Cricket News

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Oct 8, 2026

Sri Lanka have won one of their last ten Tests, and Kusal Mendis is now their captain in all three formats

Dhananjaya de Silva has given up the Sri Lanka Test captaincy after 18 matches, and Kusal Mendis takes over with the Pakistan Tests a month away.

Sep 23, 2026

India won the last Asian Games cricket gold without finishing the final, and the men’s tournament restarts on Thursday without them

The men’s competition at Nisshin opens on Thursday with Japan against Afghanistan, but the four highest-ranked sides do not appear until the quarter-f...

Sep 23, 2026

Will Jacks took three wickets in the last over, and England beat Sri Lanka by 89

Jacks’s maiden one-day five-wicket haul finished Sri Lanka off at Chester-le-Street, hours after his unbeaten 46 had dragged England to 265. England l...

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 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 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 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 12, 2026

Wasim Akram asked what batter the PSL has produced in ten years, on the day Pakistan lost 3-0

Wasim Akram reached for a 15-year-old Indian batter to make his point about the Pakistan Super League, a few hours after England completed a series sw...

Sep 11, 2026

Bangladesh put India in, Shafali Verma made 64, and India are in a sixth Asia Cup final out of six

India beat Bangladesh by 40 runs in Dubai on Thursday night to reach Sunday’s Women’s T20 Asia Cup final. Shafali Verma’s 64 did the heavy lifting, an...

Sep 11, 2026

Sri Lanka knocked Pakistan out of the last Asia Cup with a ball to spare, and tonight the winner plays India

The last place in Sunday’s Women’s Asia Cup final is decided in Dubai on Friday night. Sri Lanka have not lost a game in this tournament, and Pakistan...

Sep 10, 2026

Jordan Hermann made 150 on ODI debut, and the record he equalled was set by another South African

Nobody has ever scored more in a first one-day international. Hermann needed 61 balls for his first fifty and 32 each for the next two, and Namibia we...

Sep 9, 2026

Pakistan were 26 for 4 in the tenth over at Edgbaston, and extras were their second-top scorer at lunch

Ollie Robinson had figures of 8-3-9-2 and Josh Tongue took three as Pakistan slid to 100 for 7 by the first interval of the third Test, with two of th...

Sep 9, 2026

India chased 56 in 8.4 overs to finish the group, and Bangladesh are next

Three wins, three opponents bowled out for under 70, and a net run rate more than double anyone else’s. India start Thursday’s Women’s Asia Cup semi-f...

Sep 9, 2026

ChatGPT is now a BCCI sponsor, and the associate deals are up 44 per cent

The board’s associate-tier sponsorship fetched 44 per cent more than it did last cycle, one of the three buyers is an AI chatbot, and the branding sta...

Sep 7, 2026

Mohammad Nabi took 4 for 17 at 41, and Guyana are the first team into the CPL playoffs

St Kitts and Nevis Patriots managed 128 at Providence, and it was never going to be enough against a side that has not lost all tournament.

Sep 7, 2026

Sri Lanka were 44 for 5 chasing 115, and Samarawickrama got them home with four balls left

Bangladesh had Sri Lanka five down inside ten overs in Dubai and still lost. The defending champions top Group B, which leaves India waiting on Tuesda...

Sep 7, 2026

Pakistan were 55 all out two days ago, and tonight they must beat a team they have never played

Hong Kong have lost both their games and Pakistan have just made their lowest T20I score. One of them will be playing Sri Lanka in a semi-final on Fri...

Sep 6, 2026

Pakistan made 55 in 18.1 overs, and India’s three spinners took eight of the wickets for 21

India bowled Pakistan out for 55 in Dubai, the lowest total Pakistan have made in a women’s T20I, and chased it inside nine overs to finish top of Gro...

Sep 5, 2026

India will play Japan on 22 September, at a ground that normally holds 500 people

A T20 international nobody had on the calendar a week ago. The BCCI and the Japan Cricket Association have agreed a one-off match in Tochigi, and it c...

Sep 4, 2026

Saudi Arabia’s first win leaves four teams level in Premier Cup Group A

Abdul Waheed’s 70 set up a 17-run win over Bahrain in Bangi, and the second qualifying place in Group A is now a four-way tie on points.

Sep 4, 2026

Labuschagne is out of Australia’s ODI squad, and the next six games are in the 2027 World Cup countries

Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh are back, Joel Davies could debut, and George Bailey says the Test selection is a separate conversation that gets settl...