Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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India Cricket

India’s international cricket read off the scorecard rather than the headline — what the ball-by-ball record actually shows, and where the first reports got it wrong.

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India Survived Japan by Two Runs on a Reversed Wide Call — Here’s What the Laws Actually Say

India needed a two-run margin to beat a cricket associate nation for the first time — and got there only after an umpire reversed a wide call in the final over, following visible protests from Axar Patel and captain Shreyas Iyer. Wisden’s Ben Gardner called it India “bullying” the umpires. Here is exactly what happened, what the Laws of Cricket actually say about a reversed wide, and the newer ICC rule almost nobody covering this has mentioned.

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