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Introduction When Trent Boult gave up his New Zealand Cricket central contract in August 2022, the cricket world took notice. He was 33, in the form of his life, and voluntarily removing the financial security and international commitments that almost every cricketer regards as the pinnacle of the sport. In exchange, he would have freedom...

Introduction For years, the highest team total in IPL history was Sunrisers Hyderabad’s 277/3 against Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma opened the batting and put on a partnership that reduced one of cricket’s most respected bowling attacks to an afterthought within eight overs. By the halfway point, the match was...

Introduction The Ambati Rayudu story has everything: a ban for throwing matches, a lengthy period of professional exile, rehabilitation through the IPL, a championship at Chennai Super Kings under MS Dhoni, a World Cup squad controversy so public that it ended his international career, and a retirement announcement that he then reversed. Through all of...

Introduction In IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders did something that no franchise in the competition’s 17-year history had done: they won 14 consecutive matches without a single defeat, from early in the league stage through to the end of the season. That streak included their final four matches of the league stage, both playoff matches,...

Introduction In September 2018, during a series against Pakistan, Hardik Pandya left the field mid-innings with a back problem that doctors later classified as a serious spinal injury. For several months, the question was not whether he would regain his previous form — the question was whether he would play professional cricket again at all....

Introduction Mohammed Shami’s 2024 IPL return was not just a sporting comeback. It was the conclusion of a two-year period during which he had dealt with significant personal difficulties — a publicised and acrimonious marital dispute, a heel surgery that kept him out of cricket for months, and the pressure of returning to bowling at...

Introduction The Rising Pune Supergiant had two years to exist. In those two years, they changed captains mid-season, hired and fired coaching staff, came within one run of winning the IPL title, and provided cricket with some of the best raw material for drama that the competition has ever produced. They played in only 2...

Introduction There is a puzzle at the heart of Ben Stokes’ cricket career. In Test cricket, he is the best allrounder in the world — the man who single-handedly won England matches that were statistically already lost, who scores runs when nothing seems possible and takes wickets when pitches refuse to assist. In the IPL,...

Introduction In sport, coaches rarely last. The nature of competitive franchises is to move quickly — one bad season can cost a coach their job, regardless of what came before. And then there is Stephen Fleming: the former New Zealand captain who became head coach of Chennai Super Kings in the IPL’s very first season...

Introduction In 2014, Andre Russell was a useful T20 allrounder — quick, hard-hitting, someone who could win 20% of the matches he played almost by himself. By 2019, he had evolved into something that the sport had never quite seen before: a batsman capable of adding 50 runs in three overs, who genuinely could win...