Jul 7, 2026
Women’s cricket records: the biggest numbers across Test, ODI and T20I
From Smriti Mandhana’s record run tally and Deepti Sharma’s wickets to Australia’s grip on the World Cup, here are the biggest records in women’s cric...
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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 records: every major milestone, format by format
Virat Kohli holds the most centuries in one-day international history and is the fastest batter to nearly every big ODI run milestone. Here is every r...
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...
Jun 20, 2026
Iyer’s new India and a record-breaking teen: the T20I side bound for England
Shreyas Iyer takes over as T20I captain and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi becomes the youngest player India have ever picked, as a new-look squad p...
Jun 19, 2026
England v Scotland brings a Women’s T20 World Cup first to Headingley
Saturday’s group game at Headingley is the first time England and Scotland have faced each other at a World Cup on English soil, pitting the tournamen...
Jun 18, 2026
India and Australia are pulling clear of Group 1, split only by net run rate
Both unbeaten, both winning by a distance, and on a collision course for a June 28 meeting that already looks like a group decider. After two rounds,...
Jun 7, 2026
India’s batting riches are turning selection into a happy problem
Five fifties in one declared innings, two wicketkeepers in the same XI and a No. 7 making runs: India’s Test batting has become so deep that the only...
Jun 7, 2026
India turn to their World Cup warm-ups to find form before the Pakistan opener
A 2-1 series loss to England has left India searching for form, and warm-ups against West Indies and the hosts are the last chance to settle the side...
Jun 5, 2026
A hat-trick, a five-for and now a World Cup: the rise of Nandani Sharma
Uncapped, 24 and fresh off a record-breaking debut WPL season, the Chandigarh pacer has gone from unknown to India’s World Cup squad in a matter of mo...
Jun 2, 2026
Australia, the holders, and India’s best chance: the Women’s T20 World Cup is wide open
The Women’s T20 World Cup begins on June 12 with the field harder to call than usual. Australia remain the team to beat, holders New Zealand head a cr...
Jun 1, 2026
776 runs and a clean sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made IPL 2026 his at 15
At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 with the Orange Cap, the MVP award and 776 runs at a strike rate above 237, the most complete individual...
Jun 1, 2026
Afghanistan return to India for a Test, eight years on from their first
A one-off Test and three ODIs against a Gill-led India hand Afghanistan a rare red-ball examination against a top side, and a white-ball series where...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 30, 2026
India open against Pakistan as they chase a first Women’s T20 World Cup title in England
Drawn alongside Australia and South Africa in Group A, India begin their Women’s T20 World Cup against Pakistan on June 14 and finish against the six-...
May 25, 2026
Hazlewood vs Gill at Dharamsala: the first six overs that decide RCB-GT Qualifier 1
Twenty-four came off Hazlewood’s first over the last time these sides met. The Australian’s chance to bury the memory lands on Tuesday night in the hi...
May 25, 2026
HPCA Stadium hosts its first IPL playoff in 16 years as Qualifier 1 lands in Dharamsala
The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association ground gets its first knockout fixture in IPL history on Tuesday when RCB take on Gujarat Titans for a place...