It took India all of four deliveries on the sun-baked opening day of the Lord’s Test to sense that what had worked at Edgbaston might not quite hold here. Jasprit Bumrah found the outside edge in his very first over, yet didn’t claim a wicket until early in the final session. Even before the buzz…
A relentless spell of rain forced an abandonment of the qualifier between Washington Freedom and Texas Super Kings in Dallas. As a result, Freedom went through to their second straight final on the virtue of finishing above TSK in the league stage where they were the table toppers. While there was a rain threat hovering…
Among several compelling narratives that were proffered for the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, one stood out: the “Bazballers” against the generational talent of Jasprit Bumrah. This promised a fascinating battle between an English side redefining risk-taking in Test cricket and a fast bowler at the pinnacle of his powers. While the allure of this duel was undeniable,…
Why Wiaan? Why would you declare when you are 34 runs away from surpassing Brian Lara – Brian bloody Lara! – and becoming the highest individual scorer in an innings among all the 3,234 men who have yet played Test cricket? Are you sated by having made the most runs by anyone in an away…
The India tour of Bangladesh has been called off, definitively and officially. The Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCCI) have confirmed this on Saturday (July 6). The BCCI and the BCB said the six-match white ball tour has been deferred by more than 12 months. “(We) have mutually…
There’s a famous image of Mohammed Shami beaming at the camera, holding up two broken pieces of a stump like trophies. It was taken after the final day of the Visakhapatnam Test in 2019, a game India won on the back of a classic Shami fourth-innings burst. At Edgbaston, nearly five years on and thousands…
At Headingley, Mohammed Siraj drew 69 false shots in 41 overs, a 27.8% false shot percentage, and yet walked away with just two wickets. So when Joe Root feathered a harmless ball down the leg side in Siraj’s first over on the third morning at Edgbaston, the reprieve felt overdue. What followed, though, was anything…
The growing chatter linking Sanju Samson with Chennai Super Kings appears to have substance beyond social media speculation. Cricbuzz can confirm that the CSK franchise is open to welcoming the batter-keeper in their fold. But so are a few other teams. While confirming interest in Samson, a senior CSK official told Cricbuzz that no formal communication has yet been…
At one point during the post-Lunch stupor that was the second session of the opening day at Edgbaston, Ben Stokes dramatically ushered his off-side fielders to move into catching positions. While point stayed put, mid-off, cover and extra-cover all moved in. The passage of play just before had reduced the Hollies Stand to a mild…
Powered by a blistering Smriti Mandhana hundred and Shree Charani’s debut heroics, India Women defeated England Women in the first of five T20Is, at Trent Bridge on Saturday (June 28). Here are all the key numbers from the game: 2 – Smriti Mandhana became just the second India batter to register a hundred in Women’s T20Is,…
