Test Cricket

197 articles tagged with "Test Cricket"

Oct 15, 2026

Tristan Stubbs made 32 and 1 in Durban, and South Africa have dropped him for the Gqeberha Test

Matthew Breetzke comes into the 17-man squad on the back of an ODI hundred, and Ryan Rickelton takes the gloves for the second Test against Australia.

Oct 13, 2026

Sediqullah Atal batted 332 balls for a maiden Test hundred, and Afghanistan held on for a draw against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi

Bangladesh needed seven wickets on the final day and took five, but Afghanistan finished on 346 for 8 chasing 479 to draw the one-off Test.

Oct 12, 2026

Litton Das made a hundred and has eight dismissals, and Bangladesh need seven wickets on the last day in Abu Dhabi

Litton’s 102 set up a declaration and a target of 479, and Afghanistan reached 132 for 3 at stumps on the fourth day.

Oct 12, 2026

Renshaw followed his 190 with 82 and a first Test wicket, and South Africa need 319 more in Durban

Australia declared at tea on day four to set South Africa 421 at Kingsmead, then reduced them to 102 for 4 by stumps, with Steve Smith kept off the fi...

Oct 12, 2026

Smith’s four catches took him past Root’s record, and Australia lead South Africa by 139 in Durban

Steven Smith caught four South Africans on day three at Kingsmead, and the second of them made him the first fielder to 221 Test catches.

Oct 10, 2026

Afghanistan’s seamers took nine Bangladesh wickets in Abu Dhabi, and Rahmat Shah is 84 not out at stumps

Mohammad Saleem took four and Yamin Ahmadzai three as Bangladesh lost their last eight wickets for 125, before Afghanistan’s captain dug in on day two...

Oct 9, 2026

Australia were 124 for 6 at Kingsmead, and Renshaw and Cummins took them to 187 before the light went

Jansen, Mulder and Nortje took two wickets each on day one of the first Test in Durban, before a seventh-wicket stand steadied Australia.

Oct 9, 2026

Bangladesh won in Darwin and were bowled out for 64 in Mackay, and Afghanistan get them next in Abu Dhabi

Rahmat Shah leads Afghanistan in a Test for the first time against a Bangladesh side that beat Australia in August, with the head-to-head record level...

Oct 8, 2026

Sri Lanka have won one of their last ten Tests, and Kusal Mendis is now their captain in all three formats

Dhananjaya de Silva has given up the Sri Lanka Test captaincy after 18 matches, and Kusal Mendis takes over with the Pakistan Tests a month away.

Oct 2, 2026

Rashid Khan will miss all three of Afghanistan’s Tests, and Mohammad Nabi is out of the T20I side

Afghanistan named their squads for Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in the UAE on 1 October. Rashid and Ibrahim Zadran stay out of Tests on medical advice, and...

Sep 16, 2026

Babar has not played a domestic first-class match since 2019, and he asked the PCB to find him a team

Babar Azam will turn out for OGDCL in the President’s Trophy, his first domestic first-class cricket in nearly seven years. He was in none of the eigh...

Sep 15, 2026

Stephen Fleming left Chennai in July, and he spent Monday driving round England’s county grounds

England have split the head coach job in two, and the incoming Test coach is spending a fortnight working out how to share a squad with Brendon McCull...

Sep 14, 2026

Steve Smith does not know if he will be at the 2027 Ashes, and India comes first

Australia’s 37-year-old says he is a series-by-series proposition and cannot commit to touring England next year. Three Tests in South Africa, four ag...

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

Salman Agha made 45 runs in five Test innings, and then 300 not out in Abbottabad

A fortnight after being sent home from England, Pakistan’s dropped captain batted for 336 balls in the President’s Trophy and made the highest score o...

Sep 12, 2026

Wasim Akram asked what batter the PSL has produced in ten years, on the day Pakistan lost 3-0

Wasim Akram reached for a 15-year-old Indian batter to make his point about the Pakistan Super League, a few hours after England completed a series sw...

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 12, 2026

Pakistan were still two runs behind with eight wickets down, and Razaullah’s nine sixes left England chasing 130

A 21-year-old debutant batting at No. 9 hit 81 off 63 balls and added 121 with Mohammad Abbas, turning a certain innings defeat at Edgbaston into a fo...

Sep 11, 2026

Pakistan are going back to the Kookaburra, and the PCB is making the same argument it made in 2019

The PCB will use Kookaburra balls in the President’s Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy from 2026-27, ending a two-season run with the Dukes that bega...

Sep 11, 2026

Rizwan and Imam spent four hours with Pakistan’s cybercrime agency, and their phones were already there

Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency questioned Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq in Lahore on Thursday over alleged dressing-room leaks...

Sep 11, 2026

Root’s 220th catch was an edge in the first over, and it took him past Steve Smith

No fielder in the history of Test cricket has taken more catches than Joe Root. The one that got him there came off Ollie Robinson in the opening over...

Sep 11, 2026

Kuldeep Yadav had never taken ten wickets in a first-class match, and Essex lost by an innings in three days

Kuldeep Yadav’s 10 for 120 at Headingley is the first ten-wicket haul of his first-class career. Yorkshire beat Essex by an innings and 106 runs with...

Sep 9, 2026

Pakistan were 26 for 4 in the tenth over at Edgbaston, and extras were their second-top scorer at lunch

Ollie Robinson had figures of 8-3-9-2 and Josh Tongue took three as Pakistan slid to 100 for 7 by the first interval of the third Test, with two of th...

Sep 9, 2026

Afghanistan will play four Tests in 2026, more than in any year before, and none of them at home

The Afghanistan Cricket Board has confirmed an October-November season against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, played start to finish in the UAE. Ten matches...