Cricket News

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...

Aug 11, 2026

Rashid’s unbeaten 37 gets Afghanistan home in Belfast, and into the 2027 World Cup

Three wickets in hand, 31 runs needed, and Ireland could not finish it off. Afghanistan’s win at Stormont also books their place at the 2027 World Cup...

Aug 11, 2026

The Rockets’ women are in the Lord’s final, and their men are waiting on Old Trafford

Tristan Stubbs finished unbeaten on 52 to knock Trent Rockets off the top of the men’s Hundred. Six hours earlier their women’s side had survived 10 f...

Aug 10, 2026

Scotland and the Netherlands say the ICC stopped replying, and two teams will now be out of the World Cup after two games

Cricket Scotland and the KNCB have gone public over the 2027 World Cup revamp, saying two meetings with the ICC produced no written explanation and no...

Aug 10, 2026

Gous hits 82, and Forde defends 13 in the last over as the Kings win by four

Andries Gous made 82 of Saint Lucia Kings’ 187 at Arnos Vale, and Matthew Forde held his nerve in the twentieth over as Antigua and Barbuda Falcons fi...

Aug 10, 2026

Sarfaraz Khan replaces Sudharsan for the Sri Lanka Tests, 21 months after his last one

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has not cleared in time for Galle, and India have turned to a batter who last played a Test in November 2024. Sarfaraz Khan joins...

Aug 10, 2026

England name Root’s first squad in four years, and Pakistan land for their first Tests here since 2020

Joe Root is England’s Test captain again, four years after he gave the job up, and his first squad brings Dan Lawrence back at six. Pakistan arrived f...

Aug 10, 2026

Livingstone’s 66 beats his old side, and London Spirit finally have a win over Phoenix

London Spirit had lost to Birmingham Phoenix in every edition of the Hundred until Liam Livingstone, who spent all five of those seasons at Phoenix, m...

Aug 10, 2026

Trent Rockets need one more win to skip the eliminator, in both Hundred competitions

Rockets host Southern Brave at Trent Bridge on 10 August with top spot and a direct place in the Lord’s final at stake in the men’s and women’s Hundre...

Aug 9, 2026

Salem Spartans vs Madurai Panthers: TNPL 2026 match 11 preview and prediction

Match 11 at Dindigul puts the competition’s most reliable chasers against a side that has not yet passed 160. Salem’s problem is not starting an innin...

Aug 9, 2026

Deepti Sharma’s 3 for 13 holds Welsh Fire to 121, and Sunrisers Leeds win with 26 balls left

Three wickets for 13 runs off 20 balls at Headingley, and Welsh Fire never recovered from losing four wickets for 12. Sunrisers Leeds move back into t...

Aug 9, 2026

Narine’s four overs cost seven runs, and St Kitts never got going

Trinbago Knight Riders opened their CPL title defence with a win decided by the weather, and by a spell from Sunil Narine that the St Kitts and Nevis...

Aug 9, 2026

Santner’s 52 off 23 sends Trent Rockets clear, and four teams are left level on 16 points

Trent Rockets guaranteed a top-three finish with a sixth straight win at the Kia Oval, while Manchester Super Giants’ win in Southampton left four sid...

Aug 9, 2026

Asalanka’s 3 for 20 flattens Jaffna, and Galle Gallants win their first LPL title

Galle Gallants chased down 124 with 25 balls to spare at the R. Premadasa Stadium to win the Lanka Premier League for the first time, three days after...

Aug 8, 2026

Chaturved’s 121 off 47 chases down 240, and Kovai Kings’ 239 counts for nothing

Kovai Kings made 239 for 4 at Dindigul and lost with three balls to spare. NS Chaturved’s 121 from 47 balls was the reason.

Aug 8, 2026

Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon

India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.

Aug 8, 2026

Rodrigues is out of the Hundred with a hamstring, 22 days before India open the Asia Cup

Southern Brave lose their most consistent batter with two games left, and India have a middle-order question three weeks out from Dubai.

Aug 8, 2026

Tajinder Singh’s 62 and a dropped chance at long-on decide the CPL opener

Tajinder Singh, born in Dholpur and now playing for the United States, made 62 on his CPL debut. The Falcons still needed a spilled catch off the last...

Aug 8, 2026

Bangladesh were bowled out for 54 in Darwin, five days before the first Test

Campbell Thompson had one first-class match behind him before this week. He took 8 for 25 as Bangladesh folded in 22 overs and lost the warm-up by an...

Aug 8, 2026

Flintoff quits the England Lions with five months left, and the Big Bash has him

Andrew Flintoff has stepped down as England Lions head coach with five months still on his ECB contract, taking up the Big Bash job he agreed back in...

Aug 8, 2026

Rashid Khan’s 6 for 34 gives Rahmat Shah a win in his first match as captain

Afghanistan’s new captain had to sit through a washout before he got a game in charge. He got a 92-run win, and six wickets from the best bowler he ha...

Aug 8, 2026

Harper and Asalanka put on 126, and Galle get a fourth go at Jaffna in the LPL final

Galle Gallants chased down 177 with eight balls to spare in Qualifier 2 at the R Premadasa Stadium, knocking Colombo Kaps out of the Lanka Premier Lea...

Aug 8, 2026

Carse and Potts take three each, and Birmingham Phoenix are out of the Hundred

Sunrisers Leeds won by 45 runs at Edgbaston to end Birmingham Phoenix’s season with two games still to play. Ryan Rickelton’s 65 was the innings of th...