Cricket Opinions

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Oct 31, 2026

Hardik Pandya bowled 22.4 overs in IPL 2026, and Mumbai Indians should trade him before 15 November

Reports say Mumbai Indians have discussed a Hardik Pandya trade with other franchises. With retentions due in a fortnight, they should go through with...

Oct 28, 2026

Bhuvneshwar Kumar has one wicket for 139 runs, and India should still give him the last two T20Is in New Zealand

The series is won and the figures are ugly, but Auckland and Hamilton are the only place India can get a straight answer on their 36-year-old swing bo...

Oct 25, 2026

James Anderson took 50 wickets as Lancashire captain, and they have still left him out of their rebuild

Lancashire have a fair case for moving on from a 44-year-old. They did not need to end the career of England’s record Test wicket-taker like this.

Oct 13, 2026

Kohli made 139 not out and Rohit 225 runs against West Indies, and the BCCI president says age should not count against them

Mithun Manhas says fitness and performance, not age, should decide India’s 2027 World Cup picks. On the evidence of the West Indies series, Kohli and...

Sep 23, 2026

The ICC wants fewer bilateral ODIs, and bringing back the tri-series is the right way to do it

The 2027-31 schedule being drawn up in Dubai swaps standalone ODI series for more T20Is. The 50-over games that survive need something riding on them.

Sep 13, 2026

Samson was Player of the Tournament at the World Cup, and he is back in India’s XI with the gloves

India dropped the Player of the Tournament from their last T20 World Cup, left him out of two squads, and then picked him again on Sunday as their wic...

Sep 9, 2026

Ponting says 50-over cricket is the obvious thing to lose, and that is only true at the top of the game

Ricky Ponting thinks the ODI is what gets squeezed as T20 franchise cricket keeps expanding, and he is not happy about it. He is right about the four...

Aug 23, 2026

Ponting says it is well and truly time to move on, and Labuschagne’s numbers make him hard to argue with

Marnus Labuschagne was bowled off his thigh pad for 4 at Mackay and never got a second innings. With Australia’s South Africa squad due in early Septe...

Aug 17, 2026

Australia’s top three has been failing for a year, and Darwin only made it impossible to ignore

Pat Cummins called it a trend rather than a bad week, and the averages back him up. The awkward part is that Australia’s replacement options are barel...

Aug 14, 2026

Gambhir has two ICC trophies and ten defeats in nineteen Tests, and Galle is about the second number

India start in Galle on Saturday with a coach whose white-ball record is close to flawless and whose Test record is not. Both are true. Only one of th...

Aug 14, 2026

India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant

Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...

Aug 13, 2026

India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...

Aug 8, 2026

Everyone knows where Hardik Pandya is going next, and nobody actually does

Five franchises are said to be circling, Chennai are said to have offered a swap, and Mumbai Indians say nothing is happening. On the evidence so far,...

Aug 6, 2026

Uthappa is right about Suryavanshi, but Kambli and Shaw are the wrong warning

Robin Uthappa says the 15-year-old could outdo Tendulkar in white-ball cricket if he is managed properly, and reaches for two cautionary tales that do...

Aug 6, 2026

West Indies picked one spinner for a turning pitch, and the fix their captain ruled out was the obvious one

Spinners took 20 of the 30 bowler wickets at the Queen’s Park Oval. West Indies went in with one frontline spinner, and Roston Chase’s honest post-mor...

Aug 2, 2026

Eight teams left Moeen Ali out of the Hundred auction, and one ankle injury undid it in an afternoon

Not one of the eight franchises put Moeen Ali on its shortlist in March. On 1 August, Southern Brave signed him as an injury replacement and picked hi...

Aug 1, 2026

Everyone wants Stokes back for the 2027 Ashes except Stokes

Australia’s coach floated the fairytale, England’s managing director would not rule it out, and the man himself said in June he would be watching from...

Jul 31, 2026

Rahane’s retirement leaves KKR a captaincy call, and Rinku Singh is the frontrunner

Ajinkya Rahane’s retirement leaves Kolkata Knight Riders hunting a captain for IPL 2027 with one season left in the current cycle. Rinku Singh is the...

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 29, 2026

McGrath is right about Prasidh, but his Test and ODI records tell different stories

Glenn McGrath has backed Prasidh Krishna to fill the gap left by Mohammed Shami and cover for Jasprit Bumrah. The one-day numbers already agree with h...

Jul 27, 2026

Sooryavanshi answered one question in Harare, not the one England asked

A record fifty and an 81 on a slow pitch settled the temperament question about India’s 15-year-old. The short-ball problem Jofra Archer exposed is st...

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...

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...