Sometimes, the most revealing performances don’t happen in front of TV cameras or during primetime Tests; they unfold quietly, at the WACA, with a bruised forearm and a point to prove. Matt Renshaw’s gritty 101 off 198 balls against Western Australia wasn’t just another Sheffield Shield century; it was a defiant answer to Australia’s selectors […]
Sometimes, the most revealing performances don’t happen in front of TV cameras or during primetime Tests; they unfold quietly, at the WACA, with a bruised forearm and a point to prove. Matt Renshaw’s gritty 101 off 198 balls against Western Australia wasn’t just another Sheffield Shield century; it was a defiant answer to Australia’s selectors […]
Cricket loves to talk about evolution until it’s time to evolve. The ICC’s latest working group, led by Roger Twose, has quietly shelved the idea of a two-tier World Test Championship (WTC) system once again, favoring a single 12-team division instead. On paper, it’s a unifying move. In reality, it’s a compromise, a delicate truce […]
It is a tough time to travel to India for South Africans, and almost like they are walking on fire. They could get through the trip, but they will suffer some form of burnout. In 2015, South Africa was overwhelmed by spin bowling. The 2019 South African team was also hurt by leadership issues and […]
For nearly two years now, since 2022, Shreyas Iyer has proven to be India’s most consistent link for connecting the intentions of the top order with the explosive potential of the lower order; in that time, his average in ODIs has averaged just above 45 with an impressive strike-rate of close to 95. As he […]
What happens when India’s richest spin arsenal risks turning into its biggest headache? Ashwin’s Selection Logic before the South Africa Tests has stirred the pot not as a bowler this time, but as a selector in spirit. With Shubman Gill’s young leadership still being tested, the question isn’t just who plays, but how many. Do India […]
It’s not often that Chennai Super Kings, the masters of loyalty and long-term planning, even consider trading their beloved Ravindra Jadeja. Yet, here we are, a rumor that could make even the calmest CSK fan spill their filter coffee. Sanju Samson to Chennai, Jadeja to Rajasthan, and Sam Curran somewhere in between sounds like a […]
Will the next key move of the Rajasthan Royals not be made by some young talent from Rajasthan but by an experienced English all-rounder with miles to go? There is talk of the RR trading Sanju Samson to CSK in exchange for Sam Curran and Ravindra Jadeja; it seems much like a movie plot than […]
Once, ODI bilateral series played second fiddle to the rest of the International Calendar; now, in our week-long run-up to the start of this week’s series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, they are an unspoken audition for spots in the 2027 Cricket World Cup. Both teams are clearly in an uncertain position when it comes […]
Every coach talks about “man management.” But for Gautam Gambhir, it’s less about management and more about emotional surgery, telling players like Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav they’re too good to play. Sounds cruel? Maybe. But in modern Indian cricket, where talent overflows and burnout lurks in every schedule, Gambhir’s honesty-first approach might just be […]
Every Ranji season offers a couple of hundreds, a gritty five-for, maybe a cameo to spice things up. But this week? This week felt like the domestic equivalent of a Marvel crossover event everyone suddenly developed superpowers. We’re talking Paras Dogra hitting his 34th first-class hundred (yes, he’s basically a secret national treasure now), Meghalaya’s […]