Test Cricket

190 articles tagged with "Test Cricket"

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...

Sep 9, 2026

Ponting says 50-over cricket is the obvious thing to lose, and that is only true at the top of the game

Ricky Ponting thinks the ODI is what gets squeezed as T20 franchise cricket keeps expanding, and he is not happy about it. He is right about the four...

Sep 6, 2026

Eden Gardens pitch report: par scores, records and stats in Kolkata

Par at Eden Gardens has climbed 26 runs since 2023, the largest jump at any established IPL ground. What the ball-by-ball record of 107 matches says a...

Sep 5, 2026

Pakistan changed Test coach again mid-series, and Mike Hesson was in Japan when it happened

Mike Hesson takes charge of Pakistan’s Test side at Edgbaston on Wednesday, the eighth man responsible for the job since May 2023. He says the squad w...

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...

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 31, 2026

Rabada has a grade-three hamstring tear, and Donald says he will miss all three Australia Tests

Cricket South Africa have ruled Kagiso Rabada out of the ODI series against Australia and left his Test place open. His own franchise bowling coach th...