Jul 8, 2026
t20iShreyas Iyer said the three words that nobody in the dressing room wanted said, and the three words were "atrocious, awful, unacceptable", and the three words are the three words that are the only honest thing that came out of Trent Bridge.
Jul 8, 2026
featuresSourav Ganguly turned fifty-four, and the fifty-four is the fifty-four that is the thing that is the thing that the retrospective is for, and the retrospective is the retrospective that is the thing that is the thing that the captain who taught India to win away is, and the win away is the win away that is the thing that is the thing that changed Indian cricket culture.
Jul 8, 2026
predictionsWho will win India vs Australia, second T20I? The case for India is the venue and the form. The case for Australia is the toss and the powerplay. The verdict rests on which case the toss lets in.
Jul 7, 2026
newsGill's Test average in 2026 is 52, up from 33 in 2024. The number that explains the rise is the number of balls he has left, which is 147 in his last 15 innings, more than any Indian opener in the same period. Here is the form sheet and the numbers behind it.
Jul 7, 2026
newsThe India squad for the England series at home will be named on Friday. The three selection calls are Bumrah's workload, the third spinner, and the backup opener. Here are the updates from the camp, the NCA, and the selection committee.
Jul 7, 2026
featuresRohit's press conferences, in the last two years, have become the thing that journalists attend and that the BCCI broadcasts and that the fans watch, and the reason is not the reason that the BCCI says, which is transparency. The reason is that Rohit tells the truth, and the truth is the thing that captains do not, in the modern game, tell.
Jul 6, 2026
indiaIn his last fifteen Test innings, Jaiswal has six scores over fifty, two hundreds, and an average of fifty-eight. He has also left more balls than any other Indian opener in the same period, which is the number that explains the other numbers.
Jul 6, 2026
newsKohli's 2026 Test average is 68, the highest of any year in his career. The number is not the number of a player in decline. The number is the number of a player who has stopped chasing the balls outside off and who has, in the stopping, found the runs that the chasing cost him.
Jul 5, 2026
newsRohit's 2026 Test average is 41, down from 48 in 2025. The number is the number of a player in his last year, and the last year is the year that the leaving has not fixed, because the leaving is the thing that the seam does, and the seam is the thing that Rohit, at 38, has slowed against, and the slowing is the thing that the dismissals come from.
Jul 4, 2026
iplFive franchises let their captain go. Three did it to free up purse for the mega auction. One did it because the dressing room had stopped listening. We went through all ten retention lists so you don't have to.
Jul 2, 2026
testsBumrah took seven wickets in the second innings at the Wanderers, the second-best haul by an Indian quick in South Africa, and India's chase of 257 was built on a Jaiswal hundred that nobody expected to survive the morning session.
Jun 30, 2026
t20iSuryakumar's T20I average is forty-one and his strike rate is one hundred and seventy-one, and the two numbers together are the numbers that no other player in the history of the format has, and the numbers are the numbers that the World Cup will, if India win it, be the reason.
