Here’s Pakistan’s Domestic Cricket Calendar for 2026-27
Ten months. Two List A tournaments before the first ball of first-class cricket is even bowled. That’s not how Pakistan’s domestic season usually opens, and that’s exactly the point. The PCB unveiled its Men’s Domestic Cricket Calendar for 2026-27 on July 23, and the sequencing tells its own story. One-day cricket comes first this year […]
Lord’s Loses the WTC Final — Why The Oval Gets the 2027 Showpiece and What It Means for Cricket’s Biggest Occasion
The ICC confirmed on Thursday that The Oval in London will host the 2027 World Test Championship Final from June 9 to 13. Lord’s expected the return fixture. A demerit point for an unsatisfactory pitch changed those plans — and opened a conversation about what England’s most famous cricket ground needs to fix before 2029. […]
Pakistan to Play Five-Match ODI Series in England in May 2027 — The Full Schedule, and Why This Series Matters
Pakistan will tour England next May for a five-match One-Day International series, the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed on Thursday, July 23, 2026. The dates place the series directly in the build-up to the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, and that timing is deliberate — this is preparation cricket, not routine bilateral scheduling. The series […]
Aaqib Javed Says Pakistan Can’t Win the 2027 World Cup — And He’s Right to Say It
“We are lying to ourselves if we think we can win the World Cup while being ranked seventh and eighth in the world.” That’s Aaqib Javed, Pakistan Cricket Board’s Director of High Performance, speaking on Tuesday, July 22, 2026. He’s the man responsible for building Pakistan’s white-ball pipeline for the next two years. And he […]
Spain Are World Champions Again: Ferran Torres’ Extra-Time Strike Ends Argentina’s Reign
Sixteen years. Two finals. One substitute who had scored zero goals all tournament. Ferran Torres came on in the 62nd minute to replace Spain’s top scorer. He touched the ball in a World Cup final for the first time with 39 seconds gone in the second period of extra time, took a Nico Williams header […]
ICC Overhauls T20 World Cup Format for 2028 — Here’s Everything That’s Actually Changing
India’s third T20 World Cup title, claimed in Ahmedabad last week, had barely been celebrated before the ICC announced that the tournament they just won will look fundamentally different the next time it’s played. On Tuesday, the International Cricket Council confirmed sweeping format changes for the 2028 Men’s T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and […]
PCB Accused of Allegedly Extorting MLC Teams With $25,000 NOC Fees for Pakistani Players
A single anonymous source has triggered one of the messier disputes in Major League Cricket’s short history — and it’s raising real questions about how national cricket boards monetize player availability. Cricket outlet PakPassion published a report this week citing a source described as close to an MLC franchise owner, alleging that the Pakistan Cricket […]
ICC Rewrites the 2027 World Cup Rulebook — Super Series, Super 7, and What It All Means for Pakistan and India
Approved at the ICC Annual Conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the 2027 ODI World Cup gets a new three-stage format. The Super Six is gone. A Super 7 replaces it. And the structural change opens the door to a second Pakistan-India match that the old format made almost impossible. The ICC does not often change […]
PCB Sets Multan as Stage for August ODI Trial — Here Is What It Tells Us About Pakistan’s 2027 World Cup Plans
A four-team domestic ODI tournament in Multan from August 11 to 18 with mandatory attendance for all white-ball players and a top-four ODI ranking target — the PCB is not easing into World Cup preparation. It is treating the next 18 months as a crisis timeline. Pakistan’s next ODI World Cup campaign effectively begins in […]
Stokes Retired. McCullum Sacked. Bazball Gone. But What It Built Will Outlast Both of Them
Ben Stokes retired. Brendon McCullum was sacked. England lost a home Test series for the first time since 2012. Four years after it began with the most thrilling cricket anyone could remember, Bazball is over. Here is what it actually was — and why it mattered more than its record suggests. It ended where it […]