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The England National Cricket Selectors have released the names of the cricket squad who will be facing West Indies on Wednesday, July 8. The selectors picked a 13-man team and named Ben Stokes as the captain. The longtime vice-captain and all-rounder will replace Joe Root as England’s skipper for the match, per The Cricket Times. […]

The ECB announced on Friday that the Pakistan cricket team is set to arrive in England for their summer tour on Sunday, Sky Sports reported. The teams are set to play three Tests and three Twenty20s, with the competition starting in August. International competitions and major leagues have been shutting down because of the spread […]

Teams that end the Cricket World Cup in a tie should share the title, Ross Taylor says. One year after the controversial finish to the 2019 Cricket World Cup that saw England and New Zealand tied at 241 runs each after 50 overs followed by a Super Over, the New Zealand batsman said that he […]

The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) wants the sport to resume in the city, asking the chief minister for a plan that would allow the thousands of athletes who put their cricket careers on hold to be able to return. The MCA wrote a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asking for a plan for the […]

Cricket Samrat was once a beloved source of information for cricket fans in India, delivering exclusive interviews and other features about the game in a time before cable television and internet brought the sport into the homes of millions. Now, the magazine is done after more than 40 years. As Mid-Day.com reported, the Hindi publication […]

The increasingly likely postponement of the T20 World Cup could be good news for fans of the India Premier League — as long as they don’t mind watching matches take place somewhere other than India. As India.com reported, the announcement from Cricket Australia that the prospect of the T20 World Cup taking place this year […]

There may be new support to the idea that India’s 2011 cricket World Cup win wasn’t on the up-and-up. After an allegation from former Sri Lankan World Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga that the final was fixed to allow India to win, former Sri Lankan sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has claimed he too believes that […]

The Chennai Super Kings may have dealt a major blow to the idea of the India Premier League having a shortened season — or even a season at all. As cricket fans wait to see when the top league may return from its coronavirus hiatus, the 2019 runner-up has pushed back against the idea of […]

MS Dhoni is currently the biggest star in cricket — at least in the eyes of Dwayne Bravo. Bravo, the star all-rounder for the West Indies cricket team, said in a recent Instagram live chat with Pommie Mbangwa that the former India team captain is cricket’s biggest star right now. As NDTV Sports noted, the […]

KL Rahul found a new outlook on cricket over the course of the last year, and the India batsman said he has his suspension to thank for it. Both Rahul and Hardik Pandya came under fire for remarks on Koffee with Karan that were criticized as insensitive, leading to him being pulled off the road […]

Vasant Raiji is dead. ESPN Cricinfo reported that the the world’s oldest first-class cricket player, passed away on Saturday, June 13. The former batsman died at the age of 100 due to old age, according to a relative. He passed away in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday morning at his home. “He […]

After absorbing a humiliating five-match whitewash in the T20 series that opened India’s tour of New Zealand, the Black Caps can completely turn the tables on Tuesday, if they can finish off a sweep of the three-match, one-day international set that precedes a pair of Test matches to close out the month of February. After […]

The 2020 T20 Cricket World Cup is now just over nine months away, and the two losing semifinalists from the 2016 edition will complete what looked like an evenly matched series, when they play the fifth T20 International on Sunday. The series has turned out to show that India and New Zealand have little to […]

With less than one year to go before the 2020 ICC T20 Cricket World Cup opens in Australia, West Indies are looking nothing like the team that battled to the 2016 title. After dropping all three matches of a home series against India in August, the Windies traveled to India, only to lose the opener […]

Less than three months into the inaugural cricket World Test Championship, India has already accumulated a sizable lead, taking 200 points from four matches — well ahead of second-place New Zealand and Sri Lanka, who each sit on 60 from two matches each. The two-year long competition involves the world’s nine top-ranked Test sides, each […]

As the historic return of international cricket to Pakistan continues with the second T20 match on Monday, a young Sri Lanka side can spoil the happy occasion for their hosts. The Sri Lanka side cruised to an easy victory in the first T20 of the three-match series, according to CricBuzz — the island country’s first […]

Before heading into their current, three-match T20 International cricket series, India and South Africa last squared off in the eighth match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, as The Inquisitr reported. India took the edge in that 50-overs match, taking a six-wicket win with 15 balls remaining — and so far, the results seem to […]

After his emotional retirement last month from one day international competition, as The Inquisitr reported, Sri Lanka fast bowling legend Lasith Malinga is back on the cricket pitch to captain his country’s T20 International side as they face New Zealand. For both teams, it will be the start of a year’s worth of preparation for […]

England’s 24-year-old Cricket World Cup bowling hero Jofra Archer received his first Test cap even though not a single ball was bowled on Wednesday, as The Telegraph reported, as England and Australia will try again on Thursday to get their second Ashes Test match — which will also be the second match for both countries […]

The center of attention in the second one-day international match between West Indies and India can only be on one player — Windies opener Chris Gayle. The already-legendary power-hitting batsman has announced his pending retirement from international cricket — though after stating that he would call it a career after the 2019 Cricket World Cup, […]

Less than a month after the conclusion of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, early preparations get underway for the 2013 edition as India continues their tour of the West Indies with the opening match of a three-game one-day international series, one that India Captain Virat Kohli insists is taking place too far in advance […]

India got their preparations for the 2020 ICC World T20 underway on Saturday in halting fashion, taking until the 18th over to chase down an unimpressive 96 total by West Indies — despite losing six wickets along the way, as CricBuzz reported. Only one India batsman, Rohit Sharma, topped 20 runs as the bowlers on […]

Less than a month after their elimination in the semifinal round of the 2018 Cricket World Cup, India takes the field again for the opening match of a West Indies tour that will actually open in the United States. Both teams are beginning preparations for the ICC World T20, which takes place in October and […]

Just two weeks after the conclusion of the dramatic 2019 Cricket World Cup, won in dramatic fashion by England, the oldest rivalry in cricket takes center stage when England hosts arch-rival Australia in the 71st playing of The Ashes, as The Inquisitr reported, with Day 1 of the first Test match out of five scheduled […]

On Thursday, the oldest rivalry in cricket returns as England hosts arch-rival Australia in the first of five Test matches as the 2019 Ashes series opens for the 71st time, in a rivalry that stretches all the way back to 1861, according to CricInfo. Through the years, the two nations have been very closely matched, […]

After a 91-run defeat in a game memorable as the final one-day international outing in legendary Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga’s career, the Bangladesh Tigers will need a better batting performance throughout the order. This will particularly have to come from opener Tamim Iqbal, who, in his captaincy debut led off the Bangladesh run […]

Two teams who endured disappointing outings in the just-wrapped 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup get back into action in the first of three one day international matches in Sri Lanka, as the hosts take on the Bangladesh Tigers. Both teams will field squads with only a few changes from the World Cup sides that each […]

Just 10 short days after winning the 2019 Cricket World Cup in what, as The Inquisitr reported, was immediately hailed as perhaps the greatest 50-overs match ever played, England returns to the field — this time in the Test format of the game facing Ireland in Test cricket for the first time. While for the […]

In what was immediately labeled “the greatest cricket World Cup final there has been, by a mile,” by The Guardian, England — the country where the sport originated — won their first world championship, taking the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. To clinch the victory, the team needed a tiebreaking super over to come out […]

After a record four washouts in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, with rain now wiping away nearly 10 percent of all the games on the tournament fixture list, England and West Indies will hope to get in what would be one of the most anticipated matchups of the competition — unless the weather again […]

The ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup gets underway on Thursday, with host England taking on 2015 semifinalists South Africa in the opener at The Oval in London. But this year, England, who have never won the cup despite being the country that invented the game as The Telegraph recounts, open the tournament not only as […]

The Bangladesh Tigers play their final 2019 Cricket World Cup warm-up match against the same 50-over powerhouse nation who will also be their opponent in their final group stage match of the actual competition, according to the official Cricket World Cup site. That opponent, of course, is subcontinental rival India, the second-ranked one-day international cricket […]

The defending and five-time ICC Cricket World Cup champions Australia get one more chance to fine-tune their approach face date before they officially open their quest for back-to-back titles, when they take on a team in Sri Lanka that appears to come into the tournament in a state of disarray, according to ICC-Cricket.com. That same […]

Coming off a morale-boosting victory in the championship final of an international series in Ireland against the host nation and West Indies, as CricBuzz reported, the Bangladesh Tigers begin their campaign to better their historic performance in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The Tigers face Pakistan, their arch-rivals — which they have defeated in four […]

The Cricket World Cup opens in just 11 days, but England and Pakistan still have one last competitive match to play, and it will be one in which Pakistan will look for some kind of morale boost heading into the Cup competition after losing the first three one-day international matches in which there was a […]

In what could easily become the most entertaining match of the England vs. Pakistan one-day international series in advance of the Cricket World Cup, the teams take to the pitch at Trent Bridge in Nottingham; a ground that has seen eight single-innings totals over 400 in just the past three years, per CricInfo. That includes […]

With the opening of the 2019 Cricket World Cup now just two weeks away, two of the dark horse teams in the tournament have a chance to adjust to playing under pressure when they square off with a trophy on the line in the final of a one-day international tri-series in Ireland. According to ESPN, […]

The Bangladesh Tigers are already booked to face West Indies in the championship final of their pre-Cricket World Cup tri-series in Ireland on Friday. But first, they must play one last match in the series, taking on the host nation after the first game between Ireland and Bangladesh was abandoned due to inclement weather. But […]

England’s upstart fast bowling sensation Jofra Archer was rested in the second ODI against Pakistan, and is now expected to be rested again in the third ODI, which, according to a CricBuzz report, is an all-but-certain sign that the 24-year-old is set to take a place on England’s Cricket World Cup squad. There are still […]

With the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England less than three weeks away, two of the dark horse teams in the competition, Bangladesh and West Indies, continue to fine tune their lineups as they meet the fifth match of their tri-series in Ireland, after the resurgent Tigers handled the Windies with relative ease in their […]

England and Pakistan are trying to fine-tune their teams for the Cricket World Cup, with opens in less than three weeks in London, but the weather had other ideas on Wednesday when the teams were able to get in only 19 overs of their first one-day international match. But even in that shortened contest — […]

With just three weeks to go before the 2019 Cricket World Cup opens in England, the host nation faces Pakistan in a five match, one-day international series that will allow both teams to put the finishing touches on their World Cup squads. But with the absence of a key player in Alex Hales, who has […]

The 2019 VIVO Indian Premier League is nearing its conclusion, with three teams competing for the final pair of playoff spots, per CricInfo. Two of those three teams go head-to-head in Thursday in the 51st match of the 12th IPL franchise cricket tournament, as third-place Mumbai Indians, the three-time champions, host fourth place Sunrisers Hyderabad […]

Even a rare pair of centuries could not rescue a Pakistan chase that fell apart in the final five overs in the fourth one-day international match against Australia on Friday, as ESPN reported. The loss left the hosts now facing the serious possibility of a whitewash before heading to England for one last five-match ODI […]

Defending Cricket World Cup champions Australia are roaring toward the 2019 World Cup, winning their sixth consecutive one day international match on Wednesday, as ESPN reported. The win also gave them their second straight series win — this one over Pakistan after defeating India on India’s own home turf. But Pakistan appear to be staggering […]

With the 2019 Cricket World Cup just two months away, Pakistan are looking for a reversal of form, as well as of fortune, as they head into the third one day international against the reigning World Cup champions Australia — a side that seems to be hitting their stride at exactly the right time, riding […]

With barely over two months to go before the opening of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, the defending world champions, Australia, appear to be hitting their stride. They cruised to an easy, eight-wicket victory over Pakistan in the first one day international match of their five-match series, per CricBuzz, just nine days after polishing off […]

The world’s most popular T20 cricket tournament returns for a 12th season on Friday, as the VIVO Indian Premier League opens its 2019 campaign with the defending champion Chennai Super Kings hosting three-time finalists, and last year’s sixth-place team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The matchup not only pits two of the IPL’s most heated rivals […]

The fourth season of the Pakistan Super League T20 franchise cricket tournament end with a familiar feel, as the Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi — two teams that have each appeared twice in the previous three PSL championship final matches — will square off in a rematch of the 2017 final, as Pakistan’s International News […]

With less than three months before the opener of the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England, defending World Champions Australia — who have not won a bilateral one day international series in more than two years, per CricBuzz — appear to be rounding into the form that saw them dominate global ODI cricket just four […]