Zimbabwe learned that cricket is all about narrow margins when they played in Harare on Friday. The visitors were unable to get into a groove right from the start and failed to hit a single boundary in the first three overs, which sent up warning signs quickly for the home team. Although a six by […]
Zimbabwe learned that cricket is all about narrow margins when they played in Harare on Friday. The visitors were unable to get into a groove right from the start and failed to hit a single boundary in the first three overs, which sent up warning signs quickly for the home team. Although a six by […]
The Hundred, which has been known for disrupting the typical schedule of a cricket calendar, is taking its innovative spirit to the next step with its biggest shake-up yet – in 2026, it will transition from an open draft to an all-out player auction style model – similar to the high-stakes drama seen in the […]
A few of the most emotional moments in the world of cricket are chasing a semi-final World Cup, but for Jemimah Rodrigues, that moment came on top of weeks of private struggle. Just before making an undefeated 127 off of Australia, Rodrigues was battling with such bad anxiety that it left her “numb” and made […]
Nineteen years ago, Andrew Flintoff walked off an Australian ground with the look of a man who had just seen cricket’s gods laugh in his face. England had been thrashed 5–0 in the 2006–07 Ashes, and Freddie, standing in as captain for the injured Michael Vaughan, carried the burden of that defeat like an anvil. […]
Quinton de Kock’s return to International Cricket was truly an unexpected plot twist in what had been a story still unfolding with him. Players do retire, they do go through with their retirement plans, and then un-retire from time to time, but I believe the reason we are having difficulty with the idea of De […]
When rain washed out the first T20I between India and Australia at Canberra, the scoreboard showed India cruising at 97/1 in just 9.4 overs, a glimpse into the team’s new batting blueprint. But what really caught everyone’s attention wasn’t the weather or the runs; it was a name missing from the team sheet: Arshdeep Singh. […]
In November 2023, India’s dream of lifting the World Cup on home soil ended not with a roar, but with Travis Head’s elegant counterattack under the Ahmedabad lights. A team unbeaten for ten games, clinical, ruthless, dominant, suddenly looked human when it mattered most. India’s 240 felt short; Head’s 137 felt inevitable. The what-ifs were […]
For many years, it seemed as though Bangladesh’s Twenty20 batting was a team stuck in a Test warm-up – cautious, careful, and averse to risk. The fans would be praying for sixes, but they were getting singles. Between 2006-23, the Tigers had the lowest average of all full member countries (at that time) with an […]
When Laura Wolvaardt raised her bat for her first World Cup century, her smile was almost reluctant, as if joy needed permission. That’s Wolvaardt for you: an overthinker who treats every milestone like a math equation. But beneath that icy exterior, South Africa’s captain was orchestrating something that might just thaw decades of heartbreak. […]
There was a time when England were the gold standard of ODI cricket, the innovators, the disruptors, the blueprint everyone copied. But lately, their “revolution” has started to look more like a museum exhibit: glorious, admired, but very much from another era. After their sixth series defeat in seven and a ninth consecutive away […]