Cricket News

India’s practice was rained off, and their first ever match against Japan has no reserve day

Typhoon Dujuan has soaked Kanto ahead of Tuesday’s Suzuki Cup T20I at Sano, and the ground has already lost one match this week without a ball being b...

Sep 21, 2026

Yashbardhan Chauhan made 122 from 100 balls, and Australia’s Under-19s gave away 21 wides

India’s Under-19s cannot lose the Youth ODI series now. Chauhan’s century did most of it, and Australia’s bowlers did some of the rest for them.

Sep 21, 2026

Afghanistan lost one match in regulation at the T20 World Cup, and Rashid Khan learned of his sacking from a board announcement

Rashid Khan says the Afghanistan Cricket Board never told him he was losing the T20I captaincy. Six months later, he still has not been given a reason...

Sep 21, 2026

Maaz Sadaqat made 114 of Jamaica’s 170, and the Falcons won the CPL with 20 balls left

Antigua and Barbuda Falcons are Caribbean Premier League champions in their third season, and they beat the returning Jamaica franchise whose place th...

Sep 21, 2026

Zimbabwe had four players over 40, and Craig Ervine’s record fifty still ended in a one-wicket defeat

Craig Ervine, at 41 years and 32 days, became the oldest batter from a Full Member nation to score an ODI half-century. Australia still got home by on...

Sep 20, 2026

Shafali Verma hit nine sixes in a 49-ball hundred, and India’s Asian Games final is a rematch of the last one

Shafali Verma’s unbeaten 100 from 49 balls is the first century by a woman in Asian Games cricket, and it carried India past Bangladesh by 114 runs in...

Sep 20, 2026

Athapaththu made 83 not out from 50 balls, and Pakistan’s 177 lasted 17.5 overs

Sri Lanka chased 178 with 13 balls to spare at Korogi Sports Park and are into the Asian Games women’s cricket final, where the winner of India agains...

Sep 20, 2026

Neither CPL finalist has won the title, and one of them lost more league games than it won

The Caribbean Premier League gets a first-time champion at the Kensington Oval on Sunday night, 4.30am IST on Monday. Antigua and Barbuda Falcons have...

Sep 19, 2026

India and England are level on 269 rating points, and England have just swept Sri Lanka 3-0

Sri Lanka were 124 all out at Old Trafford and England knocked it off in the 10th over, Jos Buttler finishing on 62 not out from 32 balls.

Sep 19, 2026

Hetmyer hit eight sixes in a 45-ball hundred, and Guyana still went out of the CPL

A first-season franchise has knocked out the side that won eight of its ten league games. Rovman Powell’s 17-ball 40 did most of the damage.

Sep 19, 2026

Rachin Ravindra dislocated his shoulder at a photo shoot, and New Zealand’s biggest home summer starts next month

A diving catch at an Auckland promotional shoot has left New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra with a dislocated right shoulder, and his place in the T20I ser...

Sep 19, 2026

India beat Bangladesh in a semi-final on 10 September, and the two meet again on Sunday morning

India have bowled one team out for 57 and batted five overs at these Asian Games. Bangladesh reach the semi-final without having played at all.

Sep 19, 2026

Chauhan and Anvay Dravid added 69 in 34 balls, and Australia’s captain fell seven short

Yashbardhan Chauhan’s 54 and 2 for 28 won him the match award in Rajkot, where Aaryavir Sehwag opened on debut with his father watching.

Sep 19, 2026

Travis Head made 112 from 84 balls, and Australia have the series with a game to spare

Head’s hundred set up 356 for 6 at Harare and Zimbabwe never got close, losing the second ODI by 84 runs. Australia lead 2-0 with a dead rubber to com...

Sep 18, 2026

The BCCI’s AGM did not decide Agarkar’s future, and his contract has 16 days left

The board’s 95th annual general meeting handed the selection committee question to its office bearers instead of answering it. Ajit Agarkar’s term as...

Sep 18, 2026

Shree Charani took 4 for 10, and India’s chase of 58 lasted five overs

India bowled Japan out for 57 and knocked the runs off in five overs to reach the Asian Games semi-finals, where Bangladesh are waiting on Sunday.

Sep 18, 2026

The BCCI’s two IPL elections have one candidate each, and the Andaman Islands want in

Indian cricket’s 95th annual general meeting in Mumbai has two uncontested Governing Council seats, a bid for associate membership from a union territ...

Sep 18, 2026

Guyana lost eight wickets for nine runs, and the Falcons chased 77 in 5.2 overs

Shadab Khan took a hat-trick and Sufyan Moqim four wickets as the Amazon Warriors were bowled out for 76 at Kensington Oval, and Rahkeem Cornwall’s 16...

Sep 18, 2026

Sri Lanka were 55 without loss after five overs, and England chased 146 in 12.1

Liam Dawson took two wickets in the sixth over at Cardiff and Sri Lanka never recovered. England won by six wickets with 47 balls to spare and took th...

Sep 17, 2026

Abhishek Sharma reached his hundred in 30 balls, and the two men above him play for Estonia and Turkey

Abhishek Sharma took 30 balls to a T20I hundred against Afghanistan in Delhi on Thursday, five fewer than Rohit Sharma’s nine-year-old India record an...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s top domestic umpires make 40,000 rupees a day, and the BCCI says that changes this season

Devajit Saikia confirmed on Thursday that the BCCI will pay domestic umpires and match referees more from 2026-27 and split the umpire panel into four...

Sep 17, 2026

Bangladesh are into the Asian Games semi-finals without a ball being bowled, and Pakistan got there in 10.4 overs

China went out of the Asian Games without a toss being made, and Pakistan needed all but two balls of a rain-shortened chase to beat Thailand. India’s...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s Asian Games squad is down to 14, and Vipraj Nigam has never played for India

Varun Chakravarthy’s side strain and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s move to the West Indies ODI squad have left Shreyas Iyer with 14 players for the gold medal...

Sep 17, 2026

The WPL auction is in Kochi on October 28, and the deadline that decides it is September 28

Kochi gets the auction, but the WPL 2027 squads will really be settled before the end of this month.