Oct 20, 2026
Rinku Singh made 118 of UP’s 202 from 33 for 3, and Goa fell 68 short in Kanpur
Uttar Pradesh’s last wicket added 65 on the first day, and Kartik Yadav’s 5 for 37 bowled Goa out for 167 chasing 236.
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Oct 20, 2026
Sai Kishore’s hat-trick took him to ten wickets, and Tamil Nadu beat Uttarakhand by an innings inside three days
The Tamil Nadu captain took three wickets in three balls at Chepauk and finished with 10 for 74 in the match.
Oct 20, 2026
Vidarbha were 26 for 6 chasing 79 in Srinagar, and Dubey and Bhute took them past the champions
Jammu and Kashmir nearly turned 12 for 5 into a Ranji Trophy win, but Harsh Dubey and Nachiket Bhute got Vidarbha home by three wickets.
Oct 20, 2026
Shafali Verma threw the ball into the Raipur turf after a dropped catch, and the ICC has given her a demerit point
India’s T20I vice-captain has been reprimanded for a Level 1 breach in the second T20I against Zimbabwe, the same match she won with 55 off 25 balls.
Oct 20, 2026
Ramesh Powar fills Agarkar’s seat, but Pragyan Ojha’s 24 Tests make him India’s chief selector
Ramesh Powar has been named to India’s men’s selection committee in Ajit Agarkar’s old West Zone seat, and Pragyan Ojha will chair the panel.
Oct 20, 2026
Sarfaraz Khan is 139 not out in Bilaspur, and Mumbai lead Himachal Pradesh by 258 with six wickets left
Three days after missing India’s Test squad for New Zealand, Sarfaraz finished the second day of the Ranji Trophy unbeaten on 139, while Services need...
Oct 19, 2026
Haryana were 37 for 4 in Rohtak, and Nishant Sindhu’s 92 and 6 for 27 beat Chandigarh inside two days
Nishant Sindhu added 175 with Yashvardhan Dalal and then took six second-innings wickets as Haryana won by an innings and 24 runs to go top of Elite G...
Oct 19, 2026
Chinmay Sutar fell one short of a hundred on debut, and his first one was 400 not out for Mizoram
The 29-year-old batted 517 balls against Nagaland in only his second first-class match, and only Bhausaheb Nimbalkar’s 443 in 1948-49 is higher in Ran...
Oct 19, 2026
The IPL auction is pencilled in for 16 December in Goa, the day India play Sri Lanka in Bengaluru
A BCCI logistics message has told the ten franchises to plan for ITC Grand Goa, with a briefing the day before. The formal email confirming it has not...
Oct 19, 2026
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is going to New Zealand, so Krunal Pandya will captain India at the Hong Kong Sixes
Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s India recall has cost the Hong Kong Sixes their captain. Krunal Pandya leads the seven-man side instead, and Kulwant Khejroliya co...
Oct 19, 2026
Niki Prasad took wickets with her first two balls for India, and Shafali’s 55 off 25 sealed the Zimbabwe series
India held Zimbabwe to 102 for 8 in Raipur and chased it in 8.5 overs, giving Smriti Mandhana an unbeatable 2-0 lead with one T20I to play.
Oct 18, 2026
Priyansh Arya was bowled for 199 in his third first-class game, and Badoni’s hundred has Delhi on 381 for 4
Delhi lost their Ranji Trophy opener in Kalyani. A week on, Arya and their captain added 234 for the fourth wicket against Gujarat at Palam.
Oct 18, 2026
Brendan Taylor passed Andy Flower’s record at 40, and Zimbabwe beat a Bangladesh side without Litton Das by 99 runs
Zimbabwe recovered from 24 for 3 to make 271 for 8 in the UAE tri-series opener in Abu Dhabi, then bowled Bangladesh out for 172.
Oct 18, 2026
Shami bowled 35.3 overs in Bengal’s win over Delhi, and two days after his India snub he is not in their XI against Services
Bengal have left Mohammed Shami out of their second Ranji Trophy game, at Palam in New Delhi, and the official reason is rest.
Oct 18, 2026
India were 118 for 5 when the Bengaluru rain came back, and West Indies leave with the T20I series shared 2-2
Ishan Kishan and Naman Dhir got India going in a nine-over decider at the Chinnaswamy, and West Indies never got to bat.
Oct 17, 2026
Aaryavir Sehwag made 173 and lost to a 167, and Anvay Dravid’s 151 took Karnataka into the knockouts
Virender Sehwag’s son made 173 for Delhi and still lost to Chandigarh. Rahul Dravid’s son made 151 as Karnataka chased a revised target of 352 in the...
Oct 17, 2026
Bumrah and Jadeja are in India’s Test squad for New Zealand but not the ODIs, and Iyer will captain the last two
India have named three groups for New Zealand: one for the first three ODIs under Shubman Gill, one for the last two under Shreyas Iyer, and a Test sq...
Oct 17, 2026
India were 19 for 4 chasing 115, and debutant Niki Prasad saw them home against Zimbabwe in Raipur
Deepti Sharma’s 49 and an unbeaten 39 from Niki Prasad on debut rescued India’s chase as they beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in the first women’s T20I.
Oct 16, 2026
Arshdeep Singh was hit by a Shamar Joseph bouncer, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar could make his India return at the Chinnaswamy
India have added Bhuvneshwar Kumar to their squad for Saturday’s series decider against West Indies in Bengaluru, with Arshdeep Singh in doubt after a...
Oct 16, 2026
Punam Raut top-scored in the 2017 World Cup final, and she has retired from international cricket at 37
Punam Raut, India’s top scorer in the 2017 World Cup final and one half of the 320-run opening stand with Deepti Sharma, has retired from all internat...
Oct 16, 2026
Zimbabwe have lost all 18 T20Is this year, and Mandhana starts her captaincy against them in Raipur tonight
India Women meet Zimbabwe for the first time at 7pm IST, with Shafali Verma as the new vice-captain and the No. 3 spot still open.
Oct 16, 2026
Prasidh Krishna lasted five overs in Guwahati, and his hamstring is one reason India’s New Zealand ODI and Test squads are still unnamed
The selectors are waiting on Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana and Rishabh Pant before they pick the 50-over and red-ball groups, with the squads due to f...
Oct 16, 2026
Shai Hope has 261 runs in four innings, and India get one more go at him in Bengaluru on Saturday
India and West Indies are level at 2-2, and the five-match T20I series will be settled at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on 17 October.
Oct 15, 2026
Tristan Stubbs made 32 and 1 in Durban, and South Africa have dropped him for the Gqeberha Test
Matthew Breetzke comes into the 17-man squad on the back of an ODI hundred, and Ryan Rickelton takes the gloves for the second Test against Australia.