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6 days ago | 
risingnepaldaily.com | Matt Roller |Deivarayan Muthu |Sidharth Monga |Nagraj Gollapudi
By ESPNcricinfo staff, April 19: We are past the halfway mark of the league stage of IPL 2025. Here, some of our writers discuss the goings-on and the trends that have caught their eye. Perennial underachievers highlight benefits of mega auctionOnly 12 matches into IPL 2025, all ten teams had won at least once: clear proof that the mega-auction has done its job.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Vishal Dikshit |Matt Roller
Scores of 13 and 6 in your first two innings, in your debut IPL season, can be worrying. You might start to think if there would be another chance. Especially if you are one of the four overseas players in your team.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Vishal Dikshit |Dustin Silgardo |Matt Roller
Ashwani Kumar hails from Jhanjeri, a village in the Mohali district in Punjab. He belongs to a humble family that couldn't afford to pay for his cricket. He still found ways to go around districts in Punjab to play the game and earn a first-class debut at the age of 18. But then a hamstring injury took him off the field. Two seasons later, he returned to the Punjab side but got just one game in the Ranji Trophy and one in the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Matt Roller |Osman Samiuddin
Kane Williamson has backed calls to introduce designated windows for international cricket, which he believes could help to turn the World Test Championship (WTC) into a "more level competition". The ICC's cricket committee will consider proposals to tweak the WTC's format when it meets in Zimbabwe later this month ahead of the start of the 2025-27 cycle.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.co.uk | Matt Roller |Osman Samiuddin
Kane Williamson has backed calls to introduce designated windows for international cricket, which he believes could help to turn the World Test Championship (WTC) into a "more level competition". The ICC's cricket committee will consider proposals to tweak the WTC's format when it meets in Zimbabwe later this month ahead of the start of the 2025-27 cycle.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Matt Roller |Alagappan Muthu
The first ten days of this IPL season have seen players who won the 2024 title performing brilliantly up and down the country. The only problem for the league's defending champions is that very few of them have been playing for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Phil Salt has been blazing boundaries for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Mitchell Starc wore the purple cap on Sunday after eight wickets in two appearances for Delhi Capitals.
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4 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Vithushan Ehantharajah |Sreshth Shah |Matt Roller
And then there were ten. IPL 2025, at this stage, has just ten players from England. There were 12, but Harry Brook and Brydon Carse (injury) have withdrawn. Feels different from previous years, doesn't it? So, has the England players' attitude towards the IPL changed? Are they not good enough anymore, and the IPL franchises are just not interested in them? Is it something else?
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1 month ago | 
espn.co.uk | Alan Gardner |Matt Roller |Vithushan Ehantharajah
Sussex head coach, Paul Farbrace, believes English cricket has a golden opportunity to overhaul the structure of the men's county game with a blueprint that is "right for cricket and not right for finance", in the wake of the ECB securing an unprecedented windfall from its sale of equity in the Hundred. The process to attract outside investment in the eight Hundred franchises ended last month, with around £500 million in line to be distributed once exclusivity agreements are reached.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Vithushan Ehantharajah |Matt Roller
James Anderson has gone unselected for the 2025's men's Hundred after the veteran quick was overlooked in Wednesday's draft. The 42-year-old, who retired from international cricket at the start of the 2024 summer, had put himself forward in the draft after signing a one-year contract with Lancashire for the upcoming season. Anderson has not played T20 cricket in over a decade, though his new deal will see him play in the T20 Blast.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Matt Roller
Will Smeed has reversed his decision to become a white-ball specialist and could make his first-class debut this summer after signing a new all-formats contract with Somerset. Smeed made headlines in 2022 when, aged 21, he opted out of red-ball cricket. "I feel that I need to solely focus my attention on the limited-overs formats in order to become the very best cricketer I can be," he said at the time.
