Aug 13, 2026
Root scraps England’s curfew and tells his players to be adults
Joe Root has removed the midnight curfew England imposed after the Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson night out in June, six days before he leads the side ou...
Headingley
13 articles tagged with "Headingley"
Aug 10, 2026
England name Root’s first squad in four years, and Pakistan land for their first Tests here since 2020
Joe Root is England’s Test captain again, four years after he gave the job up, and his first squad brings Dan Lawrence back at six. Pakistan arrived f...
Aug 9, 2026
Deepti Sharma’s 3 for 13 holds Welsh Fire to 121, and Sunrisers Leeds win with 26 balls left
Three wickets for 13 runs off 20 balls at Headingley, and Welsh Fire never recovered from losing four wickets for 12. Sunrisers Leeds move back into t...
Aug 7, 2026
Bethell hurt his knee against India, and it has cost him England’s whole Pakistan series
Jordan Cox goes in at three, Dan Lawrence is back after two years, and Joe Root has the first squad of his second spell as captain.
Aug 5, 2026
Pakistan hired a batting coach 15 days before Headingley, and the fortnight before it explains why
Michael Smith arrives on a two-year deal with 71 for 9 at Tarouba and Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 160 both sitting in the same fortnight of evidence.
Jul 29, 2026
Marsh’s 63 off 26 sets up a record Headingley chase as Sunrisers beat Super Giants
Sunrisers Leeds ran down 182 with 12 balls to spare at Headingley, the highest successful chase at the ground in The Hundred, and handed Manchester Su...
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 26, 2026
Jemimah Rodrigues’ unbeaten 42 sends Southern Brave top of the women’s Hundred
Deepti Sharma’s Sunrisers Leeds managed only 116 at Headingley, and Jemimah Rodrigues made sure Southern Brave did not slip up chasing it. Player of t...
Jun 24, 2026
Perry’s all-round show floors Pakistan as Australia close on the semis
Ellyse Perry’s 71 and 2 for 9 powered Australia to a 113-run rout of Pakistan at Headingley, a fourth straight win that pushes them to the brink of th...
Jun 23, 2026
Unbeaten Australia chase a semi-final spot as Pakistan search for a first win at Leeds
Australia put their perfect record on the line against a winless, already-eliminated Pakistan at Headingley on Tuesday, with a place in the last four...
Jun 19, 2026
England v Scotland brings a Women’s T20 World Cup first to Headingley
Saturday’s group game at Headingley is the first time England and Scotland have faced each other at a World Cup on English soil, pitting the tournamen...
Jun 17, 2026
Perry stars as Australia crush Bangladesh by nine wickets at the Women’s T20 World Cup
Ellyse Perry’s two wickets and an unbeaten cameo earned her the player-of-the-match award as a much-changed Australia brushed Bangladesh aside in Leed...
Jun 15, 2026
India eye debutants Netherlands with momentum and net run rate in mind
India go to Headingley as overwhelming favourites against the Netherlands, but a tough group means the size of the win could matter as much as the win...