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A new league contest awaits at DXC Arena No 2, with Bangladesh HP-XI Academy set to square off against Victoria Academy in Darwin on 24th August at 10:30 AM IST.Get the best BAN-XI vs VIC Dream11 prediction, My11Circle Prediction, fantasy cricket tips, pr...
23.08.2026
Latest scorecard from the second Test between Sri Lanka and India from the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo.
23.08.2026
Latest scorecard from the second Test between Sri Lanka and India from the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo.
23.08.2026
Kamil Mishara will debut for Sri Lanka, while Pasindu Sooriyabandara keeps his place after coming on as a concussion substitute in Galle
23.08.2026
India off-spinner Saransh Jain has received his Test cap and will make his debut in the second Test against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo. The 33-year-old all-rounder replaces Kuldeep Yadav after India decided to strengthen their spin...
23.08.2026
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) fast bowler Khaleel Ahmed has addressed the trade speculation surrounding his IPL future, saying his focus remains on helping the franchise win its record sixth IPL title. Responding to a fan on social media, the left-arm pacer s...
23.08.2026
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) finally explains why Kuldeep Yadav is suddenly missing from Team India's practice sessions and from the team line-up as well. After the toss of the India vs Sri Lanka Test match in Colombo, the BCCI, throug...
23.08.2026
A direct route to the final awaits as Madurai Panthers meet Trichy Grand Cholas in the first qualifier at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, on 23rd August at 7:30 PM IST.Get the best SMP vs TGC Dream11 prediction, fantasy cricket tips, probable playing XI,...
23.08.2026
It’s coming home: England’s Test series against Pakistan heads to Lord’s and the Home of Cricket this week PICTURE: Alamy ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day! SUBSCRIBE Already a subscriber to our website?...
23.08.2026
In with a shout: The County Championship is into the business end of its season PICTURE: Alamy ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day! SUBSCRIBE Already a subscriber to our website? Login
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23.08.2026
By Tawhid Qureshi BANGLADESH’S STUNNING nine-wicket win against Australia in the first Test has been regarded by many as the biggest upset in Test history. The tourists were playing in alien conditions after an absence of 23 years, against an Australian t...
23.08.2026
AUSTRALIA RESPONDED to last week’s shock defeat by bowling Bangladesh out for just 64 on a dramatic opening day of the second Test in Mackay, but their own batting problems continued. Mitchell Starc struck with the first ball, dismissing Shad-man Islam, a...
23.08.2026
CORNWALL BEAT Cheshire by 10 wickets at Redruth and were confirmed as NCCA West Second Division winners after Dorset went down by 41 runs to Shropshire at Whitchurch. Herefordshire’s relegation came with a round of matches to play after they were beaten b...
23.08.2026
INDIAN OVERSEAS batter Ankit Kalsi hit three consecutive centuries for Greater Manchester Premier League side Egerton. Despite his club struggling in the relegation places, Kalsi has been in fine form, hitting 101 not out against Shaw, 100 not out against...
23.08.2026
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23.08.2026
IT’S LOOKING like a three-way race in Bradford as the league reaches the business end of the season with Townville, New Farnley and Woodlands all in with a chance of taking the title. Townville are at the top of the table, eight points ahead of New Farnle...
23.08.2026
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23.08.2026
ENGLAND OVER 60s will face New Zealand in today’s World Cup final in Canada after a semi-final victory over Australia. They restricted the Aussies to 142-9 in their 45 overs, with Alan Whitman taking 3-26, before Colin Cliff led the way with 61 to see Eng...
23.08.2026
ALL-CONQUERING Hoylandswaine won the Huddersfield League’s Sykes Cup final, defeating Rastrick by six wickets. The defending league champions, who are also undefeated in the league this summer and well on course to retain their title, knocked off a target...
23.08.2026
The most successful white-ball captain in the history of county cricket speaks to Jo Harman-McGowan about the glory years at Gloucestershire, the barriers he faced as he entered coaching, and the groundbreaking academy in Tottenham that got the ball rolli...
23.08.2026
DANIEL NORCROSS The Hundred has been and gone, and my prevailing emotion is relief that it’s over. Not because I agree with the tournament’s detractors that it’s a scandalous cuckoo in the summer’s nest. Nor because I think it’s context-free ‘cricketainme...
23.08.2026
Somerset 267-2 (Odgers 133*, Luff 103) defeated Essex 266-8 (Grewcock 87, Smale 83, Anderson 3-44) by eight wickets Somerset openers Bex Odgers and Sophie Luff both hit commanding centuries as their side demolished Essex with 10.3 overs to spare. Odgers s...
23.08.2026
August 16, Grace Road, Leicester Leicestershire Foxes 303-7Notts Outlaws 280 Leicestershire Foxes won by 23 runs Toss: Notts Outlaws won the toss and decided to field Four more: Hamza Shaikh pulls Dillon Pennington for four PICTURE: Alamy LEICESTERSHIRE F...
23.08.2026
By Jon Batham August 16, Radlett Durham 254-7Middlesex 255-8 Middlesex won by 2 wickets Toss: Durham won the toss and decided to bat LUKE HOLLMAN wrote himself into Middlesex folklore as they reached their first List-A Final for 36 years with a thrilling...
23.08.2026
LAUREN WINFIELD-HILL It was disappointing to not get over the line in The Hundred final, and we definitely didn’t give a good account of ourselves. There were quite a lot of dismissals, including my own, where the shot selection wasn’t wrong, we just didn...
23.08.2026
August 16, Lord’s Cricket Ground SunRisers Leeds Women 91 Trent Rockets Women 92-2 Trent Rockets Women won by 8 wickets Toss: Trent Rockets won the toss and decided to field THIS SEASON’S form side, Trent Rockets showed just why they were the team to beat...
23.08.2026
August 16, Lord’s Cricket Ground Trent Rockets Men 158-8Super Giants Men 162-5 Manchester Super Giants Men won by 5 wickets Toss: Super Giants Men won the toss and decided to field MANCHESTER SUPER Giants won The Hundred Final by five wickets last Sunday,...
23.08.2026
By Jon Batham & Ben Kosky August 20-23, Merchant Taylors’ School Ground, Northwood Kent 350 (Northeast 87, Crawley 81, Roland-Jones 5-71, Higgins 3-86) & 254 (Compton 65, Muyeye 64, Higgins 3-83, Helm 3-31) Middlesex 249 (Bosch 43*, Cracknell 38, Milnes 5...
23.08.2026
By ECB Reporters August 20-23, Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester Northamptonshire 284 (Bartlett 92, McManus 47, Balderson 4-70, Walkden 3-33) & 298-4 dec (Vasconcelos 100, Zaib 55*, Noman 2-109, Bailey 1-24, Walkden 1-20) Lancashire 137 (Sh...
23.08.2026
By Andrew Stockhausen & Richard Latham August 20-23, College Ground, Cheltenham Gloucestershire 150 (Boorman 60, Price 31, Allison 5-19, Waite 3-43) & 248-3 (Price 63*, Hammond 57, Swanepoel 2-23, Taylor 1-47) Worcestershire 267 (D’Oliveira 83, Edavalath...
23.08.2026
By Nigel Gardner August 20-23, The OurCoop County Ground, Derby Durham 283 (Clark 64, Lees 63, Aitchison 5-70, Randell 2-62, Dal 2-56) & 295-6 dec (McKinney 140, Stokes 66*, Bashir 3-77, Aitchison 1-22) Derbyshire 156 (Jewell 28, Madsen 28, Potts 5-46, St...
23.08.2026
RICHARD CLARKE Every County Championship season is a story. Not the shallow soap operas of white-ball cricket but a classic Agatha Christie – emotive, evocative, steeped in a century of meaning and, above all, unpredictable. The red-ball reset that starte...
23.08.2026
By Brian Halford August 20-23, Edgbaston, Birmingham Sussex 156 (Haines 49, Clark 30, Woakes 4-36, Booth 3-9) & 207 (Haines 67, Clark 22, Bamber 3-42, Woakes 2-43, Booth 2-42, Barnard 2-17) Warwickshire 161 (Booth 34*, Mousley 29, Hunt 4-30, Crocombe 3-60...
23.08.2026
By Mark Baldwin & Bruce Talbot August 20-23, The Kia Oval, Kennington Nottinghamshire 184 (Patterson-White76*, Lawes 5-45, Worrall 2-41) & 306 (Clarke 95, Verreynne 46, Worrall 4-39, Fisher 4-67) Surrey 162 (Thomas 48, Burns 44, Stone 6-44, Pennington 2-2...
23.08.2026
By Andrew Stockhausen & Richard Latham August 20-23, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Somerset 469 (Thomas 110, Nicholls 96, Cook 4-92, Snater 3-96) Essex 158 (Critchley 50, Walter 48, Leach 4-37, Gregory 3-29) & 314-3 (Allison 105*, Critchley...
23.08.2026
By Jon Culley August 20-23, Uptonsteel Grace Road, Leicester Leicestershire 151 (Holland 23, Gumbs 22, Toole 3-48, Gorvin 2-18) & 257 (Gumbs 93, Scriven 43, ul Hassan 3-46, Toole 2-45) Glamorgan 152 (Crane 44, Dickson 23, Holland 4-30, Mike 4-38) & 126-5...
23.08.2026
By Alex Smith August 20-23, Utilita Bowl, Southampton Yorkshire 173 (Bess*, Revis 33, Abbott 4-17, Neal 3-50) & 301 (Lyth 51, Wharton 47, Organ 4-59, Baker 2-79, Neal 2-64) Hampshire 197 (Prest 46, Gubbins 38, Hill 5-29, Coad 2-48, Lyth 2-15) & 106-3 (Alb...
23.08.2026
Chance to Shine’s Street cricket clubs are bringing cricket to young people in areas where it otherwise might not be accessible Chance to Shine’s Street cricket clubs are aimed at engaging young people across the country living in under-served communities...
23.08.2026
THERE IS something appropriate about Keith Barker ending his professional cricket career where it all began. When the 39-year-old announced his retirement this week, bringing the curtain down on 17 seasons in professional cricket, it was at Warwickshire t...
23.08.2026
Practice makes perfect: Philander going through the motions PICTURE: Alamy OLLIE ROBINSON has given fast medium bowling a shot in the arm. All over the world. That’s the view of former South African great Vernon Philander, who has been credited with playi...
23.08.2026
DEREK PRINGLE Batting order doesn’t mean pecking order with tradition having it that No.3 always used to be the best batter in the team. Against Pakistan at Headingley, Jordan Cox reprised that old belief by looking every bit the top dog despite it being...
23.08.2026
Phil Walker grades the players after their thumping win at Leeds BEN DUCKETT – 2 A quiet game with the bat, trapped on the crease to be leg-before to Mohammad Abbas for 15, but England’s new first slip – with captain Root having moved to mid-off – will be...
23.08.2026
LANCASHIRE AND England bowler Kate Cross has announced that she will retire from professional cricket at the end of the 2026 season, aged 34. Cross made her senior county debut for Lancashire aged just 13 in 2005, having learnt her trade at Heywood Cricke...
23.08.2026
August 19-21, Headingley, Leeds Pakistan 171 (Shafique 61, Robinson 5-51, Tongue 5-46) & 135 (Rizwan 41, Robinson 3-29, Archer 3-50, Tongue 3-43) England 409 (Brook 91, Cox 73, Usman 5-95, Khurram 3-133) England won by an innings and 103 runs Toss: Englan...
23.08.2026
Cameron Green and Nathan Lyon added valuable runs on the second morning
23.08.2026
Epic one-wicket win over Sussex sets up Bears for Championship run-in
22.08.2026
Lancashire blitzed for 137 early in day and then lose two before close after being set 446 to win
22.08.2026
Half-centuries from Ollie Price and Miles Hammond bring Gloucestershire back into their County Championship match with Worcestershire.
22.08.2026
England all-rounder Sam Curran is ruled out of the remainder of the English summer with a groin injury, ending his hope of a potential Test comeback this summer.
20.08.2026
Former England bowler Kate Cross, praised for her "incredible contribution" to the women's game, to retire from cricket at the end of the summer.
21.08.2026