Cricket News

India lose seven for 172 after Padikkal’s 167, and Galle has produced 116 overs in two days

India closed day two at Galle on 460 for 9, having lost seven wickets for 172 runs in the only session and a half the weather allowed. Devdutt Padikka...

Aug 16, 2026

Rahmat Shah’s unbeaten 143 turns 22 for 2 into Afghanistan’s biggest ODI chase

Rahmat Shah’s 143 not out was his highest score in the format, and it carried Afghanistan to a 4-0 series win over Ireland in Belfast.

Aug 16, 2026

Kirk McKenzie hit 69 off 25, and Jamaica have their first win at the fourth attempt

The Kingsmen were 82 without loss after the powerplay at Sabina Park and chased 183 with eight balls to spare. Pooran and Pollard had made 44 each for...

Aug 16, 2026

Bangladesh were 54 all out eight days ago, and they have beaten Australia by nine wickets

Bangladesh’s first Test win in Australia came at the third attempt, 23 years after their last Test in the country. Hasan Mahmud took nine wickets in t...

Aug 16, 2026

Trent Rockets are in both Hundred finals at Lord’s, and nobody has ever won the double

Trent Rockets topped the men’s and women’s tables and go into both Hundred finals at Lord’s on Sunday. In six seasons no franchise has won the pair in...

Aug 15, 2026

Rodrigues has a high-grade hamstring tear, and India lose her for the Asia Cup and the Asian Games

The hamstring Jemimah Rodrigues hurt in the Hundred on 3 August turned out to be a high-grade tear. Pratika Rawal, who has been on the receiving end o...

Aug 15, 2026

Afghanistan host India in Delhi in September, and only one of the two teams is travelling

Three T20Is at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 13, 15 and 17 September, with Afghanistan listed as the home side. It will be the first time they have host...

Aug 15, 2026

Padikkal’s first Test hundred is India’s first at No. 3 by a left-hander since Ganguly

Devdutt Padikkal reached three figures off 134 balls in Galle after Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out in a tangle with the bowler and KL Rahul retired hurt...

Aug 15, 2026

Hazlewood reaches 300 in his 76th Test, and Australia end day three 67 behind Bangladesh

Josh Hazlewood took 6 for 89 in Darwin to become the ninth Australian to 300 Test wickets. Bangladesh still made 426 and led by 228, and Australia clo...

Aug 15, 2026

Antigua’s top score was 26, and the Kings still lost seven wickets chasing 52

Rain left St Lucia needing 52 from eight overs at Gros Islet. They got there with two balls to spare, and it was closer than that sounds.

Aug 15, 2026

Tongue’s 4 for 26 ends the highest-scoring team in the Hundred, and Manchester go to Lord’s

Manchester Super Giants beat Sunrisers Leeds by 20 runs in the men’s Hundred eliminator at the Kia Oval and will play Trent Rockets in Sunday’s final.

Aug 15, 2026

Deepti Sharma sees Sunrisers home from 95 for 5, and Lord’s is next

Deepti Sharma’s unbeaten 28 carried Sunrisers Leeds past Southern Brave in the women’s Hundred eliminator at the Kia Oval, setting up a final against...

Aug 14, 2026

Nabi’s four wickets sink Jamaica, and Sabina Park is still waiting for a home win

Mohammad Nabi took four and Shai Hope finished it unbeaten as Guyana Amazon Warriors won their opener. The Kingsmen are three matches into their CPL r...

Aug 14, 2026

Tanzid’s maiden hundred puts Bangladesh in front in Darwin, 23 years after their last visit

Bangladesh lost inside three days the last time they played a Test at Marrara. On the second day of their return they batted Australia’s 198 into the...

Aug 14, 2026

Three teams finished on 20 points, and the Hundred eliminator is what is left of it

Manchester Super Giants and Sunrisers Leeds meet at the Kia Oval on Friday for the right to face Trent Rockets at Lord’s. MI London, the defending cha...

Aug 14, 2026

Shyam Sundar’s unbeaten 104 sinks the champions, and Trichy go second

Trichy Grand Cholas beat holders iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans by 17 runs at Dindigul on Thursday night. S Shyam Sundar batted through the innings for 104...

Aug 13, 2026

Netravalkar and Holder take three each, and the Patriots have their first win of the CPL

A Mumbai-born left-arm seamer who never got near the India side took three for 32 in Gros Islet, and the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots are off the mark...

Aug 13, 2026

Root scraps England’s curfew and tells his players to be adults

Joe Root has removed the midnight curfew England imposed after the Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson night out in June, six days before he leads the side ou...

Aug 13, 2026

Hasan Mahmud’s career-best 6 for 55 bowls Australia out for 198, five days after Bangladesh made 54

Australia chose to bat in Darwin and were dismissed for 198, the lowest Test total they have ever made against Bangladesh. Hasan Mahmud took 6 for 55,...

Aug 13, 2026

Atal’s birthday 143 breaks a 16-year Afghanistan record, and Ireland’s series is gone

Sediqullah Atal turned 25 and made 143, Ibrahim Zadran made 107, and their 231-run stand is now Afghanistan’s biggest for the second wicket in ODIs. I...

Aug 13, 2026

MI London needed to win by 59, won by two, and their three-year run is over

MI London beat Birmingham Phoenix by two runs at Edgbaston and still went out of the Hundred on net run rate. Manchester Super Giants meet Sunrisers L...

Aug 12, 2026

Potts leaves London Spirit 2 for 2 in seven balls, and Welsh Fire sign off in fifth

Grace Potts removed London Spirit’s top three to leave them two for two inside seven balls. Welsh Fire won by 15 runs at Sophia Gardens and finished f...

Aug 12, 2026

Sri Lanka pick four quicks for Galle, and Dickwella returns after three years

Sri Lanka’s 16 for the first Test against India carries four specialist fast bowlers, three front-line spinners and a recalled Niroshan Dickwella behi...

Aug 12, 2026

Australia’s first-choice attack is back together in Darwin, and Boland is the one left out

Pat Cummins confirmed his XI a day before the first Test against Bangladesh, with Josh Hazlewood back after missing the entire Ashes and Scott Boland...