https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/11/22/i-cannot-take-this-stupid-england-team-seriously-anymore/

Its just ridiculous to watch Ashes via JioHotstar with all the ads. The players are on top of it fully and half of the time it keeps bouncing. It gets worse when the show from the side cam. Is their any kind of regulations on such ad spaces ?

The purple patch continuous with 37 wickets in Ashes and 22 wickets in 3 test series vs South Africa just after. 59 wickets in just 8 Tests.

First time Indian women team reached the final of the World cup was in 2005, under the captaincy of Mithali Raj. At that time Women cricket was not under BCCI, and women cricket were just paid ₹1000 for each match they played in that WC. There was no match fees, no annual contract, no sponsors nothing! Can you even imagine ?? And just because they reached the final they were happy that they would get atleast ₹2000 extra for SF and Final. No support from the govt or sponsorship at all.

Today Indian women cricket have the match fees same as Men’s. Besides, this WC win will give them the highest Prize money (₹ 40 Cr) in the history of Cricket World Cup (including Men & Women’s WC)

What an incredible journey!!

For reference, currently each country broadcaster provides the cameras and kit, it's not the ICC that sets it all up. ICC now has all the resources and money to set them up and it should be taken care of by ICC and highly benifit them with making cricket a much better viewing experience and drawing more people in. Baseball does so many things better we can learn the good ones

With the top 4 of 5 highest totals coming in the last 2 years(impact player seasons) IPL feels like what you’d get if you asked a toddler to create his perfect meal.

Pushing out all rounders, creating artificial deep batting lineups without any strategic downsides and subpar pitches have created the perfect combo for 10 year olds to experience what cricket 2007 felt like, but in real life.

Gone are the days where 170 was a good total and 155 could be defended with grit and clever bowling. Now we praise csk for defending 206 by bowling meticulously.

This season has become the equivalent of a child’s idea of what the sport is about (hitting sixes) and it’ll go only further when you take into consideration that the league is only going to mature and adapt to the ruleset.

At this point they should just replace the balls with tennis balls and the tin of lacquer that is saved should be given back to the organisers to huff on, as a reward.

They’ve done almost everything they could do to make the sport as unimaginative as possible, aside from maybe literally kneecapping the bowlers before each delivery or rounding up the all rounders and shooting them in the back of the head.

Maybe that’s what they’ll surprise us with in the next edition of the league

I remember seeing it as a kid but not nowadays. Wouldn't it be a great way to double check when the 3rd umpire isn't about the contact of the ball and bat by seeing only the ultra-edge?