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Ravindra Jadeja has returned to India’s ODI squad after missing the team’s recent assignments, but Ajinkya Rahane believes his place in the side for the 2027 ODI World Cup is not yet certain. The veteran all-rounder is set to feature in the three-match se...
27.09.2026
Hardik Pandya’s return to ODI cricket has suffered another setback after a fresh shin injury ruled him out of India A’s upcoming one-day series against Australia A. The all-rounder has been advised to take two weeks of complete rest before undergoing anot...
27.09.2026
Michael Clarke has picked Kuldeep Yadav as the best current all-format spinner in world cricket ahead of India’s ODI series against West Indies. The former Australia captain Michael Clarke believes the India wrist-spinner has the skills to succeed across...
27.09.2026
"My dream is to play a match-winning, finishing knock in the finals, like chasing a score - that's the ideal scenario," Virat Kohli says about the perfect sign-off
27.09.2026
The Asian Games 2026 men’s cricket competition moves into the knockout stage. Pakistan will take on Hong Kong, China in the first quarter-final on Monday, September 28.The Men in Green received a direct entry into the quarter-finals as one of the top-seed...
27.09.2026
By Richard Edwards WHEN ENGLAND took to the field during the recent white-ball series against Sri Lanka, a line-up featuring Jos Buttler, Tom Banton, and Sonny Baker wasn’t just representing a nation – they were a walking advertisement for the cricket pro...
27.09.2026
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27.09.2026
IT SEEMS Kevin Pietersen’s return to the England set-up could extend beyond white-ball cricket as he has revealed that he has held talks with new Test head coach Stephen Fleming about potentially helping the side ahead of next summer’s Ashes. Pietersen wa...
27.09.2026
Goodbye for another year: The Championship summer concludes today 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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27.09.2026
By Sarah Waris Historic: Japan came incredibly close to beating India PICTURE: Alamy THE INDIA vs Japan T20I clash was supposed to be a one-sided affair; few would have expected it to produce so much content in just ten overs. When India-Japan was announc...
27.09.2026
SOUTH AFRICA defeated Australia by 67 runs in the first ODI at Durban thanks to a brilliant ton from Matthew Breetzke (below). The Proteas star hit 112 from 106 balls as the home side posted 297-8 in their 50 overs and was well backed up by Marco Jansen w...
27.09.2026
EDINBURGH CASTLE Rockers triumphed in the inaugural final of the European T20 Premier League at Malahaide, defeating Belfast Wolves by seven wickets. They chased down a target of 151 with 1.4 overs to spare, USA keeper-batter Andries Gous finishing 90 not...
27.09.2026
NEWS IN BRIEF ANTIGUA AND Barbuda Falcons are 2026 CPL champions after cruising to an eight-wicket victory over Jamaica Kingsmen at Bridgetown. 21-year-old Pakistani batter Maaz Sadaqat smashed 114 from 58 balls in the Kingsmen’s total of 170-9 as fellow...
27.09.2026
A 15-PLAYER squad has been named by England Women U19s for their biggest ever winter programme of cricket culminating in an ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup in Nepal and Bangladesh. Following a series of training camps in the UK, the squad will travel to tak...
27.09.2026
WILD BOARS CC recently held their end of season presentation at Grimsby Town CC and had plenty to celebrate after winning the league title for Division 3 of the Grimsby and District Midweek League. The Wild Boars are a newly established team, a mixture of...
27.09.2026
FORMBY ARE the 2026 champions of the Liverpool and District Competition despite a final day loss to Rainford. They went into the final weekend nine points ahead of second place Newton-le-Willows but an exciting finish to the season was denied after Newton...
27.09.2026
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27.09.2026
ST CROSS Symondians are national champions twice over. With their women's side already crowned national T20 champions this season, the men's 1XI completed a historic double at Worcestershire CCC’s New Road last Sunday, defending 158 to beat Townville by 1...
27.09.2026
The England seamer, Lauren Filer, on how realising she was quicker than everyone else led her from supermarket shelf-stacker to international bowler. Interview by Adam Hopkins I got an award at my local cricket club when I was 13 for hitting 50mph. I knew...
27.09.2026
ESSEX BATTER Robin Das, 24, has been charged with two counts of rape. He was charged on July 23 and is due to appear at Inner London Crown Court on 9 October. He was arrested on August 27 last year after reports of a woman being raped in Brixton, south Lo...
27.09.2026
GLAMORGAN WILL say farewell to Colin Ingram, Chris Cooke and Billy Root at the end of the season, with all three having brought substantial contributions to the Welsh county. Cooke, 40, announced his retirement in August after 16 years with Glamorgan. The...
27.09.2026
KATYA WITNEY Katya Witney on the contrasting fortunes of the title winners L ast weekend saw two teams lift 50-over trophies, both making history in the process, but for opposite reasons. At Trent Bridge, Middlesex overpowered Leicestershire to claim thei...
27.09.2026
By Jon Culley September 20, Trent Bridge, Nottingham Middlesex 231 (Higgins 100, Duke 55, Holland 5-36, Ahmed 3-55) Leicestershire Foxes 200 (Kelly 103, Roland-Jones 3-27, Sharma 3-37, Helm 3-32) Middlesex won by 31 runs Toss: Leicestershire Foxes won the...
27.09.2026
LAUREN WINFIELD-HILL Lauren Winfield-Hill on the mighty Blaze and how heritage is problematic with team names changing so fast Born leader: Kirstie Godon (third left) has led the Blaze to unprecedented success PICTURE: Alamy The nature of the schedule now...
27.09.2026
Adam Hopkins speaks to Nauman Javaid of Bucks Cricket about his successful Coffee with Cricket programme for women in Milton Keynes Nauman Javaid began his role as MK Cricket City Development Manager in May last year with an aim of making cricket more acc...
27.09.2026
By Sam Rhymes September 24-27, New Road, Worcester Worcestershire 214 (Taylor 39*, Libby 33, Abbas 5-63, Reece 3-34) & 206 (Waite 74*, Gibbon 23, Abbas 4-65, Potts 3-61) Derbyshire 88 (Madsen 40, Came 11, Allison 5-22, Taylor 3-27) & 157 (Reece 49, Basra...
27.09.2026
By Ben Kosky and Jon Batham September 24-27, Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood Northamptonshire 103 (Sales 43, Vasconcelos 26, Higgins 4-30, Ferns 4-29) & 285 (Zaib 110, Vasconcelos 69, Helm 4-62, Gohar 3-57) Middlesex 255 (Higgins 115, Geddes 57, San...
27.09.2026
By ECB reporters September 24-27, Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester Durham 493 (Gay 141, McKinney 71, Noman 6-166, Bailey 2-87) Lancashire 267-5 (Bohannon 125*, Hurst 57, Parkinson 3-63, Carse 1-55) Toss: Durham won the toss and decided to...
27.09.2026
By Fred Atkins September 24-27, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Gloucestershire 229 (Bracey 86, Price 52, Milnes 4-55, Khaled 3-37) & 241 (Dhariwal 66, Hammond 42, Milnes 5-33, Khaled 2-67) Kent 353 (Compton 126, Bell-Drummond 55, Langridge 3-105, Ahmed 2-...
27.09.2026
ANNIE CHAVE Annie Chave on the glory of England’s uncelebrated medium-pacers Iheard a whisper that the new England coach was at Headingley for the penultimate round of the County Championship. Perhaps this heralds the start of a greater collaboration betw...
27.09.2026
By Brian Halford September 24-27, Edgbaston, Birmingham Leicestershire 125 (Cox 33, Budinger 27, Bamber 4-42, Woakes 3-20) & 168 (Scriven 49, Budinger 47, Bamber 5-52, Woakes 3-38) Warwickshire 372 (Hain 142, Barnard 88, Hull 3-79, A Patel 3-78) Warwicksh...
27.09.2026
By Richard Latham September 24-27, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Surrey 422 (Lawrence 139, Sibley 72, Leach 4-91, Gregory 3-85) Somerset 691-8 (Abell 284*, Lammonby 229, Lomror 4-196, Worrall 2-101) Toss: Surrey won the toss and decided to...
27.09.2026
By Jon Culley September 24-27, Trent Bridge, Nottingham Nottinghamshire 251 (Hameed 71, Haynes 48, Cliff 4-39, Coad 2-47, Hill 2-37) & 85 (Haynes 27, Martindale 15, James 15, White 5-23, Coad 4-27) Yorkshire 179 (Hill 58, Revis 30, Stone 5-51, Hutton 2-40...
27.09.2026
By Alex Smith and Wes Spearman September 24-27, Utilita Bowl, Southampton Sussex 244 (Leaning 78, T Price 46, Jack 3-38, Fuller 3-45) & 319-9 dec (Haines 130, Carter 40, Organ 4-114, Neal 4-98) Hampshire 128 (Brown 36*, Mayes 18, Unadkat 5-32, T Price 2-2...
27.09.2026
By Blake Bint September 24-27, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Glamorgan 505 (Tribe 184, Carlson 107, Akhter 5-107, Cook 2-54, Critchley 2-95) Essex 129 (Harmer 35, Westley 23, ul Hassan 5-14, Toole 3-21) & 331-5 (Elgar 108, Westley 65, Crane 2-58, Kellaway 2-59)...
27.09.2026
ETHAN BAMBER has spent much of his second season at Warwickshire building a reputation as one of the most reliable wicket-takers in Division One. At Chelmsford, he produced the performance that best encapsulated just that. His career-best six for 26 again...
27.09.2026
MARK BUTCHER England’s comprehensive 3-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka in their T20I series took their record to a hugely impressive 23 wins from 26 since Harry Brook took over the captaincy a year-and-a-half ago. They’re hovering around top spot in the ICC rank...
27.09.2026
September 22, Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street England 265 (Brook 67, Jacks 46*, A Fernando 3-53, Colombage 3-44) Sri Lanka 176 (Wellalage 45, Kusal Mendis 42, Jacks 5-22, Overton 2-21) England won by 89 runs Toss: England won the toss and decided...
27.09.2026
September 24, Headingley, Leeds Sri Lanka 321-6 (Kusal Mendis 121, Kamindu Mendis 54, Atkinson 2-55, Ahmed 2-48) England 305-9 (Banton 73, Buttler 69, Wellalage 3-49, Madushanka 2-54, Malinga 2-50) Sri Lanka won by 16 runs Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and...
27.09.2026
DEREK PRINGLE It was just after the Powerplay at Headingley, with England chasing 322 for victory in the second ODI against Sri Lanka, that WinViz gave Harry Brook’s side a 93 percent chance of winning. England were 82-0 off 10 at the time and while I won...
27.09.2026
Track record: Trott did an excellent job with Afghanistan PICTURE: Alamy JONATHAN TROTT has been appointed England Lions head coach for the winter, returning to the England set-up after a successful four-year spell in charge of Afghanistan. The 45-year-ol...
27.09.2026
ENGLAND’S MOST popular cricketer, Mark Wood has brought the curtain down on his England career, ending an 11-year international journey marked by extreme pace, major trophies and the propensity to succumb to, and then come back from, serious injury. The 3...
27.09.2026
India will face Afghanistan in the second quarter-final of the men’s cricket tournament at the Asian Games 2026 on Monday, September 28. The match will take place at the Aichi Prefectural Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin, Japan. The quarter-final lineup was...
27.09.2026
West Indies, who will have to go through the Qualifier, have not won a bilateral ODI series against India since 2006
26.09.2026
West Indies, who will have to go through the Qualifier, have not won a bilateral ODI series against India since 2006
26.09.2026
Former Australia star Damien Martyn has backed England’s evolving management setup, praising the appointment of Stephen Fleming as Test Head Coach and explaining why Kevin Pietersen could be 'invaluable' as a mentor to white-ball sides.
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26.09.2026
Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg will stage the second ODI on 27th September at 1:30 PM IST, where South Africa will compete against Australia.Get the best SA vs AUS Dream11 prediction, fantasy cricket tips, probable playing XI, and match insights for the...
26.09.2026
Ruturaj Gaikwad is facing fresh criticism as Chennai Super Kings have begun the buildup for the upcoming 2027 season after enduring another disappointing IPL 2026 season.Actually, Sadagoppan Ramesh has questioned Ruturaj Gaikwad’s captaincy and feels the...
26.09.2026
The third fixture will bring England and Sri Lanka together at Kennington Oval, London on 27th September at 3:00 PM IST.Get the best ENG vs SL Dream11 prediction, fantasy cricket tips, probable playing XI, and match insights for the 3rd ODI match of the S...
26.09.2026