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Antigua & Barbuda Falcons vs Jamaica Kingsmen
Antigua & Barbuda Falcons dismantled the league's only unbeaten side in 20.2 overs — Shadab Khan's hat-trick, Sufyan Moqim's four-for, Cornwall's six sixes. Jamaica Kingsmen answered by chasing 207 in the last over of Qualifier 2, Rovman Powell's 75 overhauling Shimron Hetmyer's 102 not out. For only the third time in CPL history, neither Guyana Amazon Warriors nor Trinbago Knight Riders will contest the final. Kensington Oval's spin-first surface, two days of rest for ABF versus back-to-back knockouts for Jamaica, and a franchise trophy that both sides have never held.
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Nine Sixes and a Piece of History: Shafali Verma Puts India Women Into the Asian Games Final
She had never made an international hundred. She made this one from 49 balls, nine of them cleared the rope, and she was still there at the end of the twentieth over. Bangladesh, who had not faced a ball in the tournament before Sunday, were bowled out for 81 inside sixteen overs.
Athapaththu Turns a Record Total Into a Formality — Sri Lanka Chase 178 and Reach the Final
Pakistan lost a wicket to the first ball of the match and still made 177 for 4, the biggest score anyone had made in this tournament. It lasted about three hours. Chamari Athapaththu made 83 not out from 50 balls, six of them into the stands, and Sri Lanka got home with thirteen balls to spare.
Gous Carries the Rockers Home: Edinburgh Are the First European T20 Premier League Champions
Four teams finished the league on thirteen points. Edinburgh Castle Rockers topped it on net run rate, went straight to the final having lost their last three group games, and then watched Andries Gous bat through 18.4 overs for 90 not out. Belfast Wolves, who had beaten them three days earlier, made 150 and never got near enough to it.
The Best Innings of the Night Was in the Losing Side: Hetmyer's 102 Not Out Cannot Save Guyana, and Jamaica Reach the Final
Shimron Hetmyer hit eight sixes and an unbeaten hundred from 45 balls, Guyana Amazon Warriors made 206, and it was still not enough. Jamaica Kingsmen — fourth in the table, four wins in ten — chased 207 at Kensington Oval with two balls left, Rovman Powell finishing it with 40 not out from 17. Guyana topped the league and lost two knockouts in a little over 24 hours.
Three Matches, Three Collapses: England Finish the Sweep With Sixty-Two Balls Unused at Old Trafford
Sri Lanka reached 107 for 4 in the fourteenth over and were all out for 124 in the nineteenth — five wickets for seventeen, the third innings in a row to fall apart in the same place. Jos Buttler made 62 not out from 32, England needed 9.4 overs, and a series that began with a 119-run defeat ended without Sri Lanka winning a session, let alone a match.
Forty-Six Without Loss to a Hundred and Thirty-Three All Out: Glenn Maxwell Ends Amsterdam's Season in Malahide
Four teams finished the ETPL league on thirteen points, separated only by net run rate. Amsterdam Flames were second, Belfast Wolves third — and in the Qualifier the Flames lost ten wickets for 87 runs after a flawless start. Maxwell took 4 for 18, then came in at 96 for 3 and hit three sixes in eight balls to finish it.
The Dress Rehearsal Meant Nothing: Kenya Answer Uganda's 47-Run Win With a 39-Run Win and the Title
On Friday Uganda ended Kenya's unbeaten run and took top spot. On Saturday, at the same ground against the same opponent, Kenya reduced them to 25 for 5 inside five overs and never let go. Brian Likavu's unbeaten 41 from 21 turned 103 for 6 into 170 for 7, and Riazat Ali Shah's 53 was the losing side's match award.
Eighty, Eighty, Then Fourteen: Zimbabwe Women Finally Make South Africa Sweat, and Still Lose the Series 5-0
Beaten by 80 runs twice in a row, Zimbabwe Women came to the last match of the series and turned it into a contest — 102 for 2 chasing 165, Kelis Ndhlovu and Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano adding 80 in the middle. Then Nthabiseng Nini took three wickets, the run rate climbed, and South Africa won by 14. A whitewash that finally cost something.
Thirty-Six for Five Chasing Ninety-Six: Hong Kong Survive a Sano Grind That Japan Almost Stole
Japan were bowled out of contention long before they were bowled out — 95 for 7 from their twenty overs, Ehsan Khan and Yasim Murtaza conceding 34 runs between them from eight. Then Hong Kong lost five wickets for 36 and had to bat nineteen overs to win by four. Benjamin Ito-Davis made 35 of Japan's 95 and took 3 for 11, and still finished on the losing side.
Head Answers the Question: 112 From 84 Balls, and Australia Take the Series in Harare
Zimbabwe chose to bowl, hoping the Harare morning would do what it had done three days earlier. Instead Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh put on 130 before the first wicket fell, Australia made 356 for 6, and a Zimbabwe chase in which seven batters passed 20 and nobody reached 50 ended 84 runs short.
Eight Wickets for Nine Runs: Shadab and Moqim Break the Warriors, and the Falcons Fly to the Final
Guyana Amazon Warriors were 40 for 1 in the eighth over of a qualifier. Twenty balls later they were 49 for 9. Shadab Khan's hat-trick and Sufyan Moqim's four for 13 did it; Rahkeem Cornwall's six sixes finished it in 5.2 overs. The whole match lasted 20.2 overs.
Japan Bat 119 Balls, India Need 30: Charani's Four and Shafali's Fury Book a Semi-Final
The hosts were 24 without loss after the powerplay and dug in. Then Shree Charani took 4 for 10, Japan lost their last seven wickets for 11, and Shafali Verma hit 40 from 15 balls to finish the chase of 58 in exactly five overs.
Chamari Sets the Tone, Dilhari Finishes Both Jobs: Sri Lanka Women Cruise Past Malaysia Into the Semi-Finals
Sri Lanka lost an opener in the third over and did not lose their way. Chamari Athapaththu hit a 28-ball fifty, Kavisha Dilhari made 44 not out and then bowled three overs for four runs, and Malaysia's patient 74 for 7 never threatened a target of 161.
Gerald's Eight Sixes Settle the Dress Rehearsal: Uganda Hand Kenya Their First Defeat on the Eve of the Final
Kenya had won seven from seven. Uganda were 57 for 3 in the eighth over. Then Olipa Gerald hit 95 from 52 balls, Uganda made 197, and a Kenyan chase built on Dhiren Gondaria never got going once he fell for 11. The two sides finish level on points — and play each other again for the title.
Four Wickets Down and Still 21 Short: Botswana Win a Slow Afternoon as Sierra Leone's Chase Never Finds a Gear
Botswana lost five wickets for 12 runs late in their innings and still had enough. Valentine Mbazo's 50 got them to 121 for 8; Sierra Leone kept wickets in hand but scored at five an over, and Abu Kamara's unbeaten 40 came too late to matter.
Thirty Balls: Abhishek Sharma Turns a Delhi Evening Into a World Record, and India Finish Afghanistan 3-0
Afghanistan won the toss, bowled, and watched the game leave them inside ten overs. Abhishek Sharma reached his hundred in 30 balls — the fastest by a batter from a Full Member nation — and was gone for 108 from 34 with the score on 142 for 1. Afghanistan folded for 94. India won by 127 runs, their biggest margin of the series, and Abhishek took both the match and series awards.
Fifty-Six Without Loss, and Then Nothing: Sri Lanka Lose the Thread in Cardiff and England Take the Series
Pathum Nissanka and Lahiru Udara put on 56 inside six overs on a surface everyone had described as a seamer's ground. Sri Lanka then lost nine wickets for 89, most of them to spin and cutters. England needed 12.1 overs, Tom Banton hit 52 not out from 24, and a three-match series was over with a game to play.
Fifty-Five for Five in a Final, and Chedean Nation Hit Four Sixes: Guyana Amazon Warriors Women Are Champions
Trinbago Knight Riders Women posted 145 for 6 and had the Warriors five down for 55 inside ten overs of the WCPL final. Chloe Tryon made 32 from 18, and then Chedean Nation — batting at number eight — hit 39 not out from 21 with four sixes to win it with three balls to spare.
Thirty for Five, a Rescue, and Then Maaz Sadaqat: Barbados Tridents' Season Ends at Home in Fourteen Overs
The Tridents lost five wickets for 30 runs inside seven overs, were hauled to 144 by Quinton de Kock and Chris Green, and then watched Maaz Sadaqat hit 112 from 49 balls at their own ground. Jamaica Kingsmen won by nine wickets with 35 balls remaining and move on to Qualifier 2. Barbados, who had won four of their last five, are out.
Maxwell Empties the Bank, Rain Empties the Clock: Belfast Wolves Take the Qualifier Spot by Nine Runs
Belfast Wolves were 37 for 2 and had lost Mark Chapman retired hurt when Glenn Maxwell walked in. He finished 82 not out from 40, David Miller hit seven fours in 19 balls, and 190 was too many once rain cut Edinburgh Castle Rockers' reply to 15 overs. Tom Curran's 30 not out from 7 got them within nine. The Rockers still top the table and go straight to the final.
James Vince Ends Rotterdam's Season: The Team With Two Wins All Year Knocks the Dockers Out of the Playoffs
Heinrich Klaasen's 85 not out from 41 took Rotterdam Dockers to 188 — a total that, on the night, would have put them top of the ETPL table. Dublin Guardians, who had won twice in ten matches, chased it down with an over to spare. James Vince made 106 not out from 61, and the Dockers finished fourth on net run rate and out.
Botswana Were 109 for 1 and Lost by 64: Kenya's Unbeaten Run Survives a Scare That Never Quite Became One
Dhiren Gondaria's unbeaten 93 and Brian Likavu's 25-ball 49 took Kenya to 216. Monroux Kasselman then hit seven sixes in a 47-ball 74 and had Botswana ahead of the rate at 109 for 1. He fell in the thirteenth over, and Botswana scored 43 more in seven and a bit overs. Kenya are seven from seven.
Robinson Obuya Bats Through and Rwanda's Tournament Ends: Uganda Win by 72 in Kigali
Uganda chose to bat, lost two wickets all innings, and watched Robinson Obuya carry his bat for 118 not out from 70 balls — eight fours, eight sixes. Rwanda were 25 for 5 in 5.4 overs. Isae Niyomugabo's unbeaten 52 from 52 made the margin respectable rather than the result uncertain. Uganda are second and through; Rwanda's eight matches are done.
Fifteen Fours and Not Much Else: Miane Smit's Hundred Puts South Africa Women 4-0 Up in Bulawayo
Miane Smit hit 102 from 59 balls with fifteen fours and a single six — a hundred built almost entirely on placement rather than power — and South Africa Women made 205 for 4, their biggest total of the tour. Zimbabwe Women, using eight bowlers' worth of options against them, managed 125 for 5. The margin, for the second match running, was exactly 80 runs.
Four Runs Short and Three Wins Clear: Adeeb Usmani's 96 Not Out Seals the UAE's Sweep in Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia put the UAE in and conceded 216. Adeeb Usmani finished on 96 not out from 53 balls, Alishan Sharafu hit 58 from 33, and their opening stand of 111 came in ten overs. Malaysia lost two inside three overs, recovered through a 121-run stand between Syed Aziz and Virandeep Singh, and still lost by 59. The UAE take the series 3-0.
Ninety-Two Runs, Seven Wickets, Zero Extras: Pakistan Women Scrape Past Thailand in a Rain-Shrunk Quarter-Final
Eleven overs a side, on a day when the other quarter-final at the same ground was abandoned without a ball. Nannapat Koncharoenkai's 49 from 38 gave Thailand Women 91 for 4. Pakistan Women needed 92 and lost seven wickets getting there, with two balls to spare and without conceding — or receiving — a single extra.
Ninety-Five for One, Then Four for Thirteen: Ibrar Ahmad and Adeeb Usmani Close Out the Series for the UAE
Malaysia chose to bat again and were flying at 89 for 1 at the halfway mark. Ibrar Ahmad's four overs for 13 turned that into 156 for 9, and Adeeb Usmani — who also bowled four overs for 23 and later took the gloves — batted through the chase for 75 not out. The UAE won by seven wickets with 14 balls to spare and have won the three-match series 2-0.
Eight Overs, One Six From the Captain, and Guyana Are in the WCPL Final
A wet outfield cut the Kensington playoff to eight overs a side. Maddy Green's unbeaten 30 dragged Barbados to 69 for 4 after a stalled start. Tazmin Brits and Shemaine Campbelle put on 51 for the second wicket, Brits finished 35 not out, and Chloe Tryon ended it with a six off the only ball she faced. The Tridents are out.
Twenty-Two for Seven: Bas de Leede and David Payne Tear Through Glasgow as Amsterdam Flames Draw Level on 13 Points
Glasgow Cosmic were 104 for 3 in the fifteenth over with George Munsey and Liam Livingstone having done the hard work. Thirty balls later they were all out for 126. De Leede took 4 for 6 from eleven balls, Payne 3 for 27, and Curtis Campher's 44 from 30 steered the chase home with four overs to spare. Amsterdam join Edinburgh and Rotterdam on 13 points.
Four Wickets, a Rescue Knock and the Match Award — Katlo Piet Did Everything but Win It for Botswana
Uganda put Botswana in and had them 74 for 6 in the thirteenth over. Katlo Piet helped drag the total to 119 for 8, then took the first four Ugandan wickets, three of them as the chase slid from 68 for 1 to 75 for 4. It still wasn't enough: Uganda got home by five wickets with 30 balls to spare, and moved to 10 points.
Four Overs, Two Maidens, Eight Runs, Four Wickets: Eric Kubwimana Ends Sierra Leone's Innings Before It Starts
Sierra Leone won the toss and batted, and Eric Kubwimana took the first four wickets to leave them 31 for 4 after eight overs. Muhammad Nadir added 3 for 11, and 87 for 9 was never going to be enough. Rwanda knocked it off in 12.5 overs, a day after losing to Kenya by 32 runs, and moved to 8 points.
A Hundred in 42 Balls, Then Four Overs for 12: England Take Sri Lanka Apart by 119 Runs at Southampton
Sri Lanka won the toss, chose to bowl and watched England score 90 in the powerplay. Harry Brook and Jos Buttler added 128 in ten overs, Brook finished unbeaten on 114, and Sonny Baker's 3 for 12 ensured the chase was over long before the nineteenth over ended it.
From Two Overs for 30 to 3 for 24: Nitish Kumar Reddy and Sanju Samson Seal the Series in Delhi
Afghanistan were 51 for 1 and then 67 for 4. India were 82 without loss after six overs, Samson reaching fifty in 20 balls. Rashid Khan took all three Indian wickets on the night — and India still got home with 31 balls left to go 2-0 up with a match to play.
Renshaw Builds, Ellis Finishes: Australia Survive Nyamhuri's Five to Win by 59 Runs in Harare
Australia were 107 for 4 in the eighteenth over, and Newman Nyamhuri would finish with five wickets. Matt Renshaw's 109 turned that into 294, and when Craig Ervine and Sikandar Raza threatened to make it a contest, Nathan Ellis took five wickets for 31 to close it out.
Sixteen Fours, Four Sixes, One Wicket Lost: Wolvaardt's 126 Seals the Series in Bulawayo
South Africa Women lost Miane Smit in the third over and nobody else all evening. Laura Wolvaardt made 126 not out from 62 balls, Karabo Meso kept her company for an unbeaten fifty, Zimbabwe Women were 35 for 6 before the eighth over was done, and Annerie Dercksen finished with 5 for 15. An 80-run win, and the series is South Africa's with two matches to spare.
Sixty-Six Runs, Three Wickets, One Match: Curtis Campher Carries Amsterdam Past Dublin and Deeper Into the Play-Off Race
Dublin chose to field and were chasing 215 by the end of it. Campher and Bas de Leede added 115 for the third wicket, Tim David and Scott Edwards took 43 from the last 16 balls, and Dublin were two down inside the first over of their reply. Amsterdam move to 11 points; Dublin's season is over in all but fixture.
Five Runs and Four Overs for 22: Shubham Ranjane Squeezes Edinburgh as Rotterdam Draw Level at the Top of the ETPL
Rotterdam were bowled out for 93 the last time they met Edinburgh. This time Faf du Plessis made a 27-ball fifty, Heinrich Klaasen hit 47 from 27, and Shubham Ranjane bowled the spell that decided a chase which went to the final over. Edinburgh's unbroken 58 for the sixth wicket fell five runs short, and the Castle Rockers have now lost two in a row.
Sixteen Balls, One Run, Three Wickets — Then 21 From Nine: Olipa Gerald Finishes Sierra Leone Off at Both Ends
Sierra Leone won the toss, chose to bat, and were 39 for 7 in the tenth over. They were all out for 55, and six of their ten batters were bowled. Olipa Gerald — the debutant who hit 83 not out against them six days earlier — returned 2.4-1-1-3 with the ball and then 21 not out from nine with the bat. Uganda needed seven overs to win by eight wickets.
Six From Six: Sukhdeep Singh's 26-Ball Assault Turns a Last-Ball Rivalry Into a 32-Run Kenyan Win
Six days after Kenya beat Rwanda off the final ball, the rematch was settled long before it. Rwanda put Kenya in, Rakep Patel anchored with 57 from 48, and Sukhdeep Singh came in to hit 57 not out from 26 balls with four fours and four sixes. Kenya's 189 for 4 was too much even for Hamza Khan's six-six 58, and the tournament's only unbeaten side moved to 12 points.
Sixty-Seven for Four, Then Seven Sixes: Khuzaima Tanveer Takes the Series Opener Away From Malaysia
Malaysia chose to bat, made 144 and had the UAE four down inside ten overs. Then Khuzaima Tanveer — who had already bowled four overs for 22 and two wickets — hit 68 not out from 29 balls, and Rahul Chopra stayed with him. The UAE won by six wickets with 19 balls to spare and lead the series 1-0.
Forty-Three for Five, and It Still Wasn't Close: Abhishek Sharma's 82 Off 32 Buries Afghanistan in Delhi
Afghanistan lost five wickets inside seven overs, were rescued to 156 for 8 by Azmatullah Omarzai's unbeaten 64, and then watched India knock the target off in thirteen and a half overs. Abhishek Sharma hit seven fours and seven sixes in 32 balls. Arshdeep Singh's 3 for 19 had already decided the match before he got to the crease.
One Hundred and Twenty-Nine in Seventy-Seven Balls, and the Trophy Comes Home
Sri Lanka took the Asia Cup off India in Dambulla in 2024 and defended it all the way to the last over of the 2026 final in Dubai. Shafali Verma made 68, Smriti Mandhana 59, and their opening stand of 129 in 77 balls settled the argument before the spinners even got the ball. Shree Charani's 4 for 20 finished it.
Ten Overs, Thirty-Three Runs, Four Wickets: Bjorn Fortuin Ends Namibia's Tour in an Afternoon
Namibia had spent a month proving they belonged on this stage. Then they lost their last eight wickets for 84, were bowled out for 156 inside 37 overs, and watched Jason Hermann and Connor Esterhuizen put on 150 for the first wicket in reply. South Africa won by nine wickets with 171 balls remaining, and the ODI series finished 3-0.
Twelve Fours in Thirty-One Balls: Anneke Bosch Sets Up a 64-Run Win in Bulawayo
South Africa were 105 for 3 in the twelfth over and still finished on 193, because Faye Tunnicliffe and Anneke Dercksen added 88 in fifty balls without being parted. Zimbabwe were 51 for 5 inside nine overs and spent the rest of the evening batting for respectability rather than for the match.
Four Overs, Twelve Runs, Five Wickets: Michael Bracewell Takes Apart the Only Unbeaten Side in the ETPL
Edinburgh had gone through this tournament without losing a match. Then Michael Bracewell came on in the eighth over of a 118-all-out and returned figures that will sit at the top of the ETPL's season-long bowling list for some time. Amsterdam knocked off the runs with 31 balls to spare and are very much alive.
One Hundred and Three Runs, and Glasgow's Season Runs Out of Road
Mark Chapman hit 54 from 25 balls to push Belfast to 187, and then Matthew Humphreys' left-arm spin removed the top of Glasgow's order before the powerplay was over. The Cosmic were 61 for 7 in the eleventh over and finished 84 for 9 — the heaviest defeat of a season that has now produced seven of them.
Kenya Needed Forty-Nine Balls: Gurdeep Singh's 75 Makes It Five From Five in Kigali
Sierra Leone batted twenty overs for 112 and lost nine wickets doing it. Kenya replied by putting 98 on the board inside six and a half overs for the first wicket, and the match was over with seventy-one balls unused. It is the most emphatic performance of a tournament Kenya have not yet lost a match in.
Ninety-Three Not Out at One End, Nine Wickets at the Other: Hamza Khan Carries Rwanda Home by Six
Rwanda lost nine wickets on their way to 183 and Hamza Khan was there for all of them, unbeaten on 93 from 48 balls. Rain then handed Botswana 153 from 16 overs, M Kasselman hit 57 from 32, and the home side won a match that was alive until the final over by exactly six runs.
One Hundred and Five Was Enough: Japan Defend the Smallest Total of Their Tour
Malaysia had won the second T20I by 18 runs and needed 106 to take the series. They were 56 for 7 in the thirteenth over, recovered to within twelve of the target, and were bowled out for 94 with one ball of the eighteenth over left. Five Japanese bowlers took nine wickets between them for 77 runs.
Two Nights, Two Kensington Thrillers, and This Time Barbados Are on the Wrong End
The Tridents made 158 through Hayley Matthews' 50 and Kiran Navgire's 38, and defended it deep into the nineteenth over. Tazmin Brits batted 41 balls for 46 and never once looked like she was chasing. Guyana won by five wickets with an over to spare and are level at the top of the WCPL table.
Fifteen for One, Fifteen for Three: Ghazanfar Gives the Tridents a Rehearsal Worth Keeping
The league table was already settled, and Kensington played like it had somewhere to be. AM Ghazanfar took three wickets in the third over, Guyana were 99 all out, and Brandon King batted through a rain break for 44 not out. Barbados won by six wickets with 31 balls left and go into the Eliminator with a spinner in form.
ENG vs PAK, 3rd Test — Day 4 Result: England won by 8 wickets, sweep the series 3-0
Pakistan's 449 was the best batting of their tour and it bought them exactly one morning. Mohammad Abbas removed Ben Duckett and Emilio Gay for nought apiece with England two for two, and for twenty minutes Edgbaston believed. Then Joe Root and Jordan Cox put on an unbroken 128 and the summer ended the way it had always been going to end. Abbas finished as joint Player of the Series in a 3-0 defeat — which is its own kind of sentence.
A Hundred at Each End and Only One That Counted: Nepal Beat the UAE by 44 Runs to Win the ACC Men's Premier Cup
Aasif Sheikh made 102 from 106 balls and Nepal posted 313 for 9 — the biggest total of the tournament. Rahul Chopra answered with an unbeaten 100 from 105 and finished it standing at the non-striker's end watching the last wicket fall, seven balls from the end. Two hundreds, forty-four runs between them, and a trophy that goes to Kathmandu.
One Partnership, One Hundred and Thirty-One: Hong Kong Beat Oman by Nine Wickets With Thirty Overs Unused
Oman were 45 for 5 inside fifteen overs and only Sanju Sajeev's 59 from 99 balls dragged them to 144. Nasrulla Rana took 4 for 26. Then Zeeshan Ali and Anshy Rath put on 131 in 113 balls and the third-place play-off was over before tea, with 181 deliveries still in the bank.
One Hundred and Nineteen Was Enough: Shabnim Ismail and the Warriors Bowl Trinbago Out of the Chase at Kensington
The Guyana Amazon Warriors Women were squeezed for 119 for 8 by an attack containing Shikha Pandey, Marizanne Kapp and Deandra Dottin — two wickets each — and it looked like nowhere near enough. Then Shabnim Ismail ran in, took 3 for 21, and the Knight Riders spent twenty overs never once getting ahead of the rate. They finished 94 for 9. Some totals are small; some pitches are smaller.
104 for 0, and Somehow Three Runs Short: The Jamaica Empress Lose a Game They Had Already Won
Meg Lanning and Abika Hunter put on 104 without being parted, chasing 141 at Kensington. Thirty-seven needed off forty-two balls, ten wickets in hand, and the Barbados Tridents had nothing left but their fielding positions and their nerve. Seven overs later the Empress had lost four wickets, scored thirty-three, and lost by three. Stafanie Taylor took 4 for 29 and finished not out on 8, which is the cruellest line on the whole scorecard.
Two for Seven, Then Seventeen Off Eight: Gudakesh Motie Wins It for Barbados Off the Final Ball
The Jamaica Kingsmen were 86 for 3 and finished on 150 for 9, which felt like a reprieve until the Tridents slumped to 33 for 3 in the sixth over. Shadrack Descarte made 56 to drag them back, and when he went at 107 for 6 there were still 44 required. Barbados got there with no balls remaining and two wickets standing, Motie unbeaten on 17 from 8 after already bowling three overs for seven runs.
Klaasen Arrives at 87 for 3 and Leaves With the Match: Rotterdam Dockers Beat Belfast Wolves by Seven Wickets
Lorcan Tucker's 58 from 42 and David Miller's 40 from 26 took the Wolves to 161 for 6 at Malahide, and for eleven overs the Dockers' chase was a careful, unremarkable thing. Then Heinrich Klaasen and Shubham Ranjane put on 75 from 38 balls and turned a contest into a formality with twelve deliveries unused.
Vijay Shankar Made 67 and Nine Team-Mates Made 79: Glasgow Cosmic Beat Dublin Guardians by Six Wickets
The Guardians were 159 all out with three balls of their innings unused, which is a difficult thing to do and says most of what needs saying. Vijay Shankar's 67 from 43 was magnificent and entirely unsupported. Then George Munsey hit four sixes in an unbeaten 50 from 33, and a side that had won once in eight matches made it two.
Nine Sixes, Six Short of a Hundred, Twenty Balls to Spare: Dhiren Gondaria Takes Kenya Past Uganda's 189
Uganda made 189 for 6 at Gahanga and had every right to think it was enough — it was the highest total of the day and their third score of 189 or more in four matches. Then Dhiren Gondaria hit nine sixes in 47 balls, Rakep Patel made an unbeaten 56, and Kenya got there in 16.4 overs with eight wickets standing. Some chases are survived. This one was dismantled.
Botswana Finally Get One: Kasselman's 52 From 27 and a Seven-Bowler Squeeze Beat Sierra Leone by 23 Runs
Three defeats, a net run rate of minus three, and a tournament that had stopped being competitive. Then Monroux Kasselman hit four sixes in 27 balls, seven Botswana bowlers took turns, and Sierra Leone — who lost six wickets for 27 in the middle overs — never got near 166. A first win for one side; a fourth defeat in four for the other.
The Fortress Holds: Mehidy's Four Wickets and Hope's Unbeaten 42 Take Guyana Past Trinbago at Providence
Ten days after Shimron Hetmyer's 111 not out from 43 balls beat them at the Queen's Park Oval, the Trinbago Knight Riders came to Providence and were squeezed for 126 for 8 — Mehidy Hasan Miraz taking 4 for 23 on a pitch that asked questions of everyone. Guyana's chase was not comfortable either. Shai Hope made sure it did not need to be.
ENG vs PAK, 3rd Test — Day 3 Stumps: Pakistan 133 & 449, lead by 129
Pakistan began the day 268 behind with eight wickets standing and a series already lost. They batted for 84 overs, scored 397 runs, and went to bed in front. Shan Masood fell five short of a hundred, Babar Azam made 76, and Razaullah — a debutant batting at nine — hit nine sixes in 81 from 63 balls. A Test that looked like finishing in two days now has two left and only one side with momentum.
Fatima Sana Did Everything, and Sri Lanka Still Went to the Final: SL Women Win the Second Semi-Final by 4 Wickets
Pakistan's captain walked in at 52 for 4, made 47 not out from 36 balls, then took 4 for 38 and had Sri Lanka 33 for 4 in the seventh over of the chase. Harshitha Samarawickrama and Kavisha Dilhari answered with 67 together, Nilakshika Silva and Kaushini Nuthyangana knocked off the last 22 in ten balls, and Sri Lanka won by four wickets with eight to spare. Fatima Sana was Player of the Match, and Pakistan are out.
Edinburgh Castle Rockers Win the 21st Match by 12 Runs — Brandon McMullen's 69 Not Out and Two Overs for 11 Decide It as Dublin Guardians Fall From 108 for 2
Edinburgh lost a wicket to the first ball of the match and still posted 174 for 4, Andries Gous and Brandon McMullen adding 81 for the third wicket. Dublin, chasing 175, were 108 for 2 in the fourteenth over with Harry Tector going at better than a run a ball. They finished 162 for 8. Jack Jarvis took 4 for 34, including two wickets in consecutive deliveries, and McMullen followed his unbeaten 69 with 2 for 11 from two overs.
A Debutant and a Dismantling: Nini's 3 for 17 and Bosch's 83 Give South Africa Women the 1st T20I by Six Wickets
Nthabiseng Nini had three wickets before the fourth over of her international career was done, and Zimbabwe Women were 12 for 4 at Queens Sports Club. Modester Mupachikwa's 36 from 43 balls made 116 of it. Anneke Bosch then took 83 from 43 and South Africa Women were home in 13.1 overs, one up in a five-match series.
One for Three, and a Hundred That Made It Hurt: South Africa Win by 157 in Windhoek to Take the ODI Series 2-0
Connor Esterhuizen made 119 from 110 balls and put on 183 with Tony de Zorzi as South Africa reached 335 for 9. Namibia lost Michael van Lingen, Malan Kruger and Jan Frylinck for ducks inside 3.2 overs and were 1 for 3. Gerhard Erasmus made 68 and held four catches in the field; nobody else passed 30, and Namibia were bowled out for 178 with Duan Jansen taking 4 for 31.
Four Balls With the Bat, Three Overs With the Ball: Uganda Beat Rwanda by 64 Runs in the ILT20 Africa Continent Cup 7th Match
Anas Baig's 66 from 36 set Uganda up and Rwanda's spinners hauled them back, four wickets for 18 runs. Then Cosmas Kyewuta faced four deliveries, hit three of them for six, and later took 3 for 20 as Rwanda lost six wickets for eight runs. Twenty-two balls of work, and the Player of the Match award.
Kenya Win by Ten Wickets With 71 Balls to Spare as Dhiren Gondaria Takes 2 for 6 and Hits 57 Off 20
Botswana batted first at the Gahanga B Ground and made 108 for 8 — an innings in which extras, 28 of them, outscored every batter. Kenya answered with 109 without loss in 8.1 overs, both openers past fifty, Dhiren Gondaria's 57 not out taking twenty balls and six of them over the rope. He had already bowled three overs for six runs and two wickets.
Green Strikes With the Second Ball and de Kock Refuses to Leave: Barbados Tridents Win by Four Wickets in the 32nd Match
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots were nought for two after eight balls and 118 all out after twenty overs. Barbados Tridents were four for two after six. The difference was that one of those two collapses had a small enough target behind it to survive — and that Quinton de Kock, dropped in at the end of the first over, was still there at the end of the eighteenth on 44 not out.
Four Lives and a Final: Shafali Verma Makes Bangladesh Pay, and India Reach a Sixth Straight T20 Asia Cup Final
Bangladesh put India in and had Shafali Verma dropped on 6, dropped again on 11, fumbled a run-out on 50 and spilled her once more on 56. She made 64 from 40 balls, and the rest of India's order made 80 from 80. On a slow Dubai surface that was the whole difference. Deepti Sharma took 3 for 26, India's spinners strangled the chase from the fourth over, and Bangladesh finished on 109 for 7. India won by 40 runs and meet the winner of Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Sunday's final.
Twenty Overs to Make a Hundred, Eleven to Chase It: Ramharack Squeezes, Bhatia Sprints, and Trinbago Stay Perfect
Jamaica Empress Women arrived at Kensington Oval four days after winning off the final ball. This time the drama never started. Trinbago Knight Riders Women chose to bowl, had Jamaica 7 for 2 inside two overs and 44 for 5 before the tenth was done, and held them to 100 for 8 — Karishma Ramharack 3 for 11, Marizanne Kapp four overs for six. Yastika Bhatia then made 57 not out from 34 balls, her first WCPL half-century, and Trinbago won by nine wickets with 53 balls to spare.
A Day After a First-Ball Duck, David Miller Hits Four Sixes and No Fours — Belfast Wolves Beat Amsterdam Flames and Go Second
On Wednesday Belfast Wolves were bowled out for 107 by Dublin, and David Miller and Glenn Maxwell made nought between them. On Thursday, on the same ground, they won the match that mattered more. Amsterdam Flames were 70 for 2 in the seventh over with Bas de Leede in full flow; by the thirteenth over they were 102 for 7, and Mark Adair, Saurabh Netravalkar and Fred Klaassen made sure 141 was all they got. The chase wobbled at 100 for 4 until Miller, who never hit a four, cleared the rope four times in 26 balls. Belfast won with an over to spare and sit second on nine points. Amsterdam's three-match winning run is over.
Rotterdam Finally Defend a Total — Faf du Plessis Makes 71, and Logan van Beek Answers a 52-Run Spell With 3 for 19
Three wins, all of them chases, and two defeats in two days: that was the Rotterdam Dockers' season before Thursday. At Malahide, after rain trimmed the match to 19 overs a side, they lost Rassie van der Dussen to the first ball of the day and a review with him. Faf du Plessis reached fifty from 25 balls, Rotterdam made 172 for 4, and although Glasgow Cosmic raced to fifty in 29 deliveries they were 66 for 5 at the end of the eighth over. Logan van Beek, whose last spell had cost 52, took 3 for 19. The Dockers won by 31 runs. It was the first time in this tournament they have set a total and defended it.
Four Overs, Three Maidens, One Run: Rwanda Hold Sierra Leone to 46 and Win by 145
Didier Ndikubwimana made 52 from 31 at the top of Rwanda's 191 for 4 and Isae Niyomugabo's 55 held the middle together. Sierra Leone lost Raymond Coker to the first ball of the chase and were 28 for 9 after fourteen overs, with three run-outs among the wickets. Muhammad Nadir's four overs cost a single run. And George Sesay, not out for the third time in three innings, batted 42 balls with Solomon Williams for company so that the last six overs, at least, belonged to Sierra Leone.
Botswana Batted Twenty Overs, Uganda Needed Nine and a Half: Robinson Obuya Seals a Five-Wicket Win
Juma Miyagi's four overs cost nine runs and Joseph Baguma took three for 14 as Botswana, having chosen to bat, were held to 101 for 7. Robinson Obuya — the leading run-scorer when Uganda won this competition in 2024 — made an unbeaten 51 from 28 balls, Olipa Gerald hit three sixes in ten deliveries, and Uganda were home with 63 balls to spare. Katlo Piet's two wickets in a single over were Botswana's reward for a fight with the ball that never had enough runs behind it.
One Hundred and Forty-Seven Was a Fortune: Nepal's Spinners Bowl Oman Out for 60 and Airee Carries Them to the Final
Nepal were 36 for 4 in the twelfth over and all out for 147, a total that would ordinarily lose a 50-over semi-final. Dipendra Singh Airee and Basir Ahamad added 93 for the fifth wicket, the only passage of the day in which batting looked possible. Then Nepal's four spinners — Lalit Rajbanshi, Sandeep Lamichhane, Airee and Rohit Paudel — took all ten Oman wickets for 39 runs in 21.1 overs. Oman were 60 all out; Nepal won by 87 runs and play the UAE on Saturday for a place at the 2027 Asia Cup.
Thirty-Two for None, Seventy All Out: Haider Ali's 6 for 14 Sends the UAE Into a Third Straight Premier Cup Final
Hong Kong came into this semi-final having beaten Nepal two days earlier, and for seven overs they batted like it. Then left-arm spinner Haider Ali took a wicket, and another, and another. Hong Kong lost four wickets for four runs in less than three overs, all ten for 38, and were bowled out for 70. Haider finished with 10-3-14-6. The UAE needed 11.1 overs to knock off the runs, winning by seven wickets with 233 balls to spare, and meet Nepal on Saturday for a place at the 2027 Asia Cup.
ENG vs PAK, 3rd Test — Day 2 Stumps: England 453; Pakistan 133 & 52/2, trail by 268
England batted through two sessions at almost six an over, finished with five fifties and no hundred, and the lead at tea was 320. Then Ollie Robinson took two wickets in the first four balls of Pakistan's second innings, Saim Ayub completing a pair, and a Test that had threatened to end inside two days was only paused by the rain. Azan Awais and Shan Masood are still there, 52 runs together, 268 behind.
Five for 17 at 47: Imran Tahir Turns the Kings Inside Out, Quentin Sampson Clears the Ropes, and the Warriors Seal Top Spot
Twenty-four hours after their first defeat of the season, the Guyana Amazon Warriors were back at Providence. The Saint Lucia Kings chose to bat and were 54 for 1 in the seventh over; they lost eight wickets for 27, five of them to their 47-year-old captain's leg-spin. Chasing 120, Guyana crawled to 40 for 1 at halfway and then lost three wickets for three runs. Quentin Sampson walked in needing 51 from 34 balls, hit five sixes in an 11-ball 37, and the Warriors won by four wickets with nine balls to spare — enough to guarantee they finish the league on top.
Three Wickets in Four Balls, Not a Run Between Them — Craig Young Gives Dublin Guardians Their First Win at the Sixth Attempt
Dublin lost all five of their matches in the Netherlands, one of them by nine runs on a night they bowled seventeen wides. The first ETPL match on Irish soil took them less than 35 overs to win. Belfast Wolves were 62 for 3 in the tenth over when Craig Young removed Paul Stirling, David Miller and Glenn Maxwell in the space of four deliveries; they were all out for 107, and Dublin's bowlers conceded one wide in 19.4 overs. David Willey then hit four sixes in a 25-ball 44 and the Guardians knocked it off with 33 balls left. Belfast had beaten them by 52 a fortnight ago. On Wednesday, the Irish derby went the other way.
Out First Ball, Then 250: Two Debutants Carry Uganda to Their Highest T20I Total
Anas Baig was caught behind off the first ball of his T20I career. The two debutants who followed him made 172 between them — Charles Musemez 89 from 57, Olipa Gerald 83 not out from 34 with nine sixes — and Uganda's 250 for 3 is the highest total in their T20I history, beating the 229 for 3 they made against Botswana in December 2024. Alusine Turay's 78 from 50 was an innings worth remembering in any other context. Uganda won by 114 runs.
Seventy-Two Without Loss, Seven for Forty-Eight, and a Last-Ball Finish: Kenya Survive Yves Cyusa
Rwanda lost two wickets for two runs and needed an unbroken 27 from Ignace Ntirenganya and Muhammad Nadir to reach 139 for 8. Kenya's openers put on 72 inside nine overs, and then Yves Cyusa's off-spin took four for 13 in three overs and Kenya were 120 for 7. Shem Ngoche and Vishil Patel saw them home off the last ball of the match. In May, Rwanda beat Kenya by two wickets in Gaborone; here Kenya returned the favour by the same margin — and Cyusa, with 25 runs and four wickets, was Player of the Match on the losing side.
Not Out on 30, Gone for 150: Jordan Hermann's Debut Hundred Puts South Africa 1-0 Up in Windhoek
Namibia chose to bowl, and had Jordan Hermann short of his ground on 30 with a direct hit that was not given — and in a match without DRS, could not be reviewed. The debutant went on to 150 from 126 balls, equalling the highest score on men's ODI debut, and shared 190 with Tony de Zorzi as South Africa made 348 for 6. Rain interrupted Namibia's reply twice and left them chasing 262 from 31 overs. They finished on 162 for 8, Prenelan Subrayen taking a career-best 4 for 29, and South Africa won by 99 runs on DLS.
ENG vs PAK, 3rd Test — Day 1 Stumps: Pakistan 133 all out, England 156/4, lead by 23
Pakistan came to Edgbaston with three debutants, seven players sent home and a new coaching staff, and were bowled out not long after lunch — 133 in 33.5 overs, the top five all gone in single figures. Ollie Robinson took his 100th Test wicket with eight on the board, Josh Tongue took four with a ball he had never bowled in a match before, and Saud Shakeel made 43 of the most lonely runs of the summer. Then a 21-year-old called Razaullah trapped Joe Root with his fourth ball in Test cricket, and for a few overs the day tilted. Emilio Gay and Harry Brook tilted it back.
He Left the Field on 13 and Came Back to Make a Hundred: Babar Hayat's 117* Beats Nepal — and Sends Hong Kong Into the Harder Semi-Final
Hong Kong were 52 for 2 when Babar Hayat walked off injured, and 133 for 7 in the thirty-first over when the innings looked finished. He was still there at the end of the fiftieth, unbeaten on 117 from 126 balls with seven fours and seven sixes, having added 128 for the eighth wicket with Ehsan Khan. Nepal, chasing 262, had Ishan Pandey's 90 and were 231 for 7 with three overs left — and lost their last three wickets for 15 runs. Hong Kong won by 15. And because net run rate does not care who won the head-to-head, Nepal still topped Group A and drew Oman in the semi-final, while the winners drew an unbeaten U.A.E.
Thirteen for Four in the Fourth Over: U.A.E. Finish Group B Unbeaten, and Aayan Afzal Khan Takes Five
The U.A.E. had been 105 for 5 themselves, rescued to 192 by a 67-run sixth-wicket stand between Akshdeep Nath and Aayan Afzal Khan, and it looked a total light of par at Bangi. Then Khuzaima Tanveer took three wickets in nineteen deliveries, Ibrar Ahmad took one on ODI debut, and Oman were 13 for 4 in the fourth over of a chase of 193. Jiten Ramanandi's 51 delayed it; Aayan Afzal Khan's 5 for 34 ended it. U.A.E. won by 49 runs, finish Group B with four wins from four, and meet Hong Kong in the semi-final.
One Hundred and Three Was Enough: Bangladesh's Five Bowlers Take the UAE Apart and Book a Semi-Final With India
Bangladesh Women were 55 for 6 in the twelfth over and scraped to 103 for 7, a total that on any normal night in Dubai loses. Then Marufa Akter bowled Esha Oza in the first over, and the UAE never had a partnership worth the name. All five Bangladesh bowlers took a wicket; none conceded more than 18 in four overs. The UAE finished on 69 for 9 from their twenty, beaten by 34 runs, and Bangladesh go through to a semi-final against an India side that has won every match by a distance.
Ninety-Six for Two, and Then Five Wickets for Thirteen: Rwanda Open Their Own Tournament With a 55-Run Win
The first match of the ILT20 Africa Continent Cup belonged to the hosts from the moment Didier Ndikubwimana and Hamza Khan put on 120 for the first wicket. Rwanda lost two wickets in twenty overs and made 192 for 2, with David Uwimana and Emile Rukiriza adding 39 from 17 balls at the death. Botswana answered with Vinoo Balakrishnan's 61 and were 96 for 2 in the eleventh — and then lost five wickets for thirteen runs in twenty-nine deliveries. Yves Cyusa and Muhammad Nadir bowled eight overs between them for 24 and took six wickets.
Two Wickets in the First Over and 204 on the Board: Kenya Announce Themselves in the Africa Continent Cup
Kenya were 61 for 3 in the seventh over and finished with 204 for 7 — Rakep Patel's 58 from 33 balls the innings' spine, and 143 runs coming from the last 13.2 overs as Sukhdeep Singh, Brian Likavu and Francis Mutua struck at better than 130. Sierra Leone lost Yegbeh Jalloh and Eric Turay to Sachin Gill in the first over, were nought for two after five balls, and never once got the required rate under nine. Kenya won by 94 runs. Shem Ngoche's four overs cost eleven.
Seventeen Days After 116, the Falcons Bowl the Warriors Out for 117 — and Guyana's Unbeaten Run Ends at Six
The Guyana Amazon Warriors won the toss at Providence, bowled first, and had the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons at 69 for 2 at halfway. Then the Falcons took 72 from the last five overs, Shadab Khan hitting 30 not out from nine balls, and set 183. Guyana were 33 for 0 after fourteen deliveries and all out for 117 in the fifteenth over — Alzarri Joseph four wickets, Shadab and Sufyan Moqim two each. It was the first time anyone had beaten the Warriors in CPL 2026, and it was not close.
Four Overs, Seven Runs, Six Wickets: Nashra Sandhu Rewrites the Pakistan Record Book
Forty-eight hours earlier Pakistan had been bowled out for 55 by India and beaten inside nine overs. On Monday night in Dubai they posted a modest 143 for 8, then handed the ball to a 29-year-old left-arm spinner after the powerplay and watched her take apart an entire innings. Nashra Sandhu's 6 for 7 is the first six-wicket haul by any Pakistan bowler, male or female, in a T20 international. Hong Kong — who needed to chase 144 inside 12.3 overs to steal the semi-final place — were 48 for 8 in the thirteenth over and all out for 71. Pakistan meet Sri Lanka on Friday.
Two Short of a Hundred, Three Wickets, and a Net Run Rate That May Yet Send Malaysia Through
Malaysia were 33 for 3 in the eighth over of their own home group game with a semi-final place on the line. Virandeep Singh walked out, batted for forty-one overs, and was caught two runs short of a century off the first ball of the fiftieth. His 98 dragged Malaysia to 254 for 8; his ten overs of off-spin then took 3 for 25 as Bahrain were bowled out for 128. A 126-run win lifted Malaysia's net run rate to plus 0.568 — enough to sit second in Group A, and enough to make Tuesday's Hong Kong–Nepal match the most important game they will not play in.
Forty-Seven, Forty-Two, Forty-Seven Not Out: Kuwait Kept Arriving and Never Landed
Three Kuwait batters reached the forties in Bangi on Monday. None of them reached fifty, and three of the innings ended in run-outs — the most avoidable way a total dies. Kuwait were bowled out for 233 with a ball to spare, and Qatar knocked it off in 35.5 overs with 85 balls unused. Zubair Ali and Imal Liyanage put on 106 for the second wicket; Muhammad Asim, who had already bowled ten overs for 30, made 48 from 35 and took the Player of the Match award. Qatar leapfrogged Kuwait on net run rate and stayed mathematically alive.
Sri Lanka Lost Athapaththu in the First Over and Won Anyway — Which Is the Most Significant Thing They Have Done All Tournament
For a decade, the sentence that explained Sri Lankan women's cricket was a name. On Sunday night in Dubai, Chamari Athapaththu was caught at short cover for 1 off the second ball of a chase of 115, and by the tenth over her side were 44 for 5 and looked finished. Harshitha Samarawickrama made 48 not out from 37 balls, found 38 with Nilakshika Silva and 33 more with a 20-year-old keeper, and took Sri Lanka home with four balls left. Bangladesh, defending 114, had every route to a win except the last one.
Twenty-Four Hours After Rescuing an Innings, Brandon McMullen Simply Took One Apart
On Saturday night he made a scratchy, necessary 37 to drag Edinburgh Castle Rockers to 148. On Sunday afternoon, on the same square, he walked in at 28 for 2 chasing 160 and made 82 not out from 47 balls — eight fours, three sixes, and a hundred-run stand with Andries Gous that took nine overs. Glasgow Cosmic had posted a competitive total through Richie Berrington's 38 from 20. It lasted until the fifteenth over, at which point the only question left was how many balls Edinburgh would have to spare. The answer was six. They are unbeaten, four points clear, and now the only side in the ETPL that nobody has beaten.
Rotterdam Fixed the Batting and Lost by Eight Wickets — an Unbroken 113 From de Leede and Tim David Ended It With Fourteen Balls Left
Twenty-four hours after being bowled out for 93, the Dockers' celebrated top order finally arrived: Faf du Plessis 60, Heinrich Klaasen 29 from 19, and David Wiese hitting four sixes in a 16-ball 43 to close on 176 for 6. It was their highest total of the tournament. Amsterdam Flames were 65 for 2 in the seventh over, and then Bas de Leede and Tim David batted for the rest of the afternoon — 113 together in 68 balls, two fifties off 33 and 32 deliveries, not a wicket between them. Rotterdam have now lost two in two days, and this one has nothing to do with their batting.
A Dead Rubber, and Sophia Dunkley Made the Biggest Hundred of the Series in It
England had already won the series when they walked out at New Road, which is usually the cue for a comfortable afternoon and nothing to remember. Instead Sophia Dunkley batted 119 balls for 119 runs, hit fifteen fours and not a single six, and put on 110 with Jodi Grewcock to make an innings that Cara Murray's 4 for 56 had otherwise been threatening to contain. Ireland were 107 for 2 in the 28th over of the chase and still, technically, in it. Then Mady Villiers came on and they lost eight wickets for 70. England won by 114 runs, completed a 3-0 sweep, and Dunkley took both awards on offer.
Zimbabwe Were Twenty-Five for Four in the Fourth Over of a Final — Brad Evans Spent the Rest of the Evening Making It Look Closer Than It Was
South Africa did in the powerplay what they had been threatening to do all tournament: 67 without loss in six overs, Jordan Hermann fifty from 24 balls, an opening stand of 84 inside eight. They finished on 205 for 5, with Duan Jansen hitting four fours in a 14-ball 23 at the death. Zimbabwe's reply lasted two deliveries before Ben Curran edged behind, and by the fourth over they were 25 for 4. Brad Evans, batting at eight, made 56 not out from 31 with four sixes and added 52 for the ninth wicket. It got Zimbabwe to 157 and it never got them close.
Saudi Arabia Lost Three Wickets Without the Score Moving — and Abdul Waheed's 77 Was Left Looking Like a Different Match Entirely
One man made 77 from 89 balls. The next-highest score in the Saudi innings was 30 from 68. At 161 for 6 they were still alive; by 166 for 9 — three wickets falling within seven deliveries on the same score — they were not, and only a last-wicket stand of 24 got them to 190. Nepal, who used six bowlers and gave away three extras in fifty overs, chased with nine overs and five wickets to spare. Sandeep Lamichhane bowled ten for 19. Gulsan Jha, having conceded 34 in four, finished it with 44 not out and took the match award.
Twenty-Five and a Half Overs Went Unused — the UAE Chased 173 in Half the Time Singapore Took to Set It
Singapore batted 47.4 overs for 172, and the innings had exactly the shape those numbers suggest: three batters got past 28, none of them past 44, and all three scored at under 66 runs per hundred balls. The UAE's eight bowlers included a debutant who took four wickets, an off-spinner who bowled ten for 26, and a support seamer who sent down seven overs for nine runs. Then Akshdeep Nath made 58 and Harpreet Singh 54 not out, and the chase was finished in the 25th over with 153 balls to spare. The UAE are 3-0 in Group B. Singapore are 0-4 and heading home.
Nine Down, Two Run-Outs Without Facing a Ball, and Chinelle Henry Still Found a Way — Jamaica Win on the Last Delivery
Shemaine Campbelle made 56 from 33 and put on 97 with Realeanna Grimmond after Guyana Amazon Warriors Women had been reduced to 7 for 2 in the fifth over. Their 138 for 7 became a revised 132 from 19 for Jamaica Empress Women when rain arrived, and Jamaica were cruising at 88 for 1 before losing eight wickets for 36 — two of them, Rosemary Mair and Syeda Aroob Shah, run out for nought without facing a delivery. At 124 for 9 with three balls left they needed eight. Chinelle Henry, four sixes into a 21-ball innings, took them there with none to spare.
Six From Six: Nabi Bowls the Middle Overs Shut, and the Warriors Are Still Unbeaten
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots arrived at Providence with the biggest win of the tournament behind them — 235 for 4 and a 137-run demolition of the Kings three nights earlier. They were 39 for 3 inside five overs, and only Alick Athanaze's 52 dragged them to 128. Mohammad Nabi bowled four overs for seventeen and took four wickets, then walked out at 78 for 3 and finished the chase unbeaten on 25. Guyana won by seven wickets with nine balls left. Six matches, six wins, a net run rate of 1.977, and no side has yet found a way to make them uncomfortable.
Same Ground, Same Target, Different Team: The Tridents Finally Chase One Down
On Saturday night at Kensington Oval, Barbados were set 148 and were bowled out for 112. On Sunday night at Kensington Oval, they were set 139 and got there in 17.5 overs for the loss of two wickets. Mujeeb Ur Rahman's four overs for 22 broke the Saint Lucia Kings' innings in three separate places; Quinton de Kock and Rivaldo Clarke then put on an unbroken 76 to end a four-match losing run. It keeps the Tridents mathematically alive, and it leaves the Kings — fourth, with one game left — looking nervously at a net run rate of minus 0.903.
Fifty-Five, and Sixty-Eight Balls Left — Pakistan Choose to Bat in Dubai and India's Spinners Answer in Thirty-One Overs of Cricket
Six of the first seven captains at this tournament had put the other side in. Fatima Sana batted, and by the ninth over Pakistan were 35 for 6. They lasted 18.1 overs for 55, the lowest total in their T20 international history, and India needed 52 deliveries to knock it off. Shree Charani's four overs cost seven runs and took three wickets. Prema Rawat's four cost nine and took three. Deepti Sharma's 3.1 cost five and took two. On the night Harmanpreet Kaur became the first cricketer of either sex to captain 150 T20 internationals, her side won a match that never once looked like a contest — and still left the one question about India unanswered.
Nine for Four, and the Best Batting Line-Up in the Tournament Made 93 — Edinburgh's Bowlers Break Rotterdam at Voorburg
Rotterdam Dockers bowled Edinburgh Castle Rockers out for 148 and had every right to feel good about it: Jai Moondra, David Wiese and Anrich Nortje took three apiece, and ten wickets fell for a total that never looked like enough. Then Tom Curran took two in the first two overs, Trent Boult and a run-out took two more, and a batting order containing Faf du Plessis, Heinrich Klaasen, Ben McDermott and David Wiese was 9 for 4 inside three overs. They were all out for 93 in the eighteenth. Edinburgh are unbeaten, four points clear, and have now won four matches by margins that keep getting larger.
Dublin Bowled Seventeen Wides and Lost by Nine — Vince's 73 Deserved a Better Ending Than This
Amsterdam Flames made 169 for 7 and eighteen of those runs came in extras, seventeen of them wides. Dublin Guardians then produced the best batting of their tournament — James Vince 73 from 46 with ten fours, a fifty off 27 balls, 114 for 2 in the thirteenth over with 56 needed from 46. And they lost by nine runs, because Tim Pringle took three, Aryan Dutt took two in the final over, and the number in the extras column was exactly twice the losing margin. Dublin have now lost five out of five.
Thirty-Seven for Three, Two Balls to Spare — Bilal Tahir's Unbeaten Hundred Beats Oman and Blows Group B Open
Oman posted 252 for 8, which at the Bayuemas Oval has been a winning score all week, and reduced Kuwait to 37 for 3 inside nine overs. What followed was the innings of the tournament so far: Bilal Tahir batted from the eighteenth over to the last, faced 106 deliveries for an unbeaten 103, and shared stands of 89 with his captain Mohammed Aslam and 88 with Yasin Patel. Kuwait got there with two balls left. Oman, unbeaten until this morning, now share the top of Group B on four points with two other sides — and one of them has played a game fewer.
Three Off the Last Ball, Two Scored — Hong Kong and Malaysia Tie on 209 and a Super Over Lasts Three Deliveries
Malaysia needed three from the final delivery of the fiftieth over and got two. Virandeep Singh, who had already taken 3 for 23 in ten overs, finished 82 not out from 106 balls and could not find the run that would have won it. In the Super Over he was asked to bowl as well — Anshy Rath hit him for four, four and six in three deliveries and Hong Kong were through. It is the cruellest way to lose a fifty-over match, and Malaysia have now lost two in a row after opening the tournament with a 93-run win.
One Hundred and Seven for Three, All Out for 134 — Barbados Lose Seven for Twenty-Seven and the WCPL Opener With Them
Hayley Matthews put Trinbago Knight Riders Women in and watched Laura Harris hit 38 from 19 balls in an opening stand of 67. Her own side then bowled the Riders out for 155, which on a Kensington Oval surface offering nothing to bowlers should have been a chase. At 107 for 3 in the thirteenth over Barbados needed 49 from 44 with seven wickets standing. They lost all seven for twenty-seven runs in thirty-six deliveries. Shikha Pandey took 3 for 17, Samara Ramnath 2 for 16, and Trinbago won a season opener that had been running away from them.
The Tridents Waited Six Matches to Come Home, and Sunil Narine Was Waiting for Them
Barbados had not played a ball at Kensington Oval all season. They won the toss, bowled Trinbago Knight Riders out to 147 for 6 — a total their own bowlers had earned — and then lost four wickets inside the powerplay to a spinner who conceded twelve runs in three and a half overs. Nicholas Pooran had already hit seven sixes for 59; Narine finished with 4 for 12 and the Player of the Match award for the second time in nine days against the same opponent. The Tridents were 112 all out. Trinbago won by 35 runs and, for one night, stopped falling.
228 Was Not Enough to Be Comfortable — South Africa Survive Namibia by 11 Runs and a Set of Wide Yorkers
Four hundred and forty-five runs in forty overs at Windhoek, and the losing side was the one that will feel it longest. Lhuan-dre Pretorius made his first T20I hundred off the third-last ball he faced and was bowled next delivery. Connor Esterhuizen, promoted to open, hit five sixes inside the powerplay. And then Namibia — a side ranked nowhere near this company — chased 229 down to the final over, lost their best-set batter to a blow on the arm, and fell eleven short. They go out of their own tri-series having been the most watchable team in it.
Thirty-One for Six, and Then One Man Batted for Twenty-Three Overs — Manpreet Singh's 96 Could Not Save Singapore
Muhammad Asim bowled 9.2 overs at Bayuemas Oval for 18 runs and six wickets, including a stretch in which Singapore lost four wickets for one run in nineteen deliveries. At 31 for 6 the match was over as a contest. What followed was not a recovery so much as an act of stubbornness: Manpreet Singh, the captain, made 96 from 113 balls out of a total of 150 — 64 per cent of his side's runs — and was eighth out at 146. Qatar knocked off 151 in 28.1 overs and are alive in Group B. Singapore, three defeats from three, are not.
Bahrain Batted Fifty Overs and Never Once Led the Race — Saudi Arabia's First Win Is Built on a Tail and a Squeeze
Two hundred and twenty-one was not a big score at Bangi, and for most of the afternoon it did not look like a winning one either. Bahrain had wickets in hand at every checkpoint. What they never had was the run rate. Saudi Arabia's seven bowlers conceded two boundaries in the last fifteen overs of a chase that needed six an over, Zain Ul Abidin bowled ten for seventeen without taking a wicket, and Imran Anwar's unbeaten 49 arrived about four overs too late to matter. Group A is now a mess of four teams and two places.
Two Balls, Two Wickets, and a Tournament Kept Alive — UAE Bowl Indonesia Out for 73 in Dubai
Suraksha Kotte had Maria Corazon caught behind off the first ball of the match and Ni Luh Dewi caught at short cover off the second. Indonesia were nought for two before a run had been scored and never recovered; five UAE bowlers took wickets and Heena Hotchandani's four overs cost six. Ni Putu Ayu Nanda Sakarini made 39 of her side's 73 — the third time in three matches an Indonesian captain's innings has been more than half the total. UAE knocked it off with 41 balls to spare and now have to beat Bangladesh and wait.
Twelve Overs, Eighty-Five in the Last Five and a Half — Chapman and Miller Break Glasgow's Back at Voorburg
Rain cut this to twelve overs a side, which normally flattens a match into a lottery. Instead it produced the most controlled innings of the ETPL season. Mark Chapman came in at 40 for 1, was on 35 at the halfway point, and finished 71 not out from 33 with seven sixes. David Miller joined him at 61 for 3 and made 23 from 11. Their unbroken stand of 85 came in twenty-one balls. Jason Roy answered with 54 from 28 and, for four overs, Glasgow believed — and then Fred Klaassen took three and the Cosmic lost their fourth in a row.
Eighty-Seven for Six, 159, and Beaten by Eight Wickets — Hassan Khan's Six Sixes Were the Only Thing Jamaica Got Right at Providence
Imran Tahir put Jamaica Kingsmen in and by the fourteenth over they were 87 for 6, with Rovman Powell bowled first ball by Mohammad Nabi and Dwaine Pretorius and Khary Pierre having taken two apiece for twenty-odd. Then Hassan Khan, batting at seven, hit 62 not out from 29 balls with six sixes and added 55 for the seventh wicket. It made the total respectable and changed nothing else: Rahmanullah Gurbaz made 54 from 35, Mavendra Dindyal 33 from 17, and the Amazon Warriors were home with sixteen balls to spare. Five completed matches, five wins, and a net run rate of 2.314.
Ireland Made 281 on Tuesday and 165 on Thursday, and Issy Wong Is the Reason — England Take the Series at Derby
Two days after losing a match in which they had done almost nothing wrong, Ireland were bowled out for 165 by a bowler who had taken one wicket in the first ODI. Issy Wong knocked over Gaby Lewis's leg stump in the tenth over, came back to run through the lower middle order, and finished with 5 for 33 from her full ten. England needed 166 and got there in 23 overs with six wickets and 162 balls in hand. The series is gone with a match still to play, and Amy Hunter's 64 from 96 balls — patient, correct, and stranded — is the innings that will keep Ireland up at night.
Mandhana Made 124, Hong Kong Made 56, and a Record That Stood for a Decade Changed Hands in the Eighteenth Over
Smriti Mandhana's second fifty took eighteen balls. Somewhere inside it — three consecutive sixes off Ruchitha Venkatesh in the eighteenth over — she went past Mithali Raj to become the leading run-scorer in the history of women's international cricket, and she did it without appearing to notice. India made 193 for 5, which was 137 more than Hong Kong could manage between eleven of them. India are the first side into the semi-finals. Hong Kong, back at an Asia Cup after fourteen years away, are out of the tournament with a match still to play.
Athapaththu Takes 7 for 5 With a Hat-Trick, and Sri Lanka's Best Batter Wins a Game Her Batters Nearly Lost
For twelve overs in Dubai this was going badly. Sri Lanka, the defending champions, were 62 for 6 against a side playing them for the first time in history, and the innings had the shape of an upset. Nilakshika Silva made 50 from 35 to drag them to 124. Then Chamari Athapaththu — a captain who has built a career on 150-strike-rate batting and bowls her off-spin as an afterthought — came on in the tenth over, bowled three and a half overs for five runs, took seven wickets, and finished the match with a hat-trick. Indonesia were bowled out for 49.
Cornwall Batted Seven Balls and Bowled Three Overs, and That Was the Whole Match — Falcons Win by 8 at the Oval
Trinbago needed 184 at their own ground, on the night their season needed saving, and they lost four wickets inside the powerplay to a man who normally opens the bowling for nobody. Rahkeem Cornwall made 20 from 7 balls with five fours at the top of the Falcons' innings and then bowled three overs of off-spin for 17 runs and three wickets — Munro, Narine and Pooran, the entire top of the Knight Riders' order. Joshua Da Silva's 54 not out from 31 balls, five sixes in it, got Trinbago to within eight. The Falcons go top of the table. The Knight Riders, with four points from eight matches, are close to gone.
James Vince Made 95 Not Out and Never Faced the Last Ball — Rotterdam Chase 179 With Eight to Spare
There is a specific kind of frustration reserved for the batter who does everything right in a losing cause, and James Vince spent Wednesday evening at Voorburg collecting it. Ninety-five from 54, five fours and six sixes, unbeaten at the end — and Dublin Guardians made only 178, because Vince was at the non-striker's end for a large part of the twentieth over and because four other batters between them managed 56. Rotterdam then knocked it off in 18.4 overs with Faf du Plessis making 79 and Michael Levitt taking 35 from 14 balls off the top. The Dockers are unbeaten after five. Dublin have lost all four.
Smuts Falls Two Short, Boult Takes Three in Three Overs, Curran Takes a Hat-Trick — Edinburgh Win by 59
Belfast Wolves put Edinburgh in, watched JJ Smuts make 98 from 60, and then lost their first three wickets in fifteen balls to Trent Boult with the new ball. Glenn Maxwell made 35 from 23 and it was the only period of the chase that resembled a contest. Tom Curran finished the Wolves off with a hat-trick that took two overs and a wicket-less interval to complete — Klaassen and Humphreys off consecutive balls in the sixteenth, Mark Adair caught at the start of the eighteenth. Edinburgh are top of the ETPL table and have not lost a match.
Qatar Made 272 and Lost With Nine and a Half Overs Left — Sonavale's Seven Sixes Break Group B Open
Two hundred and seventy-two in a fifty-over match at Bangi should be a defendable score, and Qatar had built it well: Zubair Ali 77 at the top, Mirza Mohammed Baig 59 from 38 at the back, a late partnership that lifted them from 191 for 7 to 254. Then Karan Sonavale hit seven sixes in a 55-ball 83, Hammad Mirza held one end for 96 balls and finished unbeaten on 84, and Oman knocked off the target in 40.3 overs. Two matches, two wins, and Oman are top of Group B with a net run rate nobody else in the pool will get near.
Bahrain Were 73 for 4 and Hong Kong Were 27 for 4 — the Side That Recovered Twice Won by 32
Bayuemas Oval offered something to the bowlers all day and both top orders duly fell over. What separated the sides was the middle: Ahmer Bin Nasir and Junaid Aziz added 77 for Bahrain's fifth wicket and the tail added 60 more, while Hong Kong's rebuild through Kinchit Shah and Shahid Wasif got them to 154 for 5 and then collapsed to 178 all out — five wickets for 24. Ali Dawood bowled ten overs, four of them maidens, for 21 runs and four wickets. Group A is now four sides deep in a fight for two places.
Hetmyer Made 111 From 43 Balls and Trinbago Still Nearly Chased It — Guyana Win by 9 Runs at the Oval
Rain took four overs out of the game and turned the Queen's Park Oval into a shooting gallery. Shimron Hetmyer walked in at 19 for 2 in the fourth over, reached his hundred off 40 balls, and finished on 111 not out with nine sixes. Romario Shepherd added 27 from seven deliveries. Guyana made 185 in sixteen overs. Then Nicholas Pooran hit 43 from 16 and Alex Hales 55 from 24, Trinbago were 150 for 6 in the fifteenth, and the defending champions still lost by nine runs. Four hundred and forty runs in thirty-two overs at a ground that is supposed to be about spin.
Ireland Made 281 and Lost by Six Wickets With Seventy-One Balls Left — Bouchier's Hundred Reframes What a Big Score Means
Gaby Lewis, Amy Hunter and Rebecca Stokell all passed fifty at Grace Road and Ireland posted 281 for 5, comfortably the sort of total that wins one-day internationals. England lost no wicket until the twentieth over. Maia Bouchier made 104 from 95, Sophia Dunkley 73 from 61, and the chase was completed inside thirty-nine overs. Ireland did very little wrong and were beaten by a distance, which is the most awkward kind of defeat there is.
One Ball to Spare in a Match Neither Side Wanted to Win — Rotterdam Grind Down Glasgow at Voorburg
Glasgow Cosmic were 43 for 4 in the eighth over and recovered to 140 for 9 thanks to Liam Livingstone's 54. Rotterdam Dockers, chasing 141 on a surface that had just punished stroke-play, were 97 for 4 in the sixteenth. Ben McDermott made 37 not out from 24 and it still came down to the nineteenth over. Two hundred and eighty-one runs, fourteen wickets, and not a single comfortable moment for anybody.
Pakistan Made 119 and Won by 35 — A Night in Dubai When Nobody Could Bat and Everybody Could Bowl
Thailand's spinners took Pakistan apart: Suleeporn Laomi four overs for fourteen, Thipatcha Putthawong three wickets, nine down for 119. It should have been a chase of the kind that announces a side. Instead Thailand were 6 for 2 in the second over, 37 for 4 in the thirteenth, and 84 all out. Muneeba Ali batted seventeen overs for 54 and won the match doing it, which is the sort of sentence that only makes sense in Dubai in September.
De Kock Made 106 and Still Lost — Johnson Charles and a 112-Run Opening Stand Take the Patriots Home at Warner Park
Four hundred and thirty-seven runs at Warner Park, and the man who made the hundred finished on the wrong side of it. Quinton de Kock's 106 from 57 balls carried Barbados Tridents to 217 for 4, the highest total of their season. Johnson Charles answered with 78 from 45, the Patriots were 112 without loss inside eleven overs, and when it got tight at the end Andre Fletcher hit 22 from eight balls and Wanindu Hasaranga 18 from four. The Patriots won with five deliveries in hand and won it, in truth, in the first ten overs.
Pretorius Falls Six Short and It Barely Registers — South Africa Take Zimbabwe Apart in Windhoek
Lhuan-dre Pretorius reached fifty from twenty-seven balls and was out for 94 in the nineteenth over, which on most nights would be the whole story. Instead the story is what happened next: Zimbabwe lost four wickets in the powerplay and six inside eight overs, Bjorn Fortuin bowled 3.4 overs for 24 and took four, and a chase of 186 was effectively finished before the drinks break. Sikandar Raza made a defiant 45. Nobody else passed 27.
A Toss, and Nothing Else — The Leeward Islands Derby Is Washed Out at Warner Park, and the Point Hurts Only One of These Teams
The Falcons won the toss and that was the whole match. No overs, no result, a point each, and two very different consequences: Antigua & Barbuda go top of the CPL 2026 table on nine, while St Kitts & Nevis — who needed this home fixture more than any other side needed any fixture this week — remain bottom on three from six with three games left and a net run rate of -0.738. Rain does not choose sides, but its effects are never evenly distributed.
Ten Overs, Four Maidens, Fourteen Runs, Five Wickets — Sandeep Lamichhane Turns a Group Game Into a Demonstration
Bahrain faced 218 legitimate deliveries and scored 87 runs off them. Nepal's captain bowled 60 of those deliveries and conceded fourteen, and the shape of Bahrain's innings — 58 balls of graft from Abdul Majid for eight not out, four wickets to leg-spin that never left the good length — was the shape of a side that had run out of answers by the fifteenth over. Nepal needed 21 overs to finish it and open their Premier Cup campaign with the kind of margin that flatters a net run rate for a fortnight.
Ninety-Two From Usmani, Then 105 in the Last Ten — UAE Build in Two Gears and Bowl Qatar Out With Seven Different Wicket-Takers
For forty overs this was a careful, almost cautious UAE innings — 162 for 6, a wicketkeeper anchoring on 92 from 106 balls, a run rate barely above four. Then Sohaib Khan and Aayan Afzal Khan added 72 in 43 balls and the total became 263. Qatar, with five players making their List A debuts, answered through Imal Liyanage's 70 and Zubair Ali's 47, and then lost eight wickets for 71. Seven UAE bowlers were used; all seven took a wicket.
129 Looked Thin Until Bangladesh Bowled — Nahida Akter's 3 for 15 Turns an Awkward Night Into a 71-Run Win Over Indonesia
For sixteen overs this was uncomfortable viewing for Bangladesh: 105 for 5, an Indonesian spinner with three wickets, and a total heading nowhere. Shorna Akter's 18-ball 31 rescued a score, and then the bowlers made it look like plenty. Indonesia, playing only their fourth Women's Asia Cup match, lost four wickets to run-outs and misjudged singles and were bowled out for 58 with fifteen balls unused. Bangladesh move level with Sri Lanka on two points in Group B.
Namibia Were 76 for 6 Chasing 196, Then Added 110 in 46 Balls, and Still Lost by Five
Zimbabwe posted 195 for 6 in Windhoek on the back of an unbroken 94-run seventh-wicket stand between Ryan Burl and Brad Evans, and for twelve overs it looked like a formality. Then Zane Green and Alexander Busing-Volschenk did something close to absurd: 110 runs from 46 deliveries for the seventh wicket, thirteen boundaries between them, Namibia into the final over with two set batters in and single figures a boundary away. Green was run out by Sikandar Raza off the second ball of it. Busing-Volschenk holed out off the fourth. Three wickets fell in five deliveries and Zimbabwe won by five runs.
ENG vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 4 Result: England Win by 194 Runs; Robinson Takes 8-35 and Saud Shakeel Falls Three Short of Lord's
Two men will remember this Test for opposite reasons. Ollie Robinson bowled twenty-seven overs across four days, conceded thirty-five runs, and took eight wickets — figures that belong to a different era of the game. Saud Shakeel batted for 122 balls with the match already gone, hit thirteen fours, and was caught at slip on 97. England won by 194 runs and lead the series 2-0. The honours board at Lord's has room for one of those names and not the other.
Rain Ends It Seven Runs Ahead — Jamaica Kingsmen Take a DLS Win at the Oval After Narine's 24-Ball 53 Goes Unrewarded
Trinbago Knight Riders scored 101 for the first wicket in 8.5 overs and lost. That is the sentence that will sting in Port of Spain. Sunil Narine hit 53 from 24 balls, Colin Munro made 52, Nicholas Pooran finished unbeaten on 60 — and TKR still contrived to lose four wickets for nothing in the thirteenth over, then watched Keacy Carty and Saim Ayub bat Jamaica into a DLS lead before the covers came on for the last time.
Shafali's 26-Ball Fifty, a Collapse India Will Want to Forget, and Deepti's 3 for 0 — India Open the Asia Cup With a 94-Run Win
For twelve overs in Dubai this was the India everyone had been promised: Shafali Verma at 178, a hundred up inside ten overs, Thailand's bowlers being hit into the second tier. Then eight wickets fell for 46 runs and the innings limped to 159 for 9. It did not matter — Thailand were bowled out for 65 and Deepti Sharma ended the match with figures of 1.1-1-0-3 — but a side that has lost nine of its last sixteen T20Is has been undone by exactly this before.
Nine for Two, Then 316 — Vinayak Shukla's 56-Ball 88 Turns a Wreck Into a Rout as Oman Beat Singapore by 131
Oman lost both openers inside the first two overs at Bayuemas Oval for a combined six runs, and there is a version of that morning where a side chasing an Asia Cup qualification place never recovers. Instead Hammad Mirza and Mujibur Ali added 75 for the fourth wicket, and then the captain arrived and hit 88 from 56 with three sixes. Singapore, fielding four List A debutants, lasted 42.3 overs.
Four Fifties and a Defeat — Hong Kong Hold On by 16 as Yasim Murtaza Bowls Saudi Arabia Out With Four Balls to Spare
Saudi Arabia lost a batter to injury on 45, got him back at 236 for 6, and still could not get home. Four of their top five passed fifty at Bangi and none of them went past 54, which is the most Saudi Arabian scorecard imaginable and the exact reason they lost. Hong Kong's captain Yasim Murtaza made 54 from 44 with the bat and then took 3 for 53, and a chase that was 189 for 3 in the thirty-eighth over ended 16 runs short.
Five Overs Each, and Belfast Needed Less Than Four — Stirling and Chapman Blow Amsterdam Away at Voorburg
The rain took fifteen overs out of each innings and left something closer to a shootout than a cricket match. Amsterdam Flames made 56 for 2 from their five and might reasonably have thought it defensible. Belfast Wolves knocked off 57 in twenty-three balls — Mark Chapman 19 from 8, Paul Stirling 25 not out from 10 — and won by nine wickets with more than an over to spare.
Santner Takes Five for Sixteen and Ross Adair Hits 24 Off 7 — Edinburgh Beat Dublin With 38 Balls Left
Dublin Guardians were 54 for 2 in the seventh over at Voorburg and had James Vince set. Mitchell Santner bowled four overs, took five wickets for sixteen runs, and by the eighteenth they were 109 all out. Then Ross Adair hit 24 from seven balls in the first over of the reply, and whatever remained of Dublin's evening went with it.
ENG vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 3 Stumps: England 290 & 177/7, Lead by 357 as Rain and Mohammad Abbas Share the Day
Twenty-four and five balls. That is all Lord's got on Saturday — no play before lunch, three further stoppages after it, and the covers on again before six o'clock. Into that fragment England lost four wickets for 96 and Mohammad Abbas took three of them to finish with seven in the match, which is the sort of return that ought to change a Test and, on this scorecard, changes almost nothing. Dan Lawrence reached fifty from 64 balls and was still there. England lead by 357 with three wickets in hand and two days to bowl Pakistan out.
Narine Takes the Ball, Then the Bat, and TKR's Season Finally Breathes — Knight Riders Win by 7 Wickets
Sunil Narine is 38 years old and has been playing this tournament since it had a different name. On Friday night at the Queen's Park Oval he bowled four overs for 14 runs and two wickets, opened the batting, hit six sixes in a 33-ball 55, and had won the match by the eleventh over. Barbados Tridents made 127 for 9 on a surface that gripped exactly as everyone said it would; the difference was that only one side had the bowlers to use it and, as it turned out, the same man to punish it.
Berrington's 27-Ball 51 and Ngidi's 4-21 Give Glasgow Their First Win — Cosmic Beat Guardians by 33
Two days earlier Glasgow Cosmic were bowled out for 115 and beaten with 51 balls to spare. On Saturday afternoon at Voorburg they made 183 for 5, and the innings turned on a stand nobody would have forecast: Jason Roy, 60 from 37, and Richie Berrington, 51 from 27 with four sixes, adding 50 in 29 balls to take a good total and make it a winning one. Harry Tector's 75 kept Dublin honest until Lungi Ngidi came back and took four for 21.
Nortje Takes 5 for 11 and the Weather Takes Everything Else — Dockers and Wolves Share the Points
Four overs, one run an over and a bit, five wickets. Anrich Nortje bowled the spell of the European T20 Premier League's opening week at Voorburg on Saturday evening, dismantling a Belfast Wolves middle order containing Lorcan Tucker, Mark Chapman and Glenn Maxwell for figures of 5 for 11. Then the rain that had already interrupted the first innings came back, the Rotterdam Dockers had faced exactly one over of a revised 14-over chase, and the finest bowling performance of the tournament went into the book beside the words 'no result'.
A Debutant Takes Three and Athapaththu Ends It in Eight Overs — Sri Lanka Beat UAE by 9 Wickets
Chethana Vimukthi had never played a Women's T20 International before Saturday night in Dubai. She bowled four overs for sixteen, took three wickets, and was named Player of the Match in a game her captain finished with 73 balls to spare. The United Arab Emirates were bowled out for 79 by four different Sri Lankan bowlers, none of whom conceded more than 18. This is what a defending champion looks like when it decides a group game is not going to take up the whole evening.
Brevis Makes 75 Off 32 and This Time It Counts — South Africa Beat Zimbabwe by 7 Wickets
Twenty-four hours earlier Dewald Brevis had made 75 from 50 balls in Windhoek and lost, his team-mates contributing 66 between them as Namibia won by 18. On Saturday he made 75 again — eighteen balls quicker, unbeaten, seven fours and six sixes — and South Africa were home with thirty-eight deliveries to spare. Zimbabwe's 144 for 8 had looked like a competitive total for exactly six overs, which is roughly how long it takes Brevis to decide a T20 on this kind of surface.
ENG vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 2 Stumps: England 290 & 81/3, Lead by 261 as Robinson Takes 4-11
Pakistan bowled beautifully for a day and a half at Lord's and then had to bat, and the difference between the two halves of this match is the difference between craft and collapse. England's last pair added 47 to turn 248 for 9 into 290. Pakistan replied with 110, of which twenty were extras and forty-six were Azan Awais, and Ollie Robinson bowled thirteen overs — six of them maidens — for eleven runs and four wickets. By the close England were 81 for 3 and 261 ahead with two days and a session still to come.
Kingsmen Beat Patriots by 11 Runs — Saim Ayub's 102 off 58 Was the Whole Game
Jamaica were one for one after a ball, twelve for two after two overs and sixty-three for four inside nine, and none of it mattered, because Saim Ayub was at the other end making a hundred that had nothing to do with the state of the match. St Kitts and Nevis chased hard, got to 150 for 6 with ten balls of hope left, and lost by eleven — which happens to be two fewer than the number of wides they bowled.
Namibia Beat South Africa by 18 Runs — Windhoek Gets Its Night
Dewald Brevis made 75 from 50 balls and was, for about two hours, the only South African who looked as though he belonged in the contest. His team-mates contributed 66 between them. Namibia had already given the match its shape with an opening stand of 84 in under ten overs, and when Ruben Trumpelmann and JJ Smit took three wickets each on their own ground in front of their own crowd, a tri-series that was supposed to be a warm-up for the visitors became something considerably more interesting.
Thailand Beat Hong Kong by 6 Runs — A Defence Built on Not Giving Anything Away
Marina Lamplough took four wickets for eleven runs and finished on the losing side, which tells you most of what you need to know about the Women's Asia Cup opener in Dubai. Thailand were bowled out for a total nobody would defend on paper — 120 for 9, four wickets lost for three runs in the seventeenth over — and then bowled twenty overs without conceding a single wide, no-ball or bye. Hong Kong's extras column read zero. They lost by six.
SL vs IND, 2nd Test — Day 5 Result: Dinusha's 133* Draws the Test, India Take the Series 1-0
Sri Lanka began the last day sixteen in front with four wickets standing and a follow-on to survive. They finished it 429 for 9 declared, having batted 81.4 overs on a fifth-day pitch against five bowlers and then three more that Shubman Gill invented out of desperation — Gill himself, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and finally Dhruv Jurel, the reserve wicketkeeper, sending down an over of nothing at all. At the centre of it, unbeaten from first ball to last, was Sonal Dinusha: 133 not out from 264 deliveries, a hundred in each innings, and the reason a Test that India had controlled since the first afternoon ended with both teams shaking hands and only one of them smiling.
ENG vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 1 Stumps: England 248/9 in 56 Overs, Abbas Takes 4-56 at Lord's
Babar Azam returned to the Pakistan side, walked out for the toss at Lord's, looked at a green-tinged surface under cloud after a wet start, and bowled. Within eleven overs England were 36 for 3 and Mohammad Abbas — 36 years old, 900 first-class wickets to his name by the end of the afternoon — had taken all three. What followed was recognisably England: Jordan Cox blocking for two and a half hours, Jamie Smith counter-punching for 61, Gus Atkinson swinging at everything in the gloom. Nine wickets fell in 56 overs at 4.42 an over, bad light closed the day early, and neither side can say with confidence whether 248 is a poor total or a decent one.
Kings Win by 36 — Seifert's 105* and Four Balls From Roston Chase Leave the Champions Bottom of the Table
Trinbago Knight Riders won the toss, bowled, and watched Tim Seifert make the Queen's Park Oval look like a training ground: fifty from 28 balls, a hundred from 58, unbeaten on 105 at the end of a Saint Lucia Kings innings of 211 for 4. The chase was alive at 70 for 1 in the eighth over. Four balls later it was 70 for 3, Roston Chase having removed Sunil Narine, Matthew Breetzke and Nicholas Pooran in the space of one over, and the rest of the night was Kieron Pollard hitting eleven boundaries in 26 balls at a target that had already gone. The defending champions have one win from four. The Kings are top.
Wolves Win by 52 — Maxwell and Chapman Rebuild From 48 for 3, Then Dublin Lose Six Inside Eight Overs
Ravichandran Ashwin won the toss, bowled, and had Belfast Wolves 48 for 3 inside six overs with Paul Stirling, Lorcan Tucker and — three balls apart — the top of the order gone. What his side could not do was finish the job: Mark Chapman made 54 from 33 and Glenn Maxwell 60 from 38, they put on 84 for the fifth wicket, and 184 for 7 was thirty more than the surface owed. Then Dublin Guardians were 36 for 6 in the eighth over, which is not a start you recover from at any level of the game. Belfast won by 52 and take the ETPL's second set of points.
Rockers Win by Seven Wickets — Boult's 5-24 Is the ETPL's First Five-For and Glasgow Never Reach 120
Mitchell Santner put Glasgow Cosmic in, gave Trent Boult the new ball, and had Jason Roy caught at slip in the first over. Nothing that followed was any kinder. Glasgow lost three inside the powerplay, two in three balls just after the halfway mark, and were bowled out for 115 with Boult returning at the death to take the last two wickets in the final over and finish with five. Edinburgh needed 51 fewer balls than they were given: Ross Adair hit 28 from 12, Andries Gous 40 not out from 28, and the ETPL's third match lasted a little over two hours of playing time.
SL vs IND, 2nd Test — Day 4 Stumps: Sri Lanka 229/6 Following On, Lead by 16, Sooriyabandara Stumped on 92
Sonal Dinusha got his hundred. Sri Lanka did not get the fourteen runs that would have saved them from batting again. And so a day that began with a century celebration ended with the hosts back at the crease, 213 behind, asked to bat out four sessions they have not yet shown they can bat. That they are still alive at stumps — 229 for 6, sixteen in front, four wickets left — is down to Pasindu Sooriyabandara, who made 92 in his second Test and was stumped charging Manav Suthar, and Kamindu Mendis, whose 55 was the other half of a stand of 115. The rain that ended the day early is now, unmistakably, Sri Lanka's best bowler.
Falcons Beat Tridents by 30 — Antigua Were 80 for 5, Barbados Were 93 for 3, and Only One of Those Teams Recovered
Rahkeem Cornwall was bowled by the first ball of the night and the Falcons were five down inside fourteen overs. Then Moeen Ali and Shamar Springer put on 75 without being parted and 155 for 5 stopped looking like a rescue and started looking like a target. Barbados were cruising at 93 for 3 in the thirteenth over when four wickets fell for two runs in five deliveries — Joshua James taking two in two balls, Shadab Khan two more inside the next over — and the chase simply ceased to exist. Antigua have now won three of their last four and stay top of the CPL table.
Dockers Beat Flames by Five Wickets — the ETPL's First Match Belonged to a 42-Year-Old Who Refused to Leave
A new league needs a first innings worth remembering, and the European T20 Premier League got two. Bas de Leede made 75 from 53 to drag Amsterdam Flames to 157 for 8 against an attack containing Anrich Nortje, David Wiese and Roelof van der Merwe. Then Rotterdam Dockers lost Michael Levitt, Ben McDermott and Heinrich Klaasen inside four overs for 22, and Faf du Plessis — who had watched all three go from the other end — spent the next fourteen overs making sure nobody talked about it again. Fifty from 26 balls, 83 not out from 55, and the target passed with eleven deliveries to spare.
SL vs IND, 2nd Test — Day 3 Stumps: Sri Lanka 265/8, Dinusha 85*, Hosts Still 39 From Safety
For six hours Sri Lanka did what they had not managed in the first Test or the first two days of this one — they made India work. Pasindu Sooriyabandara, in only his second Test, batted 133 balls for 80. Sonal Dinusha, in only his third innings against India, made his third fifty against them and was still there at the close on 85. And yet the arithmetic at stumps is unforgiving: 265 for 8, two wickets left, 39 runs short of the follow-on, 238 behind. Prasidh Krishna and Manav Suthar took three apiece, Jadeja produced the ball of the day, and the rain that stole two hours before tea may end up being the most generous thing that happened to the hosts all day.
SL vs IND, 2nd Test — Day 2 Stumps: India 503/9 dec, Sri Lanka 8/2, Hosts Trail by 495
Dhruv Jurel came in as the second wicketkeeper in the side and left it as the man who broke the match open — 115 not out from 177 balls, his first Test hundred away from home, made in the company of a batter who should not really have been out there at all. Rishabh Pant, forearm bruised by Lahiru Kumara on Sunday, walked back down the steps and made 63. Their 112 for the seventh wicket turned 307 for 6 into something Sri Lanka cannot climb. Then the light went, three overs were all India needed, and two wickets fell in them. The hosts must bat for two days to save a series. They begin 495 behind.
Warriors Beat Falcons by Seven Wickets — 116 Defended Was Never a Total, and Guyana Needed Only 59 Balls to Prove It
Twenty-four hours after Shadab Khan's 52 from 20 balls had taken Antigua top of the CPL table, the Falcons were bowled out for 116 on their own ground in seventeen overs. Shamar Joseph bowled at over 150kph and took three. Khary Pierre, the least demonstrative bowler on the field, took two for nineteen and the match award. Then Shimron Hetmyer hit 49 from 19 and Shai Hope made 47 not out, and a chase that could have taken twenty overs took nine and a bit. Guyana Amazon Warriors have now won three in a row and remain unbeaten.
Two Days, 750 Balls, and a Series Levelled — Starc's Ten Wickets Ended a Test That Barely Started
Bangladesh made 64 and 95 at Mackay and became the first side in 21 years to be dismissed for double figures twice in the same Test. Australia made 210 — the lowest total to underpin an innings victory in 80 years — and won by an innings and 51 runs before Sunday's tea. Mitchell Starc took 6 for 12 on day one and 4 for 39 on day two, moved past Dale Steyn into the all-time top ten, and was named Player of the Match and Player of the Series. A week after the most famous win in Bangladesh's history, the series finished 1-1 and the arithmetic of it feels almost cruel.
SL vs IND, 2nd Test — Day 1 Stumps: India 300/5, and Devdutt Padikkal Turns a Good Week Into a Career
He was dropped twice before he was properly set. He batted through the loss of four partners, the retirement of a fifth, and a Sri Lankan seam attack that found more from the SSC surface on the opening day than anyone expected it to. By the time Keshara Nuwantha finally bowled him for 117, Devdutt Padikkal had made hundreds in successive Tests and put India within sight of the total that wins this series. Sri Lanka, who must win to save it, took five wickets on day one — every one of them to a fast bowler — and will feel that the match is still there to be reached. It is. They just have to bat first on a surface that is only going to get harder.
Falcons Beat Knight Riders by Five Wickets — Shadab Khan Made Thirty-Seven Runs in Nine Balls and Took Antigua Top
With three overs left Trinbago had 37 to defend and a batting side five down with its recognised hitters gone. What followed was less a chase than a demolition: three sixes in the first four balls of Nathan Edward's 18th over, twenty-seven from it in all, and then two more sixes off Terrance Hinds to finish the thing with nine balls to spare. Shadab Khan walked in at 92 for 5 and left unbeaten on 52 from 20. Kusal Perera stood at the other end for 34 and did the far less glamorous job of making sure somebody was still there when Shadab found his range. The Falcons are top of the CPL table for the first time this season.
ENG vs PAK, 1st Test — Result: England Win by an Innings and 103 Runs, and Joe Root's New Era Needs Only Three Days to Make Its Point
Root's first act as full-time captain was to bowl first at Headingley. His last act of the match was to shake hands before tea on the third day. In between, Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue took sixteen wickets between them, Harry Brook made 91 without ever looking like he was trying to prove something, and Pakistan — without Babar Azam, with Salman Agha leading in Tests for the first time — were bowled out twice for 306 runs in total. England lead the series 1-0. Lord's is on Thursday.
Antigua & Barbuda Falcons Beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by 3 Wickets — Shadab Khan's Twelve Balls Undo Dasun Shanaka's Seventeen
For most of the evening this was Dasun Shanaka's match: 49 not out from 17 deliveries, five fours and four sixes, a final-overs assault that turned a competitive Patriots total into a difficult one. Then the Falcons found a smaller, sharper version of the same idea. Shadab Khan made 30 from 12 in the middle of the chase, Moeen Ali finished it with 25 not out from 12, and Antigua got home with three balls left to move fourth. The Patriots are still last.
ENG vs PAK, 1st Test — Day 2 Stumps: England 366/8, Lead by 195, as Brook's 91 Outruns Ali Usman's Maiden Five-For
Ali Usman bowled the best spell any visiting spinner has bowled at Headingley in fifty-four years and still finished the day 195 runs behind. That is the cruelty of a Test match already leaning: Pakistan's one outstanding individual performance arrived on an afternoon when their fielders put down Harry Brook on 1, reprieved Dan Lawrence twice, and watched England score at four and a half an over through the gaps that those moments opened.
Guyana Amazon Warriors Beat Saint Lucia Kings by 7 Wickets — CPL 2026 Match Review
Gros Islet is supposed to be where spin decides things. On Wednesday night the Warriors ignored the memo entirely: Dwaine Pretorius banged the ball into a two-paced surface until the Kings' middle order ran out of answers, and by the time Shimron Hetmyer hit four consecutive fours the home side's spin fortress had been taken with pace, patience, and a catch at long-on that nobody in the ground believed had been held.
China Women Beat Oman Women by 18 Runs (DLS) — Tri-Series 2026 Match Review
A home tri-series opener in Hangzhou, a rain break that rewrote the arithmetic twice, and a captain's innings from Wang Huiying that turned a truncated thirteen overs into a total Oman never looked like reaching. It was 99 for 1 against 34 for 4 — a scoreline that reads like a mismatch and was in fact something more instructive: an associate side at home, playing conditions cricket properly.
SL vs IND, 1st Test — Day 5 Result: India Win by 165 Runs as Manav Suthar's Ten-For Ends a Chase That Never Quite Believed Itself
Sri Lanka resumed on 84 for 4 needing 288 more, and for two hours Sonal Dinusha and Dhananjaya de Silva made 372 look like a number rather than a wall. Then Ravindra Jadeja found the sweep that did not come off, Manav Suthar bowled a maiden that took three wickets, and a Test match that had been drifting towards a fifth-day argument was over inside the post-lunch session. The rain that might have saved Sri Lanka arrived minutes too late.
ENG vs PAK, 1st Test — Day 1 Stumps: England 112/2, Trail by 59, After Robinson and Tongue Take Five Each
Ollie Robinson had been out of Test cricket for two years. He needed one delivery to remind everyone why he was ever in it. Pakistan were 171 all out by mid-afternoon, undone by a 91-run stand that promised a platform and a collapse of 8 for 74 that removed it, and by stumps Joe Root's first day back in charge at Headingley had gone almost exactly the way a captain dreams and almost never gets.
Jamaica Kingsmen Beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots by 51 Runs — Keemo Paul Answers the One Question Nobody Was Asking Him
Two balls into the innings, Jamaica were 0 for 2 and the match was following the script the Patriots had written for it. Then Keemo Paul walked out and spent 36 deliveries rewriting it — 65 runs, five fours, five sixes — before returning with the ball to take 3 for 30 and finish the job himself. A franchise that started this CPL with three defeats has now won two in a row and sits second.
SL vs IND, 1st Test — Day 4 Stumps: Sri Lanka 84/4, Needing 288 More, With Six Wickets and One Day Between Them and a Chase Nobody Has Made Here
India were bowled out for 193 and it did not matter, because Rishabh Pant spent 69 balls making sure it would not. Asitha Fernando took four, Prabath Jayasuriya three, and for two hours Sri Lanka were the better side. Then India bowled — Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna and Manav Suthar taking four between them for 54 — and the arithmetic hardened into something close to a verdict.
SL vs IND, 1st Test — Day 3 Stumps: Sri Lanka 284, India Lead by 178, and a Maiden Hundred That Arrived Too Late to Change the Arithmetic
Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 and playing for dignity when Sonal Dinusha and Niroshan Dickwella put on 146 and made it a contest again. Then Manav Suthar, in his first Test away from home, took four, Ravindra Jadeja took three — one of them his 350th in Test cricket — and the last five wickets fell for 48. India lead by 178 with two days left, and the only thing that stopped them extending it was the light.
Saint Lucia Lost Their Own Middle Overs — and the Match Went With Them
Rain trimmed this to eighteen overs a side, which should have suited a Kings side that needs the game short and the target close. Instead Sherfane Rutherford made 61 from 31 to push Barbados Tridents to 177 for 5, and then Gudakesh Motie and Mujeeb Ur Rahman did to the Kings at Gros Islet exactly what the Kings' spinners are supposed to do to visitors. Ackeem Auguste's 63 from 34 was the best innings of the night and it finished nine runs short.
Thailand Sweep Port Moresby 3-0, and the Associate Order Quietly Rearranges Itself
Papua New Guinea's captain Pauke Siaka made 57 from 76 of a total of 122 all out, which left 65 runs — extras included — for everybody else. Suleeporn Laomi and Onnicha Kamchomphu took three wickets each; Natthakan Chantham made 48 and Thailand knocked off the target in 27 overs with 138 balls to spare. Three matches, three wins, and a tour that began as a historic fixture for the hosts ended as a demonstration by the visitors.
SL vs IND, 1st Test — Day 2 Stumps: India 460 for 9, Sri Lanka Yet to Bat, and Padikkal Turns a Maiden Hundred into Something Bigger
Rain took the morning and most of the afternoon, and when Galle finally gave the cricket back it gave India everything else too. Devdutt Padikkal went from 131 not out to 167 before Prabath Jayasuriya beat him down the track. KL Rahul, cramping so badly on Day 1 that he had to walk off, came back and made 82. Dhruv Jurel struck a 68-ball fifty. Seven wickets fell in roughly forty-three overs of play and it still did not matter, because India had already batted Sri Lanka out of the first half of this Test match.
Manchester Super Giants Win The Hundred at Last, and Tim Seifert Made It Look Like a Formality Until It Wasn't
Chasing 159 at Lord's, Seifert hit seven sixes in a 38-ball 72 and put the final so far out of reach that the Rockets had to invent a way back. Mohammad Amir found one, removing Heinrich Klaasen and Michael Bracewell in successive balls to leave three needed off the last five. Liam Dawson cleared the rope with two balls unused. Manchester have lost two Hundred finals; the Super Giants brand had gone seven IPL seasons and four SA20s without a trophy. Both waits ended on the same evening.
Trent Rockets Won the Women's Hundred in Fifty-Four Balls, and the Final Was Over Long Before That
SunRisers Leeds came to Lord's as defending champions and were 24 for 3 inside nineteen balls. Four Rockets bowlers took two wickets each; nobody in the SunRisers order passed 25. Ninety-one all out, from ninety-one balls. Sophia Dunkley then hit 41 from 23, Beth Mooney 31 not out from 21, and Ash Gardner steered the winning four through the off side with 46 deliveries to spare. Trent Rockets have never won this competition before. They have rarely looked less like a side winning something for the first time.
Kirk McKenzie Hit 69 from 25 Balls and Sabina Park Stopped Pretending 182 Was Enough
Trinbago made 182 for 6 with Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran each scoring 44 and a 67-run stand that looked, at the time, like the passage of play that would settle it. Then Jamaica took 82 without loss from the powerplay. McKenzie's six fours and six sixes gutted the chase of its difficulty, Andre Russell and Rovman Powell added 48 to steady what little wobble there was, and the Kingsmen got there with eight balls to spare — the highest successful chase in CPL history at this ground, and their first win of the season.
Bangladesh Won a Test Match in Australia, and the Scoreline Says Nine Wickets, Which Undersells It
They were bowled out for 54 in a tour game earlier this month. On Sunday afternoon in Darwin, Mominul Haque cut Beau Webster for four at 2.36pm local time and Bangladesh had beaten Australia at home for the first time in forty years of international cricket — 426 and 57 for 1, against 198 and 284. Hasan Mahmud took nine wickets in the match. Mehidy Hasan Miraz took five in the second innings. Cameron Green made a century that lasted almost five hours and it was not close to enough. Australia's twenty-Tests-in-twelve-months project has begun with a defeat that will be talked about for a very long time.
Twenty-Two for Two at Stormont, and Afghanistan Still Chased Down the Biggest Total They Have Ever Chased
Ireland did almost everything they had spent a fortnight failing to do. They batted first and made 298 for 7. Curtis Campher hit 96 from 84 balls. Barry McCarthy took the new ball and had Afghanistan 22 for 2 inside six overs. And then Rahmat Shah batted for the rest of the innings — 143 not out — added 201 with Sediqullah Atal, and Afghanistan won by six wickets with seven balls left. The series finishes 4-0. Rashid Khan, with 50 runs and 12 wickets, is Player of the Series.
AUS vs BAN, 1st Test — Day 2 Stumps: Bangladesh 351 for 6, Lead by 153, and a Record That Waited Twenty-Three Years
Tanzid Hasan made 101 from 188 balls in his second Test to become the first Bangladesh batter to score a Test century in Australia. Najmul Hossain Shanto added 84, Mominul Haque 49, Mushfiqur Rahim 36. Australia's second new ball produced three wickets for eleven runs and briefly looked like the day's turning point — then Mehidy Hasan Miraz (32 not out) and Hasan Mahmud (13 not out) batted out the last hour and Bangladesh went to stumps 153 in front.
Three Games, Three Defeats, and the Same Six Overs Keep Costing Jamaica the Match
Guyana Amazon Warriors sent the Kingsmen in at Sabina Park and watched the pattern repeat: 26 for 2 at the end of the powerplay, 117 all out, and a home crowd that had gone quiet long before the chase began. Mohammad Nabi took 4 for 22 through the middle overs and then made 19 with the bat; Shai Hope finished 56 not out from 41 balls. The Warriors won by six wickets, first time out.
Klaasen Made 63 From 26 and the Eliminator Was Over Before Sunrisers Leeds Knew It Had Started
Manchester Super Giants lost their first ball and then put on 114 for the third wicket — the franchise's highest — as Paul Walter made 80 from 46 and Heinrich Klaasen 63 from 26 to reach 186 for 4 at The Kia Oval. Sunrisers Leeds got to 98 for 2 with Harry Brook and Ryan Rickelton set, then lost 3 for 9 to Josh Tongue and Sonny Baker and finished 20 short. Manchester go to Lord's on Sunday; Trent Rockets are waiting.
Issy Wong Took Three and Sunrisers Leeds Still Walked It — Deepti Sharma Sees the Brave Out of the Hundred
Southern Brave Women could not get past 114 for 7 at The Kia Oval, Hannah Baker's 2 for 13 the most economical spell of a low-scoring Eliminator. Sunrisers Leeds lost two wickets for 13 in the chase and then found the two players least likely to panic: Lauren Winfield-Hill made 37 and Deepti Sharma finished 28 not out, taking the winning runs with eleven balls unused and a place in Sunday's final secured.
AUS vs BAN, 1st Test — Day 1 Stumps: Australia 198, Bangladesh 96 for 1, and Darwin Has a Contest Nobody Scheduled
Hasan Mahmud took 6 for 55, the third-best figures by a Bangladesh quick in Test cricket, and Australia's top order produced its fourth sub-215 first-innings total in four consecutive series openers. Steve Smith's 71 from 109 was the only innings that resisted. Then Bangladesh's batters, who were bowled out for 54 in a warm-up here nine days ago, lost one wicket in the evening and closed 102 behind with Mominul Haque and Tanzid Hasan unbeaten in a stand of 60.
Two Fifties, One Total Worth 155, and the Patriots' Season Finally Started
Jewel Andrew made 58 and Kamil Pooran 54 at Gros Islet, and Saint Lucia Kings still could not reach 160 — because Jason Holder (3 for 20) and Saurabh Netravalkar (3 for 32) took six of the wickets between them for fifty-two runs and left the rest of the order with nothing to build on. St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, 109 for 9 in their opening match, chased 156 with fourteen balls to spare and a home crowd going quiet in stages.
Six Hundred and Forty-Four Runs at Stormont, and Ireland Were Never Actually in It
Sediqullah Atal turned 25 and made 143. Ibrahim Zadran made 107. Their 231 for the second wicket is the biggest stand any Afghanistan pair has ever put together in an ODI, and it turned a Belfast morning into something Belfast mornings are not supposed to be. Ireland's reply was the best losing innings of their summer — Andy Balbirnie 109, Curtis Campher 84 from 46 — and it still finished 42 short. The series is gone at 3-0 with one to play.
MI London Won the Match, Lost the Season, and Found Out on the Last Ball
They needed to beat Birmingham Phoenix by 59 runs at Edgbaston to make the eliminator. They won by two. Rehan Ahmed was run out attempting a second off the final delivery, Trent Boult's yorkers held, Richard Gleeson took 2 for 29 — and the defending champions, three titles in three years, went out with five wins from eight in a competition where five wins was not enough for three separate teams.
Welsh Fire Needed 17 From 15 With Seven Wickets in Hand. They Made 10.
London Spirit had nothing left to play for at Sophia Gardens except the game in front of them, and they defended 131 anyway — David Willey 3 for 20 and two catches, Adam Milne taking Jordan Cox and Tom Kohler-Cadmore in successive balls, and a Welsh Fire chase that went from routine to unrecoverable in the time it takes to bowl two five-ball sets. Fire's season ended on the last night of the league.
Andre Russell Hit Nine Sixes at Sabina Park and Still Lost by Five
Jamaica's captain went for 51 with the ball — the most runs any Kingsmen bowler has conceded in a T20 innings — and then made 68 from 38 to very nearly erase it. Barbados Tridents' 206 for 3 was built by Brandon King's 73 and finished by Sherfane Rutherford's unbeaten 28-ball fifty, and it survived because Daniel Sams took three of the first six overs' worth of the chase apart and finished with 4 for 20.
Rashid Khan Booked a World Cup Place by Refusing to Hit a Six
Afghanistan were 176 for 7 at Stormont, 31 short, with the tail exposed and Gavin Hoey running through them. What followed was the least characteristic innings of Rashid Khan's career and possibly the most valuable: 37 not out from 43 balls, four fours, nothing airborne, 55 deliveries of shared discipline with Yamin Ahmadzai for company. He had already taken 3 for 44. The win sealed Afghanistan's place at the 2027 ODI World Cup — and Hoey's 36 and 4 for 34 deserved a better night than Ireland's top order gave it.
Stubbs Ends the Streak: Southern Brave Take Trent Bridge and Leave the Rockets Waiting on Someone Else
Bottom half of the table, eliminated, nothing to play for — and at Trent Bridge on Monday night Southern Brave ended the Rockets' six-match winning run and turned the competition's runaway leaders into spectators. Tristan Stubbs brought up his fifty from 28 balls with a six off Lewis Gregory, and the same stroke finished the match. Mitchell Santner and Gregory had dragged Rockets from 92 for 5 to 158. It was fourteen short, and now Nottingham has to watch Old Trafford.
The Falcons Were Never Behind Until the Only Moment That Counted
Antigua & Barbuda Falcons were 100 for 1 inside ten overs chasing 188 at Arnos Vale, with Evin Lewis having hit five sixes in 24 balls and Rahkeem Cornwall three in thirteen. They lost by four runs. Between those two facts sit eight overs from Maheesh Theekshana and Roston Chase that cost 36 runs and took four wickets — and twenty-five runs from the last nine balls of the Kings innings, struck by their numbers nine and ten, that turned out to be the entire margin.
Seven Runs from Four Overs: Sunil Narine Started Trinbago's Title Defence Before the Rain Finished It
St Kitts & Nevis Patriots were held to 109 for 9 at Arnos Vale, and the number that explains it is 4-1-7-3 — Narine, at an age when most spinners have started negotiating with the batter, conceding under two an over and taking out Andre Fletcher and Kyle Mayers on consecutive deliveries. Terrence Hinds took three of his own. Trinbago were 94 for 2 after fifteen when the showers returned, nineteen runs clear of the DLS par, and the defending champions had their first win of CPL 2026 without ever being asked a serious question.
Liam Livingstone Faced His Old Club at Lord's and Ended the Match in Thirty Balls
Birmingham Phoenix played their best batting innings in weeks — Joe Clarke 73, Sean Dickson 51 not out, 92 together in 47 balls — and it was worth nothing at all. Livingstone reached fifty in 21 deliveries, hit one 104 metres, and with Dewald Brevis unbeaten on 55 alongside him, London Spirit knocked off 163 with 18 balls to spare. For a Phoenix side already eliminated two days earlier, it was the cruellest possible way to be reminded of what they let go.
Four from Four at Headingley: Sunrisers Leeds Sign Off at Home with a 71-Run Win Over Welsh Fire
Mitchell Marsh went past fifty for the fourth time this competition and Ryan Rickelton stayed with him for 89, but it was the last twenty balls that broke the game — Harry Brook 23 from 11, Zak Crawley four sixes in a 12-ball 34, and a total of 201 for 4 that Welsh Fire never once threatened. Brydon Carse took three, Nathan Ellis removed Joe Root and Rachin Ravindra, and Sunrisers leave their own ground with a perfect home record and one foot in the knockouts.
WI vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 3 Stumps: West Indies 103/6, Lead by 60 After Shafique's 160* and Sajid Khan's Four-For Turn the Match Twice
Abdullah Shafique batted 323 balls and finished unbeaten on 160 as Pakistan reached 387 and a lead of 43 — Jomel Warrican taking 6 for 112 from 46 overs at the other end. Then Sajid Khan and Ali Usman got to work on a Queen's Park Oval surface that has been turning since the first morning, and West Indies fell to 103 for 6. They lead by 60 with four wickets left, Justin Greaves unbeaten on 1, and a fourth innings that averages 167 at this ground waiting on the other side of it. For the first time on this tour, Pakistan can see a Test match they might win.
Two Hundred and Forty-One: Sunrisers Leeds Broke The Hundred's Scoring Record at Headingley, and London Spirit Still Made 204
Mitchell Marsh and Ryan Rickelton put on 148 from 65 balls — the highest partnership for any wicket in the competition's history — then Harry Brook came in and hit 55 from 18. Sunrisers Leeds finished on 241 for 2, fifteen runs clear of the previous best total in six years of The Hundred. London Spirit, to their considerable credit, refused to be embarrassed: David Willey made 83 not out from 46 and they got to 204. It was still a 37-run defeat, because on this night nothing short of another record was going to be enough.
Pakistan Women Finally Win One — a Spin Squeeze at Dambulla, 113 Defended Against, and a Consolation That Was Overdue
The series was already gone, the tour had been a long catalogue of near-misses, and Pakistan Women turned up at Dambulla on a slower pitch and bowled Sri Lanka out of the game. Four spinners sent down fifteen of the twenty overs for 85 runs; Momina Riasat took 2 for 18; Chamari Athapaththu's 34 was the only innings that looked comfortable. Then Ayesha Zafar made 39 from 31 in a chase that got tighter than 114 should have, and Pakistan got home by four wickets with ten balls to spare. Sri Lanka win the series 2-1.
WI vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 2 Stumps: Pakistan 266/2, Trail by 78, as Shafique and Babar Bat the Whole Evening Without Being Parted
West Indies added 105 for their last five wickets to reach 344, Justin Greaves converting his overnight 64 into 73 and Roston Chase making 70 before Sajid Khan finished with 4 for 85. Then Pakistan did the thing this tour had suggested they could not: Abdullah Shafique made 107 not out, Babar Azam 86 not out, and the pair batted through the evening unbroken. At 266 for 2 and 78 behind with eight wickets standing, a side that has lost eight consecutive away Tests is, for the first time in a fortnight, in front of the game.
WI vs PAK, 2nd Test — Day 1 Stumps: West Indies 239/5, Justin Greaves Unbeaten on 64 After Rain and Spin Redraw the Day
West Indies won the toss, batted, raced to 49 inside ten overs and then spent the rest of the day being slowed down — first by rain that took lunch early, then by two spinners who bowled 47 of the 74 overs sent down. Brandon King's 46 was the day's most fluent innings and Justin Greaves's unbeaten 64 from 125 balls was its most valuable. Pakistan, needing to win this Test to save the series, handed debuts to Ubaid Shah and Awais Zafar and did not give Mohammad Abbas a single over. At the close it is West Indies 239 for 5 with Pakistan yet to bat — an honest day, shared.
One Hundred and Forty-Six Was Meant to Be Fifteen Light at Trent Bridge — Trent Rockets Defended It by Five and Nobody Even Got Out Doing It
Sunrisers Leeds finished on 141 for 4 with six wickets in hand and no way of using them. That is the strangest, most instructive scoreline of The Hundred so far: a chase that never collapsed, never panicked, and never quite got going either. Harry Brook made 46, Mitchell Marsh 41, and Mohammad Amir removed them both in the final stretch to leave the newcomers needing more than the last few balls could give. At the other end of the evening, Ben Duckett made 64 from 47, moved past Phil Salt as the competition's leading run-scorer, and Aneurin Donald hit three sixes in a 19-ball 40 from No. 3. The Rockets are top and they got there by winning the game their ground says cannot be won.
Rashid Khan Took Five for Seventeen at The Oval and Manchester Super Giants' Second Defeat Looked Nothing Like Their First
Three days earlier the Super Giants had lost at Old Trafford with seven wickets in hand — a batting order that ran out of ideas rather than resources. On Sunday night at The Oval they lost the other way entirely: all out for 138, chasing 184, undone by an Afghan leg-spinner having the best night of his Hundred career. Rashid Khan's 5 for 17 was his first five-wicket haul in this competition and only the fifth of his T20 life. Before that, Will Jacks had hit 62 from 31 with six sixes and Nicholas Pooran 54 from 28. Aiden Markram made a lone fifty in reply and watched the rest go. MI London are second and they got there on net run rate.
Dambulla Sixers Made 203 and Went Out of the Tournament Without Anybody Bowling at Them Again
Two hundred and three for eight at Pallekele — Pavan Rathnayake 47 from 28, Dinesh Chandimal 44 from 24 with four sixes, the sort of innings a side builds a season's last stand on. Then the rain arrived, stayed, and took the second innings with it. The shared point sent Dambulla out of the Lanka Premier League and confirmed the four teams who will play the knockouts: Jaffna Kings, Galle Gallants, Colombo Kaps and Kandy Royals. There is no crueller way for a campaign to end than to be eliminated during a rain delay in a match you were winning.
One Hundred and Seventy-Five Was Pakistan's Best Batting of the Tour and a Seventeen-Year-Old on Debut Made It Look Ordinary
Shawaal Zulfiqar and Muneeba Ali put on 68 in the powerplay, Eyman Fatima finished the innings at speed, and Pakistan posted 175 for 5 at Dambulla — a total that on this tour would have been enough more often than not. Then Sanjana Kavindi walked out on her T20I debut at 17 years old and hit 46 from 24 balls, Harshitha Samarawickrama finished unbeaten on 37 from 22, and Sri Lanka got there with fourteen balls in hand. The series is gone at 2-0 with a game to play, and Pakistan's women have now lost every format of this tour.
Seven Days After 214, Birmingham Phoenix Made 137 — and the Man Who Answered Them Was the One England Had Just Made Test Captain Again
We previewed this fixture as a question: which version of Birmingham Phoenix is real, the one that scored 214 at this ground or the one bowled out for 100 at Old Trafford? Edgbaston gave a third answer nobody had drafted — 137 for 9, neither triumph nor collapse, just an innings that never found a second gear. Joe Root then chased it with the calm of a man doing arithmetic, 58 not out from 40 balls, and Welsh Fire won with four to spare. Three hours earlier, on the same square, Ellyse Perry and Alice Capsey had produced the day's genuinely thrilling cricket, and Birmingham Phoenix Women won their first match of the season with one ball remaining.
One Hundred and Three for Five Became One Hundred and Five All Out, and Jofra Archer Bowled Twenty Balls for Nine Runs at Lord's
We wrote before this match that London Spirit's problem was conversion — starts that never became innings — and that Southern Brave's bowling was the better of the two attacks. Jonny Bairstow made 56 and no other Spirit batter passed 11. The last five wickets fell for two runs in seven deliveries. Archer finished with 4 for 9 from his twenty, the most economical full allocation any bowler has sent down in this tournament, and the Brave still needed 97 balls to chase 106 — because on this evening at Lord's, batting was the hard part for everyone.
Five Colombo Batters Reached Twenty. None Reached Forty. That Is the Whole Match, and It Is the Whole Season.
We wrote before this game that Colombo Kaps had a recurring and uncomfortable diagnosis — a batting order that produces starts and no finishes — and that against Jaffna three nights earlier, three batters had reached the twenties and forties without one of them converting. Chasing 202 at Pallekele, they did it again, only more so: Sadeera Samarawickrama 37, Ben McDermott 38, Malsha Tharupathi 36, Milan Rathnayaka 21, James Neesham 20, and nobody past forty. Galle Gallants won by 13 runs, finished their league campaign top of the table, and booked the Qualifier 1 berth that comes with it.
Ninety-Six Was Not Enough Anywhere Else in the World on Saturday. In Buenos Aires It Was Eighteen Runs Too Many.
Argentina Women were bowled out of any comfort by Snigdha Malhotra's 3 for 19 and scraped to 96 for 9 on a St George's College surface that punished every attacking stroke. Then they defended it, and it was not close. Canada made 78 in 18.4 overs, and the most striking number on the card is not any batter's score — it is that 31 of those 78 runs were extras. Alina Emch, seventeen with the bat and 3 for 16 with the ball, took the match award. Argentina go 3-0 up and cannot now lose the series.
One Hundred and Thirty-Seven for Three — The Most Damning Scoreline in This Format
We wrote before this match that Old Trafford's chasing record was the number both captains would have circled, and that the Rockets owned this fixture's history. Sam Billings won the toss, bowled, and watched Manchester Super Giants keep eight wickets they never spent. Finn Allen then made 72 not out from 35 balls, Trent Rockets won with 13 to spare, and the side that had lost its opener for a two-ball duck went top of the table.
Four Hundred and Twenty-One Runs in the Hill Country, and Jaffna Kings Still Win It With Spin
We leaned to Kandy Royals on home ground, home crowd and Shaheen Shah Afridi's pace at altitude. Pallekele instead produced a run-fest — 221 for 6 against 200 all out — and the two bowlers who decided it were a left-arm orthodox spinner in his eighth over of the tournament week and a thirty-nine-year-old all-rounder bowling arm balls. Chamindu Wickramasinghe's 43 off 15 was the innings; Dunith Wellalage's eight balls were the match.
One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Was Never Enough — Until Southern Brave's Bowlers Decided It Was
We said the Brave's bowling was the best thing either side brought to Southampton and that a single ten-ball set would probably settle it. Marcus Stoinis then bowled ten consecutive balls for three runs, Birmingham Phoenix lost five wickets in thirty deliveries, and a total nobody would have backed became a 12-run win — the Brave's first of the tournament, at the fourth attempt.
Six Wins, One Final, No Trophy: Uganda Beat Namibia by 17 Runs on the Only Night That Counted
Namibia Women arrived at their own final having won every match of the tournament, on their own ground, with a net run rate nobody else could get near. Uganda made 146 for 3, Concy Aweko took three for 20, and the hosts finished on 129 for 6 — a chase that never once threatened to become one. Knockout cricket does not care what the table says.
Four Wickets in Forty Overs and a Seventy-Six Run Margin: Spain Take Third at Embrach
Two hundred and thirty-two for two, then one hundred and fifty-six for two. Almost nothing went wrong for either batting side all afternoon, and the game was still decided long before it finished — because Katerina Frost's 88 and Alexis Hartley's 73 had already put it out of reach. Switzerland end their home tournament without a win, and with the strange consolation of a chase in which they barely lost a wicket.
The Night Lahiru Udara Stopped Waiting: 132 Not Out, a Maiden Hundred, and the Highest Score in LPL History
Galle Gallants made 208 for 3 and would have won that game nine times out of ten. Then a 24-year-old opener who had never made a T20 century took the powerplay apart, reached fifty in 21 balls, a hundred in 54, and finished unbeaten on 132 from 63 — the biggest individual innings the Lanka Premier League has ever seen. Kandy Royals chased 209 with seven balls in hand, beat the table leaders for the second time in four days, and kept their season breathing.
One Batter Batting Through: Pretorius's 64 Off 28 Ends MI London's Unbeaten Record in the London Derby
Our preview said Spirit's problem was narrow rather than systemic — that they kept arriving at the same threshold and needed one batter to decide tonight was the night. A 20-year-old South African decided it. Lhuan-dre Pretorius made 64 from 28 at a strike rate of 228, Dewald Brevis added 37 from 18, and a target of 165 disappeared with eleven balls unused. In the earlier game, the women's derby was tied at 151 apiece.
Colombo Answer the Question They Failed the Night Before: Hermann's 48 Off 26 Beats Dambulla by 4 Wickets
Twenty-four hours after losing a chase because nobody batted long enough or fast enough, Colombo Kaps sent Rubin Hermann out to do both. He made 48 from 26, Kamindu Mendis added 39, and 175 was overhauled with six balls to spare. Reeza Hendricks's 80 and a record fourth-wicket stand with Sikandar Raza deserved better than a Dambulla side that could not find the last twenty runs.
A Cardiff Afternoon That Never Got Going: Trent Rockets Win Both Halves of the Double-Header at Sophia Gardens
We said the first twenty-five balls of each innings would decide this and that Welsh Fire had the better attack for the conditions. Welsh Fire were 122 for 7 and the Rockets chased it with 28 balls unused. Ben Duckett's unbeaten 52 and Mitchell Santner's 3 for 35 made the men's match a formality; Beth Mooney's 57 from 35 had already done the same to the women's. Two matches, one team, no arguments.
Croes Bats the Long Way Round: Netherlands Beat Nepal by 57 Runs in Utrecht
Nepal won the toss, chose to bowl, and Karan KC's 4 for 30 nearly justified the decision. Then Noah Croes played the innings the surface demanded — 70 from 93 balls, no hurry, no risk — and Scott Edwards added 57. Two hundred and twenty-five for nine looked ordinary until Nepal's chase reached the eighth over. Kyle Klein's 3 for 26 did the rest.
Two Hundred and Six in Embrach: Grace Wetherall's 74 Off 33 Buries Switzerland by 66 Runs
Switzerland won the toss, chose to field, and watched Jersey Women post the sort of total that ends a match in the first ten overs. Wetherall struck at 224 for 33 balls, Annabel Mossop finished unbeaten on 43, and 206 for 5 left the hosts chasing something that was never realistically available. Danashi Medagoda's 32 not out was the day's most stubborn resistance.
One Hundred and Forty-Three in Sixty-One Balls: Brazil Women Turn a Chase Into a Statement Against Spain
Amy Brown-Carrera's 55 off 34 took Spain to 142 for 5, a total that should have made for a proper contest. Brazil passed it in 10.1 overs. Monnike Machado made 54 off 24, Ana Sabino 33 off 10 at a strike rate of 330, Lindsay Boas 24 off 8 — three batters, three different kinds of violence, and fifty-nine balls left unused.
Seventy-Six, and Then Fifty Minutes: Brazil Women Dismantle Switzerland by 6 Wickets in Embrach
The hosts lasted 18.3 overs and made 76. Brazil needed 8.2 to pass it, with seventy balls of the innings unused and Lindsay Boas taking 23 off 10 at the top just to make the point emphatically. Brazil's unbeaten run through this quadrangular continues, and the gap between an established emerging side and a brand-new one has rarely looked wider.
Seventy-Five for Nine: Argentina Women Survive Canada by a Single Wicket in Buenos Aires
The toss was delayed by rain, and what followed was the sort of low-scoring T20 that no format handbook prepares you for. Canada Women batted out their twenty overs for 74 for 4 — cautious to the point of paralysis. Argentina then lost nine wickets getting the 75 they needed, and got there with eight balls to spare. A one-wicket win, and a series opener neither side will forget.
WI vs PAK, 1st Test — Day 4 Result: West Indies won by 90 runs (WI 311 & 181; PAK 282 & 120)
Set 211 on a surface that had stopped pretending to be fair, Pakistan lasted 40.2 overs. Jayden Seales took 5 for 20, Justin Greaves finished with match figures of 7 for 39, and Babar Azam carried 58 not out through a collapse he could see coming and could not stop. West Indies lead the two-match series 1-0.
Athapaththu Does It With Both Hands: Sri Lanka Women Win by 8 Wickets and Take the Series 2-1
Pakistan Women were bowled out for 187 in 40 overs, their captain-in-waiting problem exposed by a captain who already knows exactly who she is. Chamari Athapaththu took 3 for 27 and then made 52 from 38 balls; Harshitha Samarawickrama finished unbeaten on 71 and walked away with the Player of the Series award. Sri Lanka home with 76 balls to spare.
Sunrisers Leeds vs Manchester Super Giants Review — 182 Chased at Headingley, and Brook Made the Last Bit Look Rude
Jos Buttler's unbeaten 63 off 33 and Heinrich Klaasen's 53 off 27 put Manchester Super Giants on 181, a total that has won almost every Hundred game it has ever been posted in. Mitch Marsh hit 63 from 26 to break its back, Zak Crawley made a calm 56 not out, and Harry Brook finished with 42 not out off 17 including six sixes. Twelve balls to spare. The highest successful chase Headingley has seen.
Zadran's 95 and Madushanka's Best: Jaffna Kings Beat Colombo Kaps by 19 Runs at Pallekele
Ibrahim Zadran batted through 65 balls for 95 — twelve fours, three sixes, and almost no false shots — to carry Jaffna Kings to 202 for 5. Colombo Kaps were never quite in the chase, and Dilshan Madushanka's career-best 3 for 30 made sure they never got there. Jaffna's fourth win of LPL 2026.
Wittmann Again: Namibia Women Make It Six From Six With an 8-Wicket Win Over Hong Kong
Hong Kong found 120 for 6 out of a surface that offered them very little and a Namibian attack that offered them less. Then the home captain walked out and hit ten fours in 38 balls. Namibia finished it in 13.4 overs, stayed unbeaten, and now lead the quadrangular with a net run rate nobody else can reach.
Zimbabwe vs India 3rd T20I Review — A 15-Year-Old Signs Off in Style: Sooryavanshi's 81 and Mayank's Thunder Complete India's 3-0 Sweep
India came to Harare with six straight T20I defeats behind them and a captain under scrutiny. They left with a clean sweep, the No.1 ranking back in their hands, and a 15-year-old at the centre of everything. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 81 from 49 balls carried India to 192 for 5; Mayank Yadav struck with the first ball of the reply and finished with 3 for 29; Ryan Burl's unbeaten 54 gave Zimbabwe dignity but never a route to 193. India won by 35 runs — their third win in three, and Shreyas Iyer's first series as captain that ended with something to hold.
Manchester Super Giants vs Birmingham Phoenix Review — Buttler Empties Old Trafford's Stands of Doubt: 90 from 50, and an 87-Run Rout
Two nights earlier Birmingham Phoenix had made 214 and won. Here they were bowled out for 100 and lost by 87 — the largest runs margin in Manchester Super Giants' T20 history. Jos Buttler was the reason for the first half of that: 90 from 50 balls, seven fours, five sixes, the second-highest individual score The Hundred has seen at this ground. Liam Dawson's 3 for 15 was the reason for the second. Two wins from two, and MSG sit top of the table.
Trent Rockets vs London Spirit Review — Duckett Sets It Up, and Craig Overton Finishes It Off His Own Twin Brother
London Spirit's 159 for 9 looked defendable at Trent Bridge, where nobody had chased more in The Hundred. Ben Duckett changed that with 75 from 47 balls of pulls and scoops, and the last act belonged to a family argument: Craig Overton, who had earlier caught-and-bowled Jonny Bairstow for a duck, top-edged his twin brother Jamie for six over deep fine leg and then ran two twos to complete a four-wicket win. Rockets have their first win. Spirit are still looking for theirs.
WI vs PAK, 1st Test — Day 1 Stumps: Hodge's Unbeaten 83 Carries West Indies to 194/3, Pakistan Yet to Bat
On a new Test ground and a heavy day for West Indies cricket, the hosts chose to bat and closed Day 1 on 194 for 3 from 67 overs. Kavem Hodge stood unbroken on 83, Shai Hope beside him on 39, the pair adding an unbeaten stand that dragged the innings back from a fitful morning. For Babar Azam, back as Test captain and without Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Abbas was the pick of the bowling with 2 for 44. Honours, at the close, were roughly even.
Sunrisers Leeds vs Southern Brave Review — Marsh Lights Up Headingley, Rashid Holds His Nerve: Sunrisers Sneak Home by 5
On his first appearance in front of a home crowd, Mitchell Marsh played the innings the evening demanded — 69 from 34 balls of clean, front-foot hitting that gave Sunrisers Leeds a platform of 187. Dan Lawrence's unbeaten 24-ball fifty finished the job with the bat. Then, with Tristan Stubbs threatening to steal it late, Adil Rashid's 3 for 21 and a nerveless death effort squeezed Southern Brave out five runs short. The Sunrisers have their first win of the season, and they earned every inch of it.
NAM vs NED Review — De Leede Falls Three Short of Glory but Not of the Win: Netherlands Beat Namibia by 58 in Utrecht
Bas de Leede played the innings of the day — 97 of controlled aggression that dragged Netherlands to 251 for 6 — and then watched Logan van Beek finish the job with a four-wicket burst. Namibia had Louren Steenkamp's fluent 68 to keep them interested, but a chase of 252 in gloomy Utrecht never quite found a second gear, and they were bowled out for 193. Three runs shy of a hundred, de Leede still walked off with the match.
GG vs KR Review — Kandy Royals Find the Squeeze: Moeen Ali Anchors, the Attack Holds, and Galle Fall 11 Short at Dambulla
Galle Gallants won the toss, backed their chase, and for long stretches looked like they might pull it off. But Kandy Royals' 165 for 6 — built around a composed 41 from Moeen Ali — proved just heavy enough, and when the Galle innings needed to break into a sprint it kept stumbling into fielders and dot balls. Kandy defended it by 11 runs, and the man who set the tone with the bat walked off with the Player of the Match award.
Wittmann's 56 Makes It Look Easy: Namibia Women Cruise Past Tanzania by 9 Wickets in Windhoek
Tanzania's 96 for 5 was never going to be enough on a true High Performance Oval surface, and Sune Wittmann's fluent 56 turned the chase into a formality — Namibia home in 13.4 overs with 38 balls to spare.
Welsh Fire vs MI London Review — Kiwi Verve in Cardiff: Ravindra's 98 and Ferguson's 4/25 Sink MI London by 15
For 44 balls, Rachin Ravindra batted as though he were playing an entirely different game on an entirely different pitch — a 22-ball fifty, a run to 98, the joint fourth-highest score in the men's competition's history. It lifted Welsh Fire to 167/5. Then, when James Vince's 66 threatened to steal it back, Lockie Ferguson came back to clean up the tail and finish with 4 for 25. In front of a record crowd at Sophia Gardens, the two New Zealanders combined to topple three-time winners MI London by 15 runs.
DS vs CK Review — Kamindu Leads From the Front: A Captain's 88* Off 39 Powers Colombo Kaps Past Dambulla by 21
Handed the armband only days earlier after Kusal Mendis was ruled out, Kamindu Mendis answered the way captains dream of — an unbeaten 88 off 39 balls that lifted Colombo Kaps to 197 for 5 at Rangiri Dambulla. Dambulla Sixers, who had won the toss and chosen to chase, fought through fifties and cameos but never quite closed the gap, finishing 176 for 8. Twenty-one runs, and Colombo climb into the thick of the LPL 2026 table.
India Seal the Series in Harare: Kishan's 81 and Tilak's Fifty Crush Zimbabwe by 90 Runs
One night after a fourteen-year-old lit up the chase, it was the senior heads who did the work. Ishan Kishan struck 81 off 44 and Tilak Varma an unbeaten 60 to carry India to 219 for 5, and Zimbabwe — asked to climb a mountain they had no gear for — were bowled out for 129. India won the 2nd T20I by 90 runs at Harare Sports Club and, with it, the three-match series 2-0. Abhishek Sharma's part-time spin, not the express pace everyone came to watch, delivered the knockout blow.
Two Hundreds, One Record Stand — Sri Lanka Women Level the Series with a Chase That Never Blinked
Chasing 274 at Hambantota, Vishmi Gunaratne made 123 and Harshitha Samarawickrama an unbeaten 100, their 203-run partnership the highest for any wicket in Sri Lanka Women's ODI history. Pakistan's competitive 273 for 5 was overhauled with eight wickets and 19 balls to spare, and a series Pakistan led is level once more at 1-1.
Phoenix Rise on Clarke's Fireworks: 214 Defended by 10 as Rockets' Fast Start Runs Out of Fuel at Edgbaston
On a flat Edgbaston deck under lights, the toss looked like a formality and the chase looked live for 25 balls. Joe Clarke's 68 off 33 had already given Birmingham Phoenix a towering 214 for 4, and Trent Rockets answered in kind — 54 without loss inside their first 25 deliveries, the powerplay a blur of clean hitting. But a chase this steep needs the launchpad to keep firing, and once Phoenix's bowlers found their lengths the required rate did the rest. Rockets finished 204 for 7, ten short, beaten by the margin of one good over they never quite played.
Namibia Keep Marching in Windhoek: Mwatile's 39 Guides the Hosts Past Hong Kong With 10 Balls to Spare
There was nothing flashy about it, and that is exactly what made it a statement. Hong Kong, put in, could only build 113 for 7 on a used High Performance Oval surface, and Namibia's chase never once looked like a gamble. Wilka Mwatile's composed 39 off 32 and Kayleen Green's 26 did the heavy lifting, and the hosts got home by five wickets with ten balls in hand to keep their unbeaten run in this quadrangular series intact. On home soil, Namibia are doing what the best associate sides do — winning the games they are supposed to, without fuss.
Uganda Squeeze Home by Five: Musamali and the Bowlers Just Outlast Neema Pius in a Windhoek Nailbiter
This was the game the Women's T20I Quadrangular needed — a real contest, decided by nerve rather than a mismatch. Rita Musamali's 37 and Immaculate Nakisuuyi's 33 lifted Uganda to 132 for 6, a total that always looked a few runs light. Neema Pius' bright 38 gave Tanzania every chance, but Perice Kamunya (2/14) and Asumin Akurut (2/20) kept nipping the chase in the bud, and Uganda held on to win by five runs. Two associate sides, one thin margin, and a night that showed how far this cricket has come.
A Fourteen-Year-Old Lights Up Harare: India End a Losing Run and Hand Shreyas Iyer His First Win as Captain
India arrived in Zimbabwe under a cloud — a 1-from-9 summer in England, a captaincy handed to Shreyas Iyer, a squad thinned by rest and injury. For thirteen overs at Harare Sports Club, all of it lifted. Mayank Yadav's raw pace pinned Zimbabwe to 125 for 7, and then Vaibhav Sooryavanshi took the chase and turned it into a highlight reel — a fifty of such violence that 126 was gone with 40 balls to spare. India won by seven wickets. Not everything is fixed. But for one night, the noise stopped.
Same Story, New Ground: Colombo Kaps Beat Kandy Royals by 23 to Sit Top, While the Superteam Stays Winless at the Bottom
It is becoming a habit. For the second time in five days, Colombo Kaps out-thought and out-fought the most expensively assembled squad in LPL 2026. In Dambulla they made 192 for 9 — Rubin Hermann's maiden league fifty and Janith Liyanage's unbeaten 52 the pillars — and then watched Mujeeb Ur Rahman tear the heart out of Kandy's chase, reducing them to 77 for 5 before Angelo Mathews's lone defiance ran out of partners. Colombo won by 23 runs, moved top of the table, and left Shaheen Afridi, Moeen Ali and Wanindu Hasaranga staring at a nought in the points column and a third defeat in three.
The Gallants Keep Rolling: Sahan Arachchige's 63 and a Clinical Bowling Effort Beat Jaffna Kings by 60 Runs
There is a quiet ruthlessness to Galle Gallants this season, and Dambulla saw it again. Sahan Arachchige's 63 off 36 gave their innings its spine on the way to 193 for 8, and then Jaffna Kings — chasing with a batting order that promised more — simply came apart, bowled out for 133 in 17.5 overs. A 60-run win, a Player of the Match award for Arachchige, and further evidence that the least starry-eyed team in LPL 2026 may also be the best.
Super Giants Hold Their Nerve at Lord's: Seifert's 67 Just Outlasts a Livingstone Special as Manchester Win by 7
The Hundred returned to Lord's wearing new colours — IPL ownership, an MSG badge, a competition remade in franchise cricket's image — and produced an old-fashioned thriller. Tim Seifert's 67 off 45 gave Manchester Super Giants 138 for 9, and it needed every run. Liam Livingstone answered with 69 off 40, five sixes and a captain's fury, and dragged London Spirit to the brink before the bowling of Atkinson and Baker held the line. Super Giants won by 7. Livingstone lost, brilliantly.
Feroza's 78 Sets the Tone: Pakistan Women Cruise Past Sri Lanka by 5 Wickets to Take the Series Lead
There are chases that survive and chases that stroll, and Pakistan's pursuit of 211 in Hambantota belonged firmly to the second kind. Gull Feroza's composed 78 and Sidra Amin's 57 turned a competitive Sri Lankan 210 for 9 into a target reached with five wickets and seven overs in hand. Chamari Athapaththu and Nilakshika Silva had given the hosts something to bowl at; Nashra Sandhu's 3 for 42 had already ensured it would not be enough. Pakistan lead the ICC Women's Championship series 1-0, with the points that come with it.
Edwards Passes a Milestone as Netherlands Ease Home: Nepal's 157 Was Never Going to Be Enough in Utrecht
In the unglamorous but ruthlessly important world of ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 — where associate nations fight for World Cup qualification one ODI at a time — Netherlands did exactly what a home favourite should. Nepal, sent in, could only manage 157, Rohit Paudel and Dipendra Singh Airee the only batters to pass 30. Scott Edwards then knocked off the runs with an unbeaten 61 that also carried him past Max O'Dowd to become the Netherlands' leading ODI run-scorer. A six-wicket win, two points, and a captain writing his name into the record book.
The Greatest Ground in Cricket Forgot How to Defend: England 387, India 360, and a Series Decided by 27 Runs
Lord's has staged Test matches decided by a session and finals decided by a run-out. On Sunday it staged something it had never seen — 747 runs in a day, the highest List A total in its history, and a losing side that scored 360 and had almost nothing to apologise for. Ben Duckett made 141 and passed a Viv Richards record that had stood 47 years. Rohit Sharma answered with 138, the first ODI century by an Indian man at this ground, and it was not enough. England win by 27, take the series 2-1, and end a summer in which India have found the answer to almost nothing.
In Sobers' Barbados, a Game That Refused to Die: New Zealand Win by One Wicket and Take the Series
West Indies were bowled out for 188 and should have been finished. Instead Gudakesh Motie, a left-arm spinner who had never taken five in an ODI, bowled the innings of his life and dragged New Zealand from comfort to the edge of ruin — nine wickets down, the target still creeping closer, an entire island holding its breath. Mitchell Santner, unbeaten on 34, saw it through with 35 balls to spare and won the series 3-1. It was the best cricket West Indies have played all tour, and it still was not enough. On a ground draped in mourning for a man who died two days earlier, the cricket found a way to be worthy of him.
The Anchor Nobody Wanted: Tanzid Hasan Bats 58 Balls for 66 and Steals Zimbabwe's Series in Bulawayo
This was not a T20 innings built for highlight packages. Tanzid Hasan hit one four and four sixes in 58 deliveries and spent the rest of the evening refusing to get out, while at the other end Bangladesh's middle order kept finding ways to make it complicated. Zimbabwe had 143 to defend and Brad Evans nearly defended it, taking two in his final over to leave the decider hanging on the last twelve balls. Mahedi Hasan finished it with two to spare. Bangladesh win the series 2-1 from a match down — their first T20I series victory of the year — and Sikandar Raza's record-breaking 314th appearance for Zimbabwe ends with nothing to celebrate.
The Superteam Is Bottom of the Table: Colombo Kaps Recover From 67 for 4 to Beat Kandy Royals by 6 Wickets
Read the Kandy Royals team sheet aloud — Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Wanindu Hasaranga, Moeen Ali, Angelo Mathews — and it sounds unbeatable. They have now played two matches in LPL 2026 and lost both. On Sunday night at the SSC they made 179, watched Colombo Kaps collapse to 67 for four inside ten overs, and then stood and watched Janith Liyanage and James Neesham add 115 without being separated. Liyanage's 53 not out off 32 won the match award and Colombo's first points of the season. Kandy's collapse from 170 for five was the quieter, more damaging story.
A Dynasty Wins Ugly: Dambulla Bowled Out for 130, and Jaffna Kings Still Needed Their Captain to Save Them
This was supposed to be the afternoon Dambulla Sixers tested the champions. Instead they were dismissed for 130 in 19.3 overs, no batter reaching 30, their last five wickets worth 29 runs. And then, with the game apparently a formality, Jaffna Kings lost four wickets and made 130 look like a total. Bhanuka Rajapaksa — captain, and the man Dambulla could not remove — made 61 not out off 37 and walked off with the match. Four titles in five editions buys you a lot of things. On the evidence of Sunday at the SSC, comfort is not one of them.
Fatigue Was Supposed to Be the Story. Galle Gallants Made It Two From Two Instead.
The preview's whole premise was the turnaround — the Gallants back at the SSC less than twenty-four hours after the opener, legs heavy, against a Colombo Kaps side rested and waiting. Freshness against pedigree, we called it. Pedigree won. Chasing 190 under the Colombo lights, Galle Gallants got home with four balls to spare, Sahan Arachchige's unbeaten 38 off 16 the cold-blooded finishing act at the end of a chase that never quite let Colombo believe. The Kaps had done their part — a record 97-run stand between Ben McDermott and Kusal Mendis, seven sixes from Mendis alone, 189 for 8 — and it still wasn't enough. Two matches, two wins, and a Galle side that is beginning to look exactly as dangerous as its team sheet promised.
The Quiet Opener Who Set the Colombo Afternoon Alight: Reeza Hendricks Powers Dambulla Sixers Past Kandy Royals
We spent the whole preview talking about the fast bowlers — Shaheen and Farooqi, the two finest left-arm quicks in the tournament, the men who were supposed to set the tone. Instead the afternoon belonged to the man we called 'deceptively valuable,' the opener whose strike rate we said didn't scream aggression. Reeza Hendricks made 87 not out off 50 balls, dragged Dambulla Sixers from a stutter to 205 for 6 with a 94-run seventh-wicket stand alongside Gulbadin Naib, and then watched his bowlers defend it. Kandy Royals, for all their star power, could only manage 187 for 6 — Vijay Shankar's unbeaten 41 a lone act of resistance in a chase that never found its second gear. Dambulla by 18, and a reminder that in T20 cricket the headline act is rarely the one you scripted.
The Challengers Land the First Blow: Galle Gallants Dethrone the Dynasty on Opening Night in Colombo
For six years the Lanka Premier League has been Jaffna's story — four titles, a culture of expectation, an assumption that the trophy is theirs until proven otherwise. On the opening night of the sixth edition, the Galle Gallants set out to prove otherwise, and did. Charith Asalanka's elegant 65 and Sam Harper's brutal 19-ball 40 powered them to 213 for 6 at the SSC, and when Eshan Malinga's left-arm pace tore the top off the chase, the four-time champions never recovered. Jaffna, for all their star power, fell 36 short — a dynasty opening its defence not with a coronation but with a warning shot fired across its bow.
The Same Ground, the Same Bowler, the Same Ending: West Indies Collapse Again as Lennox Sends New Zealand 2-1 Up
For an hour it looked different. West Indies were 67 for one, Keacy Carty was timing the ball, and a series that had drifted felt, briefly, retrievable. Then Jayden Lennox came on, the stumps started rattling, and the innings emptied out — nine wickets for 73, all out 140, the third act of a horror story the hosts cannot seem to stop retelling. New Zealand knocked off the runs for the loss of four wickets with more than ten overs to spare, Tom Latham and Dean Foxcroft walking off unbeaten, and left Guyana with a 2-1 lead and the quiet certainty that this West Indian batting order has no answer to a spinner asking honest questions. The series now crosses to Kensington Oval, but the doubt it leaves behind travels with the home side.
Finally, a Foothold: Bangladesh's Openers and a Spinner's Breakthrough Level the Series in Bulawayo
For a tour that had given them nothing — an innings Test defeat, a lost ODI series, a beating in the first T20I — Bangladesh had been searching for a single passage of play they could call their own. They found it at Queens Sports Club: an opening stand that finally lasted, two composed fifties from Tanzid Hasan Tamim and Saif Hassan, a ten-ball cameo from Mohammad Saifuddin, and then Rishad Hossain's leg-spin biting exactly as the pitch had promised. Zimbabwe, chasing 187, never found the tempo, folding for 152 as the wickets tumbled through the middle. Bangladesh win by 34 runs, the series is 1-1, and a tour that looked finished has a decider.
One Run Short of the Perfect Night: Joe Root's Unbeaten 99 Drags England Level as India Collapse in Cardiff
For thirty overs this belonged to India. Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer had made half-centuries, the platform was laid, 280 felt the floor rather than the ceiling — and then the innings simply fell out of India's hands, seven wickets tumbling for 55 as Jofra Archer and Gus Atkinson found the movement the middle order could not survive. England needed 234, lost an opener to the first ball, and were rescued by the one man in this squad who makes crisis look like routine. Joe Root batted from the second delivery of the reply to the last, finishing unbeaten on 99 — one boundary short of a hundred he had earned twice over — as Atkinson's pull sealed a four-wicket win with 35 balls to spare. The series is 1-1. Everything now points to Lord's.
SL-U19 vs IND-U19, 1st Youth Test — Day 4: Match drawn; Raichandani 207 and Krishna 100 turn a 424 deficit into a 152-run lead
A Test that Senuja Wekunagoda's 233 had shaped on Day 2 was quietly wrestled away by India's teenagers over the two days that followed. Lakshya Raichandani converted his Day 3 hundred into a colossal 207 across 324 balls and 492 minutes; Sagar Virk had already made 134; and wicketkeeper Manav Krishna completed the answer with a composed 100 before becoming the last man dismissed. India U19 batted on to 576 all out and a first-innings lead of 152, and with too little time left, Sri Lanka U19 declared their second innings at 178/6 to shake hands on a draw. No result — but for India's age-group watchers, a Galle full of green shoots.
SL-U19 vs IND-U19, 1st Youth Test — Day 3 Stumps: India U19 378/3, trail by just 46 with 7 wickets in hand
A Test that Senuja Wekunagoda's 233 seemed to have shaped now belongs, at least in momentum, to India's teenagers. Lakshya Raichandani and Sagar Virk extended their overnight stand to a colossal 295 for the first wicket — Virk making 134 before Lathendra Akash finally prised him out, Raichandani converting his overnight 93 into a composed hundred and batting on unbeaten. India U19 close Day 3 at 378 for 3, only 46 adrift of Sri Lanka's 424, with seven wickets still standing and a lead — perhaps a large one — there for the taking on Day 4.
The Fast Men Take Over — Zimbabwe's Ngarava and Muzarabani Blow Bangladesh Away to Win the T20I Opener by 32
A tour that has belonged to Zimbabwe from the first ball did not change character in Bulawayo. Brian Bennett's 44 gave the hosts a defendable 170 for 6, and then Richard Ngarava (4/26) and Blessing Muzarabani, four wickets apiece, reduced Bangladesh's chase to rubble. Yasir Ali's defiant 54 was the only innings that fought back; Bangladesh folded for 138, and Zimbabwe went 1-0 up with the same authority that had already sealed the Test and the ODIs.
Taylor Does It Again — a Century From the Wreckage Carries West Indies to a 64-Run Win and a 3-0 Sweep
West Indies Women were 48 for 4 and wobbling when Stafanie Taylor decided the series would end on her terms. Her second hundred in as many matches — the ninth of her ODI career — lifted the visitors to 257, and once Afy Fletcher and the West Indies attack got to work, Ireland's chase never truly threatened. Gaby Lewis' fifty offered a flicker; the tourists bowled Ireland out for 193 to win by 64 and complete a clean 3-0 series sweep at Bready.
The Format Remembered Who India Are: Axar Patel's Two-Way Masterclass Sinks England at Edgbaston and Rescues a Tour
For eleven days this tour belonged to England. On a warm Birmingham evening the fifty-over game handed it back — and it did so through the least heralded man on the teamsheet. Axar Patel took 4 for 62 to peg England to 258, then walked out with the chase teetering, three wickets gone for the addition of eleven, and calmly built an unbroken 102 with Washington Sundar to steer India home by six wickets with 28 balls in hand. Shubman Gill's 80 had done the early work; the returning trinity of Rohit, Kohli and Bumrah drew the noise. But the match belonged to Axar, and with it India take a 1-0 lead and, at last, a night on this tour that felt like their own.
SL-U19 vs IND-U19, 1st Youth Test — Day 2 Stumps: Sri Lanka U19 424/9 dec, India U19 186/0, trail by 238
Galle spent a day and a half belonging to Senuja Wekunagoda, whose 233 — the highest score by a Sri Lanka U19 batter in Youth Tests — powered the hosts to 424 for 9 before they declared. It set up an examination India's teenagers might have been forgiven for failing. Instead, Lakshya Raichandani and Sagar Virk answered a mountain with patience of their own, walking off unbeaten on 93 and 87 with an opening stand of 186 intact. India U19 close Day 2 at 186 for no loss, 238 behind, a Test that looked one-sided at lunch now quietly alive.
Two Great Hands, One Winner — Gous' 96 Outguns Pooran's 86 as Washington Freedom Chase Down MI New York
This was a Grand Prairie shoot-out settled by the better second act. Nicholas Pooran's 86 off 44 dragged MI New York to 187 for 8, but Andries Gous answered with 96 off 54 and a 116-run stand with Rachin Ravindra (60 off 30) that turned the chase into a stroll. Washington Freedom got home by five wickets with nine balls to spare.
Ranjane Rescues, Munro Finishes — Los Angeles Knight Riders Run Down Texas Super Kings in Dallas
Texas Super Kings kept losing wickets and Shivam Ranjane kept salvaging, his unbeaten 51 lifting them to 171 for 9. It was never quite enough. Colin Munro's 62 off 36 opened the door and Matthew Tromp, Andre Fletcher and Andre Russell walked through it, LAKR chasing down 172 with wickets and overs in hand.
Two Hundreds, One Procession — Matthews and Taylor Both Reach 100 as West Indies Seal a 2-0 Lead
Ireland Women did plenty right — Amy Hunter 67, Rebecca Stokell 57, a record fourth-wicket stand, 241 for 7 to defend. And then Hayley Matthews and Stafanie Taylor each made a hundred and made 242 look like a warm-up. West Indies won by six wickets with 67 balls to spare, and lead the series 2-0.
A Consolation Worth Keeping — Switzerland Women Take the Fifth T20I by 25 Runs as Germany Win the Series 4-1
The series was long settled, but nobody told Switzerland. Franziska Kuenburg's patient 40 held the innings together, Vani Dhanuka's brisk 37 gave it life, and Meghana Lakayil's 3 for 27 broke Germany's chase apart. Switzerland won by 25 runs at Karlsruhe — a first win on tour, and a reason to leave smiling even as Germany took the series 4-1.
ENG-W vs IND-W, Only Test — Day 1 Stumps: India Women 285, England Women 21/1, trail by 264
Lord's held its first women's Test, and for an afternoon it belonged to Smriti Mandhana — 83 of the most graceful runs the old ground has seen, and then the cruel edge that denied her the honours board. Her innings framed India Women's 285, propped up by gritty fifties from Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma, before a familiar late wobble — four wickets for eleven, Sophie Ecclestone doing the mopping — trimmed the total. England lost Tammy Beaumont in reply and closed on 21 for 1, 264 behind, with a historic Test poised and three days to shape it.
Matthews Makes History at Bready: An Unbeaten 159 and a Record Stand Bury Ireland Women by 9 Wickets
Amy Hunter's 96 gave Ireland Women 269 and a total to defend — and Hayley Matthews spent the afternoon making it look like a formality. Her unbeaten 159, alongside Realeanna Grimmond's 91, produced a 258-run opening stand — West Indies' highest partnership for any wicket in ODI history — and carried the tourists to their biggest ever run chase with 68 balls to spare. One-nil up in the series, West Indies did not just win the opener; they redrew the record book while they were at it.
One Man Standing at Bristol: Iyer's Lone 80 Cannot Save India as Brook and Salt Storm the Series in 13.5 Overs
India won the toss, batted, and for the fourth time in this series watched their captain fight a battle nobody joined him for — Shreyas Iyer unbeaten on 80 out of 158 for 7, the innings a solitary act of defiance in a collapsing cast. It was never enough, and England never pretended otherwise. Harry Brook's captain's hand of 79 off 35 and Phil Salt's second fifty on the trot swept the chase away in 13.5 overs, an unbroken second-wicket stand of 146 turning a target into a formality. England won by nine wickets, moved 3-0 up in the five-match series, and sealed a bilateral series win over India with a game still to play. The rain that hid India at Chester-le-Street is gone; so, now, is the series.
Curran Carries His Bat, Zimbabwe Carry the Series: An Unbeaten 111 From 32/3 Sinks Bangladesh by 13 Runs in Harare
Zimbabwe were 32 for 3 and wobbling when Ben Curran decided the innings — and the series — would go through him. He batted all 50 overs for an unbeaten 111, only the seventh Zimbabwean to carry his bat through a men's ODI innings, and with Brad Evans's ferocious 58 not out off 39 he dragged his side to 247 for 6. Bangladesh, chasing 248, found the runs in Towhid Hridoy's 60 but never the platform, and folded for 234 to lose by 13 runs. Two down with one to play, Zimbabwe have their series — and a resurgence that is starting to look like a story.
The Detonator and the Denier: Russell's 3/34 and Narine's Squeeze Hand LAKR an 18-Run Win Over the Freedom
For weeks the Los Angeles Knight Riders have been the MLC's side of glorious evenings and forgettable ones — all talent, little consistency. At Grand Prairie on Thursday they were, for once, both brilliant and disciplined. Andre Fletcher's 59 and Matthew Tromp's 50 built a total of 192/8, Andre Russell's 3/34 broke the back of the chase, and Player-of-the-Match Sunil Narine choked the middle overs dry as Washington Freedom, the league's runaway leaders, fell 18 short on 174/8. The brilliance finally came with a strategy attached — and it toppled the team everyone else has been chasing.
A 20-Year-Old Announces Himself — Pretorius' Unbeaten 102 Crushes MI New York and Sends San Francisco Clear at the Top
MI New York's 143 for 9 was always going to need defending on a Grand Prairie belter, and San Francisco never let the question breathe. Lhuan-dre Pretorius, all timing and unhurried violence, made his maiden T20 century — 102 not out from 52 balls, ten fours, five sixes — and the Unicorns romped home by nine wickets with 26 balls to spare. It was their second win over MI New York in four days, and it stretched their lead at the summit of MLC 2026 with the playoffs coming into view.
76 All Out at Trent Bridge: England Humble India by 125 Runs — the Heaviest Defeat in Their T20I History
It was supposed to be the ground where India's batting could breathe — flat, short-boundaried, built for stroke-play. Instead it became the scene of their deepest T20I humiliation. Phil Salt's 70 and a Sam Curran cameo lifted England to 201 for 7, and then Josh Tongue and Jofra Archer turned a chase into a demolition, bowling India out for 76 in 11.4 overs. Only Ishan Kishan and a fifteen-year-old on debut reached double figures. England lead 2-0 with two to play, the series already gone, and the questions that have followed this India side from Durham to Manchester to Nottingham are no longer questions — they are a verdict.
WI vs SL, 2nd Test — Day 4 Stumps: Greaves' 180 Hauls West Indies to 499, Sri Lanka Lead by 142
The rescue became a monument. Justin Greaves turned his overnight seventy into a mammoth 180, Shai Hope made 112, and their 242-run stand carried West Indies to within 50 of Sri Lanka's 549. By the close the tourists were batting again — 92 for 2, Dinesh Chandimal and Kamindu Mendis rebuilding, a lead of 142 and, with a placid North Sound surface refusing to break, one day left to force a result that increasingly looks beyond either side.
Zimbabwe Defend 141 to Shock Bangladesh by 25 Runs — Nyamhuri's No.9 Heroics Trump Nahid Rana's 6/21
It should have been Bangladesh's day. Nahid Rana ripped out 6 for 21 to bowl Zimbabwe out for 141, the kind of total that wins matches for the side chasing. Instead, Newman Nyamhuri's defiant 33 from No.9 gave Zimbabwe something to bowl at, and Richard Ngarava, Brad Evans, Blessing Muzarabani and Nyamhuri himself turned 141 into a fortress — Bangladesh folding for 116 as Zimbabwe defended the fourth-lowest total in their men's ODI history.
WI vs SL, 2nd Test — Day 3 Stumps: West Indies 294/4, Hope and Greaves Answer the Mountain, Trail by 255
For an hour it looked as though Sri Lanka's 549 would swallow West Indies whole. At 144 for 4 the follow-on loomed and the series was tilting the tourists' way. Then Shai Hope and Justin Greaves dug in, and dug in, and dug in — an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 150 that carried the hosts to 294 for 4 by stumps on Day 3, both men unbeaten in the seventies, the follow-on all but survived and the match dragged back from the edge. West Indies still trail by 255, but for the first time in this Test they are the ones refusing to break.
The Left-Hander Kept His Nerve While the Leg-Spinner Lost His: Bethell's 76 Chases Down 190 and England Go 1-0 Up
India batted first, posted a competitive 190 for 7, and for an hour looked like a side finally turning a corner — Ishan Kishan's 49, Abhishek Sharma's 43 off 24, a total worth defending at Old Trafford. Then Jacob Bethell walked in and played the innings of the series so far, an unbeaten 76 from 46 that never once looked hurried, and England chased it down with six balls to spare. The margin was four wickets. The difference was 60 runs off Ravi Bishnoi's four overs — and a leg-spinner's unravelling that England's coolest young head made sure to punish.
Some Rivalries Are One-Sided — Pollard's 63 Sends MI New York Top and LAKR to a Sixth Straight Loss in the Fixture
Jason Holder's 43 gave Los Angeles Knight Riders a total to bowl at — 165 for 6, competitive on a used Pomona surface. Then Kieron Pollard walked out and reminded everyone why this head-to-head reads the way it does. His unbeaten 63 from 35, in an 88-run stand with Corey Anderson, ran the target down with a ball to spare. Six wickets, first place on the table, and a rivalry that is now, emphatically, 6-0.
One Over Changed a Season — Edwards' Four-For Bowls Washington From Sixth to First in an Afternoon
It took a single, savage over to tilt a table. Jack Edwards struck three times in the sixth to leave San Francisco Unicorns 45 for 4, and from there the Freedom's afternoon only got better — the Unicorns bundled out for 126, the chase steered home by Steven Smith's composed 56 and Mark Chapman's 44. Five wickets in hand, a four-wicket burst to remember, and Washington Freedom vaulting from bottom half to the summit of MLC 2026.
Eight Runs and a Held Nerve — Portugal Edge Finland at Kerava to Stay in Command of the Series
There is nothing quite like a chase that falls just short to remind you how fine the margins are in this game. Portugal built to 181 for 4, a total with room in it, and then watched Finland come at it all the way to the final over before running out of deliveries on 173 for 6. Eight runs the margin, Sharn Gomes the Player of the Match, and Portugal's touring summer in northern Europe rolling on.
WI vs SL, 2nd Test — Day 2 Stumps: Sri Lanka Declare on 549/9, West Indies 58/1 and Staring Up a Mountain of 491
A team beaten by an innings a week ago is now the one dictating terms. Building on Lahiru Udara's 188, Sonal Dinusha and Kusal Mendis (69) put on 143 for the sixth wicket to take Sri Lanka past 500 for the first time ever in the West Indies before declaring at 549 for 9. By stumps the hosts were 58 for 1, John Campbell digging in on 31 not out, still 491 runs adrift and with four days of survival — or salvation — ahead.
SL-A vs IND-A, 2nd Unofficial Test — Day 3 Stumps: Sudharsan's Career-Best 168 Towers Over Galle as India A Lead by 175
Overnight centurion Sai Sudharsan turned 104 not out into a commanding 168, his best score for India A, as the tourists batted Sri Lanka A out of the contest. Devdutt Padikkal fell without adding to his overnight 94, Ruturaj Gaikwad retired hurt, but useful runs from Dhruv Jurel (53), Shaik Rasheed (45) and an unbeaten 68 from Saransh Jain carried India A to 541 for 8 and a lead of 175. Keshara Nuwantha's five kept Sri Lanka A in the fight; the advantage, though, is firmly India A's.
WI vs SL, 2nd Test — Day 1 Stumps: Sri Lanka 338/5, Lahiru Udara's 188 Turns Humiliation into Defiance at North Sound
Beaten inside four days and by an innings in the first Test, Sri Lanka needed someone to stand up and stay up — and Lahiru Udara did both, falling twelve short of a double-hundred after a record 215-run stand with Kamindu Mendis. Shamar Joseph struck twice in the first hour and Jayden Seales brought up his 100th Test wicket, but by stumps a battered touring side had 338 on the board and, for the first time this series, the better of a day.
SL-A vs IND-A, 2nd Unofficial Test — Day 2 Stumps: Sudharsan's Hundred and Padikkal's 94* Seize Galle for India A
Sri Lanka A's first innings folded for 366 as India A claimed the last five wickets on the second morning — and then two left-handers took the day away. Sai Sudharsan reached an unbeaten century and Devdutt Padikkal stood on the brink of his own on 94, an unbroken 181-run stand carrying India A to 247 for 1 and to within 119 of the lead with nine wickets standing.
A New Home, an Old Class Reasserted — Powell and Munro Christen Pomona as LAKR End the Crisis Against du Plessis's Super Kings
The first competitive ball ever bowled at Knight Riders Field found a Los Angeles side in freefall — two collapses in a week, confidence in tatters. By the last it found a fortress. Rovman Powell's 73 not out and Colin Munro's unbeaten 55, in a record fourth-wicket stand of 101, ran down Texas Super Kings' 173 for 5 with wickets and balls to spare. Seven-wicket win, crisis over, and a ground announced.
England Exorcise the Ghost of Newlands — Sciver-Brunt's 75 From 23/3 Beats South Africa by 40 Runs and Books a Lord's Final
For two World Cups South Africa had been the wall England could not climb. At The Oval, Shabnim Ismail reduced them to 23 for 3 and the old story threatened a third chapter — and then Nat Sciver-Brunt, back from injury, and Heather Knight put on 133, the highest partnership in Women's T20 World Cup knockout history. England made 169/5, bowled South Africa out of it for 129/8, and finally answered the question that had haunted them: what does it take to beat this side when it matters most.
SL-A vs IND-A, 2nd Unofficial Test — Day 1 Stumps: Sri Lanka A 288/5, Arachchige's Unbeaten 83 the Spine of a Grafting Day at Galle
India A won the toss and bowled, and for long spells at Galle they looked like they had made the right call — but Sri Lanka A kept finding partnerships, and captain Sahan Arachchige kept refusing to give his wicket away. Contributions from Nuwanindu Fernando, Anjala Bandara and the openers built the platform; Arachchige's 83 not out carried it to 288 for 5 by stumps.
Level After Twenty, Decided in One — Portugal Win the Super Over to Sweep Sweden 3-0 in Stockholm
There was nothing between them for forty overs: Sweden 156, Portugal 156, a tie that sent a chilly Stockholm evening into a Super Over. And there, in the six balls that strip a T20 down to its nerves, Portugal were the calmer side — enough to win the extra over, seal the third T20I and complete a clean 3-0 sweep of the series.
The Champions Answered — And Then the Durham Sky Answered Back: India 189/7 Before Rain Kills the Series Opener
For two hours India looked like a wounded champion remembering exactly who it is — Abhishek Sharma's blur of a fifty, Shreyas Iyer's composed 68, Shivam Dube's late violence carrying them to 189 for 7 on a ground where 138 is par. Then the rain that had circled all evening finally closed in, England never got to bat, and the first T20I ended without a result. A performance to build on, a point neither side could bank.
Portugal Own the Stockholm Double-Header — Nunes' Fireworks and de Oliveira's Four-For Put Sweden 2-0 Down
On a busy day at the Botkyrka Cricket Center, Portugal twice found the player Sweden could not answer. Carlos Nunes' 30-ball 67 lifted the tourists to a 12-run win in the morning; by the afternoon it was Sebastian de Oliveira's 4/25 dismantling the hosts before a calm seven-wicket chase. Two matches, two Portuguese wins, and a three-game series already slipping away from Sweden.
Eighth Final, Same Aura — Mooney's 61* and a Spin Stranglehold Send Australia Past West Indies at The Oval
West Indies came to The Oval promising to play without fear, and for an hour they threatened to. Then Australia's spinners tightened the screw, 125 for 7 was never going to be enough, and Beth Mooney's unbeaten 61 turned a knockout into a stroll — eight wickets, seven overs to spare, and a place in a record eighth T20 World Cup final booked with the minimum of fuss.
ENG vs NZ, 3rd Test — Day 5 Result: New Zealand win by 160 runs to clinch a historic series, and Ben Stokes walks off for the last time
Set 373, England folded for 212 on the fifth morning, losing their last six wickets in a heap as New Zealand completed a 160-run win and a 2-1 series triumph — the first team in history to overturn a deficit to win a three-Test rubber in England. Jamie Smith's 60 was the lone meaningful stand; Ben Stokes made 30 off 20 in the final innings of his international career. Nathan Smith took Player of the Series.
ZIM vs BAN, Only Test — Day 2 Stumps: Kaia's maiden hundred drives Zimbabwe to 410 and a 270 lead; Bangladesh 40/1, trail by 230 after follow-on
Innocent Kaia turned his overnight 76 into a maiden Test century, a chanceless 140 that anchored Zimbabwe's 410 all out and a commanding 270-run lead. Brian Bennett, Craig Ervine and Wessly Madhevere all passed fifty; Taijul Islam's 7/138 was Bangladesh's lone source of cheer. Asked to follow on, the tourists reached 40 for 1 at stumps on Day 2 at Harare Sports Club — still 230 in arrears and staring at a heavy defeat.
ENG vs NZ, 3rd Test — Day 4 Stumps: England 103/4, need 270 more to chase 373 as New Zealand tighten the grip on the decider
Set 373 to win the series, England lost Bethell, Brook and — minutes before the close — Duckett to Ben Sears' lift, slipping to 103 for 4 at stumps. Daryl Mitchell's 100 not out and Rachin Ravindra's 94 had earlier powered New Zealand to 288 for 9 declared. Ben Stokes opened the chase in the final on-field act of his international career, and a fifth-day finish now decides the summer at Trent Bridge.
WI vs SL, 1st Test — Result: West Indies win by an innings and 217 as Roach hits 300 and Jangoo–Chase rewrite the record books
A first Test wins can rarely have felt this complete. Amir Jangoo's 233 and Roston Chase's 194 — a record 401 for the sixth wicket — lifted the West Indies to 626 for 9 declared, and Sri Lanka, dismissed for 308 and then 101, never landed a blow. Kemar Roach became only the fourth West Indian to 300 Test wickets as the hosts won by an innings and 217 runs at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
ZIM vs BAN, Only Test — Day 1 Stumps: Zimbabwe 136/1 trail by 4 after rolling Bangladesh for 140 in a near-perfect day in Harare
Toss won, ball gripped, openers settled — Zimbabwe could scarcely have scripted a better first day. Bangladesh were dismissed for 140, Mominul Haque's 60 the lone fight, as four home seamers each claimed at least two. Innocent Kaia's unbeaten 76 then carried Zimbabwe to 136 for 1, just four runs in arrears with nine wickets standing at stumps on Day 1 at Harare Sports Club.
Record Chase at Lord's — Perry and Gardner Sink India by 6 Wickets and End Their World Cup
India dared to dream with 170 for 4, the kind of total that should make a knockout-bound team feel safe. Australia simply refused to be impressed. Ellyse Perry's 56 and Ashleigh Gardner's unbeaten 53 carried the holders past a record 171 with an over and six wickets to spare — Australia march on, and India's Women's T20 World Cup is over.
Nervy at the Last — South Africa Edge Bangladesh by 4 Wickets to Seal a Semi-Final Berth
It should have been routine; it was anything but. Bangladesh defended 117 with discipline and heart, reducing South Africa to a sweat before Annerie Dercksen and the lower order dragged the Proteas home with four balls to spare. South Africa are through to the semi-finals — but Bangladesh made them earn every run of it at Lord's.
By a Single Run, Again — Ireland Defend 155 to Sweep India 2-0 in Belfast
Lightning struck twice at Stormont. Harry Tector's 53 gave Ireland 154 for 8, and their bowlers held their nerve to the very last delivery as India, the reigning T20 world champions, stalled on 153 for 9. A maiden T20I series win over India — and this time there can be no talk of a fluke.
Owen Leads the Charge — Washington Freedom Brush Aside San Francisco by 7 Wickets at Oakland
Twenty-four hours after surviving a last-ball thriller, Washington Freedom needed no such drama. They overhauled San Francisco Unicorns with seven wickets and four-and-a-half overs in hand, Mitchell Owen's clean striking taking the Player-of-the-Match award in a clinical night's work at the Oakland Coliseum.
The Title Defence Is Over — Wyatt-Hodge's 89 Not Out Sends New Zealand Home and England Through Unbeaten
New Zealand built a competitive 163 for 6 at The Oval and, for two innings, looked like the side that has refused to die all tournament. Then Danni Wyatt-Hodge played the innings of the night — 89 not out, an opener who simply would not be removed — and Sophia Dunkley's 49 not out saw England home with 16 balls to spare. A nine-wicket win, a fifth from five, and the end of the White Ferns' reign as champions.
Pakistan Women Finish With a Flourish — Feroza's 63 and a Bristol Collapse Sink the Netherlands by 37
With both sides already out of the running, Pakistan found the performance that had eluded them all tournament. Gull Feroza's composed unbeaten 63 anchored 126 for 6, and the Netherlands — bright early through Heather Siegers — lost their last seven wickets for 13 runs to fold for 89. Fatima Sana's 3 for 12 and Ayesha Zafar's all-round day sealed a 37-run consolation win.
Ireland Land a Famous Blow at Bristol — Prendergast's Brilliance Beats West Indies by 6 Wickets
Orla Prendergast did almost everything: two catches, a wicket, and then a controlled 63 off 44 to chase down West Indies' 128 for 7 with 11 balls to spare. It was a statement win for Ireland — and yet, in the cruel arithmetic of a World Cup group, West Indies still squeezed through to the semi-finals.
ENG vs NZ, 3rd Test — Day 3 Stumps: New Zealand 120/3 lead by 204 as Ravindra answers Archer and tilts the decider
England's first-innings fightback stalled on the third morning — 354 all out, 84 behind, with Nathan Smith taking four and concussion substitute Zak Foulkes three. Then Jofra Archer struck twice to leave New Zealand 12 for 2, only for Rachin Ravindra's counter-punching 60 not out and Daryl Mitchell's calm to steer the tourists to 120 for 3, a lead of 204, and control of the series at Trent Bridge.
WI vs SL, 1st Test — Day 3 Stumps: Jangoo 233 and Chase 194 break a 60-year record; West Indies declare on 626/9, Sri Lanka trail by 303
What was a wobble on Day 2 became a rout on Day 3. Amir Jangoo turned his unbeaten overnight 74 into 233, Roston Chase made 194, and together they put on 401 for the sixth wicket — the highest sixth-wicket partnership in Test history. West Indies declared on 626 for 9, a lead of 318, and Jayden Seales struck before stumps to leave Sri Lanka 15 for 1 and trailing by 303 at North Sound.
MI New York Hold Their Nerve at Oakland — De Kock's 77 the Difference as the Knight Riders Fall 5 Short
Quinton de Kock set the tone with a brisk 77 off 46 as MI New York posted 180 for 7. The Los Angeles Knight Riders' reply, built on a fighting innings at the top, kept the chase alive deep into the night, but MI New York's death bowling squeezed the last drops of pressure to win by 5 runs and breathe life into their MLC 2026 campaign.
Last-Ball Larceny at Oakland — Chaudhary's Six Wins It for Washington Freedom by 1 Wicket After Hosein's Hat-Trick
Texas Super Kings made 161 and then watched Akeal Hosein rip out a hat-trick to leave Washington Freedom teetering on the edge. But Nikhil Chaudhary held his nerve to the final delivery, clearing the rope when only a boundary would do, and the Freedom stole home by one wicket in a game that had everything.
ENG vs NZ, 3rd Test — Day 2 Stumps: New Zealand 438, England 223/2; Duckett's 113 and Bethell's 74* answer the tourists' weight of runs
England wrapped New Zealand up for 438 and then did the one thing they had not managed all series — bat first and bat well. Ben Duckett's 113, dropped on eight and then unrepentant, and Jacob Bethell's unbeaten 74 carried the hosts to 223 for 2, trailing by 215 with eight wickets standing and the decider alive again.
WI vs SL, 1st Test — Day 2 Stumps: West Indies 263/5, Jangoo 74* and Chase 39* turn a wobble into a position of power; trail by 45
Sri Lanka's 308 looked like it might be enough as West Indies slipped to a five-down scramble, but Amir Jangoo's composed unbeaten 74 and Roston Chase's watchful 39 not out repaired the innings at North Sound. At stumps on Day 2 the hosts were 263 for 5, only 45 in arrears with the first-innings lead — and the match — there to be taken.
Ireland Beat India for the First Time — Debutants, a Captain's Fifty, and 34 Runs That Rewrote History in Belfast
On the ninth attempt, Ireland finally crossed the line against India — and they did it convincingly. Lorcan Tucker's 50 and Gareth Delany's 49 turned 30 for 3 into 182 for 9, then debutants Matt Hollard (3/28) and Jai Moondra (2/25) tore the reigning T20 World Cup champions apart for 148. A 34-run win, and a sentence Irish cricket will never forget.
Sri Lanka Women Survive a Scare at Old Trafford — Silva's Cool Head Sees Off Scotland by 3 Wickets
Scotland's 151 for 6, built around Sarah Bryce's 47, pushed Sri Lanka all the way to the final over. Chamari Athapaththu's 33 off 16 set the chase alight, and when the middle order wobbled, Nilakshika Silva and Sugandika Kumari held firm to get the Player-of-the-Match nod and the two points with a ball to spare at Old Trafford.
ENG vs NZ, 3rd Test — Day 1 Stumps: New Zealand 361/4 as Latham and Conway add 317; Stokes's late strike denies a flawless day
Trent Bridge, where England's revolution began in 2022, watched New Zealand write the first chapter of the series decider in their own hand. Tom Latham made 151, Devon Conway 157, and for 72 overs England could not buy a wicket — until Stokes, back in the armband, struck and four fell for 44 in the final hour to give the hosts something to cling to overnight.
WI vs SL, 1st Test — Day 1 Stumps: Sri Lanka 308 all out, de Silva 120; West Indies survive a token over to trail by 308
On a green-tinged Antiguan surface, Dhananjaya de Silva's 120 and Dinesh Chandimal's 54 gave Sri Lanka a working first-innings total before Justin Greaves's 3 for 39 hauled the innings back. Bowled out for 308 in 71.5 overs, Sri Lanka then watched Brandon King and John Campbell see out a single over to leave the day finely poised.
Brits Writes Her Name in the Record Books — South Africa Crush Netherlands by 88 to Boost Semi-Final Hopes
Tazmin Brits's unbeaten 114, the second-highest individual innings in Women's T20 World Cup history, anchored South Africa's record 208/1 at Bristol. Ayabonga Khaka's 3/19 then tore through the Netherlands, who managed 120/8, as the Proteas won by 88 runs and shoved their net run rate into the semi-final conversation.
Seattle Take Oakland Apart — Hetmyer-Stoinis Fireworks and Jasdeep's Five Sink Washington by 88
Fifteen sixes between Shimron Hetmyer and Marcus Stoinis powered Seattle Orcas to 227/6 at the Oakland Coliseum, and then Jasdeep Singh ripped out Washington Freedom's top order on his way to a five-wicket haul. The Freedom folded for 139, and an 88-run win gave the Orcas the complete night MLC 2026 had been promising from them.
India Answer the Question — Shafali's 53 and a Spin Stranglehold Keep the Semi-Final Dream Alive at Old Trafford
Four days after Marizanne Kapp humbled them on this same square, India returned to Old Trafford and got the response they needed. Shafali Verma, dropped in the first over, made Bangladesh pay with 53 off 34; Radha Yadav's 3/28 led a left-arm spin squeeze that kept the target to 137. A five-wicket win, second place in Group 1 held, and a date with Australia on Sunday that now decides everything.
England First Into the Last Four — Wyatt-Hodge's 65 and a Disciplined Defence Tame West Indies at Lord's
On the night Lord's hosted a Women's T20 World Cup match for the first time, Danni Wyatt-Hodge's 65 off 42 and Heather Knight's 43 lifted England to 186/7, and the bowlers did the rest. A 38-run win, a fourth from four, and the first semi-final ticket of the tournament — booked under the floodlights at the home of cricket.
Australia Are a Machine Again — Perry's Bat-and-Ball Double Buries Pakistan by 113 at Headingley
On a true Leeds surface under lights, Ellyse Perry made 71, added a century stand with Georgia Voll, and then returned 2/9 with the ball. Australia 199 for 7, Pakistan all out for 86 — a 113-run demolition that takes the champions to the brink of the semi-finals and leaves Pakistan's campaign in tatters.
New Zealand Wobble, Then Walk On — Izzy Sharp's 62 and a Defiant Carter 72 Light Up Bristol
Three down in the powerplay and the chase teetering, New Zealand turned to a 101-run fourth-wicket stand between Izzy Sharp and Brooke Halliday to overhaul Scotland's 131 with ten balls to spare. Darcey Carter's 72 deserved better; New Zealand's semi-final pulse keeps beating.
Athapaththu Plays the Captain's Innings of the Tournament — 106* Crushes Ireland and Resurrects Sri Lanka
Her fourth T20I century and, remarkably, her first at a World Cup. Chamari Athapaththu made an unbeaten 106 off 61 to gun down 131 with nine wickets and 27 balls to spare, keeping Sri Lanka's semi-final dream alive and breaking Irish hearts at Bristol.
England A Women Pass the Test of a 173 Chase — Bess Heath's Quickfire 40 Sets the Tone at Northampton
On a true Northampton surface, India A Women posted 172 for 4 and England A Women answered with discipline, Bess Heath's 40 off 23 the spark in a five-wicket win with ten balls to spare. A useful workout for two development sides shadowing a senior tour.
Singapore Set the Tone in Their Own Backyard — Gaznavi's Cameo and a Sharp Spin Squeeze Sink a Debutant Uzbekistan
Cut to eight overs a side, the 2nd Match of the Asia Pacific Cricket Champions Trophy still told a clear story. Rezza Gaznavi's unbeaten 33 off 18 lifted Singapore to 101/3, and a disciplined home attack strangled Uzbekistan — out at cricket's senior men's level for the very first time — to 49/5. A 52-run win, and a night these Uzbek cricketers will not forget.
India's Unbeaten Run Ends in Manchester — Marizanne Kapp's 81* Punishes the Drops and Resurrects South Africa
On a night India will replay in their heads, two missed chances off the same batter proved the difference. Marizanne Kapp, reprieved twice by Radha Yadav, made 81 not out off 45 and dragged South Africa from 25 for 2 to a six-wicket win, ending India's perfect start to the World Cup and blowing Group 1 wide open.
West Indies Roll On in Bristol — Matthews' All-Round Class and Sri Lanka's Sloppiness Seal a Third Straight Win
Hayley Matthews took 3 for 15, chipped in with the bat, and led a fielding masterclass as West Indies bowled Sri Lanka out for 98 and chased it down with 23 balls to spare. A third win in three lifts the Caribbean side level with England at the top of Group 2.
Australia Finish the Job in Chattogram — Marsh's Blitz Seals a Clean Sweep and Buries Bangladesh's Hopes of a Consolation
On the most worn surface of the series, the spin battle never materialised. Mitchell Marsh smashed 60 off 28, Australia knocked off 110 inside 11 overs, and a 3-0 T20I whitewash put a ruthless full stop on a tour that began with an ODI series defeat. Towhid Hridoy's unbeaten 61 was a lone act of defiance in a beaten cause.
ENG vs NZ, 2nd Test — Day 3 Stumps: Nicholls 119*, New Zealand lead England by 352
Recalled to replace the retired Kane Williamson, Henry Nicholls answered with an unbeaten century and a 161-run partnership alongside Rachin Ravindra, and after Matt Henry's five-for had closed out England for 291, New Zealand walked off The Oval on Day 3 in total command.
ENG vs NZ, 2nd Test — Day 2 Stumps: New Zealand 391, England 222/6, trail by 169
Glenn Phillips turned the sunglasses bravado of Day 1 into a maiden Test hundred, New Zealand reached 391, and then Matt Henry removed Joe Root and Harry Brook with the day almost done to hand the tourists the better of an absorbing second day at The Oval.
West Indies Beat Scotland by 7 Runs — Taylor's Late Burst and a Spin Squeeze Settle a Headingley Thriller
Scotland's dreamers pushed the 2016 champions all the way. But Stafanie Taylor's two sixes in the final over and a relentless West Indies spin attack proved the difference, as Darcey Carter's lone 59 fell seven runs short at Leeds.
West Indies Beat Sri Lanka by 5 Wickets — Shamar Joseph's Five and Rutherford's Fifty Win the Series at Sabina Park
He bowled the hardest overs of the night — the last of the powerplay and the last of the innings — and came away with 5 for 33. Then, with the chase wobbling, Sherfane Rutherford's unbeaten 54 and a Jason Holder cameo of three sixes turned a tense Kingston night into a series win. West Indies take it 2-1, their first bilateral series in two years.
IND-W vs PAK-W Review — A Rivalry, a Record, and a Reckoning: Deepti Sharma's 5/10 and Mandhana's 68 Crush Pakistan by 64
Pakistan walked off the powerplay at 52 for 1, the Hollies Stand split blue and green, the game still a contest. Then Deepti Sharma took the ball, and the contest disappeared. Her 5 for 10 — the best bowling figures in the history of women's T20 internationals — turned a chase into a procession, and Pakistan, who had begun with belief, were bowled out for 106. Smriti Mandhana's 68 had built the platform; Deepti's spell built the legend. India open their World Cup with a statement and a world record on the same afternoon.
BAN-W vs NED-W Review — A Debut to Remember, a Chase to Build On: Ferdous's 50 Carries Bangladesh Home by Six
The Netherlands walked out for the first ball their women's team had ever bowled at a T20 World Cup, and for a long while they made Bangladesh sweat. Babette de Leede's captain's 50 lifted them to 139, a total that felt heavier than the number suggested. But Juairiya Ferdous answered with a 33-ball 50 of her own, Sharmin Akhter saw it home unbeaten, and Bangladesh completed their highest successful chase in Women's T20 World Cup history with five balls to spare. The Dutch lost the result and won a great deal of respect.
IND vs AFG, 1st ODI Review — Gurbaz Lit the Fuse, Gill Put Out the Fire: India Take a Rain-Shortened Thriller in the Mountains
For fifty-one balls in the Himalayan dusk, Rahmanullah Gurbaz played an innings that belonged to no scoreboard logic — 102 off 51, the fastest hundred any Afghan has made in an ODI. And then the rain, the floodlights and Shubman Gill answered it the only way India know how: with control. Two debutants took three each, Gill carried his bat for an unbeaten 84, and India chased 195 in a 25-over shootout with thirteen balls to spare. Afghanistan brought the fireworks. India brought the result.
AUS-W vs SA-W Review — The Machine Keeps Rolling: Litchfield Detonates, Wareham Dominates, Australia Crush South Africa by 65
There was a version of this game where South Africa's seam and spin choked Australia's powerplay and the 2023 final got a sequel. It lasted about three overs. Phoebe Litchfield's 24-ball 51 tore the plan up, Australia posted 172, and then Georgia Wareham — 32 with the bat, 3 for 13 with the ball — turned a chase into a collapse. South Africa folded for 107. The defending champions look, once again, like a problem nobody in this tournament has solved.
IRE-W vs SCO-W Review — History in Manchester: The Bryce Sisters and a New Day for Scotland's Women
Scotland had never won a match at a Women's T20 World Cup. They had to wait until Old Trafford, and a captain who would not let them wait any longer. Kathryn Bryce made 60, shared a century stand with her sister Sarah, then took the ball and helped strangle Ireland for 121. Forty runs, one historic first, and a result that will be remembered in Scottish cricket long after the scorecards yellow.
NZ-W vs WI-W Review — Flair Beats Method Under the Lights: Campbelle's Unbeaten 90 Seals a One-Ball Heist at Southampton
New Zealand built their 162 the careful way — Halliday, Gaze, Green nudging and rotating to a defendable total. West Indies answered with one player and one philosophy. Shemaine Campbelle made 90 not out, refused to be hurried, and walked off with one ball to spare and a seven-wicket win. The Rose Bowl came for calculation and got a Caribbean classic.
ENG-W vs SL-W — A Record Falls on Opening Night: Wyatt-Hodge's Unbeaten 105 Sends England's World Cup Charge Roaring Out of the Blocks
The banana skin everyone warned about never materialised. England piled up 219 for 1 — the highest total in the history of the Women's T20 World Cup — built on Danni Wyatt-Hodge's first World Cup century, and then Freya Kemp's 4 for 21 turned a contest into a procession. Sri Lanka, so dangerous on paper, were folded for 132. England win by 87 runs, and Edgbaston has its statement.
BAN vs AUS, 1st ODI — Bangladesh End a 21-Year Wait as Mosaddek Returns From the Wilderness and Mirpur Roars Again
Australia had not lost an ODI to Bangladesh in 21 years and had not toured for one in 15. In a single, rain-flecked evening at Mirpur, Bangladesh corrected both pieces of history — 284 on the board, Nahid Rana steaming in, and a man four years out of the side walking off unbeaten on 86 with the match award in his hands.
IND-A vs SL-A — India A Pull Off a Dambulla Heist as Gaikwad's Hundred and Arshad Khan's Penultimate Over Decide a Thriller
From 17 for 2 to 277, and from cruising to crushed in the space of six balls. Ruturaj Gaikwad's composed 101 gave India A something to defend; Arshad Khan's three wickets in the 49th over turned a Sri Lanka A win that looked done into an 8-run defeat that will sting.
IND vs AFG, Only Test — Result: India Win by an Innings and 300 Runs as Manav Suthar's Dream Debut Lights Up Mullanpur
India's biggest-ever win by an innings. A debutant left-arm spinner with 6/33 in the first dig and 7/62 in the match. Afghanistan, asked to follow on, were folded twice in a session and a half on a surface that finally bared its teeth.
ENG vs NZ, 1st Test — Day 3 Stumps: New Zealand 55/5, Need 199 More to Win
Only 9.4 overs were possible at a sodden Lord's. In that sliver of cricket, Ollie Robinson removed Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell to leave New Zealand five down and 199 short of an improbable 254.
IND vs AFG, Only Test — Day 1 Stumps: India 368/3, Rahul and Gill Centuries Bury Afghanistan
New Chandigarh hosted its first day of Test cricket in 40-degree heat, and India treated it like a coronation — KL Rahul 100, Shubman Gill 103 not out, Sai Sudharsan 81, Rishabh Pant 50 not out.
Kohli Finishes It With a Six — RCB Defend the Crown at Ahmedabad, and a Rematch Five Nights in the Making Ends Exactly Where It Began
On a slightly sticky Motera surface in front of 132,000, the IPL 2026 Final never quite caught fire — and that was Royal Challengers Bengaluru's design. Rasikh Salam Dar took 3/27, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood struck twice apiece, and Gujarat Titans were held to 155/8 despite Washington Sundar's unbeaten fifty. Then Virat Kohli and Venkatesh Iyer raised fifty in 3.3 overs — the fastest team fifty in any IPL Final — and Kohli, unbeaten on 75 off 42, sealed back-to-back titles with two overs to spare. Shubman Gill's redemption arc, written so beautifully in Qualifier 2, met a quieter end: bowled out of the narrative for 10. RCB are the first franchise since 2020 to defend the trophy.
Shubman Gill Answered the Only Question That Mattered — and Gujarat Titans Are Going to Ahmedabad
Four days after being bowled for 2 in Qualifier 1, Gill walked out to face Jofra Archer at Mullanpur, made 104 off 53 balls, and turned the highest successful chase in IPL history into something that looked, by the end, almost comfortable. Sai Sudharsan hit 58 off 32 before departing hit-wicket — again — and the 167-run opening stand did what it had done all season: made the rest of the chase a formality. Sooryavanshi, trying to repeat his 97 off 29 from two nights earlier, made 96 off 47. It was brilliant. It was not enough. Gujarat Titans win Qualifier 2 by 7 wickets and meet Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL 2026 Final at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, on Sunday.
A Fourteen-Year-Old Played the Innings of His Life — and Sunrisers Hyderabad's Season Did Not Survive Eight Overs of It
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked out to open in an Eliminator and produced 97 off 29 balls — a 16-ball fifty, twelve sixes inside 28 deliveries, an uppercut away from Chris Gayle's IPL century record. By the time the eighth over ended, RR were 125 for 1 and the contest was already gone. Jofra Archer did the rest in the powerplay; Sushant Mishra finished what was left of the chase. Rajasthan Royals win the Eliminator by 47 runs and meet Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 at Mullanpur on Friday. Sunrisers Hyderabad, third on the table and 2-0 against this opposition in the league, go home.
Patidar Said 'Not in My Control' — Then He Took Control of Qualifier 1 With 93 Off 33
Two days after refusing to bite at venue-controversy bait, the RCB captain walked out at Dharamsala and produced the most violent 90-plus innings in IPL history — nine sixes, a 21-ball fifty, an unbeaten 93 from 33 deliveries at a strike rate of 281.81. RCB's 254 for 5 is the highest total ever made in an IPL playoff. Gujarat Titans, bowled out for 162, never had a chance. The defending champions walk straight into a second successive final on May 31. Gujarat now face the Eliminator winner in Qualifier 2 on Friday.
Rajasthan Win the Last Waltz at Wankhede — Jofra Archer Books the Final Playoff Seat With the Bat First, the Ball Second, and the Calm of a Bowler Who Has Been Here Before
Rajasthan Royals, needing a win to seal the fourth playoff seat, posted 205 for 8 on the back of a Dhruv Jurel anchor (38) and a 15-ball Jofra Archer cameo (32) that finished the innings at a strike rate above 200. Mumbai Indians, with Jasprit Bumrah rested for the playoffs of a season that does not include them, lost Rohit Sharma to Archer's first over, were 49 for 4 inside the powerplay, recovered through a 60-off-42 from Suryakumar Yadav and a 34-off-15 from Hardik Pandya that briefly threatened the chase, and were finally pulled up 30 runs short at 175 for 9. Archer's 3 for 17 from his four overs sealed his Player of the Match award. The result eliminated both KKR and PBKS in a single evening and confirmed the playoff bracket: SRH vs RR in the Eliminator at Mullanpur on May 27.
Delhi End Their Season on a High, Kolkata End Theirs in the Manner They Have Been Threatening to All Year — 125 for 2 Became 163 All Out at Eden Gardens
By the time Delhi Capitals walked off Eden Gardens on Sunday night with a 40-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders, both sides had known for two hours that the result would change neither's playoff fortunes — Rajasthan's win at the Wankhede that afternoon had eliminated KKR and removed DC's last mathematical thread. What followed was a contest played for pride, finished off by a 30-ball KL Rahul fifty and a Kuldeep Yadav spell that broke a chase the home side had appeared to control. KKR were 125 for 2 in the thirteenth over; they ended the innings at 163 all out in 18.4, the last seven wickets falling for 38 runs — the kind of collapse that has shadowed the title defence since April and arrived, finally, on the last night their season had to give.
Iyer Finally Cashes In — A Maiden IPL Hundred on the Night Punjab Kings Could Not Afford to Lose
Punjab Kings arrived at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium on Saturday with the longest losing streak of any side still mathematically alive in the IPL 2026 playoff race — six consecutive defeats, an attack that had stopped taking wickets in the powerplay, and a captain whose price tag in the November auction had become a season-long talking point for the wrong reasons. Ninety-one balls later, they had broken the streak, climbed to fourth on the table, and produced the chase of the league stage: 200 for 3 in 18 overs, a partnership of 121 between Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh, and Iyer's first IPL century in 117 innings — 101 not out off 51, five sixes, eleven fours, finished with a six off Avesh Khan. LSG, eliminated since May 10 and playing without Mitchell Marsh, posted a defendable 196 for 6 on the back of Josh Inglis's 72 off 44 and an Abdul Samad cameo at the death. It was not enough. By the time PBKS reached three figures inside ten overs, the contest was a formality and the only suspense was whether Iyer would get his hundred.
Uppal Hands RCB Their Heaviest Defeat of the Season — But the Maths Still Sends Them to Qualifier 1
Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bat, scored 255 for 4, and watched Royal Challengers Bengaluru land short by 55 runs in a final-league fixture that was simultaneously the most one-sided result of RCB's IPL 2026 and the night they confirmed top spot on the points table. Ishan Kishan's fourth consecutive fifty-plus score against Bengaluru — 79 off 46, his Player of the Match award — was the spine of the innings. Abhishek Sharma's 56 off 22 lit the powerplay. Heinrich Klaasen's 51 off 24 collapsed the middle phase. And by the time Rajat Patidar (56) and Krunal Pandya (41 not out) had got RCB to 200, the net-run-rate buffer that had carried Bengaluru's season was already enough to absorb the defeat. RCB finish first. SRH go to the Eliminator. GT take the second qualifier slot. The league stage is done.
Gill and Sudharsan Set It Up, Buttler Finished It, Siraj Buried It — Chennai's 2026 Ends in Ahmedabad
There are nights when a season simply runs out of road, and for Chennai Super Kings that road ended at Motera. Gujarat Titans posted 229 for 4 on the back of a 125-run opening stand between Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan — the pair's seventh century stand, equalling the Kohli-De Villiers world record for most hundred partnerships by any T20 pair — and then watched Mohammed Siraj rip through Chennai's top order in a single new-ball spell. CSK folded for 140 in 13.4 overs, lost by 89 runs, and were officially knocked out of the IPL 2026 playoff race.
RR Beat LSG by 7 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 64 Review
Lucknow scored 220 and felt safe for an over. Then a fifteen-year-old who began at 11 off 12 hit ten sixes, and the Sawai Mansingh remembered why it once decided that this teenager was its own.
RCB Beat PBKS by 23 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 61 Review
The Dhauladhar Ranges watched the defending champions stamp their playoff ticket while Punjab Kings, the team that began 9-0, slipped quietly into a sixth consecutive defeat — a freefall that has now reached the shape of a season-ending tailspin.
DC Beat RR by 5 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 62 Review
Rajasthan were cruising at 161 for 2 in 14.1 overs. Then Mitchell Starc walked back to the top of his mark and bowled the over that bent the match's spine — three wickets in four balls, the over that carried Delhi from the rope to safety.
Tilak Varma Finishes Dharamshala in Style — Mumbai Chase 201 With a Ball to Spare, Punjab's Fifth Straight Loss Pushes Playoff Hopes to the Edge
Punjab Kings had 200 on the board, the mountain air at their backs, and a target most Dharamshala defenders would have called enough. Mumbai Indians — without Hardik Pandya, without Suryakumar Yadav, with Jasprit Bumrah at the toss — needed fifty off the last three overs. What followed was the kind of innings that does not happen by accident: Tilak Varma's unbeaten 75 off 33, six fours and six sixes, the half-century in 25 balls, finished with a six over fine leg on the penultimate delivery. Punjab have now lost five on the trot, and the most painful part is that this one was a heist they almost survived.
Kohli's 105*, the Record, and the View From the Top — RCB End KKR's Streak by Six Wickets
Rajat Patidar won the toss, RCB chose to bowl, and a Kolkata innings built on Angkrish Raghuvanshi's 71 and a Rinku Singh cameo got them to 192. Then Virat Kohli walked out, in his 280th IPL match — one more than MS Dhoni — and produced an unbeaten 105 off 60 balls so unhurried it almost passed for routine. RCB chased 193 with five balls to spare. Top of the table. Ninth IPL hundred. A defending champion looking like one again.
Sudharsan's 61, Sundar's 50, Rabada's Powerplay — GT Bowl SRH Out for 86 and Go Top of the Table
Pat Cummins won the toss, chose to bowl, and for an hour it looked like the right call. Then Gujarat Titans batted to 168, Kagiso Rabada and Jason Holder hit the strip with the new ball, and a Sunrisers batting order that had chased 249 three weeks ago was bowled out for 86 in 14.5 overs. Eighty-two runs. GT's biggest IPL win by a margin. Five in a row. Top of the table.
Urvil's 13 Balls, Overton's Three Strikes — CSK Chase Down LSG and End Their Season at Chepauk
There are nights at Chepauk when the ground stops being a venue and becomes a witness. On Sunday, with 204 to chase and Josh Inglis's 33-ball 85 still ringing in everyone's ears, Urvil Patel walked out and matched the fastest fifty in IPL history — thirteen balls, eight sixes, two fours — and dragged Chennai Super Kings past Lucknow Super Giants by five wickets with four balls to spare. CSK move to fifth and stay alive. LSG, for all of Inglis's heroism, are mathematically gone.
Bhuvneshwar, Krunal, and a Final-Ball Heartbreak — RCB Knock MI Out and Climb to the Summit at Raipur
On a humid Raipur night in front of 65,000, RCB needed two off the last ball, got them with soft hands and a sprinted second, and broke Mumbai Indians' hearts in the cruellest possible way. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's vintage 4/23 with the new ball had restricted MI to 166/7. Krunal Pandya, hopping on one foot through cramps, played the innings of his RCB life — 73 off 46 against the franchise that let him go — to take RCB to the top of the table and Mumbai out of the tournament.
Gill's 84, Sudharsan's 55, Rashid's Four-For — GT Make It Four in a Row at Sawai Mansingh
Yashasvi Jaiswal won his first toss as RR captain and chose to chase. By the eighth over of the second innings, the chase had stopped being a chase and become a count. Gujarat Titans, the team that started this season looking lost, now sit second in the table — and play like it.
Allen's 47-Ball Hundred Turns the Jaitley Into a Six-Hitting Carnival — KKR Make It Four in a Row
Delhi Capitals had been bowled out for 75 at this ground. They had also chased 226 at Jaipur. On Friday they did neither — they simply suffocated. And by the time KKR began their reply, Finn Allen had decided that 143 was a target the Arun Jaitley would not see for very long.
Marsh, Prince, and a Pulse Restored — LSG Snap the Streak at the Ekana
For six matches, the Ekana had been a confessional rather than a fortress. On Thursday evening, with the rain interrupting three times and the season hanging by its fingertips, Lucknow Super Giants finally remembered how to win. Mitchell Marsh's 111 off 56 was the centrepiece. Prince Yadav's nip-backer to bowl Virat Kohli for a two-ball duck was the moment. And in the end, RCB's 203/6 fell nine runs short of a DLS-revised target that the Ekana, true to its character, made just heavy enough to carry.
SRH Reclaim the Summit, Connolly Plays the Lonely Tonne — Sunrisers Beat Punjab by 33
Three days after collapsing from 105/1 to 165 all out at this very ground, Sunrisers Hyderabad answered with a complete performance — a 235 built on four contributors and a captain's spell from Pat Cummins that reminded everyone why his return mattered. Cooper Connolly produced the maiden century of his life in reply, but the Australian's 107* off 59 had no company, and Punjab — for the third match in a row — found themselves losing despite a top-order moment of class.
Spin Twins Flip the Switch — KKR End SRH's Five-Match Streak in Hyderabad
Sunrisers Hyderabad were 105 for 1 in the ninth over and looking unstoppable. Then Varun Chakravarthy got the ball, and Sunil Narine reached 200 IPL wickets while making his way to a perfect afternoon, and SRH lost their last nine wickets for 60 runs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi's composed 59 anchored a chase completed with ease — KKR's third successive win, the SRH freight train brought to a halt by spin that felt almost surgical.
Holder, Sai, and Sundar — GT Win the Thriller, PBKS Lose the Floor
Punjab Kings began the evening losing two wickets in the first three deliveries and never quite recovered the rhythm that had carried them through nine unbeaten matches. Jason Holder collected a career-best 4 for 24, Suryansh Shedge dragged PBKS to 163, Sai Sudharsan anchored the chase with a composed 57, and Washington Sundar finished it with a six off Marcus Stoinis on the second-last ball — GT's third consecutive win, and a quietly significant statement that this is now a side that knows how to close out tight evenings.
Gaikwad and Kartik Walk Mumbai to the Edge — CSK Complete the Double
It was the kind of evening at Chepauk that asked nothing dramatic of CSK. Mumbai posted 159, Bumrah took an early wicket, and then Ruturaj Gaikwad and Kartik Sharma simply removed the contest one over at a time. By the 19th, Mumbai's playoff hopes were on a ventilator and Chennai had four wins from nine.
DC Beat RR by 7 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 43 Review
Forty-eight hours after being bowled out for 75 at the Chinnaswamy, Delhi Capitals walked into Jaipur, watched RR pile up 225, and chased it down with five balls to spare. Cricket does not always offer redemption arcs this neat — but on Friday evening, it did.
GT Beat RCB by 4 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 42 Review
Six days after the Chinnaswamy humbled them, the world's largest cricket ground gave Gujarat Titans exactly what they were owed — and Jason Holder made sure they collected every penny.
Rajasthan Royals Beat Punjab Kings by 6 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match Review
222 was supposed to be a fortress. Ferreira and Dubey treated it like a suggestion.
RCB Beat DC by 9 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 39 Review
Revenge wasn't a slow burn — it was a wildfire. Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar reduced Delhi to 75 all out, and RCB chased it down in 6.3 overs.
GT Beat CSK by 8 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 37 Review
Sudharsan made Chepauk feel like home, and Rabada made sure Chennai never found theirs.
KKR Beat LSG in Super Over — IPL 2026 Match 38 Review
Rinku Singh hit four consecutive sixes and the Ekana held its breath. Then Sunil Narine walked in, and Lucknow's night fell apart in six deliveries.
RCB Beat GT by 5 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 34 Review
Sudharsan wrote a century in a losing cause, but Kohli and Padikkal ensured that beauty and victory stayed on the same side of the ledger.
CSK Beat MI by 103 Runs — Samson Century and Hosein Four-Fer Hand Mumbai Their Worst IPL Defeat
Sanju Samson was practically alone in CSK's innings and still made 207 look achievable. When Hosein and Noor Ahmad finished with the ball, 'achievable' had become irrelevant.
Rajasthan Royals Beat LSG by 40 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 32 Review
Jadeja batted when it mattered, Archer bowled when it counted — and Lucknow's homecoming turned, once again, into an inquest.
SRH Beat Delhi Capitals by 47 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 31 Review
Abhishek Sharma made history under Hyderabad's lights with a 135* off 68 balls — an innings so complete, so relentless, that DC's chase was really over before it started.
Mumbai Indians Beat Gujarat Titans by 99 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 30 Review
Tilak Varma's maiden IPL century answered Pandya's 'difficult call', and Bumrah found himself again on the very first ball — a crisis became a coronation at the world's largest stadium.
KKR Beat RR by 4 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 28 Review
Rinku Singh walked in when Kolkata needed 67 off 33 balls and two wickets in hand, and he did what Rinku Singh does — he refused the script that logic had written and delivered, unbeaten on 53, KKR's first win of a season that had begun to feel like a slow unravelling.
PBKS Beat LSG by 54 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 29 Review
Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly turned Mullanpur into a batting exhibition of staggering proportions — 182 runs together, 16 sixes by the 13th over, 254 on the board — and then Punjab's bowlers made sure the evening's work was never in doubt.
Delhi Capitals Beat RCB by 6 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 26 Review
From 18/3 in three overs to a heist at the cathedral — KL Rahul came home, and David Miller finished the sermon with a ball to spare.
SRH Beat CSK by 10 Runs — IPL 2026 Match 27 Review
Abhishek Sharma blazed 59 off 22 balls, Klaasen anchored the middle, and Eshan Malinga's first-ball dismissal of Gaikwad set the tone for a Hyderabad win that felt inevitable after the first six overs.
GT Beat KKR by 5 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 25 Review
Cameron Green finally found himself in Ahmedabad — but Shubman Gill found himself first, and on the world's largest stage, the difference between the two men was the difference between a consolation and a campaign.
PBKS Beat MI by 7 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 24 Review
Arshdeep made history and broke MI in the powerplay. Then Prabhsimran and Iyer chased down 196 with 21 balls to spare — and the Wankhede fortress came crashing down.
RCB Beat LSG by 5 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match 23 Review
Hazlewood's precision broke Lucknow's nerve, and Kohli — arriving as an impact player — did the rest with 49 off 34 balls to send the Chinnaswamy into raptures.
CSK Beat KKR by 32 Runs — Noor Ahmad Turns the Screw at Chepauk
Kolkata came to Chennai with nothing to lose and left with nothing to show. Noor Ahmad's three-wicket haul — Rahane and Green off back-to-back deliveries, then Rinku Singh silenced — completed a comprehensive CSK victory that was never really in doubt.
SRH Beat RR by 57 Runs — Hinge, Sakib and Kishan End the Unbeaten March
Rajasthan Royals arrived at Hyderabad with four wins from four and an air of inevitability. They left humbled by two men who had never bowled a ball in IPL cricket before Monday night.
Gujarat Titans Beat Lucknow Super Giants by 7 Wickets — IPL 2026 Match Review
Prasidh Krishna dismantled Lucknow's middle order with a four-wicket masterclass, and Jos Buttler's blitzkrieg set up a comfortable chase as Gujarat reclaimed their ruthless form at the Ekana.
RCB Beat Mumbai Indians by 18 Runs — IPL 2026 Match Review
Salt and Kohli put on 120 for the first wicket, Patidar turned a platform into a fortress, and Rutherford's magnificent 71 off 31 arrived too late to rewrite a result that RCB had earned by the halfway point.
Arya and Iyer Answered Abhishek's Blitz with One of Their Own.
In a Mullanpur afternoon that produced 442 runs, Sunrisers' 219 looked enormous until Priyansh Arya's 20-ball fifty and Shreyas Iyer's calm, devastating 69* made it look ordinary — Punjab Kings won with seven balls to spare.
Samson Lit Up Chepauk. Overton Made Sure Delhi Couldn't Answer.
Three defeats, zero points, a season on the edge — and then Sanju Samson walked in at number three, hit the first century of IPL 2026, and Chennai Super Kings finally remembered what winning felt like.
Sooryavanshi Set It Ablaze. Jurel Made Sure It Burned All the Way Home.
In a rain-touched Guwahati night, a 16-year-old's 26-ball 78 and a wicketkeeper's unruffled 81* dismantled RCB's 201 with two overs to spare — and Rajasthan Royals marched on, unbeaten.
Mukul Choudhary Silenced 67,000 — LSG Win a Last-Ball Thriller at Eden Gardens
With 14 needed off the final over and KKR's crowd willing every delivery, a young man from Lucknow found something extraordinary inside himself — and KKR's winless misery deepened.
Gujarat Titans Beat Delhi Capitals by 1 Run — and Rashid Khan Made 419 Runs Feel Like They Weren't Enough
A heist executed with spin and nerve: how Rashid Khan's 3/17 and a last-ball run-out denied KL Rahul the win he'd almost authored alone.
Rajasthan Royals Beat Mumbai Indians by 27 Runs — and a 15-Year-Old Greeted Bumrah With a Six
Jaiswal and Sooryavanshi turned Guwahati's rain-soaked evening into a masterclass — and Bumrah never got a wicket.
Shami's Scalpel, Pant's Nerve: LSG Steal a Thriller in Hyderabad
SRH recovered from 29/4 through a record fifth-wicket stand — then fell apart again. Rishabh Pant, unmoved by all of it, guided LSG home with a single delivery to spare.
Tim David Leaves the Stadium. The Ball Hasn't Landed Yet.
Devdutt Padikkal and Rajat Patidar gave RCB a platform. Tim David turned that platform into rubble for CSK — 70 off 25 balls, 8 sixes, and a 19th over that redefined the evening.
Rizvi's Kotla Coronation: Delhi Dispatch Mumbai with Six Wickets to Spare
Sameer Rizvi walked out at 3 down and turned a tricky afternoon chase into a masterclass in calm destruction. Fourteen boundaries in 51 balls — and for the second match running, DC's 22-year-old finds a way to make the result look inevitable.
Deshpande's Last Over, Bishnoi's Magic: Royals Steal Ahmedabad in a Six-Run Classic
Gujarat needed 11 off the final over with Rashid Khan and Kagiso Rabada at the crease. Any other night, that's a home win. Not this night — Tushar Deshpande held his nerve, Jofra Archer took a catch that deserves its own highlights reel, and Rajasthan Royals won the thriller that no one will forget.
The Fortress Falls: SRH Demolish KKR by 65 Runs at Eden Gardens
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma tore up the powerplay script. Klaasen made the middle overs his personal playground. And Eshan Malinga — the man CricIntel's preview said was unavailable — walked in and ripped through KKR's middle order. The Storm beat the Fortress. Convincingly.
The Fortress Has a New Weakness: PBKS Chase 210 at Chepauk
Priyansh Arya hit 39 off 11 balls and Chepauk didn't know what hit it. The spin cathedral turned batting paradise as Punjab Kings chased down 210 in 18.4 overs, exposing a truth CSK would rather not confront: their pace attack can't survive a powerplay assault.
Delhi Capitals Beat Lucknow Super Giants by 6 Wickets — Rizvi Rescues a Heist
He came in as an impact substitute, started at 0 off 9, and then dismantled LSG's bowling with a 119-run stand that turned a crisis into a canter. Sameer Rizvi's evening was the IPL at its most quietly spectacular.
Punjab Kings Beat Gujarat Titans by 3 Wickets — Cooper Connolly's Debut Masterclass
Prasidh Krishna reduced Punjab to 118 for 6, the game looked gone, and then an Australian nobody had heard of last season held his nerve for 46 balls and rewrote the evening. Welcome to IPL 2026.
Rajasthan Royals Thrash CSK by 8 Wickets — Sooryavanshi's Childhood Dream, CSK's Nightmare
A 15-year-old made history at Guwahati. Ravindra Jadeja came home after 17 years and immediately began collecting debts. Chennai Super Kings found out that the past catches up with you, especially when it bowls at 140 kph.
Mumbai Indians Beat KKR by 6 Wickets — Jinx Broken, Statement Made
Rohit Sharma came home to the Wankhede and reminded the world what he looks like when the adrenaline is running. Ryan Rickelton arrived like he'd been waiting for this stage all along.
RCB Beat SRH by 6 Wickets — Defending Champions Begin Title Defence in Style
A debutant seamer, a prodigal opener, and a king in full flow — RCB chased 202 in 15.4 overs to break the record for the fastest 200-plus chase in IPL history.
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