Jul 1, 2026
seriesIndia and Australia have played ten Border-Gavaskar series since 2014. India have won eight. The reason is not the reason the commentary boxes give, which is spin. The reason is the reason that the scorecards show, which is the second innings, and the second innings is the innings that India, in this series, have made their own.
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 15, 2026
testsIndia lost six wickets for thirty-one runs in the twilight session of the second day at Adelaide, the session that the pink ball does its most work in, and the session that has decided every day-night Test played at the ground since the format was introduced.
Jun 10, 2026
recordsTendulkar's 200th Test was in November 2013, his last, and in the eleven years since, no Indian batter has come within thirty Tests of his record of two hundred, and the reason is the reason that the calendar has changed, and the calendar is the thing that nobody blames.
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.
