Sports Journalist · 40 articles
England’s most-capped women’s cricketer Heather Knight has announced she will retire from international cricket at the end of the historic Lord’s Test against India, bringing a 16-year, 320-cap England career to a close. According to ESPNcricinfo, the World Cup-winning former captain confirmed her decision on Sunday morning, midway through the first women’s Test ever staged […]
Saturday 11 July 2026 delivered the kind of day that reshapes reputations: England swept India 4-0 in the men’s T20Is and took their No.1 ranking, while at Lord’s a 142-year wait for a women’s Test ended with India seizing near-total control. For English supporters it was a day of two moods — Jos Buttler’s brutal […]
Standing still is the quickest way to lose a Test match, and on day two at Lord’s, England stood still while India sprinted. On Saturday, the second day of the first women’s Test ever staged at the home of cricket, India bowled England out for 170 and then eased to 154 for 1 by stumps, […]
England completed a 4-0 T20I series sweep of India on Saturday, winning the final match at the Rose Bowl by 56 runs to replace their opponents at the top of the ICC men’s T20I rankings. According to ESPNcricinfo, Jos Buttler blasted 131 from 64 balls and Harry Brook struck an unbeaten 95 from 45 as […]
Jos Buttler blasted 131 from just 64 balls as England piled up 257 for three against India in Saturday’s fifth T20I at Southampton, leaving Harry Brook’s side within touching distance of a 4-0 series scoreline and the world No.1 ranking. According to ESPNcricinfo, Buttler struck 12 fours and eight sixes after Shreyas Iyer’s India chose […]
England can seal a 4-0 series whitewash and take India’s No.1 T20I ranking when the fifth and final T20 international starts at the Rose Bowl in Southampton at 2.30pm on Saturday. According to ESPNcricinfo’s match preview, victory for Harry Brook’s side would lift England to the top of the ICC T20I rankings at India’s expense, […]
England will resume on 21-1, still 264 runs behind India’s 285, when day two of the first women’s Test ever staged at Lord’s begins at 11am on Saturday — with Sophie Ecclestone newly installed as England Women’s leading wicket-taker. According to Sky Sports Cricket, Ecclestone’s 3-68 on day one took her to 338 international wickets […]
Targets of 270 in a women’s one-day international are supposed to start arguments about pitch, pressure and pedigree. On Friday at Bready, West Indies settled every one of them inside 39 overs — and Hayley Matthews barely broke stride doing it. Matthews struck an unbeaten 159 and shared a 258-run opening stand with Realeanna Grimmond […]
Trent Rockets have signed veteran fast bowler Mohammad Amir for the 2026 edition of The Hundred, with the 34-year-old replacing the injured David Payne in the men’s squad. Nottinghamshire confirmed the deal at Trent Bridge on Friday, with Payne continuing his recovery from an ankle injury. The timing is no surprise: Mohammad Amir is already […]
Smriti Mandhana struck a sparkling 83 as India dominated day one of the first women’s Test ever staged at Lord’s, reaching 282 for eight in the evening session after England sent them in. According to ESPNcricinfo, Mandhana brought up her half-century from just 50 balls — the first fifty in a women’s Test at the […]
Melbourne Renegades will host defending champions Perth Scorchers at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday 12 December, the first Big Bash League match ever staged outside Australia. Cricket Australia confirmed the historic BBL Chennai opener on Friday at a Melbourne Cricket Ground event attended by Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Indian prime minister Narendra […]
Some milestones in sport arrive quietly. Others take 142 years — and the first women’s Test at Lord’s, which begins today, is emphatically the latter. At 11am, England face India in a four-day match at the Home of Cricket, 142 years after the ground staged its first men’s Test. Lord’s has announced that 50 former […]