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...
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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...
Aug 16, 2026
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...