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Contents In this article, we look at the lowest team scores in Test cricket. New Zealand set the dubious record for the lowest Test score by a team back in March 1955. That record has stood the test of time, remaining unbroken even after the passage of nearly 67 years. New Zealand, Auckland, March 1955 […]

Contents In this game of strength and strategy, points are what matter the most. Teams can achieve victory or taste failure by the difference of a single point. Raiders bring in more points, and this is a massive reason as to why most fan-favourite players are raiders. Generally, the higher the number of total points […]

Contents In the era that we live in, almost everything worth watching is being made compact for consumers who have increasingly shorter attention spans. Even sports broadcasters are obsessed with making things quicker for audiences, with slow over rates being heavily punished and even T20s being turned into T10s as expedited doses of fun. In […]

Contents Every sport that we know of today had its humble beginning somewhere, after which it was further polished and refined until it became the sophisticated, competitive spectacle we know and love today. Cricket: From Child’s Play to International Spectacle Cricket is one of the most complicated sports out there, and it had its share […]

Contents Losses are an inevitable part of any game. Any team that plays a certain number of games wins some and loses some. It’s as intrinsic a part of everyday life as it is a part of sports. Even in a karmic sense, wins will always be countered by losses at some point, and vice […]

Contents The word ‘prodigy’ is thrown around a lot in sports, usually every time a talented youngster hits the scene. However, many teams don’t usually let a young player play at the very highest level, choosing to vet them through the domestic circuit first instead. In particular, it is teams from the Indian subcontinent — […]

Contents England vs India at Nottingham, July 2014 (198 Runs) In the first Test of a series on the India tour of England in July 2014. the visitors batted first. After India posted 457 on the back of a century partnership for the last wicket between Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami England got off to […]

Contents In this article, we consider the 8th wicket partnership record in Test cricket that was set by the England pair of Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad versus Pakistan at Lord’s in August 2010. The duo broke the existing record of 313 runs set by Pakistan’s Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq versus Zimbabwe in 1996. […]