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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Geoff Lemon |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleYesterday, we said there wouldn’t be a Day 4. Cricket decided differently. Australia’s tenth-wicket defiance pushed us all the way up to lunch, only to be countered by South Africa’s polish and confidence as Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma changed the game. Now, South Africa are so close to doing what they have never done: winning a major international trophy.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | James Wallace |Taha Hashim
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleHello and welcome to the third and final ODI of the series between England and West Indies from The Oval. Harry Brook’s England side are sitting pretty having secured the series already, largely thanks to one of the most sublime fifty over centuries you are ever likely to see courtesy of Joseph Edward Root.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | James Wallace |Tanya Aldred
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleHello and welcome to the OBO of the first ODI between England and West Indies from Derby.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Tim de Lisle |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleMorning everyone and welcome to the third day of the men’s international summer. Anybody old enough to remember when Test cricket was a slow process? This match is moving fast even by modern standards. The first day was all about runs, as England piled up 498, including 200 after tea. The second day was all about wickets, 14 of them spread across three innings.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | James Wallace |Daniel Gallan
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleWell, that was brutal. Hello and welcome to day two of England v Zimbabwe from Trent Bridge. England amassed 498 runs yesterday against an increasingly beleaguered Zimbabwe bowling attack who were left a bowler light when Richard Ngarava suffered a probable back spasm and had to leave the field on the back of a golf buggy.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Rob Smyth |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleOn 10 October 2000, South Africa thrashed England by eight wickets in Nairobi, Kenya. Shaun Pollock took 3 for 27, Jacques Kallis stroked an effortless 78. That match was the last quarter-final to be played in the Champions Trophy, but only if you take these things literally.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Daniel Gallan |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleSound the klaxon – we’ve got a MUST-WIN contest on our hands. The equation is simple. Loser goes home. Winner stays on with a shot at the semis to come. England should win it, really. They’re fresh from posting a monster total against Australia (sure they lost, but that doesn’t mean their score of 365-5 wasn’t sizeable).
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Rob Smyth |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleHello and welcome to live coverage of Australia v South Africa in Rawalpindi. No major tournament is complete without these two old rivals flexing their guns at each other. Australia have generally had the better of South Africa when it really matters, winning World Cup semi-finals in 1999, 2007 and 2023, but it does feel like South Africa are very close to leaving the ghosts of World Cup past behind.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred |James Wallace
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleHello! What better reason to roll out of bed on a Sunday morning than for India v Pakistan, cousin v cousin, grudge v gripe, cricket con passione. We’re in Dubai today, due to the Indian government/BCCI’s refusal to play in Pakistan, and the match is a sell out.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | James Wallace |Tanya Aldred
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreamble‘Listen, don’t mention the A’ word, I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right…’Hello and welcome to Australia v England in the Champions Trophy. In all seriousness, these two white ball sides are a shadow of their Test teams and each will be looking to get over recent bruising encounters and start the tournament off with a victory.
