchises often talk about “planning for the future,” but few actually show the patience to live by it. Sunrisers Hyderabad did exactly that with Brydon Carse retaining a player who hasn’t bowled a single ball for them in the IPL yet. On paper, it looks like misplaced faith. In reality, it might be quite […]
Cricket franchises often talk about “planning for the future,” but few actually show the patience to live by it. Sunrisers Hyderabad did exactly that with Brydon Carse retaining a player who hasn’t bowled a single ball for them in the IPL yet. On paper, it looks like misplaced faith. In reality, it might be quite […]
Every IPL auction has its oddities, but IPL 2026 quietly produced one of the strangest: Alex Carey didn’t even turn up. In a marketplace where franchises threw INR 8.6 crore at Josh Inglis despite limited availability and snapped up inexperienced wicketkeepers like Tom Banton and Jack Edwards, a seasoned international keeper-batter chose silence over the […]
For 25 years, England’s fast bowlers have flown to Australia with hope, skill, and often a sinking feeling by Boxing Day. The Ashes graveyard is littered with heroic spells that never quite earned individual immortality. From Harmison’s bounce to Anderson and Broad’s relentless excellence, no England bowler had been Player of the Match in an […]
Over ten years of England touring Australia was more of an occasion for an annual reminder of gravity than a cricket match – inevitable, unforgiving, and usually painful. From the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in January 2011 to the unforgettable Saturday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), 5,468 days elapsed before an English Test team […]
There is no king to crown, there is an empty throne, and as we’ve seen on opening day in Mirpur, what would be the BPL’s succession battle is now a bloody contest. It feels disorienting, does it? A BPL season without Tamim Iqbal is akin to a Dhakaiya wedding without the biryani, technically operational, […]
When it comes to realizing your goals with the Vijay Hazare Trophy, there are many ways to go wrong. The first round of the 2025-26 version of the Vijay Hazare Trophy was a wide-open opportunity for batters to score freely; flat pitches were conducive to this type of scoring, and the high-scoring games looked as […]
The contrasts between what happened during the 2025 season and how India performed in Tests are likely to make 2025 a memorable season. When looking at their overall winning percentage of 40% (won four tests, lost five tests, and drew one test of ten), the number suggests that they were an average team in the […]
Unexpectedly, cricket tends to embarrass itself. On a day that England desperately needed something to give them hope of getting back into the Ashes fire, it came from an unlikely source, Josh Tongue, a young England bowler who didn’t sell at the IPL 2026 auction. In the scorching Melbourne sun on Dec. 26, Tongue tore […]
Fast bowlers are usually judged by the noise they make, shattered stumps, hurried pulls, and speed-gun readings that spark social media clips. Nahid Rana already has the noise. At 23, he’s widely tagged as Bangladesh’s fastest pacer, a rare commodity in a cricket culture historically built on swing, seam, and survival. Yet the real intrigue […]
As we stare down the barrel of the fourth edition of the SA20, the league has officially shed its “developmental” training wheels. Looking at the squad assemblies for the upcoming season, a fascinating irony emerges: while teams usually strive for balance, this year’s auction and retention strategies scream extremism. We have one team attempting to […]