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Apr 24, 2024
A wide costs one run, does not count as a ball in the over, and is the single biggest source of extras in limited-overs cricket. Here is what Law 22 s...
Apr 24, 2024
Gambia’s Musa Jobarteh conceded 93 runs in four overs against Zimbabwe in 2024, the most in T20 internationals and all T20 cricket. In the Indian T20...
Apr 23, 2024
Dew makes the ball wet and hard to grip, so the side bowling second struggles under lights. How it forms, why it matters in India, and how anti-dew sp...
Apr 23, 2024
Hardik Pandya’s captaincy record in full: 16 T20Is and three ODIs for India, and 70 Indian T20 League matches with Gujarat (champions in 2022) and Mum...
Apr 20, 2024
Hyderabad and Bengaluru dominate list of most sixes in an innings in the Indian T20 League. While Hyderabad have hit 22 sixes twice, Bengaluru is next...
Apr 20, 2024
Dipendra Singh Airee took just nine balls to reach his half-century against Mongolia in the 2023 Asian Games’ men’s T20I competition.
Apr 19, 2024
Running out the non-striker has been legal since 1947 and stopped being filed under unfair play in 2022. Here is what Law 38.3 actually says, every in...
Apr 18, 2024
The Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium at Mullanpur spent two IPL seasons as one of the lowest-scoring grounds in the league, the...
Apr 17, 2024
The Impact Player rule allows teams to make a tactical player substitution in T20s by replacing one player in the starting XI with another at any poin...
Apr 17, 2024
A dB or decibel is the unit utilsied to measure the intensity of sound.
Apr 17, 2024
Yashasvi Jaiswal is expected to face strong competition from Shubman Gill as the back-up opener in India’s 15-member squad for the upcoming T20 World...
Apr 17, 2024
Virat Kohli has the most centuries in the IPL with nine. The full list of leading century-makers, how many hundreds the league has produced, and the s...
Apr 16, 2024
Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee took just nine balls to reach a T20I fifty, which is the fastest by any player.
Apr 16, 2024
Shahid Afridi’s 153-metre six tops almost every list, but cricket keeps no official distance record and the biggest numbers are projections rather tha...
Apr 15, 2024
The Impact Player gives each IPL side a twelfth player. How the rule works, why the BCCI dropped it from its own domestic T20 competition, and what 1,...
Apr 15, 2024
The International Cricket Council’s cut-off date for submission of squads for the T20 World Cup 2024 is May 1. Get T20 World Cup 2024 India’s squad an...
Apr 12, 2024
Three out of every four DRS reviews fail. A derivation of 11,818 reviews across Tests, ODIs, T20Is and the IPL shows who gets them right, and why the...
Apr 12, 2024
What is umpire’s call in cricket, and why is a batter not out when ball-tracking shows the ball hitting the stumps? How the DRS rule works, the 2021 a...
Apr 10, 2024
Among Indian cricketers, Karnataka’s bowling all-rounder Krishnappa Gowtham has the highest strike rate in T20 cricket history. He has a strike rate o...
Apr 10, 2024
India’s Ajinkya Rahane scored the most runs (1475) while compatriot Siddharth Trivedi has scalped the most wickets (36) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium...
Apr 10, 2024
Rishabh Pant, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shivam Dube and Sanju Samson are in contention for India’s T20 World Cup squad. Know the Indian cricket team for T20 W...
Apr 9, 2024
Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Kieron Pollard, Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma are the five cricketers to have grabbed at least 100 catches in the Indian...
Apr 9, 2024
Chennai rode on Ravindra Jadeja’s blitzkrieg to etch their name in the history books for most runs in 20th over in T20s. He slammed 37 runs against Ha...
Apr 9, 2024
LED stumps have a microprocessor attached to its bails. They detect any separation between bails and stumps by illuminating them within a thousandth o...
