Jul 20, 2026
India’s road back to the World Test Championship final runs through Sri Lanka
India begin their World Test Championship run-in with two Tests in Sri Lanka next month, and fifth place in the table means Galle and Colombo already...
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Jul 19, 2026
T20 cricket records: the biggest numbers in the shortest format
From Zimbabwe’s 344 to a nine-ball fifty, the shortest format keeps rewriting the record book. Here are the biggest T20 cricket records, and the playe...
Jul 18, 2026
ODI cricket records: the biggest numbers in the 50-over game
From Sachin Tendulkar’s mountain of runs to Rohit Sharma’s 264 and England’s 498, here are the batting, bowling and wicketkeeping records that define...
Jul 18, 2026
Sir Garfield Sobers, cricket’s greatest all-rounder, dies at 89
Sir Garfield Sobers, the West Indies all-rounder revered as the most complete cricketer the game has produced, has died at the age of 89.
Jul 18, 2026
Joe Root’s golden ODI run could not have come at a better time for England
At 35, Joe Root is in the best one-day form of his career. His unbeaten 99 at Cardiff was only the latest reminder before England and India settle the...
Jul 17, 2026
Mithali’s succession plan: Mandhana for the long formats, Shafali for the T20 job
With India’s women fresh off their first 50-over World Cup title, Mithali Raj has laid out a plan for life after Harmanpreet Kaur: Smriti Mandhana to...
Jul 16, 2026
Moises Henriques retires as Australia’s most-capped domestic player, with a Portugal chapter still to come
Moises Henriques is walking away from the Sydney Sixers and New South Wales, but the former Sunrisers Hyderabad all-rounder isn’t done with cricket al...
Jul 15, 2026
IPL owners reshape The Hundred as three teams take new names for 2026
IPL money has taken over three of The Hundred’s eight teams, with Oval Invincibles now MI London and the Northern Superchargers rebranded as Sunrisers...
Jul 14, 2026
Test cricket records: the biggest numbers in the sport’s oldest format
Test cricket has produced records that have stood for decades and a few that are shifting right now. Here are the biggest numbers the format has throw...
Jul 14, 2026
At 200 ODIs, Jos Buttler is still England’s great white-ball improviser
Jos Buttler brings up his 200th ODI cap at Edgbaston, a milestone that runs through England’s 2019 World Cup win, the T20 title he captained, and the...
Jul 10, 2026
MS Dhoni’s cricket records: the milestones that define his career
He is the only captain to win all three major ICC white-ball trophies and the only keeper past 100 ODI stumpings. Here are the records that define MS...
Jul 10, 2026
Mandhana’s 300th and Beaumont’s goodbye frame the Lord’s Test
As Lord’s stages its first ever women’s Test, Smriti Mandhana reaches 300 internationals as the youngest to the mark while England’s Tammy Beaumont pl...
Jul 9, 2026
Bumrah is back in India’s ODI plans, and it points straight at 2027
Named in an India ODI squad for the first time since the 2023 final, Jasprit Bumrah has become the clearest signpost to where the team’s white-ball pr...
Jul 7, 2026
Women’s cricket records: the biggest numbers across Test, ODI and T20I
From Mithali Raj’s mountain of runs to Australia’s grip on the World Cup, here are the biggest records in women’s cricket across all three formats.
Jul 7, 2026
India face England at Lord’s in the ground’s first women’s Test
England host India from July 10 in the first women’s Test ever staged at Lord’s, a landmark that lands 50 years after Rachael Heyhoe Flint first led a...
Jul 7, 2026
Four teams tied on points as net run rate shapes the MLC 2026 playoff race
With four teams level on eight points and a week of league cricket to go, net run rate is quietly deciding who reaches the MLC 2026 playoffs at the Oa...
Jul 7, 2026
Jacob Bethell is the young England batter giving India a headache this summer
England’s 22-year-old left-hander won the second T20I with an unbeaten 76 at Old Trafford, and his fast-rising career suggests India will be seeing pl...
Jul 5, 2026
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 15, and already the youngest to play for India
The Rajasthan Royals teenager broke Sachin Tendulkar’s 36-year record on his India debut at Old Trafford, capping a rise built on record-breaking IPL...
Jul 4, 2026
Virat Kohli’s cricket records: every major milestone he holds
Virat Kohli owns the most centuries in one-day international history and is the fastest batter to nearly every big ODI run milestone. Here is a clear...
Jun 27, 2026
India’s semi-final spot comes down to a Lord’s date with Australia
Beat Australia at Lord’s on Sunday and India are into the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-finals. Anything less, and they are left watching South Africa’s...
Jun 24, 2026
Defending champions on the brink as the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final race tightens
Australia are romping clear and England and the West Indies are unbeaten, but New Zealand’s title defence is on the ropes, with India and South Africa...
Jun 23, 2026
South Africa’s surge has the perennial runners-up looking dangerous again
Beaten finalists in 2023 and 2024, South Africa stumbled at the start in England. Back-to-back wins over Pakistan and India, and a Kapp masterclass, h...
Jun 22, 2026
India still control their World Cup semi-final fate after the South Africa setback
India’s loss to South Africa dropped them to second in Group 1, but two wins from their last two games, against Bangladesh and Australia, would still...
Jun 21, 2026
Mandhana’s record start has India dreaming, but the World Cup still eludes her
Smriti Mandhana is the leading scorer at the Women’s T20 World Cup and has just set an India record for fifties at the tournament. The trophy itself i...