3 minute readAbout a month ago we had this big article planned about how India could easily end up winning the Test series against England. Then… well, who knows what happened? It could have been anything. None of us will ever know. All we can say for certain is that the article
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What is it like to be Virat Kohli?
8 minute readCaptain of his country, the best batsman in the world, tens of millions of social media followers and filthy rich – what is it like to be Virat Kohli? Well barring some sort of Freaky Friday body swap development, we’re just going to have to try and imagine. But we
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Does the IPL deserve its reputation?
12 minute readThe 2019 IPL is getting underway. It is the 12th edition. Last year we took a look at whether the IPL deserved it reputation. This is that article. Back in 2008 the IPL was a bombastic upstart that threw huge sums of money at all the big name players. Now
Continue readingWe checked who bought Rishabh Pant and it reminded us of something about the IPL
2 minute readRishabh Pant is a player we keep an eye on. We don’t write about him much at the minute, but we get the sense that we will. We were therefore interested to see where he ended up in the IPL auction and whether the teams valued him as highly as
Continue readingSouth Africa v India is not boxing, it’s racing
< 1 minute readWith wickets falling every 10 or 20 runs in the South Africa v India series, it’s tempting to resort to the heavyweight boxer cliché. This has the two combatants going toe-to-toe, knocking lumps out of one another with neither taking a backward step. It’s odd to think of wickets as
Continue readingRemember when Virat Kohli was a limited overs cricketer?
2 minute readNick Hoult wrote the case study we couldn’t be bothered writing in The Telegraph yesterday. The short version is that between now and England picking their first Test squad to face India in August, Jason Roy will have at most one first-class match in which to make his case for
Continue readingAjinkya Rahane must be shit-hot at making drinks
2 minute readWe’ve always liked Ajinkya Rahane. He’s always struck us as a batsman who can adapt to different situations and different conditions. India like him too. They like him to be 12th man. Rahane’s case for inclusion in the second Test against South Africa wasn’t undeniable, we’ll admit. He had a
Continue readingIs Hardik Pandya the best all-rounder in the world?
< 1 minute readOne of the problems with asking questions such as this is what time-frame do you use to make your assessment? Performances over the last year, over the last five years, over the last ten years? We’re going make our assessment based on performances over the last 24 hours. This leads
Continue readingWhen did Kolkata become dibbly-dobbly military-medium paradise?
< 1 minute readIf you were India and had access to a time-and-place machine capable of replacing a nearby patch of land with one from elsewhere and elsewhen, then when and where would you choose to play Sri Lanka at Test cricket? It’s unlikely that you answered ‘Derby last April’ but that is
Continue readingWith the Ashes decided, England and Australia will look to determine which has the better ODI second XI
< 1 minute readEngland and Australia fans who enjoy answering the question “so why isn’t this the Ashes then?” will be delighted to hear that the two sides are going to do that thing where they follow the Test series with five don’t-give-a-toss one-day matches six months later in the other country. The
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