Sports Journalist · 57 articles
Habil has followed cricket since he can remember, writing about the sport over the last seven years or so. In addition to his writing, Habil is also a quizzing enthusiast that loves to indulge in his fair share of sports quizzes.
As of this writing, Babar Azam has scored 6570 runs in 138 ODI innings, the tenth highest such tally for a Pakistan batter. He has done so at an average of 53.9 and a strike rate of 87. The right-handed bat from Lahore has also registered 20 hundreds and 38 fifties in the format. To […]
Reports in the India media suggest that Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi has joined the Indian squad as a back up bowler ahead of the one-off Test against Afghanistan. It is believed that he has been added to the squad with an eye on potential inclusion in future tours. Nabi, along with Zeeshan Ansari, […]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru batter Tim David was fined 50% of his match fee and accumulated two Demerit Points for breaching Level 1 of the IPL Code of Conduct for Players and Team Officials, the IPL confirmed via a statement on their website. David’s offence occurred during the 10th over of the first innings. David is […]
The England-India Women’s T20I series is currently tied at 1-1. India won the first game by 38 runs before the hosts returned the favour second time out by 26 runs. The two sides now face off in the series decider at Taunton on Tuesday. For India, the match represents an opportunity to become the first […]
Rajat Patidar had a memorable start to his 33rd birthday. The RCB captain had just led his team to back-to-back titles, and doesn’t seem to be in a mood to stop. For Patidar, this was an opportunity to live in the present and celebrate what his side had achieved. However, he expressed his hunger for […]
Virat Kohli starred for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru as RCB beat GT by five wickets and won their second consecutive IPL title. Set a target of 156 to win, Kohli scored an unbeaten 75 to take his team home. Kohli’s innings followed an excellent performance from their bowling attack. The pace attack combined to pick […]
IPL 2026 has mostly seen high-scoring affairs. Between the two finalists RCB and GT have crossed the 220-mark on six occasions. And given how this season has gone, one would be forgiven for expecting a high-scoring final too. However, finals in the past haven’t really seen the kind of totals that we have seen so […]
Royal Challengers Bengaluru face the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Sunday in a bid to win a second IPL title. RCB captain Rajat Patidar played a whirlwind knock in Qualifier 1 to book their place in the final. For Patidar, the game itself is an opportunity to become the first captain to win back-to-back IPL […]
New Zealand are currently playing their first-ever Test match against Ireland in Belfast. In their first innings, the Kiwis set themselves nicely in the Test by declaring at 490-8. Rachin Ravindra (121) and debutant Dean Foxcroft (98) played important hands in getting New Zealand to that score. The biggest hero of the innings, however, was […]
IPL 2026 has belonged to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi so far. Well, the job isn’t done yet. But this is already one of the all-time great seasons with the bat in IPL history. The 15-year-old left-hander, in only his second IPL campaign, has had a season worthy of all-time great levels of praise. One you’d consider on […]
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has continued to make quite the name for himself in the ongoing Indian Premier League season. Having come into the season on the back of an impressive IPL 2025, 15-year-old Sooryavanshi has had one of the all-time great seasons in the IPL. A sequence of words this writer could never have imagined penning […]
The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is around the corner and hosts England and visitors India begin their final preparations with the first T20I of a three-match series on Thursday night. England come into this series on the back of a 2-1 series win against New Zealand. India, on the other hand, were soundly beaten […]