Cricket Coverage & Test Match Analysis

This article is built entirely from BBC Sport's published report on the 2026 T20 Blast final. Match figures, quotes and sequencing are drawn from that account; any assessment of what the result means for…

In March, Josh Kerr told the world he would break a 27-year-old world record on home soil. On Saturday at London Stadium, in front of 60,000 people, he did exactly that. The mile belongs to a Briton again for…

Cricket does not agree on much, but it agreed on Garfield Sobers. This is a look back at the life of the man Wisden placed among its five cricketers of the twentieth century: the 365 that stood for 36 years,…

Three days after England went top of the T20 world rankings, India beat them at their own one-day game and left Stuart Broad with a specific complaint: not enough seam bowling. This covers what actually…

Brendon McCullum has apologised for England's results after being sacked as Test coach on Sunday, a decision that closes out the Bazball era's four-year run in the red-ball game while leaving him in charge of…

Brendon McCullum is stepping down as England's Test head coach, staying on to run the white-ball sides that have thrived under him while handing back the job that made his name. This covers why the ECB has…

England's cricketers have been handed a new set of behaviour guidelines, and the headline is a familiar one for any touring side: watch the drinking. It arrives after a summer of off-field noise, most of it…

Some series are decided by a single great performance and some by the quiet accumulation of a better team simply being better, and England's white-ball side is running out of ways to make this one interesting.…

There are heavy defeats and then there are the ones a team files away and tries never to look at again. India will put this one in the second drawer. Bowled out for 76 at Trent Bridge, beaten by 125 runs, on…

The first mountain finish of the Tour de France usually tells you who has come to race, and stage 3 to Les Angles said it plainly: Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, again, with daylight to the rest. Pogacar…

Old Trafford turned up expecting a coronation and got a contest instead. A 15-year-old walked out to bat for India and rewrote a record that had stood in Sachin Tendulkar's name since 1989, which is the sort…

Sam Curran has put his hand up for the vacancy nobody knows how to fill. This looks at the Surrey all-rounder's pitch to replaceBen Stokesin England's Test side: the five years since his last cap, the groin…

England are in a Women's T20 World Cup final for the first time in eight years, and the story of how they got there runs through one player's calf. This covers the 40-run semi-final win over South Africa at…

Four years ago Bazball was born at Trent Bridge in a blaze of fearless chasing. This week, at the same ground and against the same opponent, it looked very much like it died there. This piece examines…

Ben Stokes has spent the better part of a decade dragging England across finish lines they had no business reaching. Now, at 35, he has decided he has given enough. This piece looks at his retirement from…

England's series against New Zealand reaches a decisive third Test at Trent Bridge under circumstances nobody could have scripted, with captain Ben Stokes walking back into the dressing room freshly cleared by…

The ECB rarely tips its hand on selection before a squad is named, so withdrawing two players from county cricket mid-match is about as loud as the board ever gets. This piece looks at why Ben Stokes and Gus…

Ollie Robinson's comeback from two years away was brief, brilliant, and now abruptly paused. With Robinson, Ben Stokes, and Gus Atkinson all absent from The Oval, England's selection puzzle is more complicated…

England's summer of cricket has lurched from the field into an off-field crisis less than 24 hours after a Test victory. This piece examines the investigation's implications for both the second Test squad and…

Day two of the first Rothesay Test at Lord's produced another 17 wickets on a surface that has made batting look almost impossible, yet England's debutant opener Emilio Gay offered a composed counter-argument.…

At Christmas, Ollie Robinson believed his England career was finished. Six months later he walked out at Lord's and took three wickets in his first over back in Test cricket. This piece examines how that…

The ICC has announced a trial that could fundamentally change how umpires respond to fading light in Test cricket, allowing the pink ball to substitute for the red mid-match. We break down what the change…

This piece looks beyond England's 4-1 Ashes defeat to examine what Brendon McCullum's own admissions reveal about the structural and cultural cracks in the Test set-up. With a New Zealand series opening at…

The appointment of Marcus North as England's new national selector has opened a fresh debate about who should be shaping the future of English cricket. We look at why Darren Gough, one of the candidates who…

Ollie Robinson has gone from believing his England career was finished to receiving personal reassurances from the head coach and managing director. We look at what those conversations mean, where Robinson…

Yorkshire arrived at the fourth morning of this County Championship fixture staring down a 112-run first-innings deficit, with very few observers giving them a realistic chance of victory. What followed was a…

Joe Root returned to first-class cricket after more than three months away and immediately looked every inch the world-class batter he is, only to be denied a milestone hundred by a moment of uncharacteristic…

The ECB's bold decision to trial fully participating substitute players in the County Championship is already generating significant controversy after just two rounds of fixtures. Coaches and captains from…

Ben Stokes has spoken candidly about the nets accident that left him needing major facial surgery, admitting things could have been far worse. The England captain has also delivered his most honest assessment…

Ben Stokes has broken his silence on the reported tension between himself and England head coach Brendon McCullum, conceding their partnership needs to operate differently following a difficult winter. This…

Jamie Smith is producing some of the most consistently destructive batting in the County Championship this season, and his second-innings 89 at the Kia Oval was another reminder of why his name keeps coming up…