Sep 17, 2026
Nigar Sultana quit the T20I captaincy by email from Japan, and the BCB says it is embarrassed
Bangladesh’s captain told her board mid-tournament that the shortest format is someone else’s job from October. She keeps the 50-over side.
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Sep 17, 2026
Asalanka asked England to bat and they made 254, and at Cardiff he has the same call to make
England lead 1-0 after a 119-run win at Southampton in which Harry Brook made 114 not out. Sri Lanka need a different plan at Sophia Gardens, and the...
Sep 16, 2026
Rohit and Kohli are back in India’s ODI squad, and Rishabh Pant has been sent to the Irani Cup
India named three squads on Wednesday night: an ODI fifteen with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in it, a separate T20I side under Shreyas Iyer, and a Re...
Sep 16, 2026
India have won both T20Is by seven wickets, and the dead rubber is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s chance to play at home
Two near-identical seven-wicket wins settled this series early, so Thursday’s final T20I in Delhi is about what India try next. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi h...
Sep 16, 2026
The IPL auction returns to India for the first time since Kochi in 2022, and the Impact Player decision waits another month
The BCCI has decided to hold the IPL 2027 mini-auction in India, ending three straight years in Dubai, Jeddah and Abu Dhabi. No city has been named ye...
Sep 16, 2026
A Bangladesh government inquiry has named the man who kept them out of the T20 World Cup, and he says he was right
A three-member committee reported on Tuesday that then youth and sports adviser Asif Nazrul was responsible for Bangladesh missing the 2026 T20 World...
Sep 16, 2026
Charani is the first Indian past 800 rating points, and Deepti has moved up to No. 2
Shree Charani’s four for 20 in the Women’s Asia Cup final took her to 804 rating points, the highest figure any Indian has held in the ICC’s women’s T...
Sep 16, 2026
Nitish Reddy took a wicket with the first ball of each of his three overs, and India sealed the series
India beat Afghanistan by seven wickets with 31 balls to spare at the Arun Jaitley Stadium to go 2-0 up with a match left. Reddy’s 3 for 24 and a 22-b...
Sep 16, 2026
Aneurin Donald’s England debut lasted five balls, and Harry Brook’s 42-ball hundred did the rest
England made 254 for 4 at the Rose Bowl and bowled Sri Lanka out for 135 to take the first T20I by 119 runs. Brook finished unbeaten on 114 from 49 ba...
Sep 15, 2026
Kranti Gaud took the first wicket of the Asia Cup final, and the ICC has fined her for how she celebrated it
The ICC has sanctioned India’s Kranti Gaud over her dismissal celebration in the Women’s Asia Cup final, a Level 1 charge she admitted without a heari...
Sep 15, 2026
Newman Nyamhuri’s first five-for kept Australia under 300, and Nathan Ellis answered with 5 for 31
Matt Renshaw’s maiden ODI hundred and a five-wicket haul from Nathan Ellis gave Australia a 1-0 lead in Harare.
Sep 15, 2026
Nottinghamshire are four points off the top with two games left, and they have signed Mukesh Kumar
The defending County Championship winners sit second behind Somerset with two rounds to play, and have brought in an India seamer who was bowling in t...
Sep 15, 2026
Varun Chakravarthy took 1 for 16 on his comeback, and an MRI has ended his series
The spinner played his first match for India in two months on Sunday in Delhi. A side strain has ruled him out of the rest of the Afghanistan T20Is.
Sep 15, 2026
Sri Lanka have not beaten England in a T20I since 2014, and Aneurin Donald debuts at 29 tonight
England begin a three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka in Southampton, with a 29-year-old Blast six-hitter opening alongside Jos Buttler and a twel...
Sep 14, 2026
Steve Smith does not know if he will be at the 2027 Ashes, and India comes first
Australia’s 37-year-old says he is a series-by-series proposition and cannot commit to touring England next year. Three Tests in South Africa, four ag...
Sep 14, 2026
Agarkar missed the BCCI’s review meeting on September 3, and his contract runs out on October 4
India’s chief selector has three weeks left on his deal, and the board’s office-bearers want a conversation about it this week. First he has to name t...
Sep 14, 2026
Afghanistan were 43 for 5 inside seven overs, and they get one day to fix it
India lead the T20I series 1-0 and can seal it on Tuesday in Delhi. Afghanistan’s trouble in the opener was not the middle order that rescued them, it...
Sep 14, 2026
Pakistan have earned 24 World Test Championship points, and handed 19 of them back
The ICC docked Pakistan another 11 WTC points on September 14 for a slow over-rate at Edgbaston. That leaves them bottom of the table on five points f...
Sep 14, 2026
Sri Lanka took their medals, and India left the Asia Cup final without the trophy again
India won the Women’s Asia Cup in Dubai on Sunday and did not collect the trophy, for the same reason their men did not collect theirs a year ago. The...
Sep 14, 2026
Shafali and Mandhana put on 129, and Sri Lanka were all out for 111
India beat Sri Lanka by 72 runs in Dubai to win the Women’s Asia Cup for an eighth time, two years after losing the final to the same opponents in Dam...
Sep 14, 2026
Afghanistan recovered from 43 for 5, and India knocked it off with 38 balls to spare
Abhishek Sharma’s 82 off 32 balls settled the first T20I in Delhi inside 14 overs, and Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakravarthy both came through their f...
Sep 13, 2026
Vaas took the only eight-wicket haul in ODI history, and he is set to coach Delhi Capitals’ fast bowlers
Delhi have cleared out their entire coaching staff for IPL 2027 and filled it with names from the 1996-to-2013 generation. The man who holds the best...
Sep 13, 2026
The Asian Games cricket ground has no floodlights, and India’s quarter-final moved half an hour earlier
India’s men’s quarter-final in Nisshin now starts at 10am IST on September 28 rather than 10.30. Two more knockout matches moved with it, and daylight...
Sep 13, 2026
Nigar Sultana did not shake Harmanpreet’s hand, and her own board says that was not their idea
The BCB has distanced itself from its captain’s handshake snub in Dubai, with a bilateral tour of India still unscheduled and Nigar Sultana’s future i...