Sep 3, 2026
Auqib Nabi’s first Surrey wicket was Kuldeep Yadav, and then Surrey were bowled out for 83
Nabi got Kuldeep caught at second slip on his county debut at the Oval. Surrey’s reply to Yorkshire’s 185 lasted 30 overs.
Indian cricket
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Sep 2, 2026
Auqib Nabi’s visa came through on Saturday, and Surrey have him for three Championship games
The Ranji Trophy’s leading wicket-taker has joined Surrey for three County Championship matches, starting against Yorkshire at the Oval. India’s two T...
Aug 24, 2026
Karn Sharma played four times for India, and won three straight IPL titles with three different teams
Karn Sharma has retired at 38 with four India caps, four IPL winners’ medals and 270 first-class wickets. He is still the only player to win three IPL...
Aug 22, 2026
Sooryavanshi has eight first-class games and an average of 17.25, and Dravid is asking everyone to be patient
The IPL’s youngest Orange Cap winner starts a red-ball season in Bengaluru on Sunday. Rahul Dravid used a T20 launch in Dublin to argue why that matte...
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 19, 2026
Surrey lost the Championship’s leading century-maker to England, and signed a Rajasthan captain who has not played red-ball cricket since February
Mahipal Lomror has never played for India, averages 42.62 in first-class cricket and has a triple hundred. Surrey have six matches left and one win fr...
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 8, 2026
Everyone knows where Hardik Pandya is going next, and nobody actually does
Five franchises are said to be circling, Chennai are said to have offered a swap, and Mumbai Indians say nothing is happening. On the evidence so far,...
Aug 7, 2026
Steve Waugh called five minutes after Rahane retired, and now he has a contract in Europe
Eight days after signing off from Indian cricket, Ajinkya Rahane has a new employer. Steve Waugh’s Amsterdam Flames have made him their marquee player...
Aug 6, 2026
Uthappa is right about Suryavanshi, but Kambli and Shaw are the wrong warning
Robin Uthappa says the 15-year-old could outdo Tendulkar in white-ball cricket if he is managed properly, and reaches for two cautionary tales that do...
Jul 30, 2026
Rahane signs off at 38, three years after his last Test for India
Ajinkya Rahane announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday, closing a 12-year international career and an IPL run that ran from 200...
Jul 14, 2026
Stephen Fleming steps down as CSK head coach after 18 years
Chennai Super Kings and Stephen Fleming have parted ways after an 18-year association, ending one of the most successful captain-coach eras in franchi...
Jul 10, 2026
MS Dhoni’s cricket records: the milestones that define his career
He is the only captain to win all three major ICC white-ball trophies and the only keeper past 100 ODI stumpings. Here are the records that define MS...
Jul 10, 2026
Big Bash League to open its 2026-27 season in Chennai, its first match outside Australia
The Big Bash League will begin its 2026-27 season at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, the first time the Australian T20 competition has staged a matc...
Jul 2, 2026
Sanju Samson’s slump has reopened India’s most awkward selection call
Three single-figure scores in a row, and a 15-year-old with 776 IPL runs waiting in the same squad. Sanju Samson’s form has handed India a selection q...
Jul 1, 2026
Two World Cups, two group exits: India can’t keep delaying their T20 rebuild
India just won the 50-over World Cup, but a second straight group-stage exit at the Women’s T20 World Cup shows the shortest format still exposes the...
Jun 29, 2026
Iyer’s India open the England T20Is at Chester-le-Street after the Ireland sweep
India open a five-match T20I series in England on Wednesday at Chester-le-Street, fresh off a chastening 2-0 sweep by Ireland that left Shreyas Iyer’s...
Jun 16, 2026
India have the balance to end their T20 World Cup wait, but Australia loom
India have never won a Women’s T20 World Cup, but the way they dismantled Pakistan in Birmingham hinted at a side that finally has the bat and the bow...
Jun 8, 2026
BCCI weighs a five-year cooling-off rule for retired players who join overseas leagues
The board has given preliminary approval to a policy that would shut retired India cricketers out of the domestic game for five years if they sign up...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 23, 2026
Vijay Shankar walks away from Indian cricket at 35 to chase a franchise passport
Vijay Shankar has retired from Indian domestic cricket and the IPL to play overseas franchise leagues, ending a 14-year career that produced 21 white-...
May 20, 2026
First Indian to 50 sixes in an IPL season: Sooryavanshi back on top of the Orange Cap race
A 93 off 38 in Jaipur pulled Vaibhav Sooryavanshi past Mitchell Marsh on the IPL 2026 Orange Cap leaderboard and into a small list of records nobody h...
May 20, 2026
Two unbeaten hundreds and still no ODI slot: Sanju Samson’s Afghanistan snub
The CSK wicketkeeper-batter has been left out of India’s ODI squad for the Afghanistan series despite a 170-strike-rate IPL 2026, with Ishan Kishan pi...
May 20, 2026
36 Ranji wickets and an 8 for 90: Agarkar’s ‘body allows only T20s’ line on Shami does not survive his own season
Chief selector Ajit Agarkar explained Mohammed Shami’s Afghanistan snub by saying his body permits only T20 cricket, but the Bengal pacer’s 2025-26 Ra...