Headingley

20 articles tagged with "Headingley"

Sep 11, 2026

Kuldeep Yadav had never taken ten wickets in a first-class match, and Essex lost by an innings in three days

Kuldeep Yadav’s 10 for 120 at Headingley is the first ten-wicket haul of his first-class career. Yorkshire beat Essex by an innings and 106 runs with...

Aug 22, 2026

Robinson and Tongue took eight each, and England were finished with Pakistan inside three days

Pakistan were bowled out for 171 and 135 at Headingley, and Joe Root’s return as England captain has started with an innings win and 12 World Test Cha...

Aug 21, 2026

Usman is the first visiting spinner to take five at Headingley since 1972, and Pakistan trail by 195

Ali Usman’s 5 for 92 was the first five-wicket haul by a visiting spinner at Headingley since the 1972 Ashes. Pakistan dropped Harry Brook on 1, and E...

Aug 20, 2026

Pakistan lost a wicket to the first ball at Headingley, and were all out for 171

Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue took five wickets apiece as England bowled Pakistan out inside 49 overs on a rain-hit opening day in Leeds. England clo...

Aug 19, 2026

Pakistan lose Babar the day before Headingley, and Salman Agha has never captained a Test

Babar Azam’s right hand has not healed, so Pakistan begin a three-Test tour of England without their captain and the leading run-scorer from their las...

Aug 17, 2026

Babar was cleared for Headingley, then ruled out of the first Test

A rising ball from Manny Lumsden hit Babar Azam on the right middle finger at Beckenham. He was cleared to play on Monday, then ruled out of the first...

Aug 17, 2026

England lost the Ashes, the coach and the captain, and have handed the Test side back to Joe Root

Joe Root captains England again at Headingley on Wednesday, four years after giving the job up, with Ben Stokes retired, Brendon McCullum out of the r...

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...

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...