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Mukesh Kumar took seven, and East Zone are in their first Duleep Trophy final since 2012-13

Central Zone were bowled out for 158 before lunch on the third day in Bengaluru, and East Zone knocked off the 159 they needed for the loss of six wic...

Sep 1, 2026

Hardik has been told to stop bowling, and India’s squad for Afghanistan is due this week

India’s selectors meet this week to pick a squad for the Afghanistan T20Is in Delhi. Hardik Pandya, three months into a rehab stint in Bengaluru, has...

Sep 1, 2026

Indonesia held Bangladesh to 129 on their Asia Cup debut, and then were bowled out for 58

Indonesia took seven wickets in their first match at an Asia Cup and still lost by 71 runs in Dubai, where Nahida Akter’s 3 for 15 settled it.

Sep 1, 2026

Namibia’s seventh wicket put on 110, and then they lost four wickets in five balls

Zimbabwe defended 195 at Windhoek to win by five runs after Namibia lost their last four wickets inside the final over. Brad Evans finished with 37 no...

Sep 1, 2026

Thailand’s group ends tonight, and Pakistan’s has not started

Pakistan open their Women’s Asia Cup against Thailand in Dubai at 8pm IST, four days after the tournament began. Thailand’s group finishes tonight, an...

Aug 31, 2026

Lamichhane took 5 for 14 in his first match as Nepal’s ODI captain, and Bahrain made 87

Sandeep Lamichhane’s ten overs cost 14 runs and took five wickets as Nepal opened their ACC Men’s Premier Cup campaign with a seven-wicket win in Mala...

Aug 31, 2026

Sooryavanshi broke a 57-year-old Duleep Trophy record, and both first innings finished on 266

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 92 made him the youngest player to score a Duleep Trophy fifty, and East Zone still could not get past Central Zone’s total. Ti...

Aug 31, 2026

India were due to play an ODI in Dhaka this week, and the tour has been put off again

India’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh, already moved once from August 2025, will not happen this month. Neither board has cancelled it, and January is...

Aug 31, 2026

Rabada has a grade-three hamstring tear, and Donald says he will miss all three Australia Tests

Cricket South Africa have ruled Kagiso Rabada out of the ODI series against Australia and left his Test place open. His own franchise bowling coach th...

Aug 31, 2026

Deepti passed Thailand’s captain to top the T20I wicket list, and India won the Asia Cup opener by 94 runs

India’s Women’s Asia Cup opener in Dubai turned on 1.1 overs from Deepti Sharma, who took three wickets without conceding a run and moved one clear of...

Aug 31, 2026

Abbas took nine, Shakeel made 97, and Pakistan still lost at Lord’s by 194 with ten batters

England won the second Test inside four days to take the series 2-0, with Ollie Robinson claiming eight wickets for the second Test running and Pakist...

Aug 30, 2026

Trinbago retired Dwayne Bravo’s No. 47, and no CPL player had ever had that done before

The Knight Riders took a shirt number out of circulation for the first time in the league’s history. Bravo is still their head coach.

Aug 30, 2026

Sri Lanka lost the Champions Trophy they were hosting, and the rankings say their place goes with it

The ICC is moving the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy out of Sri Lanka over government control of the board. India is the name being mentioned as t...

Aug 30, 2026

Vimukthi took 3 for 16 on debut, and Sri Lanka needed 47 balls to beat UAE

UAE were bowled out for 79 in Dubai and Chamari Athapaththu’s unbeaten 48 off 25 finished the chase inside eight overs, giving the defending champions...

Aug 30, 2026

Central Zone lost their last wicket to the final ball of the day, and North Zone did not last 60 overs

Rinku Singh’s 60 and a 45-run last-wicket stand carried Central Zone to 266 in Bengaluru, while Vidwath Kaverappa’s four wickets left North Zone all o...

Aug 30, 2026

Trinbago scored 180, Narine made 53, and the rain gave it to Jamaica by seven

Jamaica Kingsmen were seven runs above the DLS par score when the second shower ended the night at Queen’s Park Oval. Sunil Narine’s second fifty in 2...

Aug 30, 2026

Suryakumar’s captaincy record was one of India’s best, and the World Cup final was his last match for India

Suryakumar Yadav has spoken at length for the first time about being dropped as India’s T20I captain in June, and the question he keeps returning to i...

Aug 30, 2026

Only 24.5 overs were possible at Lord’s, and England still went 357 ahead

Rain and bad light held day three at Lord’s to 24.5 overs. Dan Lawrence made an unbeaten 50 in them, and Pakistan now need a ground-record chase to ke...

Aug 29, 2026

India’s Asian Games dressing rooms are tents, and the washrooms are 500 metres away

A BCCI official’s complaint about the cricket venue in Nisshin turned into a weekend of reports that India might travel with a second-string side. An...

Aug 29, 2026

Thailand won the Asia Cup opener by six runs, and India play them on Sunday

Marina Lamplough took four wickets for 11 runs and Hong Kong, China still lost. Thailand’s six-run win in the Women’s Asia Cup opener sets up India’s...

Aug 29, 2026

Narine’s first fifty in more than two years ended TKR’s three-match losing run

Sunil Narine conceded one run in the first over of the night, then opened the batting and hit 55 off 33 balls. Trinbago Knight Riders beat Barbados Tr...

Aug 29, 2026

Robinson bowled 13 overs for 11 runs, and Pakistan were 180 behind before tea

Ollie Robinson took 4 for 11 from 13 overs as Pakistan were bowled out for 110 at Lord’s on Friday, and England closed day two of the second Test 261...

Aug 29, 2026

Brevis made 75 of South Africa’s 145, and two Namibian kids took the wickets that mattered

Namibia defended 163 to beat South Africa by 18 runs in the Windhoek tri-series opener on Friday, and are now two from two against their neighbours in...

Aug 29, 2026

Andre Siddarth turned 20 at Chepauk, and Kovai Kings won the TNPL final by 84 runs

Kovai Kings bowled Madurai Panthers out for 98 to take the Tamil Nadu Premier League title by 84 runs. Andre Siddarth made 82 off 47 on his 20th birth...