Author: Rahul Giri





Shafali Verma has played a World Cup final before. What’s more, it was an experience that’s unlikely ever to be matched even if she plays another 20 years. It’s no exaggeration to say that the T20 World Cup final at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 8, 2020 was the afternoon when women’s cricket came of age. A crowd of 86,174 watched Australia romp to the title. To put that into perspective, that was considerably more than the number (80,462) that watched England beat Pakistan to the men’s crown at the same venue in 2022. Verma’s time in…



-Atreyo Mukhopadhyay A marquee Test series coming up on which hinges India’s chances of making it to the World Test Championship final. All eyes on the build-up to the 50-over World Cup coming up later this year in India as well. In between, a T20 series? Is that not rather irrelevant? Yes it is. Surely, because the next World Cup in the T20 format is still some 20-21 months away. Before that, a lot of things will happen in the other formats. Those will have a more immediate bearing on what concerns the players, sponsors, fans and other stake holders.…