The CRICKETher Weekly

This week:

• Harmanpreet Kaur replaced as India captain - but will she keep playing?
• Should ECB help fund a women’s Test in the West Indies?
• Big Bash privatisation - what is really being sold?

This week:

• WPL retentions - any surprises?
• Eva Gray signs for Hants - but where does that leave Essex?
• Vitality ditch the Blast
• The Afghanistan Premier League Shame List

This week:

• Middlesex win the League 2 One Day Cup
• 2026 season review: your questions answered
• Who has earned a spot in the Wisden Five?
• England U19s squad announced
• Worrying news from the West Indies

This week:

• Blaze win the treble
• Is Tier 1 becoming lopsided?
• Ben Sawyer leaves New Zealand
• England’s winter: WBBL, bilateral, Champions Trophy & a Test v West Indies?

This week:

• England v Ireland series wrap-up
• Irish & Scottish players in English domestic cricket - what should the rules be?
• A bonkers week in the One-Day Cup & 2 Berkshire greats retire
• England player availability debunked
• Leah Poulton replaces Clare Connor

This week:

• ⁠England v Ireland: what have we learned?
• ⁠Champions Trophy moved to India
• ⁠Smriti Mandhana becomes all-time leading run-scorer
• ⁠A bonkers game between Somerset & Yorkshire in the One-Day Cup

This week:

• England v Ireland: our series preview
• Blaze win the County Cup, but what’s the future for the competition?
• Raf speaks to Katie George about the situation at Warwickshire
• Why are some England players available for county cricket & not others?

Syd's England XI:

1. Bouchier

2. Dunkley

3. Pavely

4. Capsey

5. Kemp

6. Villiers

7. Gibson

8. Dean

9. Wong

10. Corteen-Coleman

11. Filer

12. Grewcock

13. MacDonald-Gay

14. Potts

15. Chathli

This week:

• Was Litchfield incorrectly given out in The Hundred final?
• Is it right for MCC to control the laws now they have a commercial stake in The Hundred?
• Georgia Davis placed on gardening leave by Warwickshire
• Kate Cross retires

Portugal women’s cricket team fundraiser:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-portugals-womens-cricket-team-make-history

This week:

• Rockets win The Hundred… but which player has played in the most Hundred finals?
• Attendances down? We crunch the numbers!
• Has the comp been dominated by overseas stars?
• Who will play in the England v Ireland series?

(And... yes - they released the squad for the games v Ireland literally 1 minute after we uploaded this!!)

This week:

• Welcome to Colwall
• Trent Rockets on course to win The Hundred
• So Long, London (x 2) and Birmingham Phoenix - but what’s gone wrong?
• Huge salaries for women cricketers: have we lost perspective?