*Your completely-not-impartial-but-trying-our-best roundup of the cricket world | July 27, 2026* --- There is a particular kind of Monday morning feeling in cricket. Someone, somewhere, has batted through the weekend and left you with more questions than answers. Someone else has scored a century that nobody quite expected. And somewhere in all of this, a teenager is making seasoned observers reach for superlatives they normally keep locked in a drawer marked "use only in eme

*A lot happened this weekend in world cricket. Grab your chai. This might take a while.* --- The Lord's Run-Fest That Had Everything (Except an Indian Victory) There are days in cricket when the pitch apparently forgets what its job description is and decides to simply become a batting paradise with delusions of grandeur. Lord's — yes, that Lord's, the one with the Long Room and the members who look like they've been sitting in those seats since the Bodyline series — apparent

*Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we watch more cricket than is probably healthy and somehow convince ourselves it counts as productivity. This week, we have a historic moment at the home of cricket, some MLC playoff drama, and the kind of storylines that remind you why you never really did get around to quitting this sport. Let's go.* --- Yastika Bhatia Walks Into History (Quite Literally, at Lord's) Let's start with the one that genuinely gave us goosebumps — the rea

*Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we watch cricket so you don't have to — except you probably did anyway, and then came here for the jokes.* --- The Big Picture This Week If you've been anywhere near a cricket feed this past week, you'll know the sport is doing what it does best: delivering drama in formats you didn't expect, in cities you're still learning to pronounce correctly, and with administrators making moves that will only make sense in hindsight (if at all).

*Your Monday morning cricket fix, served slightly lukewarm but with great affection* --- Welcome back to Cricket Sledgin', where we read every RSS feed so you don't have to, and then dramatically overanalyse the three items we actually found. It's been one of those weeks where world cricket has been quietly humming along in places most of us need to Google Maps — Zimbabwe, the American southeast, and wherever it is that patience goes to die when you're a 17-year-old batting p

*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