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54 articles tagged with "Indian cricket"

Sep 15, 2026

Nottinghamshire are four points off the top with two games left, and they have signed Mukesh Kumar

The defending County Championship winners sit second behind Somerset with two rounds to play, and have brought in an India seamer who was bowling in t...

Sep 13, 2026

India A Women lost six wickets for 50, and Australia A had the chase done in 14 overs

Tess Flintoff took four for 13 as India A Women were bowled out for 117 at New Chandigarh, and Australia A went 1-0 up in a seven-match tour with six...

Sep 12, 2026

Padikkal made 328 runs while Sudharsan was injured, and now Sudharsan is his vice-captain

The BCCI has handed Devdutt Padikkal the India A captaincy for two four-day matches against Australia A in Puducherry, starting September 22. Hardik P...

Sep 12, 2026

Siraj had never taken two months off in ten years, and his run-up came apart in Sri Lanka

India’s fast bowler has given an unusually specific explanation for the pace he lost in Galle and Colombo: strides that stopped matching each other. H...

Sep 10, 2026

The Supreme Court wrote the BCCI’s rulebook, and now it is asking why a newer one does not apply

A three-judge bench put one question to the BCCI and every state association this week: why should the National Sports Governance Act not govern your...

Sep 6, 2026

Shami’s 100th first-class match came three days after his 36th birthday, and 18 months after his last India cap

Sourav Ganguly sent a video message, Ishan Kishan called age just a number, and Bharat Arun said the selectors closed the door too early.

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.

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...