Ravindra Jadeja will become the highest wicket-taker in ODIs between India and West Indies if he takes one wicket in Sunday's series opener. He currently shares the record with Courtney Walsh on 44 wickets, having achieved the tally in 32 matches compared to Walsh's 38.

Jadeja has not played an ODI since January 2026 against New Zealand. He needs 95 runs across the three-match series to reach 3,000 ODI runs and would become only the second Indian after Kapil Dev to complete 3,000 runs and 200 wickets in the format.

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak said experience is something you cannot beat and backed Jadeja's all-round value ahead of the series. The first ODI will be played at Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram.

Emilio Gay scored 141 on his return to first-class cricket for Durham at Old Trafford. The England opener shared a 124-run stand with Ben McKinney and later batted with Mayank Agarwal as the Division Two champions passed 300 on the first day against Lancashire.

Gay reached his hundred off 156 balls before Walkden dismissed him in the evening session. Durham already hold the Division Two title and promotion for next season. Lancashire, without a Championship win since April, face a fight to avoid the bottom of the table.

Gay's last first-class century came before his England call-up earlier this summer. He played all six Tests but lost form after two fifties and now faces competition from Jacob Bethell and Jordan Cox for a place in the tour of South Africa.

Jos Buttler became the first England batter to reach 10,000 runs across ODIs and T20Is during the second ODI against Sri Lanka at Headingley. He scored 69 off 49 balls before retiring hurt with a hamstring injury.

Buttler has now scored 5,678 ODI runs in 204 matches and 4,384 T20I runs in 163 matches. Sri Lanka posted 321 for six, with Kusal Mendis scoring 121, and defended the total to win by 16 runs and level the series.

The third ODI at The Oval on Sunday will decide the series winner. Buttler will miss the match after his injury.

Abhishek Sharma was dismissed for a golden duck in India's one-off T20I against Japan at Sano on Tuesday. The left-hander became the first player to record 10 ducks in a calendar year after top-edging a sweep off Charlie Hara-Hinze in the opening over. The match was reduced to five overs per side due to rain.

India scored 32 for 4 and then defended the total by two runs as Japan finished on 30 for 3. Shreyas Iyer top-scored with 16 and was named Player of the Match. India became the first team to reach 200 T20I wins.

Abhishek had scored a 30-ball century against Afghanistan in the preceding series.

Muhammad Shahzad scored the fastest first-class century by a Pakistani batter, reaching three figures in 49 balls for Pakistan Television against Hyderabad Kingsmen at the Diamond Cricket Ground in Islamabad on 24 September. The 22-year-old broke Misbah-ul-Haq's previous national record of 56 balls set against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014.

Shahzad finished with 114 off 62 balls, hitting 12 fours and eight sixes, and now sits eighth on the all-time list of quickest first-class centuries. He came in at 34 for three and added 143 for the fourth wicket with Mohammad Taha.

Shahzad has six first-class hundreds from 21 matches and previously represented Pakistan at the 2020 Under-19 World Cup before making his PSL debut with Islamabad United in 2025.

Harmanpreet Kaur became the most successful captain in T20 finals after leading India to a 147-run victory over Sri Lanka in the Asian Games 2026 final. The win gave India back-to-back gold medals and took her tally to 10 successful T20 finals as captain.

Smriti Mandhana scored 79 and Richa Ghosh remained unbeaten on 49 as India posted 216 for 3. Deepti Sharma took 3 for 6 while Shafali Verma, Shree Charani and Shreyanka Patil claimed two wickets each as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69.

MS Dhoni previously held the record with nine T20 final wins. Harmanpreet now stands alone at the top of the list ahead of Rohit Sharma on eight and Meg Lanning on seven.

Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed has climbed to the top of the ICC Men's T20I Bowling Rankings with 736 rating points, one point ahead of Afghanistan's Rashid Khan. The update follows Abrar's performances in recent bilateral series.

Mohammad Nawaz remains eighth with 658 points while Salman Mirza is 18th. Shaheen Afridi slipped one place to 33rd.

England captain Harry Brook is now positioned to become the only current batter ranked inside the top 10 across all three formats if he moves up two places in the ODI rankings.

Lakshya Raichandani scored an unbeaten 110 to lead India Under-19 to a six-wicket victory and complete a 3-0 series sweep against Australia Under-19 at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Chasing 255, India lost early wickets but Raichandani anchored the innings with support from Aaryavir Sehwag and Kushagra Ojha before Rajat Baghel's cameo of 44 helped finish the chase with more than eight overs remaining. Australia had posted 254 for nine, with Zed Hollick scoring 87 and Neel Patel making 51, but debutant Aryan Savsani and pacers Mohit Ulva and Manal Chauhan triggered a collapse that restricted the visitors.

Harry Brook and Jos Buttler have moved into the top five of the ICC men's T20I batting rankings after strong performances in England's 3-0 T20I series win against Sri Lanka. Brook rose five places to fourth with 170 runs at an average of 85 and a strike rate of 218, while Buttler jumped two spots to fifth with 172 runs at an average of 86 and a strike rate of 187. Ishan Kishan remains at the top despite his rating dropping from 913 to 904, while Abhishek Sharma closed the gap in second place with 893 points.

Joe Root became the second-fastest batter to reach 23,000 international runs during England's first ODI against Sri Lanka in Durham. The 35-year-old reached the milestone in his 521st international innings, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar who achieved the feat in 522 innings. Virat Kohli remains the fastest with 490 innings. Root, who scored 44 in the match, became the eighth batter and first Englishman to reach the landmark, joining Kohli, Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis.

Abhishek Sharma was dismissed for a golden duck against Japan in Sano on Tuesday, taking his T20 duck tally to 10 for the calendar year. No player has previously been dismissed for a duck 10 times in a single year.

The left-hander has been dismissed without scoring seven times in 27 T20Is this year. He also recorded three ducks during India's group-stage campaign at the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Rashid Khan and Shadab Khan previously held the record with nine ducks each in a calendar year. Abhishek's latest failure came in a rain-shortened five-over match that India won by two runs.

Shafali Verma surpassed Laura Wolvaardt to set a new record for most T20I runs in a calendar year. The opener reached the mark during India's Asian Games campaign in Japan.

Verma scored an unbeaten 100 off 49 balls against Bangladesh in the semi-final, her maiden T20I century. She also became the first woman to score a century at the Asian Games.

The 22-year-old now leads the T20I run-scoring charts for 2026 with 825 runs from 24 matches, including one century and seven fifties.

Jos Buttler became the first batter to reach 15,000 T20 runs during England’s second T20I against Sri Lanka at Sophia Gardens. The milestone came in 528 matches, at an average of 35.46 and a strike rate of 147.46.

He passed Kieron Pollard’s mark of 14,999 with a single off Eshan Malinga in the fifth over of England’s chase.

England won by six wickets to finish the series 2-0 ahead.

Vidarsa Vinod became the first female shooter from Kerala to win a medal at the Asian Games. She was part of India's women's 10m air rifle team that claimed silver behind China in Nagoya on Sunday.

The Indian trio of Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Vinod scored 1898.0 points. China won gold with 1904.2, while Japan took bronze. Sonam was India's top scorer with 634.1 points.

Vinod, 27, took up shooting in 2018 during her college years. She said the Keralam government's cash prizes for Asian Games medallists provided additional motivation.

Smriti Mandhana became the first woman to reach 11,000 international runs during India's Asian Games final against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. The opener reached the milestone inside her first ten deliveries, hitting two fours and two sixes off Sugandika Kumari. She was later dismissed for 79 as India posted 216 for three, their highest total in the women's Asian Games event.

Cooper Connolly reached the mark at 23 years and 27 days in Harare on Friday, the youngest Australian to post three straight fifty-plus scores in ODIs.

It started with 149 off 134 against Bangladesh in June. Then 51 off 46 in the first Zimbabwe match, and 78 off 69 in the second.

He's already played against England and taken five wickets against South Africa, so the middle-order role is coming together faster than expected.

Adam Zampa became the second Australian spinner after Shane Warne to claim 200 ODI wickets during Australia's 84-run win over Zimbabwe in the second ODI at Harare on Friday. The leg-spinner finished with figures of 2 for 62 in nine overs as Australia defended 357 to seal the series 2-0.

Travis Head scored 112 off 84 balls, including 15 fours and three sixes, while Mitchell Marsh made 53 and Cooper Connolly added 78 in Australia's total of 356 for six. Zampa reached the milestone by dismissing Innocent Kaia and Craig Ervine.

Zampa took 123 matches to reach 200 wickets, five fewer than Warne required. He is now the third-fastest spinner globally behind Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq and Afghanistan's Rashid Khan. Australia complete the three-match series in Harare on Sunday.

Abhishek Sharma produced one of the most remarkable innings in T20 international cricket during the 3rd T20I between India and Afghanistan at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, on September 17, 2026. He reached his century off just 30 balls, becoming the fastest batter from an ICC Full-Member nation to achieve the feat in T20I cricket.

Abhishek's innings of 108 off 34 balls included 9 fours and 11 sixes. He reached his fifty off 16 balls and then required only 14 more balls to bring up three figures. He was dismissed in the 10th over with India's score at 142 for 1, having contributed just over 76 per cent of his team's total at that point.

The previous Full-Member benchmark of 33 balls was jointly held by Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza, who set it against Gambia on October 23, 2024, and New Zealand's Finn Allen, who matched it against South Africa at the 2026 T20 World Cup on March 4, 2026.

Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan has highlighted the qualities that set 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi apart from other young players. Khan pointed to the Rajasthan Royals batter's shot selection, game awareness and natural power as qualities that usually develop over time rather than appear at such a young age. Sooryavanshi has already played a key role in carrying Rajasthan Royals into the IPL 2026 playoffs.

Khan compared his own development to Sooryavanshi's rise and noted the Indian batter's ability to hit big sixes and perform on major stages at 15. The Afghanistan all-rounder said Sooryavanshi backs his skills and knows his game plan against any side or bowler. Khan added that the power and hand-eye coordination the teenager displays are rare traits.

Sooryavanshi burst onto the IPL scene in late 2025 and produced a standout knock in the Under-19 World Cup final before his IPL 2026 season confirmed his rapid rise. Khan described him as a god-gifted talent who has shown his ability beyond the IPL.

Ishan Kishan retained the top spot in the ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings after India's series against Afghanistan. Abhishek Sharma moved to second place, 51 rating points behind his teammate.

Kishan took over the No. 1 position in July after India's series against Ireland. Abhishek gained one place after scoring 82 in the series opener against Afghanistan.

Varun Chakravarthy climbed two places to fifth among bowlers. Jasprit Bumrah moved up seven places to 10th, Arshdeep Singh jumped 11 places to 14th, and Axar Patel rose six places to 27th.