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D3 Trophy auction: Tanjid at 2 crore, Shanto at 1.6 — and Mustafizur at 70 lakh, where the calendar, not the cricketer, set the price
Asia Cup Schedule: Where Bangladesh Plays, and Why 22 November Outweighs Every Other Date
Santner's 4/21: The Four-Over Squeeze New Zealand Could Not Carry Past the Fifteenth
New Zealand A 228/7, Lead 117: The First-Innings 111 Hidden Behind Anshul Kamboj's 3/32
Kishan's Groin and Sooryavanshi's No.5: India's Real Selection Question at Hagley Oval
RkटीमPPtsरेटिंग
1Australia273411126
2South Africa192256119
3New Zealand222336106
3New Zealand222336106
4India293042105
5England363658102
6Bangladesh24187878
6Bangladesh24187878
RkटीमPPtsरेटिंग
1India333841116
2New Zealand353809109
2New Zealand353809109
3Australia323304103
4South Africa313192103
5Pakistan323215100
6Sri Lanka36347096
6Sri Lanka36347096
RkटीमPPtsरेटिंग
1England4111021269
2India6417201269
3Australia389868260
4New Zealand5012348247
4New Zealand5012348247
5South Africa5312881243
6Pakistan5713679240
7West Indies5613079234
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Santner's 4/21: The Four-Over Squeeze New Zealand Could Not Carry Past the FifteenthBy the end of the fifteenth over in Christchurch the board read 112/6, and...
New Zealand A 228/7, Lead 117: The First-Innings 111 Hidden Behind Anshul Kamboj's 3/3269.2 overs. 228/7 on the board. A lead of 117. Those three numbers become the...
The 350 Mark: When a Fast Bowler Put More Faith in the Bat Than in His Own BallThe microphone was in front of him and the question was the one that always...
Mid-120s to Mid-130s: Steffan Jones Joins Mumbai Indians and the Unfinished Audit Trail of a Pace-Building HireIt is a speed-gun reading I had been tracking for a while. Nitish Kumar Reddy...
BCB's D3 T20 Auction: Why the Points Model and December Window Make It a Risky ExperimentThe Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold the auction for the T20 edition ...
Eight Dimensions, Zero Facts: The Hollow Inside Cricket's Content MachineAt 2:14 a.m. in a Chennai edit suite, an eight-dimension cricket analysis sat...
The Null Payload: Eight Boxes, One Sentence — and a Cricket Desk That Refused to InventThe file opened and there were eight boxes on the screen. Inside each, nearly...
PSL 12 Road Map: 44 Matches, Eight Teams, and the Count Nobody MadeThe announcement did not arrive like a match. It arrived like a press release...
South Africa's Innings-and-31 Win in Gqeberha: India's WTC Ceiling Is 66.67, Australia's Floor Is 68.8The brass band under the old stand at St George's Park returns to the same...
Shaheen Afridi's 150th ODI Wicket in His 80th Match: Eleven Games Faster Than Waqar and Shoaib, But Greatness Is Still UnprovenAt the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, the new ball was in Shaheen Shah Afridi's...
Lincoln, Day 2: The Gap From 113 to 317, and India A's Ninety-Eight-Run LineAt 2:47 a.m. in Sydney the scorecard refreshed itself, and the number that...
Nahid Rana's Shoulder: A Third Injury in Four Months, and the Question the Bulletin Never AskedOn 28 October Bangladesh begins a two-Test series against West Indies. The sa...
D Three Trophy: Six Teams, Nine Fixtures, and a Schedule That Fails Its Own CountSix teams. A single round-robin. Each team plays five matches. Six times five...
Asia Cup Schedule: Where Bangladesh Plays, and Why 22 November Outweighs Every Other DateThe Asian Cricket Council's published fixture list lays out a 50-over...
Eight Columns, Zero Facts: The Hollow Scorecard of Cricket AnalysisLast week a document landed on my desk in Pune. Eight chapters. Format and...
Two Points Between Seventh and Eighth: When the Ranking Became the Story Before the Cricket DidThat Rawalpindi pitch, on which England scored 429 and still lost. If that...
The Christchurch Ledger: A 181 Chase, a 70/5 Blank, and the Tilak Varma Innings That Made It 2-0Hagley Oval, Christchurch. The second match of a five-match bilateral T20I...
After the Christchurch Thriller, Nitish Kumar Reddy: Pathan's Backing and the Number That Isn't Logged YetThe first remark to surface after that Christchurch T20I was more interesting...
Abhishek Sharma's 100th Powerplay Six: The Number That Tells a Record, and the Match That Changes the StoryAt Hagley Oval in Christchurch, the third ball of the third over. Matt Henry'...
Pollard's Double Ledger: A 144 Strike Rate, a 15,000-Run Counter and the Mumbai Indians ChairTwo receipts, one man. The first is a Joburg Super Kings contract — "more tha...
Santner's 4/21: The Four-Over Squeeze New Zealand Could Not Carry Past the FifteenthBy the end of the fifteenth over in Christchurch the board read 112/6, and...
New Zealand A 228/7, Lead 117: The First-Innings 111 Hidden Behind Anshul Kamboj's 3/3269.2 overs. 228/7 on the board. A lead of 117. Those three numbers become the...
The 350 Mark: When a Fast Bowler Put More Faith in the Bat Than in His Own BallThe microphone was in front of him and the question was the one that always...
Mid-120s to Mid-130s: Steffan Jones Joins Mumbai Indians and the Unfinished Audit Trail of a Pace-Building HireIt is a speed-gun reading I had been tracking for a while. Nitish Kumar Reddy...
BCB's D3 T20 Auction: Why the Points Model and December Window Make It a Risky ExperimentThe Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold the auction for the T20 edition ...
Eight Dimensions, Zero Facts: The Hollow Inside Cricket's Content MachineAt 2:14 a.m. in a Chennai edit suite, an eight-dimension cricket analysis sat...
The Null Payload: Eight Boxes, One Sentence — and a Cricket Desk That Refused to InventThe file opened and there were eight boxes on the screen. Inside each, nearly...
PSL 12 Road Map: 44 Matches, Eight Teams, and the Count Nobody MadeThe announcement did not arrive like a match. It arrived like a press release...
South Africa's Innings-and-31 Win in Gqeberha: India's WTC Ceiling Is 66.67, Australia's Floor Is 68.8The brass band under the old stand at St George's Park returns to the same...