Australian selectors love certainty, the kind that comes wrapped in 400 Shield runs or a five-for on demand. But ahead of the opening Ashes Test in Perth, certainty is the one thing they don’t have. The Sheffield Shield’s latest round was supposed to tidy up the chatter: identify the spare quick, settle the opening dilemma, […]
Australian selectors love certainty, the kind that comes wrapped in 400 Shield runs or a five-for on demand. But ahead of the opening Ashes Test in Perth, certainty is the one thing they don’t have. The Sheffield Shield’s latest round was supposed to tidy up the chatter: identify the spare quick, settle the opening dilemma, […]
Every few years, Indian cricket produces a domestic run-machine who feels like he’s been queuing for a Test cap longer than a visa line at peak season. Sarfaraz Khan finally broke through that door in early 2024 only to find himself right back outside 18 months later, staring at the locked room again. His debut […]
Every IPL pre-season has its own brand of theatre. One year, it’s mysterious injury updates, another year it’s retention-day heartbreaks, and sometimes it’s a rogue WhatsApp forward turning into a national discussion. This time, the spotlight fell on two blockbuster trade rumours that had fans whooshing through social media like monsoon wind: Washington Sundar to […]
Every World Cup win has a signature moment: Dhoni’s six in 2011, Kapil’s catch in 1983, and now Harmanpreet’s ice-cold final grab in 2025. But India’s maiden Women’s ODI World Cup title delivered something richer than emotion; it delivered deja vu. The kind where you look around and wonder, “Wait, didn’t we live this already?”. […]
Cricket loves its impossibilities: winning a Test after following on, defending 120 on a flat deck, or convincing fans that the DLS sheet actually makes sense. But among the sport’s rarest feats, nothing bends belief quite like an all-rounder scoring a half-century and taking a five-for in the same World Cup match. It’s a statistical […]
Some T20Is feel like chaos wearing cricket spikes; others feel like a quiet detective story where every clue is hiding in plain sight. India’s five-wicket win over Australia at Hobart was the second kind a match that looked straightforward on the scoreboard yet hid a series of turning points that revealed how both teams are […]
India has experienced many heartbreaking losses; yet, their path to the current World Cup has been by far the most emotional of any previous occasion. The next night, after beating Australia in the semi-finals, Harmanpreet Kaur was crying alone in a dug-out; it wasn’t from losing or being sad, it was from exhaustion, shock, and […]
Indian cricket seems to have an unusual pattern; each time it finds a world-class fast bowler, it appears to find no space to bowl him. Arshdeep Singh joins the strange trend as the most successful (in terms of wickets) Indian in Twenty20 International Cricket, and one of ten Indians with 50-plus wickets, for he can […]
IPL trades are supposed to be elegant little chess moves, two teams swapping pieces to fix structural weaknesses. But truth be told, most trades resemble a lopsided gully-cricket barter: you give away your best bat and somehow end up with the broken tennis ball. The latest rumored blockbuster, Sanju Samson to the Delhi Capitals in […]
Some cricketing omens arrive with trumpets. Others arrive when Ollie Pope checks his phone in the middle of the night in Clapham to discover Jacob Bethell edging to slip for 11. By sunrise, Pope was sleeping peacefully again, partly because he’s pencilled in at No. 3 for Perth, partly because Bethell finished the tour with […]