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...
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Aug 12, 2026
Australia’s first-choice attack is back together in Darwin, and Boland is the one left out
Pat Cummins confirmed his XI a day before the first Test against Bangladesh, with Josh Hazlewood back after missing the entire Ashes and Scott Boland...
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
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
Bangladesh were 194 for 9 in Darwin, and Miraz’s unbeaten 109 got them to 263
Corey Rocchiccioli took six wickets on the opening day at Marrara Oval. Mehidy Hasan Miraz answered with an unbeaten hundred and a last-wicket stand t...
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 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
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.