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March 5, 2026 England

“Jos Buttler has been working tirelessly in the nets”

3 minute readWe feel like we’ve read this sentence, or one very much like it, almost daily for the last few weeks. If you hadn’t noticed, Jos Buttler hasn’t been scoring too many runs. He’s apparently tried to correct this with more and more practice. Is this the right approach? If you’d

March 4, 2026 New Zealand / South Africa

Bish bash Bosch: South Africa deserved to be dispatched by Finn Allen for giving people the wrong jobs

< 1 minute readBosch is a simply terrible name for a T20 bowler. It does nothing but invite unflattering commentary exclamations. Today, in the T20 World Cup final against New Zealand, South Africa’s Corbin suffered an over that began 6, 4, 4, 4, 4… BOSH! Finn Allen was the batter responsible and he

February 27, 2026 Extras

Now Harry Brook’s started innovating in the field of pterodactyl wrangling as well

2 minute readEngland T20 captain Harry Brook simply cannot do anything normally. If it isn’t batting, it’s pre-match hydration, and if it isn’t pre-match hydration, it’s pterodactyl wrangling. We’ve previously reported on Babar Azam’s hugely impressive competence as a pterodactyl wrangler. Here he is beckoning one down while Moeen Ali watches the

February 25, 2026 India

It’s NRR time… but NRR isn’t as fun in a T20 tournament because there’s so little scope for nrrdling

2 minute readWe adore nrrdling (the hugely unambitious art of batting to make defeat slightly less awful because it improves your chances of going through to the next stage of the tournament should your team finish level on points with another). It’s not really a thing in T20 though. Due to the

February 20, 2026 India / Zimbabwe

Log it in your online calendar: It’s less than a week until Abhishek Sharma v Brian Bennett in the Super 8s

2 minute readExcuse us looking so far ahead – they’ve each got another match to play before India v Zimbabwe on Thursday – but we’ve been sucked in by the wildly diverging fortunes of Abhishek Sharma and Brian Bennett so far this tournament. We can’t wait to see what happens when they

February 18, 2026 Australia

How Australia’s T20 World Cup one-downmanship culminated in a Bernie Lomax of a performance

2 minute readIt ended as world tournament exits so often do: with a day of drizzle in a game they weren’t even playing. England sacked their coach after losing in the semi finals of the last T20 World Cup. Australia failed to make it that far in either of the previous two

February 13, 2026 Australia / Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe have blown Australia’s lid off again

2 minute readAustralia were whitewashed in Pakistan going into this tournament and earlier in the week lost their captain to internal testicular bleeding. Defeat to Zimbabwe could therefore plausibly still rank as being ‘on the up’. Today’s result moves Australia’s T20 World Cup record against Zimbabwe along to ‘played two, lost two’.

February 12, 2026 Afghanistan

Watch out! Rahmanullah Gurbaz has discovered a new angle

3 minute readAfghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz was already more than a match for most bowlers back when he tried to scythe every single delivery through point for four. Recent evidence suggests he’s consulted his protractor and supplemented that angle with a couple more. Further explorations in geometry could get very messy indeed for

February 10, 2026 Extras

Feel The Thrill: Highlights and lowlights of the official song of the Men’s T20 World Cup 2026

4 minute readWe’ve loved official World Cup theme songs ever since Who Rules The World in 1992. Rock hasn’t come much softer and theme songs haven’t come much more naff. We suspect it’ll never be beaten. If you’re wondering how the 2026 T20 World Cup’s Feel The Thrill by Anirudh Ravichander measures

February 5, 2026 England

What shall we do with the drunken captain of the HMS McCullum? Chuck him in the long boat ’til he’s sober? Or just leave him alone to pursue a T20 World Cup win?

3 minute readWe’re inclined to agree with Brendon McCullum that it’s “quite annoying” there’s currently so much focus on the night Harry Brook got chinned by a bouncer. We would however disagree with his assessment that it’s all about the specific players involved and that, “piling on to them is not helpful