India
The beautiful dream of Washington Sundar
Washington Sundar made 152 against Delhi last week. Today, he added 7/59 against New Zealand.
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Women's Cricket
How New Zealand won the World Cup
The New Zealand women's team has just given their nation a trophy. It is time for their nation to make sure that they get a Test match.
Men's cricket
New Zealand finally win in India
They had been coming to India for almost 40 years to lose. This time, they won.
India
How Rishabh Pant's six could spoil India's comeback
In one magnificent shot, India went from being in control of the game to hanging by a thread.
46 all out: An autopsy
Great catches, ideal bowlers, a wacky pitch—everything came together to kill off this Indian innings. Consider this the autopsy.
The First Chamari Athapaththu
Chamari Athapaththu was not the best batter in Sri Lanka, she was their batting.
Men's cricket
Shaheen and Pakistan's disappearing wickets
Buy Overthrowing Cricket's EmpireSubscribe Stats updated as of October 14, 2024. Fazal Mahmood was a vibe. Look at him. Does it even matter that he was one of the best quicks of his era? He’s just a cool-looking guy. Holding a cigarette like he’s posing for
Tests
Pakistan's rainbow of chaos
Subscribe The PCB has dropped Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi, and Naseem Shah. That’s like putting a cherry on top of plane crash. That’ll fix the years and years of mismanagement, rash decisions, political interference, amateur thinking, random coaching changes, captains sacked without even leading in a game, overhauls
Test batting strikes back
Subscribe There’s a line in Jurassic World when they talk about the new dinosaur escaping from its paddock: “She is learning where she fits on the food chain, and I’m not sure you want her to figure that out.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot while
Why is no one making runs at night time this World Cup
Buy Overthrowing Cricket's empire Something strange is happening at this Women's World Cup. We have two different starting times: one is an afternoon game, and the other is at night. Most of the games have been played after dark, and when you watch the second innings
India
Indian batters and their bowling saviours
From 2013 to 2019, all was good. Everyone was doing what they should. Then the batters decided to let the bowlers completely take over their job as well.
Men's cricket
Maharaj backed himself, 171 times
Legend has it that Kiran More looked at two-year-old Maharaj’s palms and predicted, "This child will be a cricketer."