Cricket News

India’s Asia Cup squad went up and came down, and the ACC still has not announced the tournament

The Women’s Asia Cup is meant to start on 28 August in the UAE. Three weeks out there is no confirmed venue, no fixture list and no formal announcemen...

Aug 4, 2026

India arrive in Colombo with seven spinners, and their openers spent the week facing Mumbai’s

Four specialist spinners in the squad, three more travelling as net bowlers, and a week of spin-focused batting in Bandra for KL Rahul and Yashasvi Ja...

Aug 4, 2026

Five wickets for 19 runs undo Sri Lanka, and Pakistan avoid the sweep in Dambulla

A dead rubber in Dambulla turned on one passage of spin bowling. Sri Lanka lost five wickets for 19 runs, and Pakistan’s four-wicket win denied them a...

Aug 4, 2026

Sydney Sixers want Ben Stokes, and the reported fee would break a BBL record they set themselves

A reported 600,000 Australian dollars would make Stokes the best-paid player in Big Bash history. The record he would break belongs to Babar Azam, and...

Aug 4, 2026

The BCCI will review how India manage injuries once the Sri Lanka Tests are done

India’s selectors picked Jasprit Bumrah for the Sri Lanka Tests expecting him to be fit. He is not, and the board has lined up a formal review of how...

Aug 4, 2026

Babar is 14 short of his first Test hundred since 2022, and Pakistan trail by 78

Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 107 and an unbroken stand of 168 have Pakistan 78 behind West Indies at Port of Spain, with Babar Azam 14 runs from endin...

Aug 4, 2026

Graham’s last ball ends Southern Brave’s unbeaten run as Welsh Fire win twice in Cardiff

Heather Graham took two wickets and then hit the winning runs off the final delivery, and Matt Short’s unbeaten 60 completed a Sophia Gardens double o...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Aug 3, 2026

Punjab gets a T20 league of its own, and the calendar is already in the way

The Sher-e-Punjab T20 League was launched in New Chandigarh on Sunday: six city franchises, 27 matches from 30 August, and an auction on 9 August. Whe...

Aug 3, 2026

Ecclestone’s opening burst and a 73-run stand keep MI London winless at The Oval

Sophie Ecclestone bowled both MI London openers inside eight balls, the hosts never recovered from 1 for 2, and Smriti Mandhana and Meg Lanning knocke...

Aug 3, 2026

Duckett takes over the run charts, and Gregory defends 16 off five balls

Ben Duckett’s 64 moved him past Phil Salt at the top of the men’s Hundred run charts, Mohammad Amir removed Harry Brook and Mitchell Marsh at the deat...

Aug 3, 2026

Abhishek Sharma hits 233 off 91 balls in Amritsar, a week after 11 runs in Zimbabwe

India’s T20 opener made a district double hundred with 25 sixes on Sunday, seven days on from a Zimbabwe tour that brought him 11 runs in three inning...

Aug 3, 2026

Rashid Khan’s 5 for 17 bowls out the Super Giants and sends MI London second

Manchester Super Giants had 184 to chase at The Oval on Sunday and fell 46 short, with Aiden Markram’s first Hundred fifty the only real resistance.

Aug 3, 2026

Greaves holds West Indies together again as rain cuts day one in Port of Spain

West Indies reached 239 for 5 in 74 overs at Queen’s Park Oval, with Justin Greaves 64 not out after Babar Azam had dropped him at leg slip.

Aug 2, 2026

Asalanka’s 58 and Nawaz’s three in the middle send Galle into Qualifier 1

Charith Asalanka made 58, Mohammad Nawaz took three wickets in 13 balls, and Galle Gallants finish the LPL league stage on top of the table.

Aug 2, 2026

The Rockets go 32 balls without a boundary, and still beat the champions by five runs

Sophia Dunkley’s 56 set it up, Annabel Sutherland’s unbeaten 59 nearly took it away, and the Women’s Hundred champions ended up five short at Trent Br...

Aug 2, 2026

Bumrah is out of the Sri Lanka Tests, two days after clearing his fitness tests

India’s medical staff have told Jasprit Bumrah not to rush the left knee he has been managing since the T20 World Cup, and he will not travel for the...

Aug 2, 2026

A debutant’s 46 and Athapaththu’s 15-ball 40 hand Sri Lanka the series in Dambulla

Sanjana Kavindi made 46 from 24 balls in her first international innings and won the match award as Sri Lanka chased 176 with 14 balls to spare. They...

Aug 2, 2026

Harmanpreet keeps the captaincy as India name their Women’s Asia Cup squad

Amita Sharma’s selection panel has picked 15 for the Asia Cup, with Prema Rawat retained and Pratika Rawal left among the five reserves. India go in w...

Aug 2, 2026

Four Duleep Trophy squads are in, and the quarter-finals run into India’s Colombo Test

South Zone made Tilak Varma captain this weekend, leaving North and North East as the only zones yet to name a side. The opening quarter-finals sit on...

Aug 2, 2026

Guyana slip to 29 for 8, scrape 85, and still win the Global Super League final

The Warriors were bowled out for 85 at Providence and defended it, retaining the Global Super League title as San Francisco Unicorns fell six runs sho...

Aug 2, 2026

Spirit lose five wickets for two runs as Archer’s 4 for 9 keeps Southern Brave alive

Jofra Archer took 4 for 9 at Lord’s and Adil Rashid moved past Tymal Mills as the men’s Hundred’s all-time leading wicket-taker. Southern Brave still...

Aug 2, 2026

West Indies are one result from their first series win over Pakistan since 2000

Pakistan arrive at the Queen’s Park Oval 1-0 down, without Shan Masood, and carrying the longest run of away Test defeats in their history. The second...

Aug 1, 2026

Perry’s unbeaten 68 gets Birmingham Phoenix home with a ball to spare

Ellyse Perry finished on 68 not out as Birmingham Phoenix chased 145 at Edgbaston with one ball left, ending a winless start to the Women’s Hundred.