Test Cricket

161 articles tagged with "Test Cricket"

Aug 4, 2026

Auqib Nabi has 104 Ranji wickets in two seasons, and it took a Bumrah injury to get him picked

Two Ranji seasons, 104 wickets and a maiden title for Jammu and Kashmir were not enough to get Auqib Nabi into an India squad. A knee injury to Jaspri...

Aug 4, 2026

Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest

Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...

Aug 4, 2026

The BCCI will review how India manage injuries once the Sri Lanka Tests are done

India’s selectors picked Jasprit Bumrah for the Sri Lanka Tests expecting him to be fit. He is not, and the board has lined up a formal review of how...

Aug 4, 2026

Babar is 14 short of his first Test hundred since 2022, and Pakistan trail by 78

Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 107 and an unbroken stand of 168 have Pakistan 78 behind West Indies at Port of Spain, with Babar Azam 14 runs from endin...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Aug 3, 2026

Greaves holds West Indies together again as rain cuts day one in Port of Spain

West Indies reached 239 for 5 in 74 overs at Queen’s Park Oval, with Justin Greaves 64 not out after Babar Azam had dropped him at leg slip.

Aug 2, 2026

Bumrah is out of the Sri Lanka Tests, two days after clearing his fitness tests

India’s medical staff have told Jasprit Bumrah not to rush the left knee he has been managing since the T20 World Cup, and he will not travel for the...

Aug 2, 2026

West Indies are one result from their first series win over Pakistan since 2000

Pakistan arrive at the Queen’s Park Oval 1-0 down, without Shan Masood, and carrying the longest run of away Test defeats in their history. The second...

Aug 1, 2026

Bumrah clears the COE’s fitness tests and is available for both Sri Lanka Tests

India’s seam stocks were down to Siraj, Prasidh Krishna and an uncapped Punjab quick. The clearance changes the shape of the Galle Test.

Aug 1, 2026

Everyone wants Stokes back for the 2027 Ashes except Stokes

Australia’s coach floated the fairytale, England’s managing director would not rule it out, and the man himself said in June he would be watching from...

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 31, 2026

Shan Masood’s broken finger costs him the second Test and clouds the England tour

Pakistan’s opener fractured his left index finger while making 109 in Tarouba, then batted at No. 8 with it. The PCB will not yet say whether he makes...

Jul 31, 2026

Root returns as England’s Test captain, but Fleming does not start until December

England have handed the Test captaincy back to Joe Root and the coaching job to Stephen Fleming, fresh from 18 years at Chennai Super Kings. Neither a...

Jul 30, 2026

Rahane signs off at 38, three years after his last Test for India

Ajinkya Rahane announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday, closing a 12-year international career and an IPL run that ran from 200...

Jul 30, 2026

Fleming is England’s frontrunner for the Test job, weeks after walking away from CSK

The Telegraph reports that Stephen Fleming is set to take over England’s Test side after Brendon McCullum’s sacking, though the ECB has confirmed noth...

Jul 29, 2026

Subhadeep Ghosh replaces T Dilip as India’s fielding coach before the Sri Lanka Tests

India dropped five catches in a single T20I in Harare this week. The man hired to fix that is a 57-year-old from Digboi with 17 first-class games behi...

Jul 29, 2026

McGrath is right about Prasidh, but his Test and ODI records tell different stories

Glenn McGrath has backed Prasidh Krishna to fill the gap left by Mohammed Shami and cover for Jasprit Bumrah. The one-day numbers already agree with h...

Jul 29, 2026

Seales’ five for 20 seals a 90-run win as Pakistan lose an eighth away Test in a row

West Indies bowled Pakistan out for 120 chasing 211 at Tarouba to take the first Test by 90 runs, with Jayden Seales taking five wickets and Justin Gr...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...

Jul 28, 2026

Greaves’ first Test five-for and a 14-wicket day leave West Indies 155 ahead in Tarouba

Justin Greaves took the first five-wicket haul of his Test career and Mohammad Abbas replied with 3 for 14, on a third day in Trinidad that produced 1...

Jul 27, 2026

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi: pitch report, records and stats

Delhi’s ground has produced a perfect ten, a 428 and the highest successful chase in IPL history. Here is the pitch report and the full record book at...

Jul 27, 2026

Soumya Sarkar recalled after five years as Bangladesh pick their Darwin squad

Bangladesh have brought Soumya Sarkar back for their first Test in Australia since 2003, with a growing injury list forcing five changes to the side.

Jul 27, 2026

Masood’s unbeaten 88 leaves Pakistan 112 behind in Tarouba

Mohammad Ali’s four wickets ended West Indies on 311, and Shan Masood then batted through the rest of the second day to leave Pakistan 199 for 3 in Tr...

Jul 26, 2026

Pakistan add Shafique and Shakeel to their Test squad after Fazal’s back injury

A lower-back injury on the eve of the first Test has cost Pakistan their newest opener, and brought a recalled Abdullah Shafique and an early-arriving...