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.
Cricket Opinion
19 articles tagged with "Cricket Opinion"
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...
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 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 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 10, 2026
The 27-crore captain has run out of credit: how LSG’s IPL 2026 unraveled
LSG’s Chepauk loss confirmed the first IPL 2026 elimination, and the season-long story has been a captain whose form, line-up and bowling depth all ga...
May 9, 2026
India keeps the bilateral cricket lock on Pakistan, but the multilateral exception is the part that shapes the calendar
India’s sports ministry reaffirmed this week that bilateral sporting ties with Pakistan stay frozen, while Pakistani teams remain free to play in Indi...
May 6, 2026
Mathematically alive is not the same as realistically in: KKR’s IPL 2026 playoff path
Seven points from nine, an NRR of -0.539 and five fixtures left, including a trip to RCB. KKR can still reach the IPL 2026 playoffs, but the math is b...
May 5, 2026
Mumbai’s playoff math is brutal, but Bumrah’s drift is the harder fix
Rohit Sharma’s comeback 84 papered over the question Mumbai cannot keep ducking. Three wickets in ten games and three no-balls in one spell suggest Ja...
May 3, 2026
RCB are quietly building another title charge in IPL 2026
Twelve points, the best NRR in the league, the Purple Cap, and a captain who has done this exact dance eleven months ago. RCB are not favourites yet,...
May 2, 2026
Three things strapped on, three wickets, three months out: Starc’s debut might still save Delhi’s season
Mitchell Starc’s three for 40 on his IPL 2026 debut ended Delhi Capitals’ three-match losing streak, but the strapping on his arm and the words at the...
Apr 19, 2026
Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai Indians captaincy has become the biggest question in IPL 2026
Four straight defeats, a visibly frustrated Bumrah and a fractious dugout have left Hardik Pandya’s captaincy looking less like a project and more lik...
Apr 17, 2026
Five matches, zero wins and no answers: KKR’s 2024 title hangover shows no sign of lifting
Kolkata Knight Riders are bottom of the IPL 2026 table without a single win from five matches, and the problems run so deep that a coaching staff resh...
Apr 16, 2026
De Kock’s century goes to waste and Mumbai Indians are running out of answers
Quinton de Kock played one of the best IPL innings of the season on Thursday night. It did not matter one bit. Punjab Kings chased down 196 inside 17...
Apr 16, 2026
Rajasthan Royals are wasting Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as an impact sub and the teenager knows it
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been one of IPL 2026’s top run-scorers and the most destructive teenager the tournament has seen, yet Rajasthan Royals keep b...
Apr 8, 2026
Kohli and Rohit are running out of runway and IPL 2026 feels like the starting line
With Test and T20I cricket behind them, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are using IPL 2026 as the first real audition in a long build-up to the 2027 ODI...
Apr 7, 2026
Delhi Capitals are quietly looking like IPL 2026’s smartest team so far
Two matches in, Delhi Capitals are unbeaten, top 3 of the standings on net run rate among the early leaders, and producing the kind of cricket that su...
Apr 3, 2026
IPL 2026’s first week has been pure chaos and every team should be worried
Five wins for the chasing side in the first six matches, and not a single team that looks like it has figured out what its best XI should be. The open...
Mar 24, 2026
The IPL keeps creating its own overseas player headache and nobody wants to fix it
Every March the same story plays out: franchises spend crores on overseas stars, half of them pull out or arrive late, and everyone acts surprised. Th...