Test Cricket

161 articles tagged with "Test Cricket"

Aug 14, 2026

India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant

Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...

Aug 14, 2026

Tanzid’s maiden hundred puts Bangladesh in front in Darwin, 23 years after their last visit

Bangladesh lost inside three days the last time they played a Test at Marrara. On the second day of their return they batted Australia’s 198 into the...

Aug 13, 2026

Root scraps England’s curfew and tells his players to be adults

Joe Root has removed the midnight curfew England imposed after the Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson night out in June, six days before he leads the side ou...

Aug 13, 2026

India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...

Aug 13, 2026

Hasan Mahmud’s career-best 6 for 55 bowls Australia out for 198, five days after Bangladesh made 54

Australia chose to bat in Darwin and were dismissed for 198, the lowest Test total they have ever made against Bangladesh. Hasan Mahmud took 6 for 55,...

Aug 12, 2026

Sri Lanka pick four quicks for Galle, and Dickwella returns after three years

Sri Lanka’s 16 for the first Test against India carries four specialist fast bowlers, three front-line spinners and a recalled Niroshan Dickwella behi...

Aug 11, 2026

Sri Lanka lose Kusal Mendis for both Tests and Nissanka for Galle, four days before India start

Sri Lanka’s two most established top-order batters will not be in the side that meets India on Saturday. One is out of the series entirely, and the ot...

Aug 11, 2026

India are fifth in the WTC, and winning both Tests in Sri Lanka only takes them to 57 per cent

India go to Galle on 48.15 per cent, below the 50 that already missed a final once. Nine Tests remain in the cycle, and the arithmetic says a 2-0 in S...

Aug 10, 2026

Sarfaraz Khan replaces Sudharsan for the Sri Lanka Tests, 21 months after his last one

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has not cleared in time for Galle, and India have turned to a batter who last played a Test in November 2024. Sarfaraz Khan joins...

Aug 10, 2026

England name Root’s first squad in four years, and Pakistan land for their first Tests here since 2020

Joe Root is England’s Test captain again, four years after he gave the job up, and his first squad brings Dan Lawrence back at six. Pakistan arrived f...

Aug 9, 2026

India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it

India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...

Aug 8, 2026

Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon

India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.

Aug 8, 2026

Bangladesh were bowled out for 54 in Darwin, five days before the first Test

Campbell Thompson had one first-class match behind him before this week. He took 8 for 25 as Bangladesh folded in 22 overs and lost the warm-up by an...

Aug 8, 2026

Sri Lanka are giving away the India Tests, and the Lanka Premier League is why

Free entry at Galle and the SSC covers the grass banks, not the stands. For the biggest series on the home calendar, that is a decision worth reading...

Aug 7, 2026

Bangladesh had Cricket Australia XI 1 for 2, and Teague Wyllie’s 130 still put them behind

Six days before the first Test in Darwin, Bangladesh’s bowlers made the perfect start on day one and finished day two looking at a 73-run deficit.

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 7, 2026

Gill was hit twice in Thursday’s session, and KL Rahul led India’s warm-up instead

Shubman Gill took two blows to his right hand at practice in Colombo on Thursday and was held out of day one of India’s only warm-up before the Sri La...

Aug 7, 2026

Bethell hurt his knee against India, and it has cost him England’s whole Pakistan series

Jordan Cox goes in at three, Dan Lawrence is back after two years, and Joe Root has the first squad of his second spell as captain.

Aug 6, 2026

Pakistan left Noman Ali out of the England Tests, and Lancashire have signed him for six games

Pakistan dropped their most productive Test spinner of the last two years for the tour of England. He will be in the country for it anyway, bowling Di...

Aug 6, 2026

West Indies picked one spinner for a turning pitch, and the fix their captain ruled out was the obvious one

Spinners took 20 of the 30 bowler wickets at the Queen’s Park Oval. West Indies went in with one frontline spinner, and Roston Chase’s honest post-mor...

Aug 6, 2026

Pakistan win in Port of Spain to level the series, three years after their last away Test win

West Indies needed a draw in Port of Spain for their first series win over Pakistan since 2000. They were bowled out for 117 instead.

Aug 5, 2026

Pakistan hired a batting coach 15 days before Headingley, and the fortnight before it explains why

Michael Smith arrives on a two-year deal with 71 for 9 at Tarouba and Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 160 both sitting in the same fortnight of evidence.

Aug 5, 2026

Shafique’s unbeaten 160 puts Pakistan four wickets from a first away Test win since 2023

Abdullah Shafique faced 323 balls for an unbeaten 160 in Port of Spain, and by the close Sajid Khan’s 4 for 32 had left West Indies 103 for 6 with a l...

Aug 4, 2026

India arrive in Colombo with seven spinners, and their openers spent the week facing Mumbai’s

Four specialist spinners in the squad, three more travelling as net bowlers, and a week of spin-focused batting in Bandra for KL Rahul and Yashasvi Ja...