The Pakistan Super League will be held on schedule from March 26 but without crowds and only at two venues to save resources due to the Gulf crisis, the country's cricket chief announced Sunday.

South Africa's spinners played a decisive role as the tourists won the fourth Twenty20 international against New Zealand by 19 runs on Sunday to square the five-match series 2-2.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has made fitness clearance compulsory for players before competing in franchise leagues, a rule that comes into effect right before the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) where several Sri Lankans are set to compete.

In October last year, he resigned as Pakistan head coach citing differences with the PCB over team selection, captaincy and external interferences

Veteran South African umpire Marais Erasmus has brought the curtain down on a remarkable 26-year career as an officiator in a domestic List-A game on his home soil.

“With 60-metre boundaries and no real bounce, skidding on -- you almost have to have some sort of mystery,” he said.

The record for the youngest T20I hundred had earlier belonged to Uganda’s Prosscovia Alako, who was 16 years and 233 days old when she scored 116 against Mali in Kigali in 2019.

The fourth T20 is in Wellington on Sunday.

Giggles and songs ripple across a field in rural eastern Uganda where elderly women swing cricket bats as a way to reshape what ageing, health and sports can look like in later life.

Replacing an injured Sanju Samson in the second half of the tournament, Sooryavanshi hit the first IPL ball he faced for a six against Lucknow Super Giants, and smashed a 35-ball hundred against Gujarat Titans in another match.

The World Cricketers' Association (WCA) rankings released on Thursday put the IPL (62.6) third of 10 leagues, behind England's The Hundred (75.2) and South Africa's SA20 (68).

Bangladesh players are off vacationing after the ODI series triumph against Pakistan and while most of them will reassemble after the Eid-ul-Fitr to prepare for the home white-ball series against New Zealand, the plans for the six Pakistan Super League (PSL)-bound players will be different.

Jos Buttler is refusing to accept his England career is over despite admitting he had a "poor tournament" at the recent T20 World Cup.

Bangladesh skipper Mehidy Hasan Miraz has been rewarded for his excellent recent form with big gains on the latest ICC Men's ODI Player Rankings.

England batter Ollie Pope said he remains hopeful of returning to the national Test side after accepting that his omission following a poor Ashes series was the right call.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) statement issued on Monday night, in response to the National Sports Council’s (NSC) March 11 gazette regarding an investigation into the October 2025 BCB elections, has left many within the cricketing fraternity confused.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodian of the Laws of Cricket, has clarified that Salman Ali Agha’s controversial run-out during the second ODI between Bangladesh and Pakistan in Mirpur last Friday was “out” under the Laws, while also acknowledging the debate surrounding the spirit of the game.

State Minister for Youth and Sports, Aminul Haque, said on Tuesday that an investigation committee will be formed to determine why Bangladesh did not participate in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka.

Devon Conway blasted a half-century before New Zealand skittled South Africa cheaply to win the second Twenty20 international by 68 runs Tuesday and level the five-match series 1-1.

Several prominent Afghanistan cricketers, including Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi, expressed their anguish after a Pakistani military airstrike at a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul on Monday killed nearly 400 people and injured more than 250 people.