Samson was the Player of the Tournament at a World Cup India won on home soil three months ago. He lost his T20I spot after three low scores, replaced by a 15-year-old whose entire senior résumé outside the IPL is one innings. That gap between reputation and readiness is the real story here. A debut […]
Stokes ended a 15-year England career by telling teammates in the dressing room before Day 4 began, then letting the ECB announce it to the world mid-session, without ceremony. That’s the culture cricket has built: legends leaving through whatever door happens to be open when the moment arrives, rather than one the sport chooses for […]
Six months before lifting the trophy, Molineux was sidelined by a back injury just three matches into her captaincy, with Australia still chasing a first ICC title in years. She returned to lead the most dominant unbeaten campaign in Women’s T20 World Cup history, finishing as the tournament’s joint-leading wicket-taker among captains. It happened across […]
Since winning the T20 World Cup in Ahmedabad in March, India have lost all three completed T20Is they have played, two to Ireland and one to England, all without Jasprit Bumrah managing away from bilateral cricket. Nowhere has the strain shown more than in the death overs, where Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakravarthy have been […]
Ravi Bishnoi’s 17th over at Old Trafford cost 29 runs and included three back-foot no-balls across the match, the kind of execution fault that turned a tight run chase into a comfortable four-wicket England win. That single over reopened a question that predates the match itself: why India trusted an out-of-favour bowler with an uncertain […]
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is now the youngest player to represent India in international cricket, and the youngest male T20I debutant among full ICC members. Records like that invite an obvious follow-up question, because youngest-ever debuts have produced wildly different careers before. Hasan Raza’s early promise dissolved into obscurity. Aaqib Javed built a decade-long career and a […]
Bangladesh will be without Litton Das for Sunday’s series opener in Harare, a Grade I calf strain that has ruled him out with almost no chance of playing, according to the team’s own physio. That single absence reshapes the top of Bangladesh’s order, while Zimbabwe hand first-time ODI captaincy to Richard Ngarava as they field […]
Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have met 81 times in ODIs, and Bangladesh have won 51 of them, including 18 in a row before the two sides last met in 2022. That history frames Sunday’s series opener at Harare Sports Club, but two individual match-ups sit underneath it: Innocent Kaia’s rediscovered form with the bat, and Nahid […]
Both teams arrive at Lord’s with spin doing most of the damage, and the numbers are closer than almost any final in the competition’s history. Sophie Molineux leads every bowler at the tournament with 10 wickets, while England’s Charlie Dean and Sophie Ecclestone sit level on 9 apiece. Whichever side controls the middle overs with […]
Shreyas Iyer has yet to win a single T20I as India’s captain, and the scrutiny that comes with it is intense. But look back far enough, and some of India’s most successful leaders started exactly the same way: winless, under pressure, and searching for answers before their reigns eventually turned around. Mohammad Azharuddin and KL […]
Twice this tournament, England’s top three have fallen inside the powerplay, and twice Nat Sciver-Brunt and Heather Knight have rebuilt the innings from there. Against Ireland it was 35/3 chased down calmly; against South Africa it was 23/3 turned into a match-winning total. That repetition is the real story heading into Sunday, more revealing than […]