Jul 16, 2026
The runs still favour Kohli and Rohit, but the 2027 question won’t go away
Kohli and Rohit are ODI-only now, and every low score reopens the same debate. After two cheap dismissals at Edgbaston, here is where the 2027 World C...
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Jul 15, 2026
England rule the T20 world while their ODI game quietly falls apart
Harry Brook’s side just swept India to go top of the T20I rankings. In the 50-over game they sit eighth, their lowest in twenty years, and the first O...
Jul 8, 2026
India’s T20I reset was always going to hurt before it helps
One humiliating night in Nottingham has reopened the debate over dropping Suryakumar Yadav. India should hold their nerve, because this rebuild was al...
Jul 6, 2026
Ravi Bishnoi’s Old Trafford collapse has handed India a selection call they can’t dodge
The leg-spinner leaked 60 in four wicketless overs and set an unwanted no-ball record as India went 1-0 down. With Varun Chakravarthy waiting, stickin...
Jul 2, 2026
Sanju Samson’s slump has reopened India’s most awkward selection call
Three single-figure scores in a row, and a 15-year-old with 776 IPL runs waiting in the same squad. Sanju Samson’s form has handed India a selection q...
Jul 1, 2026
Two World Cups, two group exits: India can’t keep delaying their T20 rebuild
India just won the 50-over World Cup, but a second straight group-stage exit at the Women’s T20 World Cup shows the shortest format still exposes the...
Jun 29, 2026
Australia lead the Women’s T20 World Cup four, but South Africa are the team to fear
The semi-finals are set at The Oval with Australia chasing a seventh title. They are still the favourites, but the chasing pack has rarely looked this...
Jun 20, 2026
New Zealand’s faltering title defence threatens to spoil Devine’s farewell
The 2024 champions sit fourth in their group after three games, and with Sophie Devine’s international career winding down, their title defence in Eng...
Jun 19, 2026
Why Rohit and Kohli should still be first on India’s England ODI teamsheet
The squad is due any day, and the noise around Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli is back. Here is why that is the wrong argument to be having.
Jun 17, 2026
Two stars down, Australia still look the team to beat at the Women’s T20 World Cup
Phoebe Litchfield and Ashleigh Gardner are sidelined by injury, yet Australia have brushed aside South Africa and Bangladesh without a stumble. Their...
Jun 16, 2026
India have the balance to end their T20 World Cup wait, but Australia loom
India have never won a Women’s T20 World Cup, but the way they dismantled Pakistan in Birmingham hinted at a side that finally has the bat and the bow...
Jun 15, 2026
New Zealand’s title defence is wobbling, and the Women’s T20 World Cup is clearer for it
The defending champions have stumbled and the favourites have separated themselves. After one round of the Women’s T20 World Cup, here is how the cont...
May 29, 2026
Gujarat get RCB again, at home, five days after a 92-run lesson
Five days after a 92-run hammering in Qualifier 1, Gujarat get RCB again, this time in the final and on their own ground. Here is why they have a chan...
May 28, 2026
At 37, Virat Kohli is having one of his best IPL seasons and making the retirement question look silly
At 37, Virat Kohli is producing one of the best T20 seasons of his career. The numbers make the constant retirement talk look stranger than ever.
May 27, 2026
RCB walk into the IPL 2026 final on a streak that has not broken in six years
Every IPL since 2020 has been won by the team that came through Qualifier 1. RCB now have four days in Ahmedabad and one knockout fewer to play than w...
May 25, 2026
Ninth out of ten and a Pollard line that gave the game away: Mumbai Indians’ Hardik question is real now
Two bottom-two finishes in three seasons under Hardik Pandya, a 30-run defeat at home to Rajasthan, and a batting coach who refused to defend the capt...
May 22, 2026
Three wickets, MI eliminated, England in July: the case for resting Bumrah on Sunday
Mumbai Indians’ season ends in a dead rubber against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday, and the smartest thing they can do for Jasprit Bumrah is keep him out...
May 21, 2026
Sandeep Patil names the Kohli-Rohit contradiction nobody else will: ‘It puzzles me’
Former India chief selector Sandeep Patil has called Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s T20I retirements puzzling while both continue to play the format i...
May 20, 2026
36 Ranji wickets and an 8 for 90: Agarkar’s ‘body allows only T20s’ line on Shami does not survive his own season
Chief selector Ajit Agarkar explained Mohammed Shami’s Afghanistan snub by saying his body permits only T20 cricket, but the Bengal pacer’s 2025-26 Ra...
May 18, 2026
If Dhoni walks out at Chepauk tonight, the lap of honour is the only goodbye he needs to make
CSK have advertised a lap of honour after tonight’s home game against SRH. With Dhoni 44, a calf-strain season behind him and his 2021 wish for a Chen...
May 16, 2026
Three wickets in ten and pace well below his usual band: MI’s case for resting Bumrah writes itself
Three wickets in ten matches, his delivery speed rarely clearing 140 kmph after three years regularly above that mark, and a run-up marker thrown in f...
May 16, 2026
CSK wake up sixth and out of their own hands as the IPL 2026 playoff math hardens
Mitchell Marsh’s onslaught at Ekana pushed Chennai down to sixth on net run-rate and turned the IPL 2026 playoff route into a two-win-plus-favours scr...
May 15, 2026
Kohli’s 2027 World Cup demand is the most honest thing he has said in years
Virat Kohli’s RCB podcast quote about not being in the space to prove his worth is being read as an ultimatum. It is actually a request for the select...
May 14, 2026
Pujara’s blunt verdict on KKR’s playoff hopes is just the math catching up to a two-year drift
After the Raipur defeat, Cheteshwar Pujara called KKR’s playoffs chances ‘very slim’, and the arithmetic, plus a second straight title defence going s...