Perhaps Hendricks News Today

Even given the fact that the list of contracted players for the coming season has a noticeable white-ball bias because it’s a T20 World Cup season, the Hendricks decision is impossible to justify from a cricketing perspective.

A recurring theme in Sports Illustrated’s power rankings to this juncture is the ongoing struggle to negotiate what we thought about each team heading into the season compared with the results on the field. At what point is there enough evidence to mistrust our preconceptions? When does fluke become reality? And how do we confront the terrifying notion that maybe, just maybe, we’ve been getting something wrong all along? The whole endeavor can start to feel like an existential crisis. Well...