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India A Women lost six wickets for 50, and Australia A had the chase done in 14 overs

Tess Flintoff took four for 13 as India A Women were bowled out for 117 at New Chandigarh, and Australia A went 1-0 up in a seven-match tour with six...

Sep 12, 2026

Rahul Chopra finished on 100 not out, and Nepal are going to the Asia Cup anyway

Nepal beat the UAE by 44 runs in the ACC Men’s Premier Cup final in Kuala Lumpur to take the last place at the 2027 ODI Asia Cup in Bangladesh.

Sep 12, 2026

Padikkal made 328 runs while Sudharsan was injured, and now Sudharsan is his vice-captain

The BCCI has handed Devdutt Padikkal the India A captaincy for two four-day matches against Australia A in Puducherry, starting September 22. Hardik P...

Sep 12, 2026

Pakistan were still two runs behind with eight wickets down, and Razaullah’s nine sixes left England chasing 130

A 21-year-old debutant batting at No. 9 hit 81 off 63 balls and added 121 with Mohammad Abbas, turning a certain innings defeat at Edgbaston into a fo...

Sep 12, 2026

Fatima Sana took four wickets and made 47 not out, and Pakistan still went out in Dubai

Sri Lanka were 33 for 4 chasing 131 and still won with eight balls to spare. They meet India in Sunday’s Women’s Asia Cup final, a repeat of the 2024...

Sep 11, 2026

Pakistan are going back to the Kookaburra, and the PCB is making the same argument it made in 2019

The PCB will use Kookaburra balls in the President’s Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy from 2026-27, ending a two-season run with the Dukes that bega...

Sep 11, 2026

Rizwan and Imam spent four hours with Pakistan’s cybercrime agency, and their phones were already there

Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency questioned Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq in Lahore on Thursday over alleged dressing-room leaks...

Sep 11, 2026

Delhi Police asked for the T20I opener to be moved, and the DDCA said no

Delhi’s traffic police wanted India’s T20I opener against Afghanistan rescheduled because of the BRICS Summit. The DDCA says the match stays where it...

Sep 11, 2026

Shami’s 16 overs cost 42 runs at Chepauk, and Ganguly says he has not been neglected

Sourav Ganguly was asked why Mohammed Shami is still not in India’s side, and answered by talking about his own career. The bowler in question had jus...

Sep 11, 2026

Kuldeep Yadav had never taken ten wickets in a first-class match, and Essex lost by an innings in three days

Kuldeep Yadav’s 10 for 120 at Headingley is the first ten-wicket haul of his first-class career. Yorkshire beat Essex by an innings and 106 runs with...

Sep 11, 2026

Bangladesh put India in, Shafali Verma made 64, and India are in a sixth Asia Cup final out of six

India beat Bangladesh by 40 runs in Dubai on Thursday night to reach Sunday’s Women’s T20 Asia Cup final. Shafali Verma’s 64 did the heavy lifting, an...

Sep 11, 2026

Sri Lanka knocked Pakistan out of the last Asia Cup with a ball to spare, and tonight the winner plays India

The last place in Sunday’s Women’s Asia Cup final is decided in Dubai on Friday night. Sri Lanka have not lost a game in this tournament, and Pakistan...

Sep 10, 2026

Imran Tahir took five for 17 at 47, and Saint Lucia lost seven wickets for 27 runs

No bowler as old as Imran Tahir had taken a five-wicket haul in men’s T20 cricket until overnight at Providence. The Kings collapsed from 54 for two t...

Sep 10, 2026

Oman made 60, Hong Kong made 70, and Nepal play the UAE for an Asia Cup place

Both ACC Men’s Premier Cup semi-finals were over early on Thursday, and Saturday’s final in Kuala Lumpur decides the last seat at the 2027 Asia Cup.

Sep 10, 2026

South Zone never batted again, and East Zone have the Duleep Trophy for the first time in 13 years

Ishan Kishan’s 270 put the final out of reach inside three days, and East Zone batted out the rest of it to take the title on first-innings lead.

Sep 10, 2026

Finn Allen topped the Big Bash run charts for Perth, and the new rules let Melbourne Stars take him

Melbourne Stars have signed Finn Allen on a three-year deal for BBL|16, and Perth Scorchers, whose title he helped win, could not match the offer.

Sep 10, 2026

India named four players subject to fitness clearance, and Harshit Rana is the one who missed out

India’s squad for the Afghanistan T20Is came with a condition attached to four names. Three of them cleared it at the Centre of Excellence this week....

Sep 10, 2026

Jordan Hermann made 150 on ODI debut, and the record he equalled was set by another South African

Nobody has ever scored more in a first one-day international. Hermann needed 61 balls for his first fifty and 32 each for the next two, and Namibia we...

Sep 9, 2026

Shadab Khan hit 30 off nine balls, and Guyana’s unbeaten CPL run ended at six

Shadab Khan’s nine-ball 30 pushed the Falcons to 182, and Guyana’s chase lasted 14.2 overs. The only unbeaten record left in CPL 2026 is gone.

Sep 9, 2026

Pakistan were 26 for 4 in the tenth over at Edgbaston, and extras were their second-top scorer at lunch

Ollie Robinson had figures of 8-3-9-2 and Josh Tongue took three as Pakistan slid to 100 for 7 by the first interval of the third Test, with two of th...

Sep 9, 2026

Afghanistan will play four Tests in 2026, more than in any year before, and none of them at home

The Afghanistan Cricket Board has confirmed an October-November season against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, played start to finish in the UAE. Ten matches...

Sep 9, 2026

India chased 56 in 8.4 overs to finish the group, and Bangladesh are next

Three wins, three opponents bowled out for under 70, and a net run rate more than double anyone else’s. India start Thursday’s Women’s Asia Cup semi-f...

Sep 9, 2026

ChatGPT is now a BCCI sponsor, and the associate deals are up 44 per cent

The board’s associate-tier sponsorship fetched 44 per cent more than it did last cycle, one of the three buyers is an AI chatbot, and the branding sta...

Sep 9, 2026

Bangladesh were 55 for 6, and a 42-run stand sent them to a semi-final against India

Two Bangladesh batters went for nothing off one ball each, and the innings closed on 103. UAE were held to 69 for 9 in reply, and India are next on Th...