Aug 29, 2026
Hit wicket in cricket: what the rule says and why T20 produces six times as many
Hit wicket has happened 119 times in 4.17 million deliveries, and a batter is six times likelier to go this way in a T20 league than in a Test. What L...
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Aug 27, 2026
India’s Asian Games gold medal match and their third ODI against West Indies are on the same day
India need two men’s teams in late September, and their women go from a possible Asia Cup final in Dubai to an Asian Games quarter-final in Japan five...
Aug 18, 2026
Kohli’s first innings for India was 12 in Dambulla, and it is 18 years old today
On 18 August 2008 a 19-year-old opened India’s batting at Dambulla, made 12, and finished on the wrong side of an eight-wicket defeat. Eighteen years...
Jul 23, 2026
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur: pitch report, records and stats
Jaipur’s IPL first-innings average has gone from 142 in 2011 to 225 in 2026, and the chase wins two matches in three. Here is the pitch report and the...
Jul 22, 2026
Raipur Cricket Stadium: pitch report, capacity and records at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh ground
India’s third-largest cricket ground has hosted only twelve senior men’s matches, and nine of them were won by the side batting second. Here is the Ra...
Jul 18, 2026
ODI cricket records: the biggest numbers in the 50-over game
From Sachin Tendulkar’s mountain of runs to Rohit Sharma’s 264 and England’s 498, here are the batting, bowling and wicketkeeping records that define...
Jul 17, 2026
India and England head to a Lord’s decider with the series level
The three-match series reaches Lord’s on Sunday tied at 1-1, with India and England each having landed one win and a decider left to separate them.
Jul 17, 2026
Root’s unbeaten 99 levels the series as England beat India in Cardiff
Joe Root carried England’s chase and finished stranded on 99 not out as the hosts beat India by four wickets in Cardiff to level the one-day series at...
Jul 16, 2026
The runs still favour Kohli and Rohit, but the 2027 question won’t go away
Kohli and Rohit are ODI-only now, and every low score reopens the same debate. After two cheap dismissals at Edgbaston, here is where the 2027 World C...
Jul 15, 2026
India can seal the ODI series in Cardiff after Axar’s Birmingham rescue
India lead 1-0 and can wrap up the three-match series with a game to spare when they face England in the second ODI at Cardiff on Thursday.
Jul 13, 2026
After a T20I whitewash, India get a clean slate in the ODIs at Edgbaston
India’s white-ball tour of England moves to the 50-over game at Edgbaston on Tuesday, with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah back in the mi...
Jul 12, 2026
Kohli and Bumrah return as India regroup for the ODIs after a T20I mauling
England swept the five-match T20I series 4-0, but India get a clean slate on July 14 when the one-day leg begins at Edgbaston with Virat Kohli and Jas...
Jul 4, 2026
Virat Kohli records: every major milestone, format by format
Virat Kohli holds the most centuries in one-day international history and is the fastest batter to nearly every big ODI run milestone. Here is every r...
Jun 24, 2026
Kohli passes his fitness test and clears the way for India’s England ODIs
Virat Kohli came through his fitness assessment at the BCCI Centre of Excellence on June 22, leaving him in line to feature in India’s three-match ODI...
Jun 22, 2026
India name ODI squad for England as Kohli awaits a fitness verdict
India have made Shubman Gill captain and recalled Jasprit Bumrah for the England ODIs, with Virat Kohli included subject to a fitness test on June 22.
Jun 19, 2026
Why Rohit and Kohli should still be first on India’s England ODI teamsheet
The squad is due any day, and the noise around Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli is back. Here is why that is the wrong argument to be having.
Jun 11, 2026
Hardik Pandya ruled out of the Afghanistan ODIs with a quad strain
India’s all-round plans for the Afghanistan ODIs have taken a hit, with Hardik Pandya sidelined by a quadriceps strain picked up in training.
Jun 9, 2026
Rohit and Hardik cleared to play as India set their Afghanistan ODI squad
India will have Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya available for the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan after both passed fitness tests at the BCC...
Jun 6, 2026
Kohli ruled out of the Afghanistan ODIs after a hamstring injury in the IPL final
Virat Kohli will miss India’s three-match ODI series against Afghanistan after the hamstring problem he carried through the IPL 2026 final, with Rutur...
Jun 1, 2026
776 runs and a clean sweep: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made IPL 2026 his at 15
At 15, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 with the Orange Cap, the MVP award and 776 runs at a strike rate above 237, the most complete individual...
May 31, 2026
Kohli’s unbeaten 75 carries RCB to back-to-back IPL titles
Royal Challengers Bengaluru became only the third side to defend an IPL crown, beating Gujarat Titans by five wickets in Ahmedabad as Virat Kohli fini...
May 31, 2026
Tendulkar second, Kohli third as Kallis tops Cricinfo’s cricketers of the century
An ESPNcricinfo jury of 25 has named Jacques Kallis the greatest international cricketer of the first quarter of the 21st century, with Sachin Tendulk...
May 31, 2026
RCB chase a second straight title as Gujarat sweat on Siraj for the IPL 2026 final
The IPL 2026 final lands in Ahmedabad on Sunday with the toss, the dew and Mohammed Siraj’s fitness all hanging over a rematch RCB won by 92 runs.
May 29, 2026
Gujarat get RCB again, at home, five days after a 92-run lesson
Five days after a 92-run hammering in Qualifier 1, Gujarat get RCB again, this time in the final and on their own ground. Here is why they have a chan...