News The process to register overseas players will commence from September 24 The second edition of the Lanka Premier League, Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 tournament, will run from December 4 to 23, the SLC announced on Thursday. The process to register overseas players will commence from September 24. The tournament was originally set to run

News Analysis There isn’t much domestic cricket locked in yet, but should Covid-19 allow here’s some names with plenty to play for The Australia domestic season remains very piecemeal at the moment with only a handful of games confirmed and two states – Victoria and New South Wales – still unsure when they will start

George Balderson claims an opening-day wicket © Getty Images Lancashire25 for 3 trail Hampshire 143 (Parkinson 3-9, Balderson 3-21) by 118 runs The rapt and perfect silence that descends on a crowd as they watch a county match unfold on an outground is one of the small wonders of our world. The spectators’ attention is

Preview They’ve seen off the worst batting conditions this season could offer, and both batting units can expect a significant uptick in form Big picture The Mumbai Indians have four wins in eight matches, and the Kolkata Knight Riders three wins in eight. They occupy the amorphous middle section of the points table, indicative of

News Punjab Kings head coach says their batters should have finished the chase in 19 overs Anil Kumble, the Punjab Kings coach, was at a loss of words to explain yet another loss from a winning position. Kings failed to score the eight runs they needed off the last two overs to lose to Rajasthan

Warwickshire 283 for 4 (Hain 83*, Rhodes 60, Sibley 56) vs Somerset It would be hard to say the exact moment when a collective realisation descended upon Edgbaston. It wasn’t at the start of the day, when Warwickshire were inserted. It wasn’t at lunch, which they reached on 80 for 1. It wasn’t even at

Mithali Raj, India’s ODI captain, has called for greater accountability from the opening pair of Smriti Mandhana, especially, and Shafali Verma after the two fell for low scores in India’s nine-wicket loss in the first ODI in Mackay. While a better start – the pair fell in quick succession after adding 31 – might have

Report India hand ODI debut to Richa Ghosh, who replaces Taniya Bhatia as wicketkeeper in Mackay Australia chose to bowl vs India Australia have won the toss and opted to send India in on a fresh surface in Mackay for the opening ODI of the multi-format series. Australia captain Meg Lanning, playing her 200th game

News Chairman promises to ‘avenge’ cancellations when Pakistan meet England, NZ at World Cup Ramiz Raja, the PCB chairman, has hit out at cricket’s “western bloc”, as he copes with the second cancellation of a home series in a matter of days. England’s decision to withdraw their men and women’s team tours to Pakistan leaves

News ECB release centrally-contracted allrounder to play second consecutive Championship game Warwickshire have been boosted by the news that Chris Woakes will be available for their must-win fixture against Somerset this week as they push for a first County Championship title since 2012. Woakes, who is on an all-format England contract, pulled out of his