Cricket

England’s queens of spin enjoy view from the top

Big tests lie ahead after 89-run win but Sciver-Brunt’s team are showing form

Cummins faces up to stressful reality of Ashes mortality

Captain’s ailing back makes it advantage England with the series looming and Australia requiring two players to replace their leader

Smith stuns South Africa as England make flying World Cup start

The left-armer’s performance served as vindication of the faith placed in her by new coach Charlotte Edwards

Nottinghamshire's well deserved County Championship victory

Where better to contemplate the treasured past and county cricket success in the present than at the handsome Trent Bridge?

England stats promising ahead of daunting Ashes

England’s bowlers have proved their worth at times this summer

England’s Ashes No3 will matter far less than keeping Ben Stokes firing

Pope didn’t fail as deputy but with Stokes so unlikely to play five Tests, Brook as vice makes sense

The six storylines that will define the Women’s Cricket World Cup

There has been an historic prize-pot increase for women’s ODI, but the real test is in the fanbase

The big changes in women’s cricket may just be the right ones

After a decade of upheaval, women’s domestic cricket looks like it is here to stay

Josh Tongue leads unlikely route to title challenge for Nottinghamshire

Wealthy Surrey can’t produce riches on the field for fourth year in a row

Salt sprinkles his stardust as England rediscover their mojo

Having a Blast might soon be out of date for county cricket’s older crowd

Can the original T20 competition really survive game’s new-found devotion to the Hundred and its demanding billionaire owners from around the world?

Harry Brook has a dilemma as England search for more meaning

The continued global formats forces England to solve their own malaise

The Hundred’s popularity comes to the fore

We wrap up 2025’s The Hundred in a series of 100-word snippets

Could increasing rarity be Test cricket’s salvation?

Andy Zaltzman celebrates the growth of international cricket in the past decade

Could Jersey really make it to the cricket World Cup?

Sport grows in quality on the tiny island, who are early leaders in the complicated qualifying process

SACA: The growing success of Asian talent factory is a lesson for counties

Breakthrough for South Asian Cricket Academy as more of their players go pro

Rivalry and role models: the benefit of a cricketing brother

The Rew and Ahmed duos follow in a long history of fraternal competition

You can hate the Hundred but how else do we pay the bills?

The case for this new controversial style of cricket is helped by its financial distinction