Cricket News

India are due in Dhaka on 28 August, and the BCB has booked Mirpur for something else

Bangladesh have filled their main stadium with an age-group tournament across exactly the fortnight India were meant to be there, and the BCCI still h...

Aug 21, 2026

Usman is the first visiting spinner to take five at Headingley since 1972, and Pakistan trail by 195

Ali Usman’s 5 for 92 was the first five-wicket haul by a visiting spinner at Headingley since the 1972 Ashes. Pakistan dropped Harry Brook on 1, and E...

Aug 20, 2026

Dindyal’s first CPL innings lasted one ball, and his second was a fifty that won a game

Mavendra Dindyal was out first ball on his Caribbean Premier League debut. Six days later the 21-year-old made 50 off 51 as Guyana Amazon Warriors cha...

Aug 20, 2026

Sri Lanka go to Colombo without three first-choice batters, and one is out because of a rule

Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal are out of Sunday’s second Test at the SSC and Pathum Nissanka is unlikely, leaving Gary Kirsten to rebuild a battin...

Aug 20, 2026

Weatherald lasted six Tests, and Renshaw is back for Mackay’s first Test

Australia have cut the opener they handed a national contract in April and recalled Matthew Renshaw for Saturday’s second Test against Bangladesh, at...

Aug 20, 2026

Afghanistan pulled Noor Ahmad’s NOC, and St Lucia Kings have lost him for the rest of the CPL

Noor took 22 wickets and won St Lucia Kings the 2024 title. He will not bowl a ball for them in 2026, and the man who won the Hundred final has been f...

Aug 20, 2026

Pakistan lost a wicket to the first ball at Headingley, and were all out for 171

Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue took five wickets apiece as England bowled Pakistan out inside 49 overs on a rain-hit opening day in Leeds. England clo...

Aug 19, 2026

Greaves took five wickets in five maiden overs, and West Indies have both ICC awards for July

The ICC’s July Player of the Month awards went to a first-time winner and a record-setter, both from the Caribbean. Only three other countries have sw...

Aug 19, 2026

Italy bowl Tanzania out with spin, and in December they will play their first official ODIs

An eight-wicket win in Dar es Salaam put Italy top of Challenge League B. The reward is a place at the World Cup Qualifier Play-off, where every match...

Aug 19, 2026

Jamaica Kingsmen were 0 for 2 in the first over, and won at Sabina Park by 51 runs

Saurabh Netravalkar struck twice in the opening over of the night. The Kingsmen still made 181 and bowled the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots out for 130.

Aug 19, 2026

Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less

India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the...

Aug 19, 2026

Pakistan lose Babar the day before Headingley, and Salman Agha has never captained a Test

Babar Azam’s right hand has not healed, so Pakistan begin a three-Test tour of England without their captain and the leading run-scorer from their las...

Aug 19, 2026

Jammu and Kashmir have six of North Zone’s fifteen, and their keeper is captain

North Zone have made Kanhaiya Wadhawan their Duleep Trophy captain six months after he kept wicket in Jammu and Kashmir’s first Ranji Trophy final. Fi...

Aug 18, 2026

India are in the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy, and the field was settled by a ranking taken on 6 July

Six teams, 16 matches and no qualifying route: the ICC’s new women’s tournament lands in Sri Lanka next February, and Ellyse Perry has had her first w...

Aug 18, 2026

Pant reached 100 Test sixes faster than anyone has, and India set Sri Lanka 372

Rishabh Pant got to 100 sixes in Tests in his 89th innings, 41 fewer than Adam Gilchrist needed. India were bowled out for 193, and Sri Lanka lost Din...

Aug 18, 2026

Warner moved to the passenger seat, and a Sydney court recorded the conviction anyway

David Warner was fined $1,500 and ordered to fit an alcohol interlock for a year at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday, four months after he pulled up sh...

Aug 18, 2026

Charlie Dean captains England again, and five familiar names sit out the Ireland ODIs

Nat Sciver-Brunt is still managing the calf problem that has run through her year, and England have picked a 15-player squad with two uncapped players...

Aug 17, 2026

Babar was cleared for Headingley, then ruled out of the first Test

A rising ball from Manny Lumsden hit Babar Azam on the right middle finger at Beckenham. He was cleared to play on Monday, then ruled out of the first...

Aug 17, 2026

Afghanistan hand the Asian Games to six uncapped players, with Rashid Khan staying home

Darwish Rasooli will lead a 15-man Afghanistan squad in Japan next month in which six players have never been capped. India, meanwhile, are sending Bu...

Aug 17, 2026

Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind

India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...

Aug 17, 2026

England lost the Ashes, the coach and the captain, and have handed the Test side back to Joe Root

Joe Root captains England again at Headingley on Wednesday, four years after giving the job up, with Ben Stokes retired, Brendon McCullum out of the r...

Aug 17, 2026

The BCCI is putting anti-corruption officers in every state T20 league, and the TNPL is why

For the first time the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit will cover every T20 league run by a state association, after finding bookies in contact with playe...

Aug 17, 2026

Seifert’s 72 off 38 wins the Hundred, and Goenka has a cricket trophy after ten years of trying

Tim Seifert’s seven sixes settled the men’s Hundred final at Lord’s, and Trent Rockets ended the night one trophy short of a double no franchise has m...

Aug 16, 2026

Sunrisers Leeds were 26 for 3 in the powerplay, and Trent Rockets have their first Hundred title

Trent Rockets bowled Sunrisers Leeds out for 91 at Lord’s and won the women’s Hundred final by eight wickets with 46 balls unused. Five of their six b...