Cricket

Both semi-finals have a reserve day allocated – for the day after the original date scheduled, but at the earlier time of 09:30 GMT. The final does too, but that would start at 13:30 GMT as orig...

South Africa produced an unconvincing performance with the bat but beat Zimbabwe by five wickets to set up a semi-final against New Zealand. An 18-ball 42 from Dewald Brevis at number four proved cruc...

With the pressure of 50,597 clad in blue packed into the stands at Eden Gardens, and the weight of a nation on their shoulders, Samson played a stellar hand for an India team bidding to defend the tro...

Fire have made four pre-auction direct signings, Phil Salt, Chris Woakes, Marco Jansen and Rachin Ravindra with the latter pair taking up two overseas slots. “You only have four international pl...

Fast bowler Haris Rauf has been put forward as a ‘marquee’ player in the auction for The Hundred, alongside 13 other men from Pakistan. The list of players that will be sold at next week&#...

Despite any talk of top-order frailties, India remain a frightening T20 team. Yes, they were well beaten by South Africa and given a scare by USA but there is a reason they came into this tournament a...

Co-hosts Sri Lanka are out of the T20 World Cup after collapsing to a 61-run defeat by New Zealand in Colombo. Needing to win to keep their semi-final hopes alive, Sri Lanka looked to be in control la...

The most drastic option also appears the least likely. Buttler, who signed a new two-year central contract last year, has been a mainstay of England’s white-ball teams for more than a decade. Co...

‘Our batters need to take it deep’published at 13:20 GMT 13:20 GMT Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka: “The learning from the last game was that our batters need to take it deep. The bo...

Perhaps the most significant on-field figure has been all-rounder and T20 captain Sikandar Raza. After moving from Pakistan to join his family in Zimbabwe in 2002, Raza put aside the disappointment of...