New Zealand’s Mitchell Hay plays a shot on day 2 of the second Test against West Indies in Wellington on December 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Mitch Hay scored an aggressive half-century on his Test debut to help New Zealand to a 41-run lead over the West Indies at the close of play on … Read more
New Zealand’s Blair Tickner injures himself trying to catch the ball during day one of the 2nd international Test cricket match between New Zealand and the West Indies at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on December 10, 2025. ( | Photo Credit: AFP New Zealand fought back to claim first-day honours in the second Test … Read more
Hardik Pandya has consistently proven his worth as a consummate all-rounder. | Photo Credit: PTI Supremely confident and one who plays for the masses — that’s Hardik Pandya 101. The flamboyant all-rounder, while fashioning India’s 101-run win over South Africa in Cuttack, reached 99 wickets and 100 sixes in T20Is. These numbers convey an obvious fact. A fit … Read more
The objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: India and South Africa come into Thursday’s (December 11, 2025) second T20I with barely any scope to reflect on Tuesday’s (December 9) exploits. A byproduct of the rapid-fire scheduling is that both teams, having only arrived in India’s first planned city, will have little time … Read more
South Africa’s Anrich Nortje is clean bowled during the first T20I cricket match between India and South Africa at Barabati Stadium, in Cuttack | Photo Credit: PTI At a loss to explain South Africa’s capitulation in the series-opener, their batting coach Ashwell Prince said the visitors simply failed to answer the questions posed by India’s … Read more
Akash Deep Singh is among the capped Indian players in the IPL auction 2026. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The 19th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), featuring 350 players, will go under the hammer at the upcoming auction in Abu Dhabi on December 16th. A total of 1,390 players registered for the Player … Read more
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli during the first ODI against South Africa in Ranchi | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Virat Kohli’s push to regain the top ODI batter spot received a boost as he moved up to second place in the latest ICC rankings released on Wednesday (December 10, 2025). Kohli hasn’t held the No.1 … Read more
Sanju Samson with Jitesh Sharma during a practice session on the eve of the first T20 cricket match of a series between India and South Africa, at Barabati Stadium, in Cuttack, Odisha | Photo Credit: PTI On matchday eve, Suryakumar Yadav admitted that India has pretty much zeroed in on the squad heading into the … Read more
England coach Brendon ‘Baz’ McCullum and skipper Ben Stokes see cricket as entertainment, feel they owe something to the spectators | Photo Credit: Gareth Copley If Bazball is dead — and obituaries are being written furiously — it would be a pity. England didn’t invent the attacking, free-flowing style, nor are they the first team … Read more
To those of us who watched cricket in the 1980s and 90s, Wasim Akram appeared to be a magician in the disguise of a fast bowler. So spellbinding was the left-armer’s artistry, hooping the ball in either direction at will and bewitching opponents and onlookers alike. The poetry of his bowling action was symbolised by … Read more