*Your Monday morning cricket digest, served slightly lukewarm but with genuine affection* --- England Do England Things — And Lose Points for the Privilege There is a certain comfort in consistency. Some people find it in a good cup of tea, or in the way the sun reliably rises each morning. England's cricket team, bless them, find their consistency in a rather more expensive hobby: getting docked World Test Championship points for bowling their overs too slowly. This is now t

Cramps, Heists, and a BBL Going Capitalist: Your Weekly World Cricket Roundup *Welcome back to another edition of Cricket Sledgin', where we attempt to make sense of the beautiful, baffling, occasionally sweat-soaked world of cricket. Grab a chai. Sit down. We have things to discuss.* --- The Innings That Will Live Forever (Or At Least Until Next Week's Drama) Let's start with the story that has the cricket world doing a collective standing ovation, because honestly, it deser

*Weekly Dispatch | Cricket Sledgin' | June 08, 2026* --- There are weeks in cricket when the universe decides to throw absolutely everything at you simultaneously, like a particularly enthusiastic medium-pacer who hasn't quite figured out yorkers yet. This is one of those weeks. We have a debutant spinner making Afghanistan look like they accidentally wandered into a Test match without checking the dress code. We have Bangladesh — *Bangladesh!* — preparing to host Australia i

*Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we process sporting emotions so you don't have to — though, honestly, after last night, we're still processing too.* --- The Night Virat Kohli Let Himself Go (In the Best Way Possible) It happened. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are IPL champions. Read that sentence again. Let it wash over you. If you are an RCB fan, you have probably already read it seventeen times, printed it out, laminated it, and attached it to your fridge. We do not

KKR find their character, DC search for theirs, and the season rolls on --- By the Cricket Sledgin' desk | May 25, 2026 --- There's a particular kind of post-match press conference energy that tells you everything you need to know about how a team's season has gone. One captain walks in looking like a man who has just found a twenty-rupee note in an old jacket pocket — pleasantly surprised, quietly satisfied, already thinking about what comes next. Another walks in looking li

*Your slightly chaotic roundup of everything happening in cricket right now* --- Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', your favourite corner of the internet where we take cricket very seriously and ourselves not at all. It's Monday, May 18, 2026, and the cricket world has been absolutely refusing to give us a quiet weekend. Bangladesh are building something enormous in a Test match, Delhi Capitals are apparently guests at their own stadium, and Mitchell Starc is once again being

Image: (Illustration: A veteran fast bowler delivering at a packed IPL venue — craft and experience on full display under the lights) When a 'Cricketing IQ' Beats a Six-Pack, Every Single Time *Welcome back to the blog where we analyse cricket with the seriousness it deserves and the dignity it occasionally earns. Grab your chai. This one's got layers.* --- The Artist Formerly Known as "Just a Swing Bowler" There is a particular joy in watching someone age like fine wine in a

Image: (Illustration: A top-order batsman pauses mid-innings, a reminder that every player's tournament can turn on the smallest moment — or the smallest injury.) *Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we try to make sense of the beautiful chaos that is cricket — and mostly succeed, except when we don't, which is more often than we'd like to admit.* --- Phil Salt's Finger Has Other Plans Let's begin with the news that RCB fans are reading with one eye open and one hand cove

Image: (Illustration: A batsman plays a textbook stroke on the famous slow Chepauk surface as the floodlights come alive and the Chennai crowd roars) *Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', your favourite fan blog that treats every IPL match like a geopolitical event and every dropped catch like a personal betrayal. Grab your chai, settle in, and let's talk cricket.* --- El Clásico Goes One Way — Again There is something deeply, almost cosmically satisfying about watching a rivalr

Image: (Illustration: Chepauk under lights — the slow turner that CSK called home advantage in their El Clásico win over MI) *Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', your favourite corner of the internet where we pretend to understand cricket strategy and occasionally get lucky. Pour yourself something cold, because we have a proper Saturday of cricket to unpack.* --- El Clásico Chepauk Edition: CSK Make MI Sweat (Again) There are derbies, and then there is Chennai Super Kings vers

Image: (Illustration: Chepauk under the lights — conditions that reward patience and punish ambition in equal measure) *Derby day delivered drama, the Women's squad gets a refresh, and two IPL philosophies prepare to collide — your Saturday catch-up is here* --- El Clásico, Chepauk Edition: CSK Do It Again There is something almost meditative about watching Chennai Super Kings win at Chepauk. The crowd is loud, the pitch is slow, the opposition is confused, and somewhere in t

Image: (Illustration: A left-arm pace bowler charges in under floodlights — the kind of sight that tends to concentrate a batter's mind wonderfully.) *Your weekly dispatch from the chaotic, glorious, occasionally bewildering world of Indian Premier League cricket — where the NRR matters more than your feelings and Mitchell Starc is back to ruin someone's evening.* --- Gujarat Titans Turn RCB Into a Science Experiment There is a particular kind of cricket match that statistici

Image: (Illustration: A left-arm fast bowler in full stride under IPL floodlights — the kind of sight that tends to make opening batters reconsider their life choices) Titans Dominate, Capitals Claw Back, and Royals Try to Keep Controversies Off the Front Page *Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we watch cricket so you don't have to — except you absolutely should, because this IPL season is getting spicy.* --- Thursday, April 30, 2026. The kind of evening where multiple

Image: (Illustration: A bowler lets one loose under the IPL floodlights as the Purple Cap race heats up in 2026) *Because nothing says "peaceful weekend" quite like two IPL games back-to-back and a leaderboard that refuses to sit still.* --- The Sunday That Was: A Double-Header Digest There is a special kind of Sunday in the IPL calendar — the kind where the cricket gods, apparently dissatisfied with just one match, decide to give you two. This past Sunday was one of those bl

Image: (Illustration: A bowler in full flight under IPL floodlights — the kind of performance RCB's attack delivered against LSG) *Because someone has to write about cricket with both a spreadsheet and a sense of humour, and that someone is apparently us.* --- RCB Are Top of the Table and We're All Pretending to Be Calm About It Let's just acknowledge the elephant in the room — or rather, the red-and-gold elephant doing victory laps around the room. Royal Challengers Bengalur

Image: (Illustration: A floodlit IPL stadium buzzing with anticipation as a red-kit batsman makes his way to the crease) Your mid-week IPL and world cricket digest — April 15, 2026 --- There's a particular kind of human being who, when told by their body to rest, instead says "you know what, let me just go score some runs in front of 50,000 people instead." Virat Kohli is that kind of human being. The rest of us eat paracetamol and watch Netflix. Kohli comes on as an Impact P

Image: (Illustration: A bowler lets it rip under the IPL floodlights — the kind of delivery that ends up in highlight packages and quietly decides table positions) # *Also: Kohli plays through illness, Jason Roy lands in Karachi, and we try to make sense of it all* --- Welcome back to another edition of Cricket Sledgin', your favourite corner of the internet where we take Indian cricket far too seriously and ourselves not seriously enough. It is Wednesday, April 15, 2026, the

*The IPL is hurtling along, PSL is doing its own dramatic thing, and the Caribbean is already planning its party. Grab a chai. There's a lot to unpack.* --- RCB Are Top of the Table and We Are Collectively Not Ready for This Let us begin with the news that will either delight you or send you into a mild existential spiral, depending on your allegiances: Royal Challengers Bengaluru are sitting at the top of the IPL 2026 points table. Yes. You read that correctly. RCB. Top. Of.

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