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57 articles tagged with "ICC"

Oct 6, 2026

India are in all four of the most-wanted 2027 World Cup matches, and the ticket ballot has passed one million applications

India v Pakistan leads with more than 110,000 applications as over 320,000 fans ask for 1.1 million tickets for the 2027 World Cup in South Africa, Zi...

Sep 28, 2026

New South Wales withdrew its support, and Mike Baird is standing down as Cricket Australia chair

The former NSW premier leaves at the AGM in late October after his home state turned against him over the Big Bash sale, and David Boon steps in as in...

Sep 23, 2026

The ICC wants fewer bilateral ODIs, and bringing back the tri-series is the right way to do it

The 2027-31 schedule being drawn up in Dubai swaps standalone ODI series for more T20Is. The 50-over games that survive need something riding on them.

Sep 16, 2026

A Bangladesh government inquiry has named the man who kept them out of the T20 World Cup, and he says he was right

A three-member committee reported on Tuesday that then youth and sports adviser Asif Nazrul was responsible for Bangladesh missing the 2026 T20 World...

Sep 14, 2026

Pakistan have earned 24 World Test Championship points, and handed 19 of them back

The ICC docked Pakistan another 11 WTC points on September 14 for a slow over-rate at Edgbaston. That leaves them bottom of the table on five points f...

Sep 9, 2026

Ponting says 50-over cricket is the obvious thing to lose, and that is only true at the top of the game

Ricky Ponting thinks the ODI is what gets squeezed as T20 franchise cricket keeps expanding, and he is not happy about it. He is right about the four...

Sep 2, 2026

India get the first Women’s Champions Trophy, and Sri Lanka keep their place by one rating point

The ICC Board confirmed on Wednesday that the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy moves from Sri Lanka to Mumbai and Vadodara, 14 to 28 February 2027....

Aug 30, 2026

Sri Lanka lost the Champions Trophy they were hosting, and the rankings say their place goes with it

The ICC is moving the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy out of Sri Lanka over government control of the board. India is the name being mentioned as t...

Aug 18, 2026

India are in the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy, and the field was settled by a ranking taken on 6 July

Six teams, 16 matches and no qualifying route: the ICC’s new women’s tournament lands in Sri Lanka next February, and Ellyse Perry has had her first w...

Aug 16, 2026

Everyone agrees bilateral ODIs need meaning, and nobody has worked out who pays for it

Todd Greenberg says bilateral one-day cricket makes up a significant portion of Cricket Australia’s broadcast deals. That single sentence explains why...

Aug 12, 2026

Moises Henriques will captain Portugal in Finland, a month after retiring in Australia

Australia’s most-capped domestic cricketer, and a familiar face from six IPL squads, has been named captain of Portugal for a T20 World Cup sub-region...

Aug 11, 2026

India are fifth in the WTC, and winning both Tests in Sri Lanka only takes them to 57 per cent

India go to Galle on 48.15 per cent, below the 50 that already missed a final once. Nine Tests remain in the cycle, and the arithmetic says a 2-0 in S...

Aug 10, 2026

Scotland and the Netherlands say the ICC stopped replying, and two teams will now be out of the World Cup after two games

Cricket Scotland and the KNCB have gone public over the 2027 World Cup revamp, saying two meetings with the ICC produced no written explanation and no...

Aug 5, 2026

Akhilesh Reddy asked a team-mate to concede runs, and the ICC gave him eight years

An ICC tribunal has banned the USA offspinner from all cricket until November 2033, with an extra year added for deleting the WhatsApp messages that w...

Aug 1, 2026

Andrew McDonald wants 17-man World Cup squads, and the 2027 calendar backs him up

Australia’s coach has asked the ICC to raise the World Cup squad limit from 15 to 17, and the maths of a 13-match tournament makes it hard to argue wi...

Jul 31, 2026

The ICC names 12 venues for the 2027 World Cup, and Namibia still has to qualify for it

The ICC unveiled the 12 host venues and a new brand for the 2027 ODI World Cup at a ceremony in Johannesburg on Thursday. Namibia will stage matches a...

Jul 29, 2026

Australia want 17-player squads for 2027 as the World Cup winner’s road stretches to 13 matches

Andrew McDonald says the ICC should lift World Cup squads from 15 to 17 now that the 2027 champion will play at least 13 games. Australia have a case...

Jul 21, 2026

Cricket’s laws are being rewritten, and the Ranji Trophy starts ten days after they land

The MCC’s new edition of the Laws takes effect on October 1 with 73 amendments, headlined by a final over that has to be bowled out even after a wicke...

Jun 29, 2026

Australia and England lead the Women’s T20 World Cup’s final four to The Oval

The semi-final line-up is set. Australia and England came through their groups unbeaten, while West Indies and South Africa squeezed in to complete th...

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 18, 2026

India and Australia are pulling clear of Group 1, split only by net run rate

Both unbeaten, both winning by a distance, and on a collision course for a June 28 meeting that already looks like a group decider. After two rounds,...

Jun 17, 2026

Winless South Africa and Pakistan meet at Edgbaston with semi-final hopes on the line

South Africa and Pakistan both lost their openers at the Women’s T20 World Cup. At Edgbaston on Wednesday, the side that loses again will see its semi...

Jun 14, 2026

Kane Williamson retires from international cricket after a record-laden New Zealand career

Kane Williamson has called time on a 16-year international career, retiring mid-tour in England as New Zealand’s most prolific batter across all three...

Jun 4, 2026

ICC suspends Cricket Canada as match-fixing and governance inquiries widen

The ICC has suspended Cricket Canada’s membership over serious governance breaches, with one anti-corruption probe tracing back to a match at the Chen...