Cricket

For a batsman as gifted as Joe Root, scoring a first century of the English summer in mid-July must constitute an unusually long wait. After 18 unsuccessful attempts across all formats, Root finally registered three […]

England 260 for 2 (Root 100*, Morgan 88*) beat India 256 for 8 (Kohli 71, Dhawan 44, Willey 3-40, Rashid 3-49) by eight wickets On a pitch most suited to their spinners, India’s batsmen and […]

Durham 184 for 5 (Latham 98*, Clark 33) beat Nottinghamshire 150 (Wessels 42, Collingwood 3-25) by 34 runsScorecard Durham skipper Tom Latham led from the front to steer his side to an impressive 34-run win […]

10:04 PM ET Sharda UgraSenior Editor A few days ago, an Indian newspaper published an article by Sarah Waris, a young woman sports journalist who had first highlighted a case of stalking, impersonation and harassment […]

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal and coach Chandika Hathurusingha have been suspended for four ODIs, in addition to the two Tests they are already sitting out, after receiving the maximum possible punishment for their spirit […]

Sir Richard Hadlee will undergo further surgery following the discovery of secondary cancer in his liver. An NZC statement said it was still at a “very early stage”. The former New Zealand captain had been […]

Zimbabwe batsman Malcolm Waller has withdrawn from the team’s ODI squad citing, through correspondence between his lawyer and Zimbabwe Cricket, labour-practice concerns. Waller had been part of Zimbabwe’s squad for the T20 tri-series in Harare, […]

Get on top of the spinners before they get on top of you. So goes Dimuth Karunaratne‘s mantra, when playing on dusty tracks. Karunaratne hit 218 runs on his own on a Galle surface in […]

Surrey 192 for 3 (Finch 131*) beat Sussex 140 (Salt 74, Dernbach 3-31, Pillans 3-20) by 52 runsScorecard Aaron Finch bludgeoned the fifth T20 hundred of his career against Sussex’s star-studded bowling attack to lift […]

Get your defense in order, but when the ball is there to hit, make sure you score. That’s Hashim Amla‘s advice to himself and his teammates after an abysmal second day, in which they found […]