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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
RCB has won a title in WPL 2024, but the men’s team is yet to open their account in the 18 editions of the IPL. But the 2025 season has been different, where batters and bowlers have shone alike, and instilled a lot of confidence in the fans; “this year the cup is ours”.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
“Dear cricket, give me one more chance”. This line has become synonymous to India batter Karun Nair. And it was a post that the 33-year-old made in 2022. Finally, much to his relief, his chance has come, after a stellar domestic season in all three formats, and post that, a few innings of note, in the IPL 2025. He is now part of the India squad for the England tour, after Virat Kohli has retired; but before that will appear for India A, against England Lions.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
The Indian team is going through a major transition, where the stalwarts like R Ashwin, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have retired, and the reigns of the Test team have been given to young Shubman Gill. His very first assignment will be the England tour – a place where the team usually finds it difficult to win. In fact, the last series win for Team India in England came back way back in 2007. So there are challenges galore.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
The IPL 2025 league stages are over and it only becomes important to look at some of the best players of the tournament, albeit from the teams who have not qualified from the playoffs. In fact, it would be interesting to make a combined playing XI from the teams, that have not progressed. That includes teams like — RR, KKR, DC, SRH, LSG and CSK. Impact-wise, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sunil Narine have created the most impact for RR and KKR.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
Finally, after a delay of about 10 days, the IPL 2025 league stages is over and now the action will move to the playoffs from Thursday. First up will be the Qualifier 1 between RCB and PBKS, in Mullanpur, followed by the Eliminator between GT and MI, and then the Qualifier 2 and the final. But amidst all this, the dynamics for all these teams will change a bit, albeit because of the availability of the foreign players.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
Shubman Gill has withdrawn from the India A squad, to get some rest after the IPL 2025. The 25-year-old, new India Test skipper also happens to be GT skipper, and the franchise has made it to the playoffs of the tournament, with the final slated for June 5. So, as per a report in Indian Express, it seems that the selection panel and coach Gautam Gambhir have decided to give him some respite.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
Even though MI have managed to qualify for the playoffs, they have lost a bit of steam towards the end matches of the league stages. Apart from that, some of the decisions made by Hardik Pandya, during their final match vs PBKS were objectionable. The move to continue with Deepak Chahar, when he was feeling the discomfort, didn’t sit well with Virender Sehwag. He could perhaps have brought himself on, or given a chance to Jasprit Bumrah instead.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
14 matches, 5 wins and 7 losses; eighth place finish in IPL 2025 isn’t what KKR would have hoped for, after lifting the trophy in 2024. Of course, the times were different last year, with Shreyas Iyer, Gautam Gambhir and Abhishek Nayar at the helm, which wasn’t the case this time around, but still Kolkata had managed to assemble a decent squad, that failed to live up to the expectations.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
Fast-bowling all-rounders are a rare commodity, especially in Tests. Teams like South Africa, England and Australia are just lucky to have abundance of them; an area where India has struggled for the past so many years. In the 80s and 90s, Kapil Dev set the bar so high that no one has come close to his prowess till now. Then glimpses were shown by Irfan Pathan in the early 2000s, and then Hardik Pandya lately. The 31-year-old had played his last in 2018, before succumbing to a slew of back injuries.
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1 week ago | 
insidesport.in | Madhav Agarwal
The India squad for England series is already out, and with Virat Kohli’s retirement, the question that looms large is, who should be the No. 4 for the tour? There are already a few options, but then the problem for the team is, there are way to many openers, who would playing in different positions. For starters, there is Yashasvi Jaiswal, then there skipper Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, and even the likes of Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sai Sudharsan.
