Articles Series reviews, previews, history and analysis

Results, ratings and the players who mattered.

• India vs New Zealand 2026: All 29 Player Ratings
  India won the October 2026 T20I series in New Zealand 3-2, while Glenn Phillips scored a record 341 runs. Every CricArcade player rating for all 29 players, the five results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers, and our Team of the Series XI.
• Pakistan vs England vs Sri Lanka 2026: All 41 Player Ratings
  Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in the Lahore final to win the October 2026 ODI tri-series. Every CricArcade player rating for all 41 players, the seven results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers, and our Team of the Series XI.
• South Africa vs Australia 2026: All 30 Player Ratings
  South Africa beat Australia 2-1 in the October 2026 Test series to claim the No.1 ICC Test ranking. Every CricArcade player rating for all 30 players, the three results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers, and our Team of the Series XI.
• India Women vs Zimbabwe Women 2026: All 34 Player Ratings
  India swept Zimbabwe Women 3-0 in both the ODI and T20I series in October 2026. Every CricArcade player rating, the six results, the leading run-scorers and wicket-takers, and our Team of the Tour.

What to watch before the cricket starts.

• WPL 2027 Auction: Date, Players, Purse and Rules
  Date, player pool, purses, slots and rules for the WPL 2027 mini auction in Kochi: 150 players chasing 27 places.
• WPL 2027 Auction: Team by Team
  Each franchise's purse, open slots, retained core and biggest need going into the WPL 2027 auction.
• WPL 2027 Auction: The Players Who Will Start Bidding Wars
  The overseas names and the 10 lakh bargains most likely to send paddles up in Kochi.
• WPL 2027 Season Guide: Dates, Format, Teams and What to Watch
  Season dates, the format, the five teams and captains, and the storylines for the fifth Women's Premier League.

Questions fans argue about, answered from the records of real Tests, ODIs and IPL auctions.

• WPL 2027 Auction Results: All 25 Buys and Full Squads
  WPL 2027 auction results from Kochi: 25 players sold for ₹6.25 crore. Sophie Molineux went for ₹1.10 crore. See all five squads, prices and purses left.
• Batting First or Second?
  Tests still lean, narrowly, to the side batting first; ODIs lean the other way. Why the two formats disagree, which grounds push hardest, and the first-innings total that settles it.
• Did IPL Franchises Overpay for Stars?
  The most expensive buy at each of the 18 IPL auctions from 2008 to 2025, what each one produced the season after, and where the auction leaves its best value.
• How Often Is 300 Chased Down?
  A first innings of 300 used to be the end of the argument. Two separate things changed: 300 got common, and 300 got chaseable. 350 is still a different animal, and 400 close to a wall.
• How Strong Is Home Advantage?
  Six in ten decided matches go to the host, in both Tests and ODIs. The effect is several times the toss, it has grown rather than faded, and two old fortresses have fallen.
• The 10 Greatest ODI Partnerships, Ranked
  The record book measures volume, and volume is the least interesting thing about a one-day partnership. Ten places, eleven stands, ranked by how far they moved the match.
• The 10 Greatest Test Partnerships, Ranked
  The ten Test partnerships that moved their matches furthest: any size, any wicket, any era, ranked by match-changing impact rather than by runs.
• The Anatomy of a Collapse
  Four wickets for thirty runs, counted across every Test and ODI in the archive: where a slide starts, how far it runs, and how rarely the side it happens to recovers the match.
• The Disappearing Draw
  The draw has fallen from roughly one in two Tests in the 1960s to one in seven in the 2020s. Where its votes went is not the answer you might expect.
• The Highest- and Lowest-Scoring Grounds in Cricket
  Adelaide Oval averages 386.0 in Tests, Pune 304.0 in ODIs. Which grounds are run factories, which are graveyards, and how much of it is the era rather than the pitch.
• Where the IPL's Money Went
  Nineteen IPL auctions, 2008 to 2026: how much of the purse actually reaches the hammer, and why the overseas share of the money stayed high even as the overseas share of the lot list collapsed.
• Which Partnerships Decide Matches?
  Of the great partnerships on record, which ones actually decided matches? A case-based reading of the biggest stands, the rescues, and the finishes.
• Does Winning the Toss Win Tests?
  Every Test since 1877, split by who called correctly: how much the toss is really worth, how it compares with home advantage, and the one country where it is worth nothing.
• Can You Chase 380? The Scoring Ceiling and the Elite Floor
  Why a 50-over total tops out near 380, how elite line-ups are protected from collapse, and what it actually takes to reach the top of the range.
• Settling In, and the Myth of the Nervous Nineties
  A new batter is most vulnerable early, and the nervous nineties turn out to be a myth. How CricArcade models both, measured from real Test data.

How the game, its formats and its tournaments got to where they are.

• WPL Winners, History and Records
  Every WPL champion and final, the Orange and Purple Cap winners, and the records the first four seasons set.
• Associate Nations in ODI Cricket
  Scotland, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nepal and the rest: who has actually played one-day internationals, how many, and the golden generations the fixture list forgot.
• How the World Cup Format Changed, 1975 to 2023
  Thirteen editions, and almost as many structures: sixty overs to fifty, eight teams to sixteen and back to ten, and what the Super Six and Super Eight were trying to fix.
• IPL Retention, Season by Season
  What it costs a franchise to keep a player, how the purse deduction works, and why the retention window is the most consequential hour of the IPL year.
• ODI Powerplays, 1971 to Today
  Field restrictions began as a fix for dead opening overs and have been rewritten roughly every decade. What each rewrite changed, and what the archive says it did to scoring and to wickets.
• Timeless Tests and the History of the Draw
  A match played without any limit of time, the twelve-day draw that killed the format, and the long rise and fall of the Test draw it was built to abolish.
• The Six Eras of Test Cricket
  From the three-day Golden Age to the DRS era: six periods of Test cricket, each calibrated to the real match record, and two findings that surprised us.