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.
Jun 21, 2026
indiaGill made one hundred and twenty-eight at Headingley, his first overseas Test hundred, and the innings was notable less for the runs than for the balls he left, which were forty-one, and which is more than he had left in his previous four Tests combined.
Jun 18, 2026
seriesThe T20 World Cup schedule was released on Tuesday, and the India-Pakistan match is on a Sunday, and the Sunday is the thing that the broadcasters wanted and that the ICC gave them and that the fans in the diaspora have been waiting for, and the Sunday is the thing that will decide the television record for the year.
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.
