Irfan Pathan did not hedge when he talked about Mayank Markande. His assessment was direct: if Markande performs, the Mumbai Indians have no real bowling weakness worth worrying about. That is not a casual comment from a former cricketer doing television rounds. It is a specific claim about a specific structural problem that MI have […]
Irfan Pathan did not hedge when he talked about Mayank Markande. His assessment was direct: if Markande performs, the Mumbai Indians have no real bowling weakness worth worrying about. That is not a casual comment from a former cricketer doing television rounds. It is a specific claim about a specific structural problem that MI have […]
The most revealing moment in Pope’s entire Ashes 2026 story was not a dismissal. It was the press conference after his omission. He sat down, answered the questions, and told the room that England made the right call. No deflection, no grievance, no suggestion that conditions or selection timing were unfair. Just a direct acknowledgement […]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Kolkata Knight Riders, and Sunrisers Hyderabad all walk into this season carrying problems that were not part of their auction planning. Josh Hazlewood is unavailable for the opening phase. Harshit Rana is likely ruled out entirely. Pat Cummins has handed the SRH captaincy to Ishan Kishan while he recovers. Three of the […]
Indian women have spent years searching for a seam bowler who can take wickets in overseas conditions without relying on the pitch to do the work for her. The WACA Test gave them that answer. On debut in Perth, under pink ball conditions at twilight, on one of the most demanding surfaces in women’s Test […]
Shubman Gill scored 2,449 runs for the Gujarat Titans at an average of 46.20. Sai Sudharsan scored 1,793 runs at 49.80. David Miller averaged 68.71 in GT’s 2022 title-winning campaign. Hardik Pandya contributed 11 wickets and six IPL half-centuries during his GT years. Rahul Tewatia has a career strike rate of 150.76 with GT. Rashid […]
Sunil Narine: 192 wickets from 189 matches at an economy of 6.79, the most economical overseas bowler in IPL history. Dwayne Bravo: 183 wickets from 161 matches, including 32 in a single season in 2013. Lasith Malinga: 170 wickets from 122 matches at an average of 19.79, the best wicket-to-match ratio in this group. Rashid […]
Abhishek Sharma walks into this season with a question mark that will not go away quietly. Can a batter this explosive ever become a batter this reliable? His record for Sunrisers Hyderabad tells the story of a player who arrives in stunning form and then disappears inside ten balls. The spin trap is not new. […]
87 runs from 8 innings. Average 10.87. Strike rate 116, the worst T20 World Cup 2026 campaign by any established top-order batter in the tournament. England lost the semifinal to India by 7 runs, chasing 254 in Mumbai. Buttler scored 25. Buttler’s response to the most damaging tournament of his career was to spend a […]
Ashleigh Gardner will become the seventh Australian woman to play 100 T20 Internationals when she faces West Indies in St Vincent. Her T20I career batting average is 19.93 with an economy rate of 6.07, consistent enough to confirm her bowling value, modest enough to confirm her batting has not matched her ODI returns of 104 […]
Phil Salt scored 403 runs at a strike rate of 175.98 in RCB’s maiden IPL title campaign in 2025. Jacob Bethell scored a century against India in the T20 World Cup 2026 semifinal and was England’s standout batter across the tournament. Salt managed only 130 runs across the full World Cup. Tim David has 846 […]
KL Rahul as an IPL opener: 4260 runs from 100 matches at an average of 48.96 and strike rate 137.15. One of only five batters in IPL history to pass 4000 runs in the opening position. Six seasons of 500-plus runs as a designated opener. In IPL 2025 at Delhi Capitals, he opened once, scoring […]