Every Ashes year has its selection dramas, but this one feels like a full-blown reality show, part talent hunt, part injury watch, and part psychological thriller. The Sheffield Shield’s latest round didn’t just produce runs and wickets; it produced questions. Big, messy, deliciously complex selection questions. Green’s Delayed Bowling Return Shifts the Balance […]
Every Ashes year has its selection dramas, but this one feels like a full-blown reality show, part talent hunt, part injury watch, and part psychological thriller. The Sheffield Shield’s latest round didn’t just produce runs and wickets; it produced questions. Big, messy, deliciously complex selection questions. Green’s Delayed Bowling Return Shifts the Balance […]
On occasion, cricket will produce an afternoon that is so contradictory (the team losing) and yet so rewarding (an individual has won something for themselves in the future). England’s third ODI in Wellington was just such a day. At 97-6, England were facing a typical downward spiral that typically concludes with a dignified handshake and […]
Every time Shubman Gill walks out in Australia, you can almost hear three different factions forming in real time: those who swear he’s India’s long-term white-ball anchor, those who insist he’s a red-ball prodigy miscast into sprint-format cricket, and those who simply want to know why he suddenly forgets where his off stump is. […]
There are defeats, and then there are the kind that whisper something more worrying beneath the surface. India’s four-wicket loss to Australia at the MCG felt like the second type, not a disaster, not a meltdown, but a familiar riddle resurfacing at an inconvenient time. A total of 125 in 18.4 overs on a true […]
Every World Cup final arrives with its own subplot, but this one feels like a chess match disguised as cricket. India has looked like a team that knows how to start a fire; South Africa has shown they know how to survive inside it. In their league clash at Vizag, India reduced the Proteas to […]
Every few years, a fast bowler enters a zone so pure, so ruthlessly precise, that even seasoned batters look like they’ve accidentally walked into the wrong net session. Right now, that bowler is Josh Hazlewood. At the MCG, he returned Test-match numbers in a T20I, 3 for 13 in four overs against an India line-up […]
Sometimes a T20 innings doesn’t unravel; it gets disassembled, piece by piece, by a bowler who decides the format doesn’t matter. At the MCG, India walked in expecting Australia’s familiar discipline. What they weren’t ready for was the Test-match mischief hiding inside Josh Hazlewood’s T20 spell. India lost four wickets inside the powerplay, only the […]
Every time South Africa tours the subcontinent, there’s a familiar script: a rocky start, a brave recovery, and a lingering sense that one extra Test might have tilted the whole story. Their recent 1–1 draw in Pakistan felt exactly like that kind of unfinished chapter. Rawalpindi showed what they could be; Lahore reminded them what […]
Some teams build legacies on power. Others rely on depth. India, in the past three years, has built its own something far less predictable: nerve. The kind of cold-blooded, late-overcomposure that turns ordinary games into folklore. Think about it: a run-out in the 44th over at Lord’s in 2022 to seal their first ODI series […]
Every cricketing generation produces one player who feels like he wandered straight out of a kid’s imagination and into an international stadium. For New Zealand, that kid is Rachin Ravindra, the indoor-nets dreamer who once recreated “Desert Storm” on a scoring app and now hears actual crowds chanting his name in Dharamsala. There’s something […]