Annabel Sutherland scored 129 and took 6 for 61 from 23 overs. In a five-day Test that lasted three days, those two numbers explained almost everything. Australia defeated India by ten wickets at the WACA, completing a result that was comfortable from the moment Sutherland began her first-innings century and never stopped being comfortable after […]
Annabel Sutherland scored 129 and took 6 for 61 from 23 overs. In a five-day Test that lasted three days, those two numbers explained almost everything. Australia defeated India by ten wickets at the WACA, completing a result that was comfortable from the moment Sutherland began her first-innings century and never stopped being comfortable after […]
Before Sanju Samson opened the batting, India had the lowest scoring rate among full-member teams in the first ten overs against spin, 6.95 runs per over. After the batting order change that brought Samson to the top and moved Ishan Kishan to number three, that number rose to 8.64. That single tactical adjustment, quietly made […]
Bangladesh missed the T20 World Cup. The squad that returns to international cricket against Pakistan does so knowing that the next major target, the 2027 ODI World Cup, requires a completely different approach to the fifty-over format. This series isn’t a routine bilateral. It’s the first real test of whether Bangladesh’s ODI rebuild has a […]
Seven for 25 from 11 overs. Northern Districts all out for 82. Central Districts ahead by 291 runs. Those numbers tell you a match was won. They don’t tell you about the five deliveries in the middle of it that made cricket history. Brett Randell dismissed five batters in five consecutive balls in Napier, a […]
India were 92 without loss at the end of the powerplay. That number tells you everything about how the T20WC 2026 Final began. Abhishek Sharma walked out to open the batting against New Zealand at Narendra Modi Stadium and immediately made the match about one question: how many, not whether. His 52 off 21 balls, […]
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 […]