Root’s ODI numbers since the start of 2024 read better than Kohli’s entire career average, and Edgbaston did nothing to change that picture. Root made 76 not out in a losing cause. Kohli lasted five balls for five runs in a winning one, his first innings back from injury in roughly six months. The career […]
Root’s ODI numbers since the start of 2024 read better than Kohli’s entire career average, and Edgbaston did nothing to change that picture. Root made 76 not out in a losing cause. Kohli lasted five balls for five runs in a winning one, his first innings back from injury in roughly six months. The career […]
Samit Dravid just delivered the rarest kind of season: real batting output paired with genuine wicket-taking form, not just a famous surname carrying the headlines. Ten innings for Bengaluru Blasters brought 191 runs, then eleven bowling spells produced 14 wickets at an average under twenty-five. That combination is exactly what franchise recruiters hunt for when […]
Because Kohli and Rohit no longer have another format to fall back on, and India’s team management is now asking them to sit out ODIs anyway. Gautam Gambhir’s coaching staff wants a structured rest plan through bilateral series before the 2027 World Cup, giving fringe players real game time without ever dropping the senior trio […]
Kohli needs one big innings. Rohit needs a three-match heist. Both stand a genuine chance of erasing Rahul Dravid’s all-time bilateral ODI runs mark for an Indian batter in England, a tally that has stood since 2011. Arriving at Edgbaston as red-ball retirees now fully focused on the fifty-over game, the pair open India’s three-match […]
Bazball’s 27-20 Test record looks like proof a revolution paid off, and in raw terms it did: a win rate that jumped from 39.2 percent to 55.1 percent under Brendon McCullum. But split that record by opponent and the story changes fast. Against Australia and India, the two teams every era gets judged against, England’s […]
Buttler’s 131 wasn’t a freak occurrence; it was the third time in a decade India’s attack has conceded a genuinely era-defining individual innings, following Shane Watson’s century in 2016 and Evin Lewis’s unbeaten 125 in 2017. Southampton simply added a sharper edge: five bowlers combined to concede 219 runs without taking more than a couple […]
Buttler’s 131 against India didn’t just break a record; it pulled him within nineteen runs of Rohit Sharma’s career T20I total, a gap that looked unbridgeable a fortnight ago. He still trails on centuries, three fewer, and needed forty extra matches just to reach the tally Rohit retired with. The strike rate race, though, already […]
Rana edges it on raw average pace, but Starc’s attack wins the argument as a unit. That’s the split verdict once you strip away the headline number. Rana’s 140.93 km/h average in 2024 Tests beat Starc’s 140.14 km/h by less than a kilometre an hour, practically identical territory. What separates the sides isn’t the frontline […]
Miraz has one series left to prove his ODI captaincy deserves to survive past the deadline nobody has publicly named. Bangladesh’s ranking, not results in isolation, will decide it. A 12-month mandate handed down in June 2025 has already expired without comment from the board, and the only number that matters now sits on a […]
Buttler and Brook didn’t just win a match; they rewrote England’s record book in 103 balls. Batting together at The Rose Bowl after Phil Salt fell in the second over, the pair added 233 for the second wicket, the highest partnership for any wicket in England’s T20I history by 51 runs. Buttler reached a century […]
India have suffered four of their five heaviest-ever T20I defeats by runs inside a single seven-month stretch, running from a South Africa loss in Chandigarh last December to a record 125-run collapse against England at Trent Bridge this month. Three different oppositions have exposed the same top-order fragility against genuine pace and spin. Suryakumar Yadav […]