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63 articles tagged with "Indian cricket"

Oct 16, 2026

Punam Raut top-scored in the 2017 World Cup final, and she has retired from international cricket at 37

Punam Raut, India’s top scorer in the 2017 World Cup final and one half of the 320-run opening stand with Deepti Sharma, has retired from all internat...

Oct 15, 2026

Parthiv Patel was tipped to replace Agarkar, and he let the selectors’ deadline pass without applying

The BCCI’s window for the West Zone seat on the senior selection panel closed at 5pm on Wednesday, and Pragyan Ojha now looks set to stay on as chairm...

Oct 13, 2026

Kumar Kushagra has two hundreds in his last three first-class games, and he replaces Pant for India A’s first two matches in New Zealand

Rishabh Pant has not shaken off the side strain from the Irani Cup, so the Jharkhand keeper-batter joins Dhruv Jurel’s squad for the four-day games in...

Oct 6, 2026

Bhuvneshwar Kumar has not played for India since 2022, and he will captain them at the Hong Kong Sixes

Bhuvneshwar leads a seven-man India squad in Hong Kong from 30 October, but a reported T20I recall for the New Zealand tour would clash with the tourn...

Sep 29, 2026

Blake Cattle made two hundreds in Rajkot, and India’s Under-19s still won by an innings

Lakshya Raichandani’s 240 gave India a lead of 277, and Ishan Om and Yashbardhan Chauhan shared all ten second-innings wickets to finish the first You...

Sep 25, 2026

Padikkal did not enforce the follow-on, and India A still beat Australia A by 162 runs

Australia A lost five wickets before lunch on the last day in Puducherry, and Shams Mulani finished them off with seven in the match.

Sep 22, 2026

Rachit Bhatia says he was paid 60 lakh a match, and the DDCA has written to the BCCI

A Tehelka sting has a former Ranji Trophy player on camera describing a coded pipeline for playing elevens, and separate claims that IPL information r...

Sep 18, 2026

The BCCI’s two IPL elections have one candidate each, and the Andaman Islands want in

Indian cricket’s 95th annual general meeting in Mumbai has two uncontested Governing Council seats, a bid for associate membership from a union territ...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s top domestic umpires make 40,000 rupees a day, and the BCCI says that changes this season

Devajit Saikia confirmed on Thursday that the BCCI will pay domestic umpires and match referees more from 2026-27 and split the umpire panel into four...

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...