Jun 5, 2026
odiIndia's number four has been changed eleven times in the last twenty ODIs. The number five has been changed nine times. The number six has been changed six times. The numbers are not a problem of selection. The numbers are a problem of the structure above them.
May 30, 2026
featuresSiraj took five for thirty-two in the first innings of the first Test against the West Indies, and the five wickets were the wickets of a bowler who learned his craft in the IPL, and the learning is the thing that the Test team has benefited from, and the benefiting is the thing that the IPL's critics do not credit the league for.
May 22, 2026
t20iThe ICC introduced the Kookaburra Pace Pro for this year's bilateral T20Is, a ball with a more pronounced seam and a harder core, and the scores in the first twenty matches with it have dropped by an average of fourteen runs per innings.
Apr 12, 2026
featuresKuldeep took eighteen wickets in the ODI series against Sri Lanka, the most by an Indian spinner in a three-match series in eight years, and the wickets were the wickets of a wrist spinner who has, after three seasons of being in and out of the side, found his length, and the length is the thing that wrist spinners lose and find and lose again.
Mar 22, 2026
wplThe second WPL season averaged twelve thousand fans per match, up from seven thousand in the first, and the average is not the number that matters. The number that matters is the number of Indian players who scored a fifty in the season, which was nineteen, against nine in the first season.
Mar 18, 2026
womenMandhana made eighty-four off fifty-one balls in the WPL final, the highest score in a final in the tournament's short history, and the innings was defined by the over she did not score in, which was the eleventh, and which she faced six balls of and left three.
Mar 5, 2026
ranjiThe Duleep Trophy final was decided by a wicketkeeper's stumping, which was the stumping that the slow-motion replay showed was taken in point four two seconds from the ball reaching the glove to the bails coming off, and the point four two seconds is the thing that the Indian team has been missing.
Feb 28, 2026
womenHarmanpreet has captained India in forty-seven T20Is, with a win rate of fifty-eight per cent, and the numbers are not the problem. The problem, according to three people in the squad, is the message, which has stopped landing, and the players who it is not landing with are the players who will decide the next World Cup.
Feb 10, 2026
ranjiJadeja played all eight Ranji matches for Saurashtra this season, the first time in nine years he has played the full domestic season, and the thing nobody is watching is how he bowled, which was forty overs a day, on pitches that did not turn, to batters who were not afraid of him.
Jan 20, 2026
newsThe India U19 squad for the World Cup was announced on Monday, and the fifteen names in it are the names that the IPL scouts have been tracking since the Cooch Behar Trophy in October, and the names are the names that will, in two years, be the names in the mega auction pool.
Jan 15, 2026
featuresPant returned to international cricket in the third Test against England, seventeen months after the accident, and the hundred he made was the hundred that nobody in the dressing room expected and that everybody in the dressing room needed, and the story of why is a story about a team and a player who had, for a year, been each other's ghost.
