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Parthiv Patel was tipped to replace Agarkar, and he let the selectors’ deadline pass without applying

The BCCI’s window for the West Zone seat on the senior selection panel closed at 5pm on Wednesday, and Pragyan Ojha now looks set to stay on as chairm...

Oct 15, 2026

Natarajan took 19 wickets in Sunrisers’ run to the 2024 final, and they have bought him back for less than half his Delhi fee

Delhi Capitals have traded the left-arm seamer back to Hyderabad at INR 5 crore, with leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari heading the other way ahead of IPL 20...

Oct 15, 2026

Shai Hope is the first West Indies batter with three T20I hundreds, and his 102 not out has sent the series to a decider

West Indies beat India by 24 runs in Hyderabad, with Keemo Paul taking five wickets, and the five-match series goes to Bengaluru on Saturday at 2-2.

Oct 14, 2026

Jammu and Kashmir were 12 for 5 chasing 326, and rain saved the Ranji champions against Madhya Pradesh

Shubham Sharma made 79 and an unbeaten 106 in Srinagar, and MP took three points from the defending champions’ first game.

Oct 14, 2026

Karnataka were 43 for 3 and still 101 behind, and Karun Nair’s unbeaten 155 saved them against Andhra

Andhra took the first-innings points in Vijayawada, but they could not get past Karun Nair on the last day of the Ranji Trophy opener.

Oct 14, 2026

Umesh Yadav took five on his Punjab debut, and he says Vidarbha’s coach wanted him out of the picture

The 38-year-old says Mohammed Shami got backing from Bengal that he never had at Vidarbha, and wants India’s selectors to tell senior players where th...

Oct 14, 2026

Rinku Singh and Madhav Kaushik made hundreds on the first day, and UP beat Bihar by an innings and 267 in Rajgir

Bihar lost 18 wickets on Tuesday as Uttar Pradesh opened their Ranji Trophy season with an innings win inside three days.

Oct 14, 2026

Kusal Mendis is now Sri Lanka’s top T20I run-scorer, and his 87 not out beat Pakistan in Rawalpindi

Kusal Mendis made a career-best 87 not out off 48 balls as Sri Lanka chased 169 with 17 balls to spare, though Pakistan still took the T20I series 2-1...

Oct 13, 2026

Ayush Mhatre was back for one innings after six months out, and a hamstring tear has him out for another month

Mumbai beat Chandigarh by an innings and 155 runs at the Wankhede, but their new vice-captain tore his right hamstring on the first day.

Oct 13, 2026

South Africa lost their last four wickets for five runs, and Hazlewood’s 6 for 49 gave Australia a 214-run win in Durban

Aiden Markram batted 237 balls for 75, but the second new ball finished South Africa’s chase of 421 at Kingsmead and handed Temba Bavuma his first Tes...

Oct 13, 2026

Sediqullah Atal batted 332 balls for a maiden Test hundred, and Afghanistan held on for a draw against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi

Bangladesh needed seven wickets on the final day and took five, but Afghanistan finished on 346 for 8 chasing 479 to draw the one-off Test.

Oct 13, 2026

Mohammad Imran has five wickets for 32 in his first two T20Is, and Pakistan go for a sweep in Rawalpindi tonight

Pakistan lead Sri Lanka 2-0 after Sunday’s 82-run win and can finish the series 3-0 in the third T20I at Rawalpindi from 6:30pm IST.

Oct 13, 2026

Kumar Kushagra has two hundreds in his last three first-class games, and he replaces Pant for India A’s first two matches in New Zealand

Rishabh Pant has not shaken off the side strain from the Irani Cup, so the Jharkhand keeper-batter joins Dhruv Jurel’s squad for the four-day games in...

Oct 13, 2026

India have won every completed T20I in Hyderabad, and a fourth would seal the series against West Indies

India lead West Indies 2-1 going into Wednesday’s fourth T20I at Uppal, where they have won all three completed T20Is, including a 208 chase against t...

Oct 12, 2026

Litton Das made a hundred and has eight dismissals, and Bangladesh need seven wickets on the last day in Abu Dhabi

Litton’s 102 set up a declaration and a target of 479, and Afghanistan reached 132 for 3 at stumps on the fourth day.

Oct 12, 2026

Renshaw followed his 190 with 82 and a first Test wicket, and South Africa need 319 more in Durban

Australia declared at tea on day four to set South Africa 421 at Kingsmead, then reduced them to 102 for 4 by stumps, with Steve Smith kept off the fi...

Oct 12, 2026

Dharmendrasinh Jadeja left Saurashtra in August, and he ended Ravindra Jadeja’s Ranji hundred in Rajkot

Ravindra Jadeja made 102 as Saurashtra posted 392 against Chhattisgarh, and the bowler who finally got him was a former team-mate playing his first ga...

Oct 12, 2026

Smith’s four catches took him past Root’s record, and Australia lead South Africa by 139 in Durban

Steven Smith caught four South Africans on day three at Kingsmead, and the second of them made him the first fielder to 221 Test catches.

Oct 12, 2026

Every match on this tour had gone to the chasing side, and Arshdeep’s 3 for 44 made India’s 223 enough in Indore

India were bowled out for 223 after being 115 for 1, then held West Indies to 209 for 7 to win the third T20I by 14 runs and lead the series 2-1.

Oct 11, 2026

Hasan Mahmud took Bangladesh’s first Test hat-trick by a fast bowler, and they lead Afghanistan by 329 in Abu Dhabi

Rahmat Shah made an unbeaten 105 in his first Test as captain, but Afghanistan lost their last six wickets for 29. Shanto and Mushfiqur then put Bangl...

Oct 11, 2026

India A lost five wickets for 35, and Shedge and Nigam’s stand of 85 still beat Australia A by 49 runs

Suryansh Shedge made 66 and Vipraj Nigam 40 as India A won the last one-dayer in Puducherry on Sunday. Australia A had already wrapped up the series.

Oct 11, 2026

Mohammed Shami bowled nine maidens in Kalyani, and Delhi were all out for 240 on the Ranji Trophy’s first day

Shami took 4 for 30 as Bengal bowled Delhi out on day one of their Ranji Trophy opener. Hrithik Shokeen’s 56 from number eight got Delhi past 200.

Oct 11, 2026

Lockie Ferguson’s last ODI was the 2023 World Cup semi-final against India, and New Zealand have brought him back for the series

New Zealand have named two squads for their five ODIs against India, with Finn Allen, Lockie Ferguson and Tim Seifert held back for the last two games...

Oct 11, 2026

Aliss Al Islam took a hat-trick on his BPL debut in 2019, and Bangladesh have now given him an ODI call-up

Litton Das returns to lead a 16-man Bangladesh squad for the UAE tri-series with Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, and the off-spinner is the one new name in...