Cricket News

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...

Aug 12, 2026

Andre Russell hits 68 with nine sixes and no fours, and Jamaica still lose by five

Daniel Sams took 4 for 20 and the Kingsmen were 8 for 3 in the second over at Sabina Park. Russell’s nine sixes carried them to 201, five short of Bar...

Aug 12, 2026

Lamichhane has the Nepal captaincy back, and Paudel stays in the side

The Cricket Association of Nepal has made Sandeep Lamichhane its ODI captain again for the ACC Men’s Premier Cup, almost four years after suspending h...

Aug 12, 2026

Sunrisers knock the Super Giants women out, and Seifert answers with 80 off 40

Old Trafford hosted both halves of the same fixture on Tuesday. Sunrisers Leeds’ women ended Manchester Super Giants’ season, and their own men were t...

Aug 11, 2026

Klaasen, Miller and Allen sign for the ILT20, and every UAE player now goes to the auction

Three IPL regulars are heading to the UAE for the first time. The bigger change sits underneath: no UAE player can be retained, and every squad has to...

Aug 11, 2026

Sri Lanka lose Kusal Mendis for both Tests and Nissanka for Galle, four days before India start

Sri Lanka’s two most established top-order batters will not be in the side that meets India on Saturday. One is out of the series entirely, and the ot...

Aug 11, 2026

Laxman says there was no miscommunication, and the CoE has had no head of sports science for 18 months

India go to Galle without Bumrah, Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, and VVS Laxman has laid out exactly how the fitness reports move between the Centre...