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WPL 2026 season in review: tactical trends, records and what changes for 2027
The fourth Women’s Premier League season has ended, and it produced the storyline the competition had been building toward since its first edition: Delhi Capitals, twice runners-up and perennial league-phase champions, finally lifted the trophy. Their final win — chased down with overs to spare after a season in which their batting had been the …
WPL team guide 2027: squads, coaches, home venues and fan bases
Three seasons in, the Women’s Premier League has outgrown its “new tournament” phase. The 2023 launch felt like an experiment; by 2026 it had become the second most valuable women’s cricket property in the world, a genuine talent engine for India’s national team, and — judging by broadcast audiences — a fixture of the cricketing …
Ranji Trophy 2026/27 preview: format, squads to watch and what scouts are tracking
India’s domestic season opens this week, and with it comes the tournament that has quietly become the most consequential competition in Indian cricket. The Ranji Trophy no longer exists merely to crown a champion among forty-something state teams; it is now the primary laboratory where the national selection committee reads evidence. With the World Test …
IPL Impact Player rule: what three seasons taught coaches — and why it may not survive
Very few rules in modern cricket have reshaped a tournament as quickly as the Impact Player. Introduced by the IPL in 2023, the rule lets teams substitute one player at any stage of an innings — replacing a batter with a bowler, a spinner with a hitter, an opener with a death specialist — effectively …
IPL 2027 mega auction: team-by-team purse breakdown and predicted marquee buys
The IPL’s most chaotic day returns this winter. The mega auction — the mechanism that periodically tears squads apart and forces every franchise to rebuild in a single afternoon of frenetic bidding — is due before the 2027 season, and with it comes the question that dominates every fan forum from September onwards: how much …
India’s Test cricket puzzle: WTC 2027-29 cycle and why red-ball form decides selection
Test selection in India has always been a numbers game, but the numbers are changing their source. For a decade, white-ball brilliance could carry a player into red-ball reckoning on reputation alone; the last eighteen months have quietly reversed that logic. India’s Test team, now built around Shubman Gill and a generation that replaced Rohit …
The transition XI: India’s ODI rebuild after Kohli and Rohit on the road to World Cup 2027
When Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma announced their ODI retirements in October 2025, Indian cricket lost roughly twenty years of combined white-ball genius in a single press conference window. Between them, the pair accounted for more than 11,000 runs of ODI batting, several iconic chases and an entire era’s emotional identity. Nothing in the sport …
Smriti Mandhana’s captaincy: how RCB built the title-winning blueprint
Every so often, a title win is remembered not for the final itself but for the journey behind it. Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Women’s Premier League triumph belongs firmly in that category. In the league’s first season, RCB looked lost — big names, big buzz, bottom of the table. A year later, the same franchise lifted …
WPL 2027 auction: expansion rumors and the franchises’ salary-cap strategy
Every auction table tells a story, but the one ahead of WPL 2027 carries more subplots than usual. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have just lifted a second title, Delhi Capitals have lost three finals and are still waiting, and whispers about a sixth franchise refuse to die down. At the same time, each team’s purse is …
Vijay Hazare Trophy vs Syed Mushtaq Ali: why 50-over lists still matter for IPL careers
Every winter, Indian domestic cricket splits into two moods. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy arrives first, all boundaries and bold strokes, and it usually dominates the conversation because twenty-over numbers translate so obviously to franchise cricket. Then the Vijay Hazare Trophy begins, quieter in tone but heavier in consequence, and a curious thing keeps happening: …
