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The Mangalapuram Arithmetic: Bengal's 12 Points, Shami's New Ball, and a Pitch That Won't Agree With SpinTwelve points. The Elite Group C table of the Ranji Trophy puts Bengal on top...
From 19/2 to 328/6: Harmanpreet's Eighth Century and the Hidden Scoreboard at VadodaraFrom 19/2 to 328/6: Harmanpreet's Eighth Century and the Hidden Scoreboard at...
Sufiyan Moqim Released: PCB's Lahore Pitch Explanation Is the Weakest Link in a Squad-Balance DecisionThree matches in Rawalpindi, two wins, no defeats. Then the squad moved to...
An IRIS Bug, a Widow's Return: Lahore Tax Bar Asks FBR to Correct Its SoftwareThe green tick arrives first. 'Your return has been submitted successfully.'...
Eight Drops, Eight Recalls: The Selection Economics of Usman Khawaja's 88 Tests and Fifteen Years of SilenceJanuary 2026, Sydney Cricket Ground. The page in my notebook is split into tw...
Between Feni and Dhaka: An Under-18 Cricketer's Death and the 10 Lakh Taka Welfare AuditSaturday, 24 October. A vehicle was moving up the road from Feni towards Dhak...
Four Wickets, No Win: Santner’s 4/21 and India’s 30-Ball TurnaroundI opened the notebook, and the first number was not Mitchell Santner’s name. ...
NCL Round 4, Day 1: 912 Runs Across Three Venues — and the One Number That Devalues the CenturiesThere is a way to open a domestic scorebook: score first, venue second, date...
The Story With No Cricket In It: Taif's Missiles, One Wrong Tag, and the Real Gulf QuestionOne morning an item landed in the cricket desk's feed with a tag already stuc...
The Coach Who Is Still a Player: Pollard's Dual Mandate and Mumbai Indians' Retention ClockHook — One Date, Two Contracts If you read transfer news the way you read a...
Henry's Calf Is New Zealand's Real Scorecard: The T20I Leg Is Now a Conditioning Vehicle for ODIs and TestsMatt Henry bowled two of his four overs in the second T20I. Then the ball wen...
One Quote, Three Ledgers and an Empty Column: Pricing Nitish Kumar Reddy's 'Growing Confidence'At seven in the morning in Bangalore the rain had not arrived, but the papers...
Seven Out, Two Back: Pakistan's Reset Is an Accounting Problem, Not a Cricket OneThe iron gate at the Rawalpindi stand goes cold in a November morning, and th...
Tilak Varma’s Risk-Managed Finish in Christchurch: How India Solved a Spin-Squeezed 46 off 18 ChaseThe scoreboard read 135/6 after 17 overs, and India needed 46 from 18 balls. ...
Corridor Log: Ishan Kishan's Adductor, a Fifteen-Year-Old's Shoulder, and the Bench LedgerThe BCCI media advisory landed on the evening of 23 October. One line said...
From Hall Gate to the Golden Temple: Amarnath's Cleanliness Appeal and the Three Dates in That LedgerFrom Hall Gate to the Golden Temple: Amarnath's Cleanliness Appeal and the...
From 112/6 to 181/6: How Tilak Varma and Nitish Kumar Reddy Rewrote the Scorecard19.5 overs, 181/6, and all of it after 112/6. That single line is the whole...
The Quiet Ledger at Christchurch: Tilak's 26 Catches, Arshdeep's 38 Wickets — Three Layers Buried Under the RecordMy notebook records the second T20 at Christchurch as two numbers — 26 and 38...
Ishan Kishan's Adductor Strain: India's No.3 Vacancy and the Wicketkeeping Question Nobody FiledThe sheet I filled by hand during the first T20I had a name at No.3 written i...
Pollard's Appointment: The Contract Nobody Published Is the Real StoryThe Mumbai Indians press release ran to a dozen lines. It contained Kieron...
A Squad Written for the Mirpur Surface: Bangladesh's Three-Spinner Bet Hidden in Fifteen NamesThe first ball at Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium will be...
Ten Information Points, Zero Cricket Entities: A Ledger Audit of a cricket_asia LabelThree files lay open on my desk in Bangalore that night. The first held last...
The Empty Payload: When the Cricket Desk's Data File Came Back Blank2:27 a.m. Two lines sit on a laptop screen in a Pune flat. The first says:...





























