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Head coach Alan Richardson believes the role of One Day Cup holders will give Worcestershire extra motivation rather than pressure.
20.07.2026
Former India captain Kris Srikkanth lambasted head coach Gautam Gambhir and the entire India National Cricket Team management for the 2-1 ODI series loss against England, despite winning the first match of the series.Kris Srikkanth mentioned that after al...
20.07.2026
Northamptonshire Steelbacks head coach Darren Lehmann pays tribute to the club's supporters after T20 Blast success.
20.07.2026
After beating India 2-1, BBC Sport asks if England are finally building momentum one year out from the World Cup.
20.07.2026
Northamptonshire Steelbacks head coach Darren Lehmann pays tribute to the club's supporters after T20 Blast success.
20.07.2026
After beating India 2-1, BBC Sport asks if England are finally building momentum one year out from the World Cup.
20.07.2026
All the runners and riders as the domestic 50-over tournament gets underway in the Hundred's shadow
20.07.2026
West Indies are currently 10th in the ICC men's ODI team rankings and run the risk of having to play the Qualifier for the 2027 World Cup, should they not finish ninth at the very least
20.07.2026
Northamptonshire Steelbacks head coach Darren Lehmann pays tribute to the club's supporters after T20 Blast success.
20.07.2026
Delhi Capitals player has signed with Hampshire for the upcoming One-Day Cup after impressing in the IPL, adding firepower to the English county side's batting lineup. Take a look and read the full story.
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20.07.2026
Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan has launched a scathing attack on the captain Shubman Gill but hailed Rohit Sharma after the third and final ODI against England at Lord’s on July 19.The India National Cricket Team suffered a crushing 27-run defeat...
20.07.2026
Rohit Sharma silenced his critics with a stunning century in the third and final ODI against England at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, on Sunday. The India captain smashed 138 off just 110 deliveries, lacing his innings with 17 fours and five sixes. His a...
20.07.2026
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri backed Rohit Sharma and urged not to put any external pressure on him about his retirement as long as he enjoys the game as a batter.Amid speculations about his retirement from the India National Cricket Team, Rohit Sh...
20.07.2026
Tournament MD blames 'challenging market' as outright ban on betting sponsorship is deferred
20.07.2026
England head coach Brendon McCullum breaks silence on England's next Test coach after India series win. Take a look and read the full story to know all the details.
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20.07.2026
Rohit Sharma's and Virat Kohli's futures have become one of the biggest topics to discuss among the cricket fraternity after the recent three-match ODI series against England. There was a lot of buzz about Rohit's retirement, but that didn’t happen, and n...
20.07.2026
Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar- all of these senior pace bowlers deserve to be in contention for the 2027 ODI World Cup team selection, says former Team India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin during an online interaction...
20.07.2026
Rohit Sharma has once again proved why he is one of India's biggest match-winners. The former Indian captain silenced all the retirement rumours with a brilliant century in the third and final ODI against England at Lord's after facing criticism for his p...
20.07.2026
Delhi Capitals star and uncapped Indian batting all-rounder Ashutosh Sharma secured a fresh deal in the UK’s domestic cricket. The emerging all-rounder will feature in this year’s One Day Cup for the Hampshire cricket team.On July 20, Hampshire confirmed...
20.07.2026
West Indies are currently 10th in the ICC men's ODI team rankings and run the risk of having to play the Qualifier for the 2027 World Cup, should they not finish ninth at the very least
20.07.2026
Sri Lanka had reduced the visitors to 0 for 2, before Ojha and Yashbardhan added 122 for the third wicket
20.07.2026
India all-rounder Ashutosh Sharma joins last year's finalists Hampshire for this season's Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign.
20.07.2026
Chris Woakes is set to miss the rest of England’s fifth Test decider against India with a left shoulder injury. Woakes left the field with his arm in a makeshift sling late on the first evening after taking a painful tumble at the boundary edge. He immedi...
01.08.2025
AFTER SIX agreements with Hundred teams were announced as having been signed off in the middle of last week, the ECB said that deals for the two remaining franchises remain on track. Those deals are for the purchase of stakes in Oval Invincibles and Trent...
03.08.2025
PAKISTAN’S SPINNERS helped them to a victory over the West Indies in the first T20I at Lauderhill, continuing the Windies’ misery after their 5-0series loss to Australia. The tourists posted 178-6, Saim Ayub making 57 as Shamar Joseph took 3-30. The West...
03.08.2025
Five rings, six teams: Major cricketing nations could miss out on Olympics qualification PICTURES: Alamy THE PROPOSED system of qualification for cricket’s return to the Olympics in 2028 has caused controversy, with Pakistan and New Zealand facing the pro...
03.08.2025
New Zealand beat Zimbabwe in first Test NINE WICKETS in the match for Matt Henry helped New Zealand cruise to a nine-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first Test at Bulawayo. Henry recorded first-innings figures of 6-39 to roll Zimbabwe for 149, before Devo...
03.08.2025
Mixed day: Ed Oakley took eight wickets but still ended up on the losing side PICTURE: Horspath CC ED OAKLEY returned remarkable figures of 8-22 for Horspath 2XI in the Cherwell League's Pullinger Cup T20 Final -but incredibly still ended up on the losing...
03.08.2025
Moeen Ali turned up for Stumps on Corn in a Clapham Common Last Man Stands league game against Leg Side Story last Monday (July 28). Fielding first, Stumps on Corn conceded 170-5 in 20 overs with Moeen bowling four overs 0-30. Eddie Evans top-scored for L...
03.08.2025
Quality: Ryan McKendry smashed 170 for New Farnley PICTURE: Ray Spencer IN THE Bradford League, New Farnley’s Ryan McKendry blasted an unbeaten 170 from 101 balls, including 11 sixes, as the league leaders went a massive 59 points clear at the top of the...
03.08.2025
Completing our series, Sir Geoffrey Boycott picks his team of White Rose all-timers 1. HERBERT SUTCLIFFE 602 matches (in first-class cricket for Yorkshire – 1919-45), 38,558 runs at 50.20, 112 hundreds, 167 fifties; 8 wickets at 47.62 Sutcliffe’s first-cl...
03.08.2025
Surrey 240-7 (Capsey 79, Wyatt-Hodge 43*) beat Warwickshire 239 (Perrin 113, Wraith 47, MacDonald-Gay 4-47) by three wickets Surrey continued their Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup charge with a three-wicket win over Warwickshire at the Edgbaston Community...
03.08.2025
History: Surrey won the first-ever Women’s T20 Blast PICTURE: Alamy GRACE HARRIS’S sparkling 63 from 33 balls led Surrey to a five-wicket win over The Bears as they became the inaugural Women’s T20 Blast champions in front of their home fans at The Oval....
03.08.2025
Tier Two finals day was good last weekend, although disappointing from a team perspective. Fair play to Middlesex, they played extremely well, they had a good game plan to bowl slow and straight, and we just capitulated. They also set some really quirky f...
03.08.2025
The latest rounds of Championship cricket brought a lot of success for English spinners. Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley both took match 10-fers (and scored hundreds!), Jack Leach ran riot at Ciderabad, Matt Parkinson took seven at Canterbury, Mason Crane cla...
03.08.2025
Ben Caplan previews this year’s Men’s One-Day Cup competition Can Glamorgan do it again? In 2024, a rain-affected final saw Glamorgan defeat Somerset to win their fifth one-day title, with the ever-present Sam Northeast the catalyst for their victory with...
03.08.2025
A record crowd at The Oval, but cricket still needs to follow football’s example, writes Katya Witney The first women’s T20 Blast Finals Day set an English record for a crowd at a women’s T20 domestic match, with 5,000 punters spilling into The Oval for t...
03.08.2025
By Jeremy Blackmore & Ben Kosky July 29 -August 1, County Ground, Northampton Derbyshire 377 (Andersson 105, Aitchison 45, Chahal 6-118, Procter 1-30) & 185-5 (Reece 61*, Guest 60*, Chahal 2-79, Keogh 2-37) Northamptonshire 550-9 dec (Broad 171, Keogh 125...
03.08.2025
July 29 -August 1, The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury Leicestershire 471 (Ahmed 119, Scriven 99, Parkinson 7-137, Evison 2-54) Kent 445-8 (Compton 221, Finch 54*, Ahmed 3-134, Holland 1-39, B Green 1-36) Match Drawn Toss: Kent won the toss and d...
03.08.2025
By Richard Latham July 29 -August 1, College Ground, Cheltenham Middlesex 445 (Williamson 153, Cracknell 60*, M Taylor 3-88, Murphy 3-106) Gloucestershire 404-9 (Phillips 136, Hammond 71, Cornwell 2-55, Higgins 2-79, Hollman 2-61) Match Drawn Toss: Middle...
03.08.2025
July 29 -August 1, North Marine Road, Scarborough Sussex 222 (Lamb 48, Coles 47, White 3-25, Milnes 2-62, Hill 2-34, Sutherland 2-46) & 195 (Hughes 57, Hudson-Prentice 52*, Milnes 5-31, White 2-35) Yorkshire 545-9 dec (Revis 152*, Lyth 115, Carson 3-150,...
03.08.2025
By Jon Culley July 29 -August 1, Trent Bridge, Nottingham Somerset 438 (J Rew 166, Abell 156, Abbas 3-60, Pennington 3-71) & 200-5 dec (Abell 51, Banton 43*, Harrison 3-57, Abbas 1-38, Pennington 1-22) Nottinghamshire 544 (Hameed 208, James 72, Ball 3-76,...
03.08.2025
July 29 -August 1, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford Essex 602-6 dec (Westley 148, Allison 133, Webster 2-55, Bamber 1-116, Malik 1-7) & 96-1 (Westley 51*, Walter 35*, Bamber 1-21) Warwickshire 485 (Barnard 108*, Bamber 107, Critchley 5-171, Snate...
03.08.2025
By ECB Reporters July 29 -August 1, Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street Durham 153 (Ackermann 51, Lees 34, Worrall 4-31, S Curran 3-22) & 344 (Gay 99, Ackermann 43, Yusuf 43, Sai Kishore 5-72, S Curran 2-48, Lawrence 2-77) Surrey 322 (Lawrence 88, Cl...
03.08.2025
Richard Clarke says county grounds are the perfect place for conversation One of the most arresting and widely-praised football videos of 2023 did not involve Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or any game play at all. Instead, the focus was on two ordinary...
03.08.2025
A dislocated left shoulder to Chris Woakes robs one of England’s finest of the chance of a proper farewell, writes Phil Walker The Oval is the scene of teary farewells, but not like this. In the gloaming of day one, Chris Woakes lugged his knackered body...
03.08.2025
Two of the stars of the summer faced off in an enthralling passage on the second day, writes Phil Walker A pair of tired teams traipsed into south London red-eyed and wary. The fallout from Lord’s and Old Trafford lingered in the air, the preamble tetchy...
03.08.2025
We shouldn’t be surprised any more that the scenes at the end at Manchester would be blown up out of all proportion. As with all of these things, there were two sides to it. With India having achieved the goal of drawing the game, England were perfectly e...
03.08.2025
It’s been a tough summer for the slow men, in a tough era full stop. Take Ravindra Jadeja. It has been striking how little effect he has had across the series. Much the same could also be said of Shoaib Bashir, although he took some important wickets, inc...
03.08.2025
The first pitch of the series with some green grass on it threw up some extraordinary cricket across the first two innings of the final Test. We have become used to England’s Bazballers breaking the laws of cricketing gravity but some things hold true wha...
03.08.2025