Cricket Features

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Oct 4, 2026

No three-match ODI series has produced more than 2,109 runs, and India paid over 55 a wicket for theirs

Ten hundreds and two 400-plus totals made India vs West Indies the highest-scoring three-match bilateral ODI series ever. India’s bowling is the part...

Sep 19, 2026

Vadodara International Cricket Stadium: pitch report, records and the 20 women’s matches to one men’s

The Kotambi ground in Vadodara opened in December 2024 and has staged 21 matches above domestic level. Twenty of them were women’s cricket, which make...

Sep 18, 2026

Srinagar gets its biggest match since 1986, and the bowler who won J&K the Ranji Trophy will not be there

The Irani Cup goes to the Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium from 1 October, with Rishabh Pant leading the Rest of India against the Ranji champions. Auqib Nabi,...

Sep 17, 2026

IPL winners list: every champion from 2008 to 2026, and the five finals Chennai lost

Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 in one table, plus the numbers underneath it: who has played the most finals, who has lost the most of them, and...

Sep 16, 2026

India’s women have no group stage in Japan, and their gold medal defence starts against the hosts

Eight teams, four quarter-finals and a gold decided in six days. India play Japan on Friday morning, three days after winning the Asia Cup in Dubai.

Sep 16, 2026

Babar has not played a domestic first-class match since 2019, and he asked the PCB to find him a team

Babar Azam will turn out for OGDCL in the President’s Trophy, his first domestic first-class cricket in nearly seven years. He was in none of the eigh...

Sep 15, 2026

Stephen Fleming left Chennai in July, and he spent Monday driving round England’s county grounds

England have split the head coach job in two, and the incoming Test coach is spending a fortnight working out how to share a squad with Brendon McCull...

Sep 15, 2026

India pick their ODI squad on Wednesday, and their vice-captain will be in Japan

The Asian Games and the West Indies ODI series overlap almost exactly, which means two India squads in two countries and a gold medal match on the sam...

Sep 15, 2026

Graeme Cremer turns 40 between the second and third ODIs, and his last one was in March 2018

Zimbabwe have recalled a 40-year-old wicketkeeper and a leg-spinner who spent seven years coaching in Dubai. Australia are in Harare for the first tim...

Sep 14, 2026

Salman Agha made 45 runs in five Test innings, and then 300 not out in Abbottabad

A fortnight after being sent home from England, Pakistan’s dropped captain batted for 336 balls in the President’s Trophy and made the highest score o...

Sep 13, 2026

Bumrah has not bowled a T20I since the World Cup final, and in Delhi he was marking out a longer run-up

Cleared to play on Thursday, Jasprit Bumrah spent Friday evening in the Delhi nets measuring out a run-up a third longer than his usual one. His first...

Sep 12, 2026

Wasim Akram asked what batter the PSL has produced in ten years, on the day Pakistan lost 3-0

Wasim Akram reached for a 15-year-old Indian batter to make his point about the Pakistan Super League, a few hours after England completed a series sw...

Sep 12, 2026

Siraj had never taken two months off in ten years, and his run-up came apart in Sri Lanka

India’s fast bowler has given an unusually specific explanation for the pace he lost in Galle and Colombo: strides that stopped matching each other. H...

Sep 12, 2026

Deepti Sharma has 11 wickets at 3.63, and the captain she bowls at on Sunday has 11 of her own

India and Sri Lanka both reach the Women’s Asia Cup final in Dubai with four wins from four. The last time the two met in a final, Sri Lanka won the f...

Sep 11, 2026

Root’s 220th catch was an edge in the first over, and it took him past Steve Smith

No fielder in the history of Test cricket has taken more catches than Joe Root. The one that got him there came off Ollie Robinson in the opening over...

Sep 10, 2026

The Supreme Court wrote the BCCI’s rulebook, and now it is asking why a newer one does not apply

A three-judge bench put one question to the BCCI and every state association this week: why should the National Sports Governance Act not govern your...

Sep 8, 2026

Cricket Australia is selling the Melbourne Renegades outright, and the club opens the season in Chennai

The Big Bash has opened its doors to private owners. Bids are being invited for the whole Renegades licence, and the state chief executives went shopp...

Sep 8, 2026

Bengal asked everyone for their documents, and 65 cricketers were barred

One pre-season paperwork check by the Cricket Association of Bengal has cost an India Under-19 legspinner two years and a 2022 World Cup winner his ag...

Sep 6, 2026

Eden Gardens pitch report: par scores, records and stats in Kolkata

Par at Eden Gardens has climbed 26 runs since 2023, the largest jump at any established IPL ground. What the ball-by-ball record of 107 matches says a...

Sep 6, 2026

Shami’s 100th first-class match came three days after his 36th birthday, and 18 months after his last India cap

Sourav Ganguly sent a video message, Ishan Kishan called age just a number, and Bharat Arun said the selectors closed the door too early.

Sep 5, 2026

Pakistan changed Test coach again mid-series, and Mike Hesson was in Japan when it happened

Mike Hesson takes charge of Pakistan’s Test side at Edgbaston on Wednesday, the eighth man responsible for the job since May 2023. He says the squad w...

Sep 2, 2026

CSK have not had a head coach since July, and Gaikwad says there is no rush

Stephen Fleming left Chennai in July and was named England’s Test coach 17 days later. Seven weeks on, CSK still have no replacement, and their captai...

Aug 30, 2026

Mumbai now pays its men and women the same retainer, and the BCCI’s own gap is tenfold

The MCA is the first state association in India to hand annual contracts to both its men’s and women’s players at identical rates, which is one thing...

Aug 29, 2026

Hit wicket in cricket: what the rule says and why T20 produces six times as many

Hit wicket has happened 119 times in 4.17 million deliveries, and a batter is six times likelier to go this way in a T20 league than in a Test. What L...