Cricket

Mitchell Marsh intends to play as batter only in all formats

Marsh missed the ICC Champions Trophy earlier this year due to injury. Marsh was suffering from a back problem and was sidelined for Australia's Champions Trophy campaign.

2025-07-20T15:10:39.438629+00:00 IST

Maxwell on verge of completing 7,000 international runs for AUS

Star Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is just seven runs away to complete 7000 runs for his country in international cricket.

2025-07-20T15:08:29.957328+00:00 IST

"We can beat any team in the world": Russell

Andre Russell believed the Caribbean had the talent to go all the way in the T20 World Cup 2026 and can beat any team in the world when they play some good cricket.

2025-07-20T14:00:36.635443+00:00 IST

Hardik, Krunal meets Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan

Indian all-rounders Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya met Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Sunday.

2025-07-20T13:31:06.249043+00:00 IST

England to host next three WTC Finals; ICC announces key updates

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been awarded the hosting rights for the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) Finals in 2027, 2029, and 2031. The decision was confirmed during the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Annual Conference held in Singapore, recognising ECB's successful record in organising recent finals, as per ICC.

2025-07-20T13:18:46.378559+00:00 IST

Anshul Kamboj added for Manchester Test

India's build-up to the crucial fourth Test against England at Old Trafford has been dented by injuries to two of their seamers, Akash Deep and Arshdeep Singh. With both bowlers likely to miss the Manchester Test starting July 23, the selectors have drafted in Haryana's promising fast bowler Anshul Kamboj as cover for the final two matches of the five-Test series, as per ESPNcricinfo.

2025-07-20T13:01:57.618384+00:00 IST

RCA announces Senior Men’s, Women’s selection committees

The Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) Adhoc Committee on Sunday officially announced the formation of the Senior and Junior Men's and Women's Selection Committees for the upcoming 2025-26 domestic cricket season.

2025-07-20T12:31:26.161263+00:00 IST

Manjrekar backs Sai Sudharsan for no.3 batting spot 

He expresses disagreement with the team management's decision to go with Karun Nair at number 3 after giving Sudharsan one chance in the first of five Test match series against England last month.

2025-07-20T11:55:27.103579+00:00 IST

Champions League T20 set to be relaunched; ICC mulls two-tier Tes

A men's Twenty20 Champions League is set to be reintroduced as early as September next year, following strong support from key member nations at the International Cricket Council's (ICC) annual conference held in Singapore, as per The Sydney Morning Herald.

2025-07-20T11:37:16.771673+00:00 IST

ICC announces global winners of Development Awards 2024

Launched in 2002, the Development Awards celebrate the innovation and initiative of the game's Associate Members, "leading the growth of the sport around the world." The 2024 awards will comprise seven categories after the introduction of the ICC X Rexona Criio Festival of the Year award.

2025-07-20T10:43:07.177496+00:00 IST

Anderson speaks on the "best team that I've played for..."

Anderson was speaking on Sky Sports about the landmark series win. In 2010-11 season, England crushed Australia by 3-1 in their own territory, their first win in Australia since 1986-87. It was their second-successive Ashes series win on the trot, with left-handed batter Andrew Strauss at the helm of a powerful England side.

2025-07-20T09:41:34.717881+00:00 IST

India arrives in Manchester ahead of fourth Test against England

Team India arrived in Manchester on Sunday ahead of their fourth Test of the five-match series of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, which will take place at Old Trafford from July 23.

2025-07-20T09:21:51.765140+00:00 IST

Running through fortresses: Will India breach Manchester finally?

The series is 2-1 in favour of England, with the fourth Test of the series set to start from July 23. After a loss at Headingley, Team India breached the Birmingham fortress for the first time ever, with Gill's historic double ton and Akash Deep's ten-fer sealing them a series-levelling 336 run win. After a narrow loss at Lord's, India will have to re-write history books all over again to level the series.

2025-07-20T09:20:35.016256+00:00 IST

Anderson feels "out of place" sharing name on trophy with Sachin

Anderson spoke on length about a variety of subjects on Sky Sports. The Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, a joint initiative between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is now representing all future Test series between England and India. Previously, the series in England was played for the Pataudi Trophy and the series in India for the Anthony De Mello Trophy.

2025-07-20T08:49:46.361914+00:00 IST

Ashwin speaks on alleged rift with Harbhajan Singh

As Harbhajan stepped away from Tests in 2015 after a 103-match long career with 417 wickets, Ashwin took his place as the first-choice spinner. Harbhajan's decline conincided with Ashwin's rise in international cricket as a genuine spin bowling all-rounder and for long, reports about a rift between these two bowling greats ran rampant on social media, with some of Harbhajan's comments on Ashwin often taken as jabs towards his successor.

2025-07-20T08:34:58.620420+00:00 IST

Chasing trophies in forties: At 46, Tahir re-defines longevity

The latest entrant to this club of cricketers with rare levels of longevity is the South African spinner Imran Tahir. At the age of 46, this Lahore-born spinner is still an active force in the T20 league circuit across the world, recently leading Guyana Amazon Warriors to the Global Super League in the second season as a captain.

2025-07-20T07:58:46.977603+00:00 IST

KL Rahul on verge of completing 9,000 international runs for Ind

With the series in favour of England by 2-1, India will have to play out of their skins to defy this equally competitive English unit. For that, it is important that KL absorbs all the pressure while opening the batting, makes the new ball old, balances out his classy cover drives with some careful leaves.

2025-07-20T05:45:01.341364+00:00 IST

400-wicket club awaits Woakes ahead of 4th Test at Manchester

With the series 2-1 in favour of England, the Three Lions would be aiming to choke a young, Shubman Gill-led Indian side under pressure of levelling the series at a venue where they have failed to win a Test match. For this, Woakes being at his best would be of immense importance.

2025-07-20T05:28:26.593390+00:00 IST

Powell 25 runs away from overtaking Gayle in WI all-time charts

Following a 0-3 clean sweep loss to Aussies in the Test series, with poor batting being a major concern despite some really fiery bowling, West Indies would be aiming to make amends with the first T20I of the five-match series set to be played on Monday.

2025-07-20T05:21:09.063152+00:00 IST

Fraser-McGurk included in Australia's playing XI for 1st WI T20I

Short, who has scored 293 runs with a fifty and taken seven wickets in 14 T20Is for Australia so far, pulled up sore after training in Jamaica ahead of the first of the five T20Is against West Indies and has been sent back home. He had a fine Major League Cricket (MLC) stint with San Francisco Unicorns, having made 360 runs in eight matches with five fifties and taken six wickets, with his team crashing out in eliminator.

2025-07-20T04:43:27.070619+00:00 IST

"I think its a doctor's call": Raina on Bumrah playing 4th Test

The availability of Bumrah, who is playing only three Tests during the ongoing series against England will be a big talking point as the team bus heads to Manchester for the fourth Test at Old Trafford. With the series being 2-1 in favour of England, there have been reports that Bumrah could feature in the fourth Test to give India a chance to level the series.

2025-07-20T03:45:09.552457+00:00 IST