Aug 29, 2026
Hit wicket in cricket: what the rule says and why T20 produces six times as many
Hit wicket has happened 119 times in 4.17 million deliveries, and a batter is six times likelier to go this way in a T20 league than in a Test. What L...
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Aug 24, 2026
Karn Sharma played four times for India, and won three straight IPL titles with three different teams
Karn Sharma has retired at 38 with four India caps, four IPL winners’ medals and 270 first-class wickets. He is still the only player to win three IPL...
Aug 23, 2026
Shoriful took 7 for 48, and Bangladesh still lost by an innings inside two days
Australia levelled the series at Mackay in a Test that did not last two days. Mitchell Starc took 10 for 51, and Bangladesh were bowled out for under...
Aug 23, 2026
Ponting says it is well and truly time to move on, and Labuschagne’s numbers make him hard to argue with
Marnus Labuschagne was bowled off his thigh pad for 4 at Mackay and never got a second innings. With Australia’s South Africa squad due in early Septe...
Aug 23, 2026
Three TNPL teams finished on eight points, and Nellai missed the playoffs by 0.133
Kovai Kings, Tiruppur Tamizhans and Nellai Royal Kings all finished the TNPL league stage on eight points, and net run rate sent two of them through....
Aug 21, 2026
Shanaka hit 49 off 17, and Antigua chased 188 with three balls left
Shadab Khan’s 30 from 12 balls turned a Caribbean Premier League chase the Falcons had twice let slip. Five of the seven teams are now level on four p...
Aug 20, 2026
Sri Lanka go to Colombo without three first-choice batters, and one is out because of a rule
Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal are out of Sunday’s second Test at the SSC and Pathum Nissanka is unlikely, leaving Gary Kirsten to rebuild a battin...
Aug 20, 2026
Weatherald lasted six Tests, and Renshaw is back for Mackay’s first Test
Australia have cut the opener they handed a national contract in April and recalled Matthew Renshaw for Saturday’s second Test against Bangladesh, at...
Aug 13, 2026
Atal’s birthday 143 breaks a 16-year Afghanistan record, and Ireland’s series is gone
Sediqullah Atal turned 25 and made 143, Ibrahim Zadran made 107, and their 231-run stand is now Afghanistan’s biggest for the second wicket in ODIs. I...
Aug 13, 2026
MI London needed to win by 59, won by two, and their three-year run is over
MI London beat Birmingham Phoenix by two runs at Edgbaston and still went out of the Hundred on net run rate. Manchester Super Giants meet Sunrisers L...
Aug 10, 2026
Livingstone’s 66 beats his old side, and London Spirit finally have a win over Phoenix
London Spirit had lost to Birmingham Phoenix in every edition of the Hundred until Liam Livingstone, who spent all five of those seasons at Phoenix, m...
Aug 10, 2026
Trent Rockets need one more win to skip the eliminator, in both Hundred competitions
Rockets host Southern Brave at Trent Bridge on 10 August with top spot and a direct place in the Lord’s final at stake in the men’s and women’s Hundre...
Aug 6, 2026
Nellai Royal Kings vs Dindigul Dragons: TNPL 2026 match 6 preview and prediction
The table’s top side against its third, both of them fresh from taking apart a team that made the play-offs in 2025. What the opening round actually s...
Jul 31, 2026
Southern Brave defend 128 for their first win of the Hundred
Southern Brave had lost three in a row and were put in at the Rose Bowl. They made 128 for 8, then took five Birmingham Phoenix wickets for 37 and won...
Jul 31, 2026
Wellalage’s three in eight balls sends Jaffna top of the LPL
Kandy Royals were 91 for 2 chasing 222 at Pallekele. Dunith Wellalage then bowled two overs, took three for 11, and Jaffna Kings won by 21 runs to go...
Jul 29, 2026
Mandhana’s unbeaten 88 drags Manchester Super Giants out of 71 for 5 at Headingley
Smriti Mandhana made her highest score in the Hundred and finished the chase with back-to-back sixes, taking Manchester Super Giants home with four ba...
Jul 29, 2026
Seales’ five for 20 seals a 90-run win as Pakistan lose an eighth away Test in a row
West Indies bowled Pakistan out for 120 chasing 211 at Tarouba to take the first Test by 90 runs, with Jayden Seales taking five wickets and Justin Gr...
Jul 23, 2026
Salt’s unbeaten 47 ends Welsh Fire’s Southern Brave hoodoo in The Hundred
Phil Salt’s unbeaten 47 and a last-over six carried Welsh Fire to a six-wicket win over Southern Brave, ending an eight-match losing streak against th...
Jul 20, 2026
New Zealand survive Motie’s five-for to clinch the ODI series
A one-wicket win in Bridgetown handed New Zealand an unassailable 3-1 lead over West Indies, Mitchell Santner holding his nerve after Gudakesh Motie’s...
Jul 20, 2026
Duckett’s record 141 downs India as England seal the ODI series at Lord’s
England beat India by 27 runs at Lord’s to take the ODI series 2-1, with Ben Duckett’s record 141 outgunning a fighting 138 from Rohit Sharma.
Jul 20, 2026
Tanzid’s unbeaten 66 seals a T20I series win for Bangladesh in Zimbabwe
Bangladesh recovered from losing the opener to beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in Bulawayo and take the T20I series 2-1, with Tanzid Hasan’s unbeaten 66...
Jul 18, 2026
The Hundred returns on Tuesday, remade by IPL owners and its first auction
The Hundred is back at the Kia Oval on Tuesday with three teams now owned by IPL franchises, a first-ever auction behind the squads, and MI London cha...
Jul 18, 2026
India turn to youth and a new captain for the Zimbabwe T20Is
India name a young, experimental squad for their three-match T20I tour of Zimbabwe, with Shreyas Iyer taking over as captain, several uncapped players...
Jul 17, 2026
New Zealand eye a series win at Kensington Oval as West Indies fight to stay alive
New Zealand lead 2-1 and can wrap up the ODI series in Bridgetown, where a spin-heavy attack has left West Indies searching for answers with the bat.