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Harry Brook · ICC Test batting No. 1
Ninety-Nine at Home
Home ground. First Test hundred there, one run away. He does not celebrate hundreds. He did not get to skip this one.
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Joe Root · ICC Test batting No. 2
He Told Broad First
He announced the shot in the dressing room. Missed Cummins. Nailed Boland. The same stroke later got him a lecture. It is still his shot.
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Steven Smith · ICC Test batting No. 3
The Honours Board
He left the bat in the middle of the ground. He came back for the board. The board still does not have 100 next to his name from that Test.
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Travis Head · ICC Test batting No. 4
Smith’s Hundred Was the Footnote
Overcast Oval. Three down. The attacking one was supposed to get out. He made 163 of the 285 while he was there.
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Temba Bavuma · ICC Test batting No. 5
Stokes Said It Slowly
Five foot three. First Black African Test hundred for South Africa. The sledge is in The Times. The ranking now is five in the world.
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi · Duleep Trophy
Eight Off Six, Then the Clip
Vice-captain of East Zone. Eight off six. Two wickets later. The clip will travel. The average will not.
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Rishabh Pant · Galle Test
The Six and the Heave Are the Same Shot
100 Test sixes, first Indian, 4,918 balls. Then he heaved the new ball. Stop asking him to become someone else.
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Hardik Pandya · IPL 2027 trade
He Wanted the Armband Back
Gujarat would take the bowler. They would not take the armband off Gill. That is the whole story. The rest is a denial.
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Stephen Fleming · CSK to England
Mutual, Then England
Eighteen years. Five titles. Eighth in 2026. Seventeen days later he had England and Root. Mutual is a press word.
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Bengaluru · 4 June 2025
Eleven Dead, Inquiry Closed
Eleven people died outside the ground. The police inquiry is over. The chargesheet against the organisers has not been filed. Dedication is not a verdict.
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RS9 IPL
Ninth Street, Last Over
He typed rs9 ipl at midnight. Behind the Ahmedabad stadium wall, Arjun opened the RS9 App, built Ninth Street XI, and sat through the last over with the lane.
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Brendon McCullum · IPL 2008
The First Over Was a Maiden
The Indian Premier League began with six dots. Then Brendon McCullum made 158 not out off 73, and Bangalore were bowled out for 82.
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Shane Warne · IPL 2008
One Run, and He Had to Fetch It
Seven teams did not bid for Shane Warne. In the first IPL final he was at the non-striker's end, one run needed, and he had to run it.
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AB de Villiers · IPL 2015
Five Dots to Malinga
Lasith Malinga bowled five dots at AB de Villiers. An hour later de Villiers was 133 not out and the Wankhede was chanting his name.
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Virat Kohli · IPL 2016
The Number That Did Not Bat Last
973 runs. Four hundreds. Player of the series. On the last night in Bangalore he made 54, and eight runs were still missing.
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