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Not Farooqi's return — Zimbabwe's bench is the real story on this team sheet
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The Target Is on Our Back: The Batting Question Hidden Inside South Africa's Fast-Bowling Story
Bavuma's 179 and South Africa's 425/9: a scorecard of control, a story of cracks
Test Caps 217 and 218: The Error Isn't in the Name, It's in Using the Name as a Key
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Test Caps 217 and 218: The Error Isn't in the Name, It's in Using the Name as a KeyIn the Pune press box, three hours before the toss, my prep sheet had one nam...
Zero Information Points: The Cricket Report That Looked Complete and Was Empty InsideOn Tuesday morning a file sat on my desk in Bengaluru. Eight sections. A risk...
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Kishan's Adductor Strain and India's Real Question: Who Takes the Gloves in the Second T20IThe record and the strain, in this case, are two names for the same event. In...
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Ishan Kishan's Adductor and India's Unanswered Second-Keeper QuestionMy notebook has a column nobody else keeps: which muscle. A scorecard records...
Not Farooqi's return — Zimbabwe's bench is the real story on this team sheetThree lines. Nothing more than three. Zimbabwe are batting with two changes....
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The Blank Scorecard: Why Cricket Never Writes Down Half Its StoryIn March 2026, packing away nineteen years of notebooks from the newspaper in...
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In This Transfer Window, the Costliest Deal Is Information — Not a PlayerIt was a message at 11:40 pm. One name, one number, and one sentence —...
The Dew Dossier: India's Six-Bowler Plan in Zimbabwe, and the Question the Scorecard Never AsksStart with one image from the third match. The daylight has drained out,...
The Under-40 Clause: A Final With a Highlights Reel and No ScorecardThe highlights video carries five facts: St. Peter's vs St. Anthony's, an...
The Target Is on Our Back: The Batting Question Hidden Inside South Africa's Fast-Bowling StoryAt the press conference after the second Test in Gqeberha, Temba Bavuma said...
The Real Scorecard of Gqeberha: Bavuma's 179, Jansen's 5-33 and Boland's 166 BallsOn the last evening at St George's Park, the umpires checked the light meter...
Bavuma's 179 and South Africa's 425/9: a scorecard of control, a story of cracksThe scorecard was still warm when we hit record. South Africa had declared on...
Indian Cricket's Emptiest Scorecard: The Under-19 Pipeline Record Nobody KeepsIn my workroom in Chennai last month, I put a filter on a spreadsheet. The...
Before Cape Town: Bavuma's Target on the Back, Rabada's Six Wickets, and the Minor Tally That Explains the SeriesTwo in the morning in Kolkata. The Gqeberha stream is running on the laptop a...
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