Aug 28, 2026
Dead ball in cricket: the rule, the umpire’s call, and what changes in October 2026
A dead ball is a ball no longer in play, and it is Law 20, not Law 23. Here is when the ball dies on its own, when the umpire has to call it, and the...
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Aug 28, 2026
India need five wins from their last seven Tests, and even that might not be enough
The Colombo draw cost India eight World Test Championship points and left them on 51.52 per cent. Seven Tests are left: two in New Zealand in November...
Aug 27, 2026
India’s Asian Games gold medal match and their third ODI against West Indies are on the same day
India need two men’s teams in late September, and their women go from a possible Asia Cup final in Dubai to an Asian Games quarter-final in Japan five...
Aug 26, 2026
Dinusha has made 100, 84 and 103 against India, and Sri Lanka are following on anyway
Three innings against India, three scores of 80 or more, and a place on a list that already had Sobers and Weekes on it. Sri Lanka’s problem is what h...
Aug 22, 2026
Kate Cross is retiring at 34, eight months after England decided she was not part of the plan
The Lancashire seamer will stop at the end of the 2026 season with 102 England caps, 140 international wickets, and a five-for against India at Taunto...
Aug 22, 2026
Sooryavanshi has eight first-class games and an average of 17.25, and Dravid is asking everyone to be patient
The IPL’s youngest Orange Cap winner starts a red-ball season in Bengaluru on Sunday. Rahul Dravid used a T20 launch in Dublin to argue why that matte...
Aug 20, 2026
India’s Galle win took them to 53.33 per cent, and Bangladesh are still above them
India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs to climb to 53.33 per cent in the World Test Championship, and it was not enough to move them off fifth place.
Aug 19, 2026
Surrey lost the Championship’s leading century-maker to England, and signed a Rajasthan captain who has not played red-ball cricket since February
Mahipal Lomror has never played for India, averages 42.62 in first-class cricket and has a triple hundred. Surrey have six matches left and one win fr...
Aug 18, 2026
Kohli’s first innings for India was 12 in Dambulla, and it is 18 years old today
On 18 August 2008 a 19-year-old opened India’s batting at Dambulla, made 12, and finished on the wrong side of an eight-wicket defeat. Eighteen years...
Aug 18, 2026
Jemimah Rodrigues is out of the Women’s Asia Cup, and India travel to Dubai with a middle order to rebuild
A high-grade hamstring tear picked up in the Hundred on 3 August rules Jemimah Rodrigues out of both the Asia Cup and the Asian Games. Pratika Rawal c...
Aug 16, 2026
Everyone agrees bilateral ODIs need meaning, and nobody has worked out who pays for it
Todd Greenberg says bilateral one-day cricket makes up a significant portion of Cricket Australia’s broadcast deals. That single sentence explains why...
Aug 15, 2026
India reach 600 Tests with 186 wins and 188 defeats, at a ground that was rubble in 2005
India became the third country after England and Australia to play 600 Tests when they walked out at Galle on Independence Day. It is also Galle’s 50t...
Aug 12, 2026
Moises Henriques will captain Portugal in Finland, a month after retiring in Australia
Australia’s most-capped domestic cricketer, and a familiar face from six IPL squads, has been named captain of Portugal for a T20 World Cup sub-region...
Aug 11, 2026
India are fifth in the WTC, and winning both Tests in Sri Lanka only takes them to 57 per cent
India go to Galle on 48.15 per cent, below the 50 that already missed a final once. Nine Tests remain in the cycle, and the arithmetic says a 2-0 in S...
Aug 9, 2026
India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it
India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...
Aug 8, 2026
Sri Lanka are giving away the India Tests, and the Lanka Premier League is why
Free entry at Galle and the SSC covers the grass banks, not the stands. For the biggest series on the home calendar, that is a decision worth reading...
Aug 6, 2026
Three sixes off Marco Jansen put Buttler top of the all-time T20 run list
He walked out at Old Trafford 21 runs behind Kieron Pollard. He was past him inside a dozen balls, and 224 matches quicker.
Aug 5, 2026
Pakistan hired a batting coach 15 days before Headingley, and the fortnight before it explains why
Michael Smith arrives on a two-year deal with 71 for 9 at Tarouba and Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 160 both sitting in the same fortnight of evidence.
Aug 4, 2026
Auqib Nabi has 104 Ranji wickets in two seasons, and it took a Bumrah injury to get him picked
Two Ranji seasons, 104 wickets and a maiden title for Jammu and Kashmir were not enough to get Auqib Nabi into an India squad. A knee injury to Jaspri...
Aug 4, 2026
Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest
Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...
Aug 3, 2026
The CPL goes to seven teams, and Jamaica finally gets its cricket back
The Caribbean Premier League’s 14th season starts on 7 August with a franchise count it has never had before, a returning Jamaica side, the Tridents n...
Aug 3, 2026
Australia’s U19 squad for India includes Neel Patel, a Gujarati-Australian opener from Sydney
Cricket Australia’s 16-man Under-19 group flies to Rajkot and Ahmedabad next month for three youth one-dayers and two four-day matches against the Und...
Aug 1, 2026
Andrew McDonald wants 17-man World Cup squads, and the 2027 calendar backs him up
Australia’s coach has asked the ICC to raise the World Cup squad limit from 15 to 17, and the maths of a 13-match tournament makes it hard to argue wi...
Aug 1, 2026
Ashutosh Sharma was signed to hit sixes, and now leads the One-Day Cup wicket charts
A maiden List A five-wicket haul at Chelmsford took Ashutosh Sharma to 13 wickets in four matches, more than any other bowler in the competition. He h...