🔒 Sushant Singh has a nuanced piece on the India-Pakistan crisis; the latter are damaging themselves, the former are damaging the world game.
“Across the border, however, a more potent and deliberate danger to the sport has crystallised. Because pointing out Pakistan’s dysfunction does not justify India’s actions. If Pakistan’s problem is chaos and incompetence, India’s is something more sinister, systematic, and corrosive to the sport itself. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is no longer a sporting body.”
📊 Himanish Ganjoo breaks down the strengths and weaknesses in IND’s batting.
“From being below average, Abhishek has zoomed ahead of his peers against the most common pace lengths any batter can face.
The only chink in his armour could be his tendency to mistime balls wide outside the off stump, a weakness that teams have recently picked up on. From the start of 2024 to October 2025, pacers bowled 40% of their balls outside off to him; that figure has risen to 49% since. His SR against these balls is a measly 72.”
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“Abhishek Sharma, Babar Azam, and new measures for T20 hitting”
📊 Kartikeya Date suggests new metrics are needed to understand modern T20s.
✍️ Firoz Mirza looks at the lives of (badly paid) umpires who bear the brunt of our often unjustified anger.
“Only a handful of these umpires are able to earn a handsome salary through umpiring but most of them are forced to work elsewhere to make ends meet. Earlier, things were a bit different. A few matches for state helped them get a government job. Working for the government — be it the central or state — made part-time umpiring job much more viable even if the match fee per day was pittance (between Rs 200 to 500 per day [$2.2 to $5.5]). However, in today’s time, it is difficult to survive solely on umpiring even if the match fee has grown up.”
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“Uneven Pitch for Lesser Mortals”
✍️ Firoz Mirza talks to the unheralded Indian ground staff who get paid a pittance but pay the price for any cricketing mishaps at home – a significant risk under the current coaching regime.
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“Black Caps Left With More Questions”
📊 Beyond Cow Corner analyses NZ’s team selection after their warm ups. -
“Nabi’s one-of-a-kind international journey”
✍️ Nick Friend talks to the semi-pros Mohammad Nabi has faced in 20 years, many of whom are from associate countries and just work normal jobs now. -
“I don’t like cricket, I love it”
✍️ Shashank Kishore has a great look into the thriving cricket fandom in Nepal, and how the Nepali Premier League is tapping into it to build the sport. -
“One of England’s most popular cricketers”
🔒 Sonia Twigg with Lauren Bell on how her social media popularity has exploded after one successful season at RCB.
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“How Jemi & Laura ran RCB ragged”
📊 Tanish Taneja on how Jemimah Rodrigues & Laura Wolvaardt broke the RCB bowlers’ middle overs strangle to post a daunting 203-run total in the WPL final. -
“How Mandhana & Voll took RCB to the promised land”
📊 Tarutr Malhotra on how Georgia Voll bent DC’s bowlers & Smriti Mandhana broke them to help RCB easily chase down that daunting total. -
“Shafali Verma’s…learning”
📊 Aman Patel on how Shafali Verma learnt from her mistakes in the league phase to kill all GG hopes in the eliminator match. -
“WPL 2026: Mega Review”
📽️ PCCI Pod got a bunch of the BoC writers together (including yours truly!) to look back at the season; each team got grades and analyses, and we end with a snake-style draft to pick a 12-woman roster to beat the champions. [Apple/Spotify]
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“Forza Azzurri!”
📽️ Sam Perry & Ian Higgins talk to two sets of Aussie brothers playing for the Italians at this World Cup about switching their allegiances. [YouTube] -
“The Great Babar Azam Go-Slow”
📽️ Jarrod Kimber & Behram Qazi discuss Babar Azam the T20 batter, whether he actually is as bad as everyone is saying, and how he can be used by PAK. [YouTube] -
“The Saffronisation of Cricket”
🎤 PCCI Pod host Sushant Singh to talk about the religion-tinted politicisation of India, the BCCI & the ICC. [Apple/Spotify] -
“Taylor made mentor”
🎤 Firdose Moonda & Valkerie Baynes talk to Sarah Taylor about being the rare female coach that has worked in both Men’s and Women’s cricket, as well as her most recent stint with GG in the WPL. [Apple/Spotify]