Sports Journalist · 40 articles
England have confirmed their XI for Tuesday’s first ODI against India at Edgbaston, with Jacob Bethell promoted to open alongside Ben Duckett and Jos Buttler set to make his 200th one-day international appearance. According to Sky Sports, Harry Brook’s side make just two changes from the team that sealed a 4-0 T20 series sweep over […]
Great international careers rarely get the ending they deserve — elite sport is too unsentimental for that. So it proved at Lord’s on Monday, where England’s 270-run defeat in the first women’s Test staged at the ground doubled as the farewell of two of the team’s defining figures. As Sky Sports and ESPNcricinfo reported when […]
India have won the first women’s Test match ever staged at Lord’s, bowling England out for 186 shortly before lunch on the final day to seal a crushing 270-run victory. According to ESPNcricinfo’s match report, England resumed on Monday morning chasing a record 457, with Amy Jones and Sophie Ecclestone offering the last serious resistance. […]
Sacking a coach is easy; replacing an era is not. England are discovering that within a day of the biggest coaching call the ECB has made in four years, as the search for England’s next Test coach begins with a home Ashes series looming next summer. The ECB confirmed on Sunday that Brendon McCullum will […]
Stephen Fleming has stepped down as Chennai Super Kings head coach, ending an 18-year association that delivered five IPL titles and one of the most successful partnerships in Indian Premier League history. According to a fresh update from ESPNcricinfo, the franchise confirmed on Monday that the two parties had parted ways mutually, with Chennai Super […]
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are set to return to international cricket on Tuesday when England face India in the 1st ODI at Edgbaston, the opening match of a three-game series. The BCCI named both senior batters in its 15-man squad for the 50-over leg of the tour, with Shubman Gill as captain, Shreyas Iyer […]
English cricket will remember Sunday 12 July 2026 as the day everything moved at once. Barely 24 hours after Brendon McCullum’s white-ball side swept India 4-0 to reach the top of the T20I rankings, the ECB confirmed the same man’s exit as Test head coach — the formal end of the Bazball era after four […]
India have confirmed two squad changes, calling up Prince Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi after hamstring injuries ruled Harshit Rana out of the England ODI series and Varun Chakaravarthy out of the T20I tour of Zimbabwe. According to a BCCI statement released on Sunday, the Men’s Selection Committee moved after Rana reported “a sudden onset of […]
Some grounds hand out history reluctantly. Lord’s, over the past three days, has been giving it away by the armful. On day three of the first women’s Test ever staged at the Home of Cricket, Yastika Bhatia’s 113 — the first Test century by a woman at Lord’s — carried India to a declaration on […]
Yastika Bhatia made history at Lord’s on Sunday, becoming the first woman to score a Test century at the home of cricket with 113 as India pushed their lead past 400 against England on day three of the one-off Test. According to IANS, the India wicketkeeper-batter brought up her maiden international hundred off 145 balls […]
No coaching era in Test cricket survives its results forever, however brightly it burns at the start. On Sunday, four years and 44 Tests after it began, English cricket called time on Bazball. The ECB confirmed that Brendon McCullum will leave his role as England men’s Test head coach, with the 44-year-old staying on in […]
West Indies beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the first ODI at Providence, Guyana, as 19-year-old Vitel Lawes took 3-54 in the first professional cricket match of his life. According to ESPNcricinfo’s match report, the left-arm wristspinner — picked for the series before he had played a single first-class, List A or T20 game […]