Every mini-auction has this warning: “Don’t get your hopes up for fireworks.” However, every single time you have an all-rounder walk in and swing a figurative sledgehammer to destroy the firework notion into confetti. Look at what happened to Sam Curran (₹18.5 crore, 2023), or Chris Morris (₹16.25 crore, 2021), two of many examples of […]
Every mini-auction has this warning: “Don’t get your hopes up for fireworks.” However, every single time you have an all-rounder walk in and swing a figurative sledgehammer to destroy the firework notion into confetti. Look at what happened to Sam Curran (₹18.5 crore, 2023), or Chris Morris (₹16.25 crore, 2021), two of many examples of […]
Cricket rarely gives you symmetry, but it loves a haunting image. For David Miller, that image was a heartbreak freeze-frame: eyes glazed, shoulders slumped, leaning into his wife Camilla as Cape Town and the cricket world watched South Africa lose a T20 World Cup final by seven runs. One shot. Six needed. A wide full […]
There’s a quiet irony hovering over New Zealand cricket right now: the nation that produces some of the smartest white-ball cricketers on the planet is also the last Test-playing country without a proper T20 franchise league. While Trent Boult spends his summers launching yorkers in the BBL, SA20, and ILT20 collide like festival crowds in […]
There’s a peculiar irony to Australia’s Ashes campaign this summer: the man who hasn’t bowled a competitive ball in nearly five months feels fresher than the one who hasn’t stopped bowling for two. Pat Cummins is poised to reclaim the captain’s blazer in Adelaide, while Josh Hazlewood, forever Australia’s reliability index, has been ruled out […]
There is a beauty to the chaos that is found in an India–South Africa white ball series. The team will dominate in the test format; they will flip the script in the ODIs; and now we have the T20I format as a neutral ground, where just about anything could happen. This comes after South Africa […]
Every IPL auction has its dramas, the bidding wars, the surprise millionaires, the bargain legends. From an initial 1390 registrations to a trimmed pool of 350 names, the IPL 2026 Auction has become a razor-edged test of a player’s T20 “value index,” not just their reputation. And in that brutal filtration, five names, each with […]
For a format allegedly “fading,” 2025 ODI cricket had no interest in reading its own obituary. India capped the year with a nine-wicket wall-demolition of South Africa in Visakhapatnam, sealing the series 2–1 and finishing with a sparkling 11–3 record. Fittingly poetic, this match wasn’t just a finale; it was the curtain call of the […]
All stadiums have their own identity. Some will dominate on a flat track; others can create mischief by playing both fast and slow, while others, such as Cuttack’s Barabati Stadium, like to be somewhat enigmatic about how they play. However, this week, Barabati will attempt to do something it has never done before, that being […]
It is rather amusing in some ways to see how long it took Steve Smith to spend nearly five years trying to be as far away as possible from the ‘circus’ of the IPL, then on the third day of the Ashes test at the Gabba hits a 23 from nine balls as though auditioning […]
There’s a certain comedy in cricket when a team claims they’ve “planned for four years” and then unravels in six days. England walked into this Ashes tour talking about blueprints, intent, modernity, bravery, and redefining Test cricket. But the only thing they’ve successfully redefined so far is how quickly an Ashes campaign can melt into […]
Cricket loves a good mystery, especially when it involves a veteran who has seen too much, done too much, and still manages to surprise everyone. So when Shakib Al Hasan casually admitted that he had bowled with an illegal action “a little bit intentionally” during his county stint with Surrey, the cricket world blinked twice. […]