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Sep 14, 2026

Agarkar missed the BCCI’s review meeting on September 3, and his contract runs out on October 4

India’s chief selector has three weeks left on his deal, and the board’s office-bearers want a conversation about it this week. First he has to name t...

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 14, 2026

Afghanistan recovered from 43 for 5, and India knocked it off with 38 balls to spare

Abhishek Sharma’s 82 off 32 balls settled the first T20I in Delhi inside 14 overs, and Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakravarthy both came through their f...

Sep 13, 2026

Bumrah has not bowled a T20I since the World Cup final, and in Delhi he was marking out a longer run-up

Cleared to play on Thursday, Jasprit Bumrah spent Friday evening in the Delhi nets measuring out a run-up a third longer than his usual one. His first...

Sep 9, 2026

ChatGPT is now a BCCI sponsor, and the associate deals are up 44 per cent

The board’s associate-tier sponsorship fetched 44 per cent more than it did last cycle, one of the three buyers is an AI chatbot, and the branding sta...

Sep 3, 2026

India A get three four-dayers in New Zealand, and that is the only red-ball preparation before the Tests

India A will play New Zealand A in three four-day matches from October 24 to November 10, finishing nine days before the first Test in Wellington. It...

Aug 31, 2026

India were due to play an ODI in Dhaka this week, and the tour has been put off again

India’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh, already moved once from August 2025, will not happen this month. Neither board has cancelled it, and January is...

Aug 27, 2026

India’s Asian Games gold medal match and their third ODI against West Indies are on the same day

India need two men’s teams in late September, and their women go from a possible Asia Cup final in Dubai to an Asian Games quarter-final in Japan five...

Aug 27, 2026

Starc’s 6 for 12 has made him the No.1 Test bowler at 36, and Bumrah is 10 points behind

Mitchell Starc’s ten wickets in Mackay have taken him to the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings for the first time, ending Jasprit Bumrah’s long spe...

Aug 23, 2026

Padikkal has a hundred in each Test of this series, and Pant retired hurt on 3 after a blow to the wrist

India closed the first day in Colombo on 300 for 5. Devdutt Padikkal made 117, his second Test century in successive matches, and Rishabh Pant left th...

Aug 21, 2026

India are due in Dhaka on 28 August, and the BCB has booked Mirpur for something else

Bangladesh have filled their main stadium with an age-group tournament across exactly the fortnight India were meant to be there, and the BCCI still h...

Aug 18, 2026

Kohli’s first innings for India was 12 in Dambulla, and it is 18 years old today

On 18 August 2008 a 19-year-old opened India’s batting at Dambulla, made 12, and finished on the wrong side of an eight-wicket defeat. Eighteen years...

Aug 18, 2026

Pant reached 100 Test sixes faster than anyone has, and India set Sri Lanka 372

Rishabh Pant got to 100 sixes in Tests in his 89th innings, 41 fewer than Adam Gilchrist needed. India were bowled out for 193, and Sri Lanka lost Din...

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 15, 2026

India reach 600 Tests with 186 wins and 188 defeats, at a ground that was rubble in 2005

India became the third country after England and Australia to play 600 Tests when they walked out at Galle on Independence Day. It is also Galle’s 50t...

Aug 14, 2026

India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant

Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...

Aug 8, 2026

Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon

India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 4, 2026

Auqib Nabi has 104 Ranji wickets in two seasons, and it took a Bumrah injury to get him picked

Two Ranji seasons, 104 wickets and a maiden title for Jammu and Kashmir were not enough to get Auqib Nabi into an India squad. A knee injury to Jaspri...

Aug 4, 2026

Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest

Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...

Aug 3, 2026

Abhishek Sharma hits 233 off 91 balls in Amritsar, a week after 11 runs in Zimbabwe

India’s T20 opener made a district double hundred with 25 sixes on Sunday, seven days on from a Zimbabwe tour that brought him 11 runs in three inning...

Jul 30, 2026

Tamim calls the BCCI talks positive, but India’s September tour of Bangladesh is still unconfirmed

The BCB president says discussions with the BCCI have gone well and that Bangladesh is safe to visit, while admitting the decision is not his to make....

Jul 28, 2026

Ten Doeschate steps away from India’s staff with a KKR return waiting

Ryan ten Doeschate has ended a two-year stint as India’s assistant coach, and the former Netherlands captain is expected back at Kolkata Knight Riders...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...