CrickNick

Team India 🇮🇳🏏 ||

Domestic - Team Andhra, Jammu & Kashmir || MI PALTAN 💙 ||

Prithvi Shaw & Kagiso Rabada 💀

[SunRisers Hyderabad @SunRisers]

All those sacrifices feel worth it when dreams finally come alive 🧡

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Long before the IPL lights & national contracts, there was a small room in Ranchi where a boy from Patna learned the difficult art of hiding hunger. Ishan Kishan had left Patna because Bihar's registration dispute with BCCI had blocked his path to professional cricket.

In that one room flat in Doranda, Kishan was the youngest at age of 12. He washed dishes. When his roommates left for night tournaments, he stayed alone. Too proud to worry his parents, he went to sleep hungry rather than admit what his evenings looked like. Chips, Kurkure, Soft drinks.
Eventually he learned to boil Maggi. His pre-practice breakfast was sattu mixed with water. When his mother called & asked if he had eaten, he said yes. The boy built a stubbornness life would later test again & again.

Indian cricket often understands failure only in scorecards. It rarely understands exhaustion. Pressure of being 4th or 5th in a wicketkeeper pecking order that included Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson & KL Rahul. He asked for a break during South Africa tour, drained in ways that do not show up in fitness reports.
By 2024, Kishan had disappeared from the centre of things. BCCI removed his contract. Selectors spoke about availability & attitude in careful public language. But the real story felt quieter. Too much travel. Too much waiting. Too many benches for a player forever asked to prove himself one more time.

Then came the Bhagavad Gita.
Not as performance theatre. Not as a social media quote. Just a tired young man searching for something steady enough to hold his mind together. He found comfort in the old sentence about work & detachment. Do your duty. Leave the result alone. Sometimes cricket careers change not in nets, but in lonely evenings when nobody is watching.
And slowly, the game returned to him.

A SMAT title with Jharkhand. A captain’s hundred in the final. Then in T20 World Cup 2026, When Abhishek Sharma was struggling, Ishan became the top order enforcer. The day before India's T20 World Cup final in Ahmedabad, Kishan's cousin sister was tragically killed in a car accident. Kishan resolved to play the final in her memory, He made 25 ball 54 runs in India's consecutive T20 World Cup victory.

Then in IPL 2026, where he became the quiet bridge inside SRH’s madness. Travis Head & Abhishek Sharma attacked like summer storms. Klaasen finished games like a machine. In between stood Kishan, adjusting himself to whatever the innings demanded. Aggression one day, restraint the next. Even became the leader & turned the tide after losing 3 out of their first 4 games.

Now he is back in India colours again, this time not as a hopeful reserve but as first choice player.
Funny thing about life. The boy who once survived by pretending everything was fine eventually became strong enough to actually mean it.

[Venky Mama @venkymama100]

🚨 HISTORY BY SAKIB HUSSAIN

He becomes the first bowler to take wickets in 10 consecutive matches after debut. KKR found him, SRH enjoying him ✅️
KKR has given away so many good players to other teams. Its a proper acche player deo yojna 🥹

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Those huge sixes over the covers make everyone his fan

#Klaasen @Heini22 #RCBvSRH #SRHVRCB #SRH #OrangeArmy

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Thought Klaasen lost his form and charm after giving retirement from international cricket during the first 2 games.

Turns out the beast just needed game time. Back to his world of pure hitting.

#IPL #SRHvRCB #RCBvSRH @Heini22 @SunRisers #Klaasen #SRH #OrangeArmy

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

If SRH want to finish in the top 2, restrict RCB as much as possible and chase quickly, ideally inside 11 overs (this applies to targets roughly between 80–260)

If SRH bat first, they need to win by 88+ runs

#SRHvRCB #IPL @SunRisers @RCBTweets #prediction

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

CSK's collapse handed GT a massive NRR boost, nearly destroying SRH's top‑2 hopes

#IPL #GTvCSK
#SRHvRCB @ChennaiIPL @gujarat_titans @SunRisers @RCBTweets

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

Joota kharidenge toh khayenge kaha se 💔

This video of Sakib Hussain and his mother will move you to tears. When you come from absolutely nothing, every single wicket means the world.

Keep soaring, young man

#CSKvsSRH

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Since Digvesh & Shabaz are LSG’s fourth & fifth bowling options today, their role should simply be to support the pace attack by keeping things tight. Digvesh is leaking runs unnecessarily, he doesn’t need to go wickets, controlling the run flow is enough.
#IPL #LSGvRCB #Patidar

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Arshin finally got his much deserved chance after a long wait. Hoping he makes the most of it

#IPL #LSGvRCB #ArshinKulkarni @LucknowIPL

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

I follow Maharashtra for Prithvi Shaw and have been impressed with Arshin Kulkarni, and Jharkhand for Ishan Kishan and have been impressed with Kumar Kushagra

LSG & GT scouts nailed it early, hope both get IPL chance this season to prove their point
@LucknowIPL @gujarat_titans

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Time for RR to get Milne in place of Burger to pair up with Archer

#PBKSvsRR #IPL @rajasthanroyals

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

RR should back Kuldeep Sen ahead of Tushar and Brijesh. He brings more pace and better wicket taking ability

@rajasthanroyals #PBKSvsRR #IPL

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

SRH's biggest weakness is clearly the lack of a reliable middle order batsman who can stabilize the innings. Time to drop Salil and give Smaran Ravichandran a chance! He’s coming in with excellent domestic form and could be the anchor SRH desperately needs

#SRHvsCSK @SunRisers

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Don't know when @mipaltan bowlers will understand that you can bowl yorkers during middle overs also and not only during death overs

#MIvsPBKS #IPL

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

There is no need for Chahar to try for wicket and give away runs. Just try to bowl yorker on yorker and finish a tight over with 6-8 runs. He's unnecessarily making the chase easy for Punjab

#MIvsPBKS @mipaltan

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Don't understand why KKR is not even trying for a win
#ipl #CSKVSKKR #KKRvsCSK

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

MI need a magical knock from Hardik unless it’s already done and dusted

@mipaltan #MIVSRCB #RCBvsMI @hardikpandya7 #Hardikpandya

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Hardik is the next best bowler after Bumrah, that alone shows how weak MI’s bowling lineup is

Boult and Mayank look finished. Santner can only contain runs, and Shardul mostly relies on luck

#MIvsRCB #RCBvsMI #IPL @mipaltan

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

Don't know why Avesh playing over Mohsin and Mayank

Are they injured?

#KKRvsLSG #LSGvsKKR #iplindia2026 @LucknowIPL

[CrickNick @CrickNick]

It’s not entirely the bowling dept’s responsibility for today’s loss, unlike what @hardikpandya7 said. With just 12.5 RPO required in 11 overs & 10 wkts in hand, the batsmen were equally responsible. The bowlers did well to contain RR after the start they got.
@mipaltan #IPL