Recently, seeing the career of Alyssa Healy being celebrated reminded me of another wicketkeeper who left a huge impression on me growing up: Sarah Taylor.

#Part3 of Behind the Stats 27.02.2026 In the freezing dawn of January 1978, a handful of young Indian women stepped off a rattling train onto the platform of Eden Gardens in Calcutta. They clutched battered kit bags and geometry textbooks alike. Some were barely out of high school, others held bank clerk jobs, but all were charged with an impossible task: represent India at its first-ever Women’s Cricket World Cup. For Diana Edulji – a 22-year-old clerk with Western Railways

19.09.2025 #Part 2  of Behind the Stats First, imagine a national game played in near silence. Karachi. The night before a women’s match, police stand outside two sisters’ home. Morning comes and the stadium is ringed with thousands of officers. Spectators aren’t allowed in. The players walk out anyway. They play anyway. When the last ball is bowled, the sisters board a plane and leave the country for their own safety. It almost sounds like fiction. It wasn’t. The spark at Lo

04.08.2025 When I first moved to the UK, my cricketing sense of right and wrong ran head‑first into someone else’s. I’d been playing for...

This one’s for my potato-loving friends. #Part1 of Behind the Stats 03.07.2025 In my time, I’ve met plenty of people who love a good potato-related story. Some say if Taylor Swift ran for president, she’d win in a landslide. Others reckon Beyoncé could sweep every state. But honestly? I think there are enough people out there who might actually vote for a potato to rule the so-called “land of the free.” So what does all this have to do with women’s cricket? Well, back in 197

17.04.2025 I don’t usually take online comments too seriously, but there’s one that pops up every so often and always makes me pause:“Who...

07.04.2025 When I was a kid, I used to say, “I want to be a doctor.” That ambition lasted until I was about 13, when I realised I...

Making sense of cricket kit designs we love and begrudgingly tolerate 30.01.2025 I was watching the Border-Gavaskar Trophy highlights with my grandma recently. Aside from that series, the channels mostly showed the BBL, ILT20, and SA20—three different T20 leagues with a whole lot of colours on display. As Australia finished their bowling innings and walked off the field, my grandma casually remarked: “No matter what colour they wear these days, the whites will always look the

21.11.2024 When the IPL first launched, I wasn’t particularly drawn to it. In fact, it wasn’t until around the 2014 edition that I...

31.10.2024 In an of the episode of the Netflix show, The Romantics , Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan relays a moment from the past, a...

#Part 7 of the Spotlight Series 24.10.2024 Breathe. The whirlwind is over. The final ball has been bowled, the cheers have faded, and the...

#Part 6 of the Spotlight Series 20.10.2024 As I sit here and prepare for what could be the most heart-wrenching final I’ve ever watched,...

#Part 5 of the spotlight series 10.08.2024 During the pre-series media shoot for the Australia-New Zealand bilateral series, Alyssa Healy...

#Part 4 of the spotlight series 15.09.2024 There are moments in life when something you thought you were already passionate about deepens...

#Part 3  of The Spotlight Series 09.09.2024 When I think of Marizanne Kapp, I don’t just see a cricketer—I see raw passion and fierce energy in its purest form. You can’t miss the fire in her eyes, that unshakeable determination she brings every time she steps onto the field. Some players have the skill, others have the heart, but Kapp has both. She’s the kind of player who gives you everything, every single time. You feel her presence—her intensity—whether she’s bowling that

#Part 2 of The Spotlight Series 27.08.2024 Whenever I get the chance to choose a topic for school or uni projects, I always find a way to...

Jokes aside, Ellyse Perry, if you ever stumble upon this article, please know you are an inspiration to me and countless other cricket lovers worldwide. Thank you for choosing cricket and I’ll do my best not to totally geek out if I ever have the honour of meeting you.

24.06.2024 I spent some time wondering what exactly I wanted my first article on this blog to be about. I went through blocks, breaks and procrastinated extensively before finally discovering my muse – an old photograph of me, a cricket bat in hand, wearing the Sri Lankan team jersey at the time. I thought the best way for you to learn about the voice behind this blog is to go back in time to the unexpected beginnings of my cricket obsession. Trust me, it is definitely not th