Every IPL retention window delivers its share of polite surprises, but the 2026 edition felt more like a high-voltage plot twist. Ten teams walked in with calculators, walked out with courage, and left fans wondering: since when did proven match-winners become expendable? When defending champions RCB let go of Lungi Ngidi, owner of 29 […]
Every IPL retention window delivers its share of polite surprises, but the 2026 edition felt more like a high-voltage plot twist. Ten teams walked in with calculators, walked out with courage, and left fans wondering: since when did proven match-winners become expendable? When defending champions RCB let go of Lungi Ngidi, owner of 29 […]
How does a team that bullies sides at home suddenly freeze while chasing 124 at Eden Gardens? That’s the question India will carry like excess luggage as they fly to Guwahati for the second Test. On paper, 124 is a Sunday warm-up jog. In reality, it turned into a steep Himalayan trek without oxygen. […]
For a philosophy that was once marketed as cricket’s version of “live fast, die gloriously,” England’s Bazball has quietly grown up. The mythology of 2022–23 painted them as Test cricket’s rock band: loud, fearless, occasionally destructive, and rarely interested in the encore. But as Mitchell Starc mischievously pointed out, something in the soundtrack has changed. […]
Every IPL offseason begins with big talk, mega plans, fresh direction, and a strategic reset. And then there’s the Mumbai Indians, a franchise that doesn’t just talk; it trades like a stockbroker in a bull run. After a 2025 campaign where they reached Qualifier 2 yet looked strangely mortal, MI have already dipped into the […]
Every time India hosts a Test series, a familiar debate resurfaces: Is it the pitch or the batting? And once again, Eden Gardens has become the center of that running argument. A match that was expected to stretch into a tactical fourth-day grind instead wrapped up inside three days, with India bowled out for just […]
Every time Test cricket visits India, one debate inevitably barges into the room like an uninvited opener: “Did they doctor the pitch?” And yet, the irony is delicious. India has one of the strongest home Test records in modern cricket, unbeaten in a series at home since 2012, armed with spinners who can make even […]
It was the unremarkable nature of a once-elite and highly decorated SunRisers Hyderabad roster in their 2025 most perplexing collapse. It was not the six losses (wins) they had suffered, it was not missing out on a playoff berth; nor, most bizarrely of all, was it their loss of the fearlessness that defined them as […]
There’s a funny thing about Test cricket: just when a match looks like it’s swerving toward inevitability, someone slips a handbrake. At Eden Gardens, that someone wasn’t a tearaway quick, wasn’t a mystery spinner, and wasn’t even Kagiso Rabada. It was Simon Harmer, the veteran offspinner, who spent a decade sharpening his craft everywhere except […]
Every Ashes tour has a mood. Some tours feel like the last act of a fading heavyweight, others like a rebirth. This one? It feels like England is closing the book on an era and ripping open a new one powered by pace, risk, and a hefty dose of self-belief. Since the 2023 Ashes, […]
Every IPL auction cycle creates its own theatre, but the 2026 retention list felt more like a plot twist nobody saw coming. When franchises begin discarding multi-crore stars as casually as a dropped WhatsApp message, it signals something deeper than “form issues.” This year, that message was loud: the league is recalibrating. With the […]