Indian Test cricket has always flirted with extremes, either the pitch behaves, or it behaves like a Bollywood villain. Kolkata chose the second role. Inside three days, an Eden Gardens surface that was supposed to offer controlled turn instead produced chaotic, uneven bounce that even seasoned batters couldn’t decode. India’s spinners looked overfed, South Africa […]
Indian Test cricket has always flirted with extremes, either the pitch behaves, or it behaves like a Bollywood villain. Kolkata chose the second role. Inside three days, an Eden Gardens surface that was supposed to offer controlled turn instead produced chaotic, uneven bounce that even seasoned batters couldn’t decode. India’s spinners looked overfed, South Africa […]
In days of yore, when we’re not talking about centuries past, a visiting team getting a victory in India in a test match would have been akin to finding a comet. A rare occurrence; a wondrous thing; an event whose timing could only be described as impossible. However, South Africa’s 30-run victory over India at […]
The IPL economy has seen some chaotic overbidding over the years, but few price tags aged as awkwardly as Venkatesh Iyer’s ₹23.75 crore haul at the 2025 Auction. What was meant to be a blockbuster reunion between KKR and one of its most explosive Indian batters ended with a season that felt more like a […]
For a decade and a half, India at home was the closest thing cricket had to a cheat code. You could rotate captains, break in new batters, even misread a pitch – and still walk away with a win. That’s why the current picture under Gautam Gambhir feels so out of place. Four home defeats […]
Every IPL cycle brings a few eyebrow-raising calls, but now and then, a franchise drops a decision that feels like it escaped the quality-control department. Chennai Super Kings, preparing to release Matheesha Pathirana, a bowler they once proudly declared as their next death-overs heir, is exactly one of those moments. With retentions due on […]
Every dominant era eventually reaches its moment of uncomfortable self-reflection, and for India, that moment arrived with a thud in Kolkata. A 30-run defeat, their first home Test loss to South Africa in 12 years, wasn’t just an upset; it felt like a warning letter. The kind you pretend isn’t serious until you realize Simon […]
Every once in a while, cricket tosses up a milestone so absurdly clean, so statistically perfect, that it feels like the sport is showing off. Shai Hope’s unbeaten 109 at Napier was one of those. It didn’t just save West Indies from yet another collapse; it rewrote the geography of ODI batting. With that century, […]
Ashes fever has a strange habit of erupting long before the first delivery is bowled, and this time the sparks were lit by two men who never miss a microphone: Stuart Broad and Steven Smith. Broad declared without blinking that this is “the worst Australian team since 2010” and “the best English team since then.” […]
Round 5 of Ranji Trophy seemed to be an opportunity for the domestic game to exclaim loudly, “See me!” As the schedule paused for white ball competitions, teams devoted all they had to these final rounds of first-class cricket. And while there were victories by Mumbai, Karnataka, Vidarbha, and Saurashtra, it was a rout by […]
Although it is rare for an association of young, unknown teens to become world-famous in such a short time span, it has happened in the past (Virat Kohli in 2008, Shubman Gill in 2018, and Brian Lara in the late 1980s). This is where many of the youth of today start to develop as cricketers. […]