Cricket Features

Latest features articles covering cricket.

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...

Jul 29, 2026

The IPL is worth 20.6 billion dollars, and this year’s growth came from two boardrooms

Houlihan Lokey’s annual study puts the league up 11.4 per cent, RCB’s brand past 300 million dollars and Lucknow Super Giants flat at zero. The number...

Jul 29, 2026

Eight catches and a 39-to-5 split: the numbers behind cricket’s ‘Clicky Ponting’ row

A slip fielder in an English league second XI is accused of clicking his fingers to fake edges. The scorecards ended up doing more damage than the vid...

Jul 27, 2026

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi: pitch report, records and stats

Delhi’s ground has produced a perfect ten, a 428 and the highest successful chase in IPL history. Here is the pitch report and the full record book at...

Jul 27, 2026

95 for 7 and still chasing 206: how Guyana are running away with the Global Super League

Guyana Amazon Warriors have won three out of three in Providence, including a chase of 206 from 95 for 7. One more win puts the defending champions st...

Jul 26, 2026

How the LPL’s most successful franchise ended up being run by the league

An arrest on opening day, black tape over the sponsor logos and a terminated franchise agreement have left the four-time champions Jaffna Kings under...

Jul 25, 2026

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad: pitch report, records and stats

The world’s largest cricket ground has staged four IPL finals and two World Cup finals in five seasons. Here is what its pitch actually does, format b...

Jul 25, 2026

Mandhana, Richa, Deepti, Jemimah: how India’s four are faring in the women’s Hundred

India have four players spread across three franchises in this year’s women’s Hundred, and two of them meet at Headingley on Saturday. Week one brough...

Jul 24, 2026

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk: pitch report, records and stats

A full guide to the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai: capacity and history, what the Chepauk pitch does, whether to bat first or chase, and every Tes...

Jul 23, 2026

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur: pitch report, records and stats

Jaipur’s IPL first-innings average has gone from 142 in 2011 to 225 in 2026, and the chase wins two matches in three. Here is the pitch report and the...

Jul 22, 2026

Raipur Cricket Stadium: pitch report, capacity and records at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh ground

India’s third-largest cricket ground has hosted only twelve senior men’s matches, and nine of them were won by the side batting second. Here is the Ra...

Jul 22, 2026

India’s fitness problem is bigger than one lost series in England

After India’s one-day series loss in England, Shubman Gill pointed not at the opposition but at a run of injuries that stopped him fielding his strong...

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...

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...