Aug 24, 2026
Jurel waited out the rain on 95, and finished 115 not out as India declared on 503
Rain stopped Dhruv Jurel five short of a century in Colombo. He completed it after the break, and India’s first innings closed on 503 for 9 with him n...
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Aug 24, 2026
Karn Sharma played four times for India, and won three straight IPL titles with three different teams
Karn Sharma has retired at 38 with four India caps, four IPL winners’ medals and 270 first-class wickets. He is still the only player to win three IPL...
Aug 24, 2026
Hetmyer hit six sixes in 19 balls, and Guyana’s chase was over in 9.5 overs
Guyana Amazon Warriors are three from three in CPL 2026 after Khary Pierre, Imran Tahir and Shamar Joseph took seven wickets between them at North Sou...
Aug 24, 2026
North Zone were 161 for 7, and their No. 9 hit five sixes to drag them to 251
Anshul Kamboj walked in with North Zone seven down and was the last man out, top-scoring with 60 off 52 balls. West Zone closed day one of the Duleep...
Aug 23, 2026
East Zone lost five wickets for 138, and Gharami and Shahbaz added 150 together
The Duleep Trophy quarter-finals opened in Bengaluru with East Zone recovering to 355 for 6 and Anshul Kamboj hitting five sixes from No. 9 for North...
Aug 23, 2026
Padikkal has a hundred in each Test of this series, and Pant retired hurt on 3 after a blow to the wrist
India closed the first day in Colombo on 300 for 5. Devdutt Padikkal made 117, his second Test century in successive matches, and Rishabh Pant left th...
Aug 23, 2026
Gill reached 3,000 Test runs off an outside edge, and only three Indians got there younger
India’s captain went to 3,000 Test runs with a boundary off the edge on the opening morning in Colombo. At 26 years and 349 days, he is the fourth-you...
Aug 23, 2026
Shoriful took 7 for 48, and Bangladesh still lost by an innings inside two days
Australia levelled the series at Mackay in a Test that did not last two days. Mitchell Starc took 10 for 51, and Bangladesh were bowled out for under...
Aug 23, 2026
Three TNPL teams finished on eight points, and Nellai missed the playoffs by 0.133
Kovai Kings, Tiruppur Tamizhans and Nellai Royal Kings all finished the TNPL league stage on eight points, and net run rate sent two of them through....
Aug 22, 2026
The Duleep Trophy starts on Sunday, and two of the six zones are already in the semi-finals
India’s red-ball season opens on 23 August with two quarter-finals in Bengaluru, while Central Zone and South Zone wait a week for their reward for la...
Aug 22, 2026
India are fifth in the WTC table, and Gambhir says the rankings do not matter
India’s head coach was asked in Colombo whether his Test side is struggling, and would not accept the question. Gambhir has the Galle win and two whit...
Aug 22, 2026
Bangladesh were bowled out for 64, and by stumps Australia had lost eight wickets too
Eighteen wickets fell on the opening day at the Great Barrier Reef Arena. Bangladesh, one up in a two-match series, need only avoid defeat to win it.
Aug 22, 2026
Kuldeep skipped Friday’s net session in Colombo, and Saransh Jain bowled through it
India settle on an XI for Sunday’s second Test, and the spin slot alongside Ravindra Jadeja and Manav Suthar is the last thing left to decide. Kuldeep...
Aug 22, 2026
Forde took four wickets inside six overs, and Jamaica’s recovery to 169 still was not enough
Matthew Forde’s 5 for 23 had Jamaica Kingsmen 71 for 6 at Gros Islet. They rebuilt to 169, and then Kamil Pooran’s unbeaten 81 made sure it never matt...
Aug 22, 2026
Robinson and Tongue took eight each, and England were finished with Pakistan inside three days
Pakistan were bowled out for 171 and 135 at Headingley, and Joe Root’s return as England captain has started with an innings win and 12 World Test Cha...
Aug 21, 2026
Pujara’s advice to Manav Suthar: play the IPL, just don’t bowl like it
Cheteshwar Pujara has asked India to preserve Manav Suthar for Test cricket after the 24-year-old’s ten-wicket haul in Galle. His concern is not the I...
Aug 21, 2026
Four TNPL teams are level on eight points, and Salem Spartans have lost all six
Thursday night at Chepauk left the Tamil Nadu Premier League with four teams tied at the top and one league game each to play. The playoffs begin on S...
Aug 21, 2026
Shanaka hit 49 off 17, and Antigua chased 188 with three balls left
Shadab Khan’s 30 from 12 balls turned a Caribbean Premier League chase the Falcons had twice let slip. Five of the seven teams are now level on four p...
Aug 21, 2026
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...