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...
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Sep 2, 2026
Gambhir, Agarkar and both captains are in Mumbai on Thursday, and Rohit’s ODI future is on the agenda
The BCCI has called its head coach, chief selector, Centre of Excellence head and both captains to Mumbai on Thursday, after T20I series defeats in Ir...
Sep 1, 2026
Four of India’s 15 need fitness clearance, and the same squad goes to the Asian Games
India named a 15-man squad for the Afghanistan T20Is on Tuesday, with Jasprit Bumrah one of four players in only if the medical staff clear them. The...
Sep 1, 2026
Hardik has been told to stop bowling, and India’s squad for Afghanistan is due this week
India’s selectors meet this week to pick a squad for the Afghanistan T20Is in Delhi. Hardik Pandya, three months into a rehab stint in Bengaluru, has...
Aug 30, 2026
Suryakumar’s captaincy record was one of India’s best, and the World Cup final was his last match for India
Suryakumar Yadav has spoken at length for the first time about being dropped as India’s T20I captain in June, and the question he keeps returning to i...
Aug 29, 2026
India’s Asian Games dressing rooms are tents, and the washrooms are 500 metres away
A BCCI official’s complaint about the cricket venue in Nisshin turned into a weekend of reports that India might travel with a second-string side. An...
Aug 28, 2026
India need five wins from their last seven Tests, and even that might not be enough
The Colombo draw cost India eight World Test Championship points and left them on 51.52 per cent. Seven Tests are left: two in New Zealand in November...
Aug 27, 2026
Dinusha batted seven hours for 133 not out, and India settled for a 1-0 series win
Sri Lanka began the last day 16 in front with four wickets standing. They batted through all of it, declared, and the Colombo Test was drawn.
Aug 26, 2026
Sooriyabandara was out with Sri Lanka one run behind, and they lead by 16 going into the final day
Pasindu Sooriyabandara was stumped for 92 with Sri Lanka still a run short of making India bat again. Four wickets stand between India and a 2-0 serie...
Aug 25, 2026
Sri Lanka lost two wickets in three overs, and the umpires stopped play for bad light one ball later
India declared on 503 and had Sri Lanka two down inside three overs at the Sinhalese Sports Club. Play was then stopped for bad light, one delivery af...
Aug 24, 2026
Jaiswal and Asitha touched heads in Colombo, and both lost a quarter of their match fee
A two-second flashpoint after Jaiswal was bowled on the opening morning has cost both players a slice of their pay and a mark on their disciplinary re...
Aug 24, 2026
Jurel waited out the rain on 95, and finished 115 not out as India declared on 503
Rain stopped Dhruv Jurel five short of a century in Colombo. He completed it after the break, and India’s first innings closed on 503 for 9 with him n...
Aug 23, 2026
Gill reached 3,000 Test runs off an outside edge, and only three Indians got there younger
India’s captain went to 3,000 Test runs with a boundary off the edge on the opening morning in Colombo. At 26 years and 349 days, he is the fourth-you...
Aug 22, 2026
India are fifth in the WTC table, and Gambhir says the rankings do not matter
India’s head coach was asked in Colombo whether his Test side is struggling, and would not accept the question. Gambhir has the Galle win and two whit...
Aug 22, 2026
Kuldeep skipped Friday’s net session in Colombo, and Saransh Jain bowled through it
India settle on an XI for Sunday’s second Test, and the spin slot alongside Ravindra Jadeja and Manav Suthar is the last thing left to decide. Kuldeep...
Aug 21, 2026
Pujara’s advice to Manav Suthar: play the IPL, just don’t bowl like it
Cheteshwar Pujara has asked India to preserve Manav Suthar for Test cricket after the 24-year-old’s ten-wicket haul in Galle. His concern is not the I...
Aug 20, 2026
India’s Galle win took them to 53.33 per cent, and Bangladesh are still above them
India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs to climb to 53.33 per cent in the World Test Championship, and it was not enough to move them off fifth place.
Aug 19, 2026
Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less
India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the...
Aug 17, 2026
Afghanistan hand the Asian Games to six uncapped players, with Rashid Khan staying home
Darwish Rasooli will lead a 15-man Afghanistan squad in Japan next month in which six players have never been capped. India, meanwhile, are sending Bu...
Aug 17, 2026
Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind
India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...
Aug 15, 2026
Afghanistan host India in Delhi in September, and only one of the two teams is travelling
Three T20Is at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 13, 15 and 17 September, with Afghanistan listed as the home side. It will be the first time they have host...
Aug 15, 2026
Padikkal’s first Test hundred is India’s first at No. 3 by a left-hander since Ganguly
Devdutt Padikkal reached three figures off 134 balls in Galle after Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out in a tangle with the bowler and KL Rahul retired hurt...
Aug 14, 2026
Gambhir has two ICC trophies and ten defeats in nineteen Tests, and Galle is about the second number
India start in Galle on Saturday with a coach whose white-ball record is close to flawless and whose Test record is not. Both are true. Only one of th...
Aug 13, 2026
India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says
Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...