England lost 12 WTC points and half their Oval match fee for being 12 overs short against New Zealand, with interim captain Joe Root accepting the slow over-rate charge as the series heads to a Trent Bridge decider.
Annerie Dercksen’s 52 and Marizanne Kapp’s three wickets helped South Africa beat Pakistan by two wickets, despite Fatima Sana’s unbeaten 55 rescuing Pakistan from 55 for eight.
Joshua Da Silva and Amir Jangoo return to the West Indies Test squad for the home WTC series against Sri Lanka, with Alzarri and Shamar Joseph back from injury and Tevin Imlach leading a Select XI warm-up in Coolidge.
The PCB will scrap A–D central contracts for format-based tracks driven largely by data, with Test specialists on track A and T20 specialists on track D gaining more franchise league freedom from the end of this month.
Smriti Mandhana’s 68 and Deepti Sharma’s record five for 10 powered India to a 64-run T20 World Cup win over Pakistan at Edgbaston, with Richa Ghosh’s late 34 lifting the hosts to 170.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s century dedicated to newborn daughter Daisy powered England to an 87-run win over Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup opener at Edgbaston, with Freya Kemp taking four wickets in a standout home performance.
Kane Williamson has retired from international cricket with immediate effect during New Zealand’s Test tour of England, ruling himself out of the remaining matches at The Oval and Trent Bridge after 16 years in the national setup.
Bangladesh secured a historic maiden ODI series win over Australia with a five-wicket DLS victory in Dhaka, riding early bowling strikes and a calm chase led by Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Towhid Hridoy.
The 2027 men’s ODI World Cup across South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia is provisionally set for 4 October to 21 November, with South Africa likely hosting most of the 54 matches in a 14-team tournament.
Australia have scrapped their home T20 series against Bangladesh in October and split New Zealand’s tour into T20Is in Sydney and ODIs in March, after the ICC moved the 2027 Women’s Champions Trophy to February.
Joe Root will lead England in the second Test at The Oval on 17 June after Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were ruled unavailable amid an ECB nightclub investigation, with Jordan Cox and Jofra Archer joining the squad.
Sahibzada Farhan will captain a new-look Pakistan side at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan, with Abdul Samad as vice-captain and four uncapped T20I players in a 15-man squad missing several World Cup regulars.