Test Cricket

161 articles tagged with "Test Cricket"

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 22, 2026

Kuldeep skipped Friday’s net session in Colombo, and Saransh Jain bowled through it

India settle on an XI for Sunday’s second Test, and the spin slot alongside Ravindra Jadeja and Manav Suthar is the last thing left to decide. Kuldeep...

Aug 22, 2026

Robinson and Tongue took eight each, and England were finished with Pakistan inside three days

Pakistan were bowled out for 171 and 135 at Headingley, and Joe Root’s return as England captain has started with an innings win and 12 World Test Cha...

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 21, 2026

Usman is the first visiting spinner to take five at Headingley since 1972, and Pakistan trail by 195

Ali Usman’s 5 for 92 was the first five-wicket haul by a visiting spinner at Headingley since the 1972 Ashes. Pakistan dropped Harry Brook on 1, and E...

Aug 20, 2026

India’s Galle win took them to 53.33 per cent, and Bangladesh are still above them

India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs to climb to 53.33 per cent in the World Test Championship, and it was not enough to move them off fifth place.

Aug 20, 2026

Sri Lanka go to Colombo without three first-choice batters, and one is out because of a rule

Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal are out of Sunday’s second Test at the SSC and Pathum Nissanka is unlikely, leaving Gary Kirsten to rebuild a battin...

Aug 20, 2026

Weatherald lasted six Tests, and Renshaw is back for Mackay’s first Test

Australia have cut the opener they handed a national contract in April and recalled Matthew Renshaw for Saturday’s second Test against Bangladesh, at...

Aug 20, 2026

Pakistan lost a wicket to the first ball at Headingley, and were all out for 171

Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue took five wickets apiece as England bowled Pakistan out inside 49 overs on a rain-hit opening day in Leeds. England clo...

Aug 19, 2026

Greaves took five wickets in five maiden overs, and West Indies have both ICC awards for July

The ICC’s July Player of the Month awards went to a first-time winner and a record-setter, both from the Caribbean. Only three other countries have sw...

Aug 19, 2026

Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less

India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the...

Aug 19, 2026

Pakistan lose Babar the day before Headingley, and Salman Agha has never captained a Test

Babar Azam’s right hand has not healed, so Pakistan begin a three-Test tour of England without their captain and the leading run-scorer from their las...

Aug 18, 2026

Pant reached 100 Test sixes faster than anyone has, and India set Sri Lanka 372

Rishabh Pant got to 100 sixes in Tests in his 89th innings, 41 fewer than Adam Gilchrist needed. India were bowled out for 193, and Sri Lanka lost Din...

Aug 18, 2026

Warner moved to the passenger seat, and a Sydney court recorded the conviction anyway

David Warner was fined $1,500 and ordered to fit an alcohol interlock for a year at Waverley Local Court on Tuesday, four months after he pulled up sh...

Aug 17, 2026

Babar was cleared for Headingley, then ruled out of the first Test

A rising ball from Manny Lumsden hit Babar Azam on the right middle finger at Beckenham. He was cleared to play on Monday, then ruled out of the first...

Aug 17, 2026

Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind

India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...

Aug 17, 2026

England lost the Ashes, the coach and the captain, and have handed the Test side back to Joe Root

Joe Root captains England again at Headingley on Wednesday, four years after giving the job up, with Ben Stokes retired, Brendon McCullum out of the r...

Aug 17, 2026

Australia’s top three has been failing for a year, and Darwin only made it impossible to ignore

Pat Cummins called it a trend rather than a bad week, and the averages back him up. The awkward part is that Australia’s replacement options are barel...

Aug 16, 2026

India lose seven for 172 after Padikkal’s 167, and Galle has produced 116 overs in two days

India closed day two at Galle on 460 for 9, having lost seven wickets for 172 runs in the only session and a half the weather allowed. Devdutt Padikka...

Aug 16, 2026

Bangladesh were 54 all out eight days ago, and they have beaten Australia by nine wickets

Bangladesh’s first Test win in Australia came at the third attempt, 23 years after their last Test in the country. Hasan Mahmud took nine wickets in t...

Aug 15, 2026

Padikkal’s first Test hundred is India’s first at No. 3 by a left-hander since Ganguly

Devdutt Padikkal reached three figures off 134 balls in Galle after Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out in a tangle with the bowler and KL Rahul retired hurt...

Aug 15, 2026

India reach 600 Tests with 186 wins and 188 defeats, at a ground that was rubble in 2005

India became the third country after England and Australia to play 600 Tests when they walked out at Galle on Independence Day. It is also Galle’s 50t...

Aug 15, 2026

Hazlewood reaches 300 in his 76th Test, and Australia end day three 67 behind Bangladesh

Josh Hazlewood took 6 for 89 in Darwin to become the ninth Australian to 300 Test wickets. Bangladesh still made 426 and led by 228, and Australia clo...

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...