Big picture: Is GOAT really the GOAT? Call it beauty, call it cruelty, but this is the reality. This Indian T20I unit is a GOAT team. They last lost a series or tournament in August 2023. Since the start of the previous T20 World Cup, they have won seven matches for every one they have…
Big picture: New Zealand eye semi-finals While Sri Lankan cricket begins another cycle of seething introspection, there is still business to be concluded in Colombo and Pallekele. New Zealand helped turn the home crowd against their own on Wednesday night and will be looking to confirm their own passage to the semi-finals – for the…
Big picture By the time New Zealand walk out under the Khettarama lights on Wednesday, it will have been eight days since their last competitive fixture, but in the face of their disastrous outing with the bat against England, it’s Sri Lanka that might be feeling rather undercooked, and are in danger of being eliminated…
Big picture: Two teams among the middle powers 41: That’s the number of times New Zealand and Pakistan faced each other across formats in a 30-month period between October 2022 and April 2025. Twenty four of those meetings came in T20Is, with the sides compensating for a tour which New Zealand abandoned in 2021, citing…
Match Facts March 13, Mumbai Start time 9.30am (0400 GMT) Ross Taylor will lead New Zealand in the absence of Daniel Vettori•AFP The Big Picture There are formalities, then there’s the major Test nations qualifying for the quarter-finals from Group A. While the numbers are crunched in the other side of the tournament there is…
Big Picture: NZ face unfamiliar opponents One misstep against Afghanistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup derailed New Zealand’s entire campaign. Two years later, New Zealand flipped the script despite injuries and illness, their opening win against Afghanistan in the group of death, which also includes South Africa, raising their chances of making the next…