Author: Bharath Ramaraj

The eagerly awaited WPL 2026 Auction had its share of thrills and spills. Here at RevSportz, we list out the top five auction buys in terms of value for money. Sophie Ecclestone – The UP Warriorz would be pleased to pick up Ecclestone for 85 lakhs. The left-arm spinner remains one of the best limited-overs bowlers in the cricketing landscape. She has 36 wickets in the WPL at an average of 18.38. Ecclestone has a very repeatable action, which contributes to her excellent control, and her height allows her to generate natural flight. She gave a glimpse of her class…

Picture credit – BCCI Let’s begin with a short quiz. When was the previous time India lost two Test series at home over roughly 12 months? The answer is 1983-84 and ’84-85, when India went down to both the West Indies and England. But before the two whitewashes versus New Zealand and South Africa, when did India last suffer a couple of clean sweeps at home over one year? Even a cricket aficionado would have to rack their brains. Yours truly recalled a couple of home series, what about the West Indies and Australia touring India in the late…

Outclassed. Outgunned. Outthought. These three words best describe the difference between the South African and Indian spinners in the ongoing Test series. Not just in terms of skill, but the visiting side’s spinners were also superior in strategy and execution. Where to start? Perhaps by examining the pace at which the Indian finger-spinning duo bowled, especially in the first innings in Guwahati. On a very slow deck, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar consistently bowled at over 92 kph, at times even touching 95–96 kph. Washington wasn’t far behind his spin partner when it came to firing it in at pace.…

Venkatesh Prasad is set to take over as the next president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association unopposed, in the aftermath of KN Shanth Kumar’s nomination papers being rejected during scrutiny. The highly anticipated election is scheduled to be held on December 7. Shanth Kumar, who belongs to ‘Team Brijesh’, is currently a director of The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and the president of the DH and PV Sports Club. Shanth Kumar is said to have defaulted on the club’s annual subscription for a period of four years, which in turn goes against the KSCA’s bylaws. In that context, Kalpana…

Picture credit- Debasis Sen “You have to visualise the miracle for there to be a miracle.” Perhaps it is time for those eleven Indian players taking part in the ongoing Guwahati Test against South Africa to imagine a heist before Day 4 of the game. At the moment, only a jailbreak can save India from the ignominy of losing two Test series at home over the last 12 months. With the pitch not deteriorating much and bad light coming into the equation at the end of each day’s play, India might still draw the game. But with South…

Picture credits – BCCI Who is Senuran Muthusamy? What was the first impression of watching this cricketer? For that, yours truly has to take up the name of his former colleague, Sidhant Maheshwari. This former text commentator had a habit of reciting the names of the players aloud in relation to executing backend work. Probably, around a decade ago, he took up the name, Muthusamy, while adding this player to a website from the backend. While hearing the name for the first time, you pondered, ‘Who could be this first-class cricketer from India? Is he Muthuswamy or Muthusamy?’…

In the year 2020, while sitting on a sofa in Dubai, this writer ended up watching his nephew play cricket on Xbox. And in a few minutes’ time, the scoreline caught the attention: India had raced away to about 100 for no loss in just 5-6 overs against Australia in a Test match. More than five years later, in Perth, Travis Head put on such a spectacular show versus England’s band of fast bowlers that it made you ponder whether it was another of those Xbox games. The same England attack that had bowled with sustained hostility in the first…

Twenty-nine wickets. The number of wickets that have fallen by the second day of the ongoing Ashes Test between England and Australia in Perth. Who knows? As I complete this copy, Australia could very well be batting in their second innings. And that brings up the question of whether the conditions have been treacherous for batting. There is one more element to add here. Isn’t it true that a sizeable portion of the wickets were also due to poor batting? Or a slew of batters unable to negate the extra bounce the Perth pitch is offering? Just consider England’s abject…

Over 5,700 days. That is the number of days South Africa took to break their drought in India in the longest format of the game. And they did it in dramatic fashion on day three of the Eden Gardens Test. At one moment, South Africa were a mere 63 runs ahead with three wickets in hand. However, Temba Bavuma and the lower order pushed the visitors to a lead of 123, which turned out to be enough to script a famous win on a difficult pitch. Can they now take one step further and secure a series victory, following in…

In just 13 Tests, Simon Harmer has taken 60 wickets at an average of 23.38. That includes game-changing spells at the iconic Eden Gardens, which in turn powered South Africa to a famous win. Hang on! With such impressive numbers behind him, how has the 36-year-old played a mere 13 Tests? The simple reason is that he signed up with Essex in 2016 as a Kolpak player. When England withdrew from the European Union, he continued to represent Essex as an overseas cricketer. Eventually, in 2022, he returned to the South African Test set-up for a series versus Bangladesh…