Rizwanullah runs through the middle order

Farid Hasan won the toss and batted. Jarif Siyam went for 1 and Kawser Ahmed for 9 inside the first ten overs, and Abdullah Al Muhi was left to hold the innings together. He made 50 off 45 balls. At 69 for 4, with the captain Farid Hasan out for 17, the innings still needed rebuilding.

Rizwanullah then took five of the last six wickets to fall, finishing with 5 for 30 from his eight overs. Al Muhi, All Rafi on 20 and Rakibul Hossan on 26 were all among them. Bangladesh were all out for 138 in 31.4 overs, having been 98 for 5. Mohammad Sayyam took 2 for 29 from seven overs, Ali Raza 1 for 36 from eight, Hasnain Abbas Dar 1 for 22 from five and Ahmed Hussain 1 for 4. Rizwanullah was named Player of the Match.

Hayam Khan and Usman Khan settle it

Hayam Khan and Usman Khan put on the bulk of the runs together. Hayam made 69 off 72 before Robiul Hasan Anik had him caught behind by Farid Hasan, and no other Bangladesh bowler took a wicket. Usman finished unbeaten on 64 off 54 balls, and Abdul Qadir, 8 not out, hit the runs that took Pakistan to 141 for 1.

Figures come from the ESPNcricinfo scorecard of match 1558442.

India await in the final

The second semi-final was played at the same ground on the same day. Afghanistan made 227 for 8 and India passed it in 36.5 overs for the loss of two wickets, an eight-wicket win with 79 balls left. The final is at Al Amerat on 14 November 2026, starting at 05:00 GMT, which is 09:00 in Oman.

A fast start, then Young’s 125

Shreyas Iyer won the toss and chose to field. The decision looked poor early. New Zealand were 72 without loss after the powerplay, and Tim Seifert reached his fifty off 39 balls on the way to 58 off 48. Will Young was the one who stayed. He made 125 off 108 balls with 14 fours and 4 sixes, and was out only when the substitute fielder K Kushagra caught him off Naman Dhir.

Finn Allen added 41 off 30. At the end, Mitchell Santner, Kristian Clarke and Kyle Jamieson kept the scoreboard moving, and New Zealand were all out for 333 in 50 overs. Henry and Matthew Fisher were both run out.

India’s attack was expensive. Axar Patel had the best economy rate of the six bowlers, 3.90, conceding 39 from ten overs and taking two wickets. Dhir took Young’s wicket and went for 29 in four. Gurnoor Brar took 2 for 69, Auqib Nabi 2 for 59 and Arshdeep Singh 1 for 55. Kuldeep Yadav bowled eight overs, went for 73 and took nothing.

Henry’s spell

Rohit was caught by Allen off the first ball he faced. Kohli was bowled after four. Iyer was given out leg before, also first ball. Ruturaj Gaikwad then spent 13 balls over 5 before Jamieson had him caught by Michael Bracewell, which made it 9 for 4.

Ishan Kishan was top scorer with 27 off 53 balls, bowled by Henry. Only Axar Patel and Dhir, both on 21, also passed 20. From 53 for 5, India lost their last five wickets for 36 runs. Fisher took 3 for 31 from seven overs. Jamieson bowled six overs, two of them maidens, for 1 for 12. Henry came back to bowl Kuldeep and Brar and finished with 6 for 27 from 9.4 overs, which made him Player of the Match. India were all out for 89 in 26.4 overs.

Figures come from the ESPNcricinfo scorecard.

Where the series stands

India still lead the five-match series 2-1. They won the first ODI by five wickets and the second by four runs, and the third in Hamilton ended in no result. The fifth is on Sunday 15 November at 02:00 GMT. India cannot lose the series from here. A New Zealand win would level it at 2-2, and a defeat this heavy is not an easy one to put out of mind before then.

Taylor and Bennett set the tone

Zimbabwe won the toss at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium and chose to bat. Brendan Taylor made 131 off 168 balls and the captain, Brian Bennett, 128 off 206. Wessly Madhevere hit 54, and the innings ended on 504. Mohammad Saleem and Qais Ahmad took three wickets each, and Taylor, who added 82 in the second innings, was named player of the match.

Three hundreds in reply

Afghanistan matched them. Sediqullah Atal made 105 and Rahmanullah Gurbaz 113, and Rahmat Shah, their captain, took 347 balls over his 173 before the innings closed on 514. Newman Nyamhuri took 5/82 for Zimbabwe and Cremer 3/177. Ten runs separated the sides after two innings.

Ervine at 41

Taylor made 82 and Bennett 58 in Zimbabwe’s second innings, then Antum Naqvi, on debut, scored 61 and added 140 for the third wicket with Craig Ervine. Ervine finished unbeaten on 206 from 279 balls, with 23 fours and two sixes. At 41 years and 82 days he is the third-oldest man to make a Test double hundred, behind Eric Rowan and Jack Hobbs, according to the ICC.

Madhevere reached an unbeaten hundred from 108 balls, and the pair added 208 for the sixth wicket, the best sixth-wicket stand in Zimbabwe’s Test history. The ICC says Zimbabwe are the only side to pass 500 in both innings of a Test.

What the pitch gave

Zimbabwe ended on 523/5, 513 ahead. Across five days the match produced 1,541 runs for 25 wickets, and the bowlers on both sides had little to work with. The second and final Test starts at the same ground on 13 November with the series level at 0-0.

Scores are from the ESPNcricinfo scorecard and the ICC match report.

Jangoo’s hundred, Hasan Mahmud’s six wickets

West Indies won the toss and batted. Amir Jangoo made 133 in 212 balls, Kevin Wickham added 61 and Justin Greaves 51, and the visitors were all out for 356 in 106.4 overs. Hasan Mahmud took six wickets for 90 in 24 overs. Taskin Ahmed and Mehidy Hasan Miraz claimed two each, while Taijul Islam bowled 19 overs without success.

Past Mushfiqur’s record

Bangladesh replied with 386, a lead of 30, and Hridoy supplied 242 of it. The other batters and the extras managed 144 between them, and Shadman Islam, who was hurt, did not bat. Hridoy began the third day on 29. A single off Jomel Warrican, who finished with four wickets for 104 from 41 overs, brought up the 200 and made him the fourth Bangladeshi with a Test double century. He went on past Mushfiqur Rahim’s unbeaten 219 against Zimbabwe at Mirpur in November 2018, the previous Bangladesh record. The innings held 22 fours and 11 sixes, and it was his first Test hundred.

Most of the runs arrived with the tail. Hridoy and Taijul Islam added 117 for the eighth wicket, and Hridoy faced 111 of the 167 balls. He then put on 85 with Taskin Ahmed to take Bangladesh past 356. Taskin fell for the ninth wicket and, with Shadman unable to bat, the innings closed with Hridoy unbeaten.

“The way they supported me gave me a lot of confidence,” Hridoy said of Taijul and Taskin, according to The Daily Star. He called the innings “a dream of mine” and added that he had no target for now beyond doing what the team needs.

A declaration and a target of 369

Kavem Hodge scored 142 from 194 balls in the second innings, Wickham made 78 and Brandon King 61. West Indies declared at 398 for 6 after 93 overs. Taijul Islam, Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Nayeem Hasan took two wickets apiece, and Bangladesh were left 369 to win.

They never went for it. Hridoy made 82 from 140 balls and Mushfiqur Rahim 49 from 123, and the home side were 184 for 4 after 59 overs when play ended. Warrican took three wickets for 44. Hridoy scored 324 runs in the match for one dismissal and was named player of the match, while Warrican was player of the series.

Scores come from the ESPNcricinfo scorecard, read on 10 November 2026. Record details are from Wisden and Outlook India. Bangladesh’s other draw this autumn, against Afghanistan in October, is in our Abu Dhabi report.

The toss on India’s tour of New Zealand

The toss winner won six of the eight finished games. The exceptions were the fourth T20I at Eden Park, which New Zealand won by 87 runs after India fielded, and the fourth ODI at Bay Oval, which New Zealand won by 244 runs after India fielded.

Other recent tosses

On the tour the choice was to field eight times out of eight, while elsewhere it split three for batting and two for fielding. Zimbabwe, Afghanistan Under-19 and Bangladesh Under-19 batted, and Australia and Sri Lanka fielded. Both Under-19 toss winners then lost their semi-finals.

Next matches and likely toss decisions

The tour record carries most of the weight where it exists. Elsewhere we lean on the last match at the ground and on any published conditions report, and where there is neither we make no call. Our match predictions page covers the games themselves.

Frequently asked questions

Why is one toss decision missing?

The third ODI at Hamilton was abandoned after the toss. ESPNcricinfo recorded India as the toss winner but did not record what they chose.

Does the toss decide the match?

Six of eight on this tour says little, because the winning captain chose to field every time and so the sample reflects captains’ habits more than any edge from winning the toss.

Rain shortened the game to 47 overs a side, then ended it. India were 113 for 7 after 26 overs when play stopped, four runs ahead of the DLS par score of 109. On a pitch where nobody on either side passed 55, four runs was the whole margin.

Mitchell and Santner hold a wobbling innings together

India chose to field. New Zealand were 53 for 5, with Tim Seifert and Glenn Phillips out for ducks, when Daryl Mitchell and Mitchell Santner came together. Their stand of 59 took the total to 112 for 6, and Mitchell’s 55 off 104 balls was the only fifty of the match. Santner scored 31 from 38 balls. The last four wickets then fell for 22, and the innings closed at 134 in 41 overs. “It was a tricky wicket, there was no hiding,” Santner said, and he added that “we could’ve scraped to 160-180”, as quoted in post-match reports.

Brar bowled ten overs, two of them maidens, and took Tom Latham and Phillips in that slide to 53. Auqib Nabi finished with 2 for 31 and Axar Patel with 2 for 28. Anshul Kamboj took 2 for 25 and also held three catches, and Arshdeep Singh, wicketless, conceded 16 in seven overs.

A golden duck for Gill

Jacob Duffy needed one ball to dismiss Shubman Gill. He later took Virat Kohli for 7 and Naman Dhir for 12, while Kyle Jamieson removed Rohit Sharma for 23, Shreyas Iyer for 30 and Kamboj for 1. India had been 47 for 4. Iyer’s 30 off 46 balls was the top score of their innings and KL Rahul finished unbeaten on 26 from 38. “I thought it’ll be an easy target but it wasn’t,” Gill said after the match, according to post-match reports.

Back-up pace, and a captain who picks his words

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj were not in the side, and Outlook India saw the game as a look at the back-up fast bowlers before the 2027 World Cup. At the presentation Gill said of Brar: “He’s got the pace, he’s got the bounce.” He added that “it’s all about how consistent he can be”. Brar’s own comment, to ANI, was about the captain: “He backs everyone the same way. Nobody is judged here based on a single performance.”

The third ODI is at Hamilton on 10 November (02:00 GMT) and the fourth at Mount Maunganui on 13 November.

Source: ESPNcricinfo results summary by opposition, checked on 6 November 2026.

Tests: England ahead, India closing

England have 53 wins to India’s 37, with 51 draws. The two most recent series were five-match contests. India won 4-1 at home in early 2024 after losing the opener in Hyderabad by 28 runs. They then took Visakhapatnam by 106 runs, Rajkot by 434 runs, Ranchi by five wickets and Dharamsala by an innings and 64 runs.

The 2025 series in England ended 2-2. England won at Leeds by five wickets and at Lord’s by 22 runs. India answered at Birmingham by 336 runs and at The Oval by six, and Manchester was drawn. Two of the five Tests were settled by 22 runs or fewer.

ODIs: India’s 16-win lead

India have 62 wins to England’s 46, with two ties and three no-results. In February 2025 India won 3-0 at home, at Nagpur and Cuttack by four wickets each and at Ahmedabad by 142 runs. The latest series went the other way. England won 2-1 at home in July 2026, after India took the first match at Birmingham by six wickets on 14 July. England answered at Cardiff by four wickets on 16 July and at Lord’s by 27 runs on 19 July.

T20Is and World Cup semi-finals

India lead 18-16, with one no-result. They won 4-1 at home in January and February 2025: Eden Gardens by seven wickets, Chennai by two wickets, Pune by 15 runs and Wankhede by 150 runs, while England took Rajkot by 26 runs. In July 2026 England won four in a row at home after the opener at Chester-le-Street on 1 July had no result, by four wickets in Manchester, 125 runs in Nottingham, nine wickets in Bristol and 56 runs in Southampton.

World Cup semi-finals have gone both ways. England won by 10 wickets at Adelaide in 2022, India by 68 runs at Providence in 2024 and by seven runs at Wankhede in March 2026.

What the record says

Home sides won five of the last six bilateral series between the two, and the sixth, England’s 2025 Test series, was drawn 2-2. For anyone reading the all-time totals, venue has been a better guide than the head-to-head.

Shadman Islam’s hundred was not enough

Bangladesh won the toss, batted and made 272 in 97.4 overs. Shadman Islam faced 234 balls for his 105, with 11 fours. Towhid Hridoy added 42 off 86, and Litton Das finished unbeaten on 34.

Warrican took 5/53 in 23.4 overs. Joshua Bishop and Shamar Joseph claimed two wickets each.

West Indies replied with 245 in 82.5 overs, 27 behind. John Campbell made 54 off 78 balls, including six fours and two sixes. Tagenarine Chanderpaul batted 184 balls for 56. Justin Greaves made 46 and Roston Chase hit 43 off 60. Nayeem Hasan took 4/33 in 10.5 overs, and Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Taijul Islam had two wickets each.

The second-innings collapse

Bangladesh were bowled out in 48.4 overs, and at one point they were 35/5. Chase took 5/36 in 15.4 overs, his fifth five-wicket haul in Tests, and Warrican added 4/63. Nayeem Hasan made his first Test fifty, 52 in 91 balls. Jaker Ali scored 22 off 34. No other batter passed 13, and the lead of 27 did not last. Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times reported that Taijul Islam’s dismissal was Chase’s 100th Test wicket.

King finishes the chase

The target of 170 cost West Indies two wickets. Campbell made 49 off 55 balls before Shoriful Islam bowled him, and Chanderpaul fell for 1. Brandon King batted through to the end unbeaten on 81, having faced 115 balls, with 10 fours and a six, which Al Jazeera described as a career best. Kavem Hodge hit 31 not out off 27 balls.

Source: ESPNcricinfo scorecard.

What Shanto and Chase said

Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times reported that Jaker Ali came in as a concussion substitute for Mominul Haque and that Najmul Hossain Shanto left the field injured after a dropped catch. Afterwards, Shanto said the plans and the intent were right but the execution failed in batting, bowling and fielding, fielding most of all.

Chase said West Indies had lost the first-innings lead and still wanted to fight back. The game turned on 48.4 overs of batting, not on the first innings: against two spinners, Bangladesh gave away a lead they had just earned.

The second Test began in Sylhet on 5 November, and a draw there will be enough for West Indies to win the series.

All 14 double hundreds in men’s ODIs

Source: ESPNcricinfo men’s ODI records, most runs in an innings. An asterisk marks a not-out innings.

The Brook innings that still lost

Brook hit 21 fours and 10 sixes in an England total of 429 for 4. Sri Lanka chased 430 and won by two wickets with one ball to spare, and Pavan Rathnayake, who made 130, was named player of the match.

Rohit, Gill and the Indian monopoly

Rohit Sharma owns three of the fourteen, with 264, 209 and an unbeaten 208. His 264 at Eden Gardens on 13 November 2014 is still the highest individual score in men’s ODIs. Shubman Gill has two, 208 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in January 2023 and 223 not out against West Indies at Guwahati on 30 September 2026, the third highest ever. India account for eight of the fourteen, the other Indian names being Virender Sehwag, Ishan Kishan and Sachin Tendulkar.

Sixes, not-outs and the first one

Chris Gayle’s 215 and Rohit’s 209 both included 16 sixes, the most on the list. Seven of the fourteen innings finished not out. Tendulkar’s 200 not out at Gwalior on 24 February 2010 is the earliest entry. The other thirteen followed between December 2011, when Sehwag made 219 at Indore, and Brook’s innings in October 2026.

New Zealand’s 185 and a late stand

The toss went India’s way and they chose to field. New Zealand were bowled out for 185 in 40.2 overs, and nobody in the top seven passed 38. Tim Seifert made 38 from 43 balls. Glenn Phillips added 30 off 51 and Daryl Mitchell 28 off 41. Arshdeep Singh took 4 for 70 from his ten overs. Gurnoor Brar’s three wickets cost 44 in 9.2 overs, and Kamboj took 2 for 22 with two maidens in his ten. Axar Patel gave away only 12 in five overs, while Auqib Nabi bowled six wicketless overs for 33. At 146 for 9, Blair Tickner hit four sixes in a 23-ball 34, and he and Jacob Duffy (15 not out) added 39 for the last wicket.

Gill and Kohli set up the chase

Rohit Sharma went for 0 off six balls, and India were 1 for 1. Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli then put on 113 for the second wicket, Gill contributing a 56-ball 37. Kohli’s 74 came from 51 balls with 13 fours and a six, so 58 of his runs were boundaries. Shreyas Iyer made 15 off 13. India slipped from 114 for 2 to 136 for 5, but KL Rahul (3 not out) and Naman Dhir (5 not out) finished the job. Duffy took 3 for 49 from seven overs, while Kyle Jamieson and Nathan Smith took one wicket each, for 34 and 21 runs, Smith in 4.4 overs.

The next two games

India lead the series 1-0. The second ODI is at Hnry Stadium in Wellington on Saturday 7 November, starting at 02:00 GMT, and the third is at Seddon Park in Hamilton on 10 November. Mitchell Santner captains New Zealand and Shubman Gill leads India.

Zimbabwe fall apart after 56 for 4

Afghanistan won the toss and fielded. Zimbabwe had lost Brian Bennett (2) and Innocent Kaia (5) by the second over and Sikandar Raza (2 off 8 balls) at 13 for 3. Ryan Burl hit 30 from 29 balls and Wessly Madhevere 10 from 17. The score crept to 56 for 4 in the tenth over, then three wickets fell for four runs. The last wicket fell at 79. Noor Ahmad’s five came alongside Abdullah Tarakhail’s 2 for 14 in three overs, and Rashid Khan went wicketless but gave away only 7 runs in two overs.

A chase over before the ninth over

Afghanistan lost Mohammad Akram at 15 for 1, his 14 having come from 5 balls. Sediqullah Atal added 20 off 14. Noor ul Rahman was out for a duck at 44 for 3 in the fifth over. Ibrahim Zadran finished on 25 not out from 17 balls and Azmatullah Omarzai on 18 not out from 12. Ernest Masuku took 2 for 21 for Zimbabwe.

The win came nine days after Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 7 wickets in the final of the ODI tri-series, a three-team one-day competition, at the same ground.

How the three matches went

Omarzai was named player of the series after scoring 116 off 50 balls in the second match, where Raza answered with 106 off 56 and Zimbabwe finished 19 runs short on 202 for 5. Khan had been player of the match in the opener, hitting 30 off 10 balls in a 37-run win. Newman Nyamhuri took 4 for 31 that day, the best figures by a Zimbabwe bowler in the series.

Scorecards and match data from ESPNcricinfo.

What happened in the first Test

Bangladesh made 272 in the first innings but were bowled out for 142 in the second, and West Indies chased 170 for the loss of two wickets. Jomel Warrican took 9 wickets in the match (5/53 and 4/63) and Roston Chase took 5/36 in the second innings, so the two spinners took 14 of the 20 Bangladesh wickets. After the match, coach Daren Sammy said the spinners had out-bowled their Bangladesh counterparts (ESPNcricinfo headline: “Our spinners outbowled the Bangladesh spinners”). Our full report is on the first Test result page.

Squads and changes

Bangladesh bring in Amite Hasan for Mominul Haque, who made 28 at Mirpur. Mushfiqur Rahim, who missed the first Test with a finger injury, is still in the squad. His fitness is the main team question, as no confirmation of his selection in the XI had been published when we checked.

West Indies have named a 15 that includes Kemar Roach, Joshua Da Silva, Shamar Springer and Kevin Wickham, none of whom played at Mirpur.

Head to head

West Indies have won 16 of their 23 Tests against Bangladesh since 2002. Bangladesh have won 5 and two Tests have been drawn, which includes the Mirpur result.

Why we lean West Indies

Two factors decide it for us. First, spin: Warrican and Chase took 14 wickets between them at Mirpur, while Bangladesh’s three spinners (Nayeem Hasan, Taijul Islam and Mehidy Hasan Miraz) took 8 and none in the chase. Second, Bangladesh’s second-innings collapse to 142 suggests the batting remains the weak link when the ball turns. The uncertainty is real: no pitch report or weather forecast had been published for Sylhet when we checked, and Bangladesh led on the first innings at Mirpur by 27 runs.

What would change this view

A flat Sylhet pitch with little turn, a Bangladesh XI that includes Mushfiqur Rahim and a strong opening day for Shadman Islam, who scored 105 at Mirpur, would push us toward a draw or a Bangladesh win.

Scorecard summary

How the Test turned

Bangladesh chose to bat and reached 272 all out in 97.4 overs, built on Shadman Islam’s 105 off 234 balls with eleven fours. Towhid Hridoy added 42 and Mominul Haque 28, but the rest of the order fell away against Warrican, who took 5/53 in 23.4 overs. Joshua Bishop took 2/61 and Shamar Joseph 2/41.

West Indies replied with 245 in 82.5 overs, 27 behind. Campbell made 54 off 78 balls and Tagenarine Chanderpaul 56 off 184, while Justin Greaves (46) and Chase (43 not out) stretched the total. Nayeem Hasan took 4/33 in 10.5 overs, with Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Taijul Islam taking two wickets each.

The match was settled in the second innings. Bangladesh were bowled out for 142 in 48.4 overs. Only Nayeem Hasan (52 off 91) and Jaker Ali (22) went past 20, and Chase finished with 5/36 in 15.4 overs, with Warrican taking 4/63. That set West Indies 170.

The chase

Brandon King made 81 not out off 115 balls and John Campbell added 49 off 55, as West Indies lost only two wickets. Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud each took one. Kavem Hodge hit 31 not out off 27 balls to finish the chase and put West Indies one Test up in the series.

What it means for Bangladesh

The defeat takes West Indies to 16 wins in 23 Tests against Bangladesh (Bangladesh 5, 2 draws), according to ESPNcricinfo. Bangladesh need a win at Sylhet to draw level in the series. Their squad for the second Test, starting on 5 November, brings in Amite Hasan for Mominul Haque, and Mushfiqur Rahim, who missed the first Test with a finger injury, remains in the squad.

Read our preview of the second Test for more on the match at Sylhet.

India 191/8: Kishan and Iyer carry the innings

India were in trouble early, with Sanju Samson out for 4 off 10 balls and Abhishek Sharma for 1 off 2. Ishan Kishan rebuilt with 61 off 32 balls (five fours, five sixes) and Shreyas Iyer hit 50 off 23 (three fours, four sixes). Naman Dhir contributed 33 off 23 and Nitish Kumar Reddy 22 off 17 before the lower order faded, Bhuvneshwar Kumar scoring 6 off 4 and the innings ending at 191/8.

Milne was the pick of the New Zealand attack with 4/19 in four overs. Nathan Smith took 2/28 and Blair Tickner 2/38, while Jacob Duffy (0/27), Mitchell Santner (0/39) and Michael Bracewell (0/38 in two overs) went wicketless.

New Zealand 195/3: Seifert sets up the chase

Seifert did the damage, hitting 93 off 50 balls with eleven fours and five sixes. Finn Allen fell for 2 off 3, and Daryl Mitchell struck four sixes in a 16-ball 29. Phillips finished the job with eight fours and three sixes in his 65 not out. The chase ended with 12 balls remaining.

For India, Arshdeep Singh (1/40), Varun Chakravarthy (1/45) and Reddy (1/19 in two overs) took a wicket each. Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0/41), Prince Yadav (0/35 in three overs) and Abhishek Sharma (0/13 in one over) did not. India used six bowlers and conceded 195 in 18 overs.

The series: three straight wins, then two defeats

India won the first three T20Is, then lost the last two. New Zealand pulled one back with an 87-run win at Auckland on 30 October and then won again at Hamilton, but the lead India built in the first three matches was enough. Phillips was named player of the series, while Milne took the match award at Hamilton.

What comes next

The tour moves to the ODI format. The first ODI is at Auckland on 4 November, starting at 02:00 GMT (07:30 IST). For the other recent results of the tour, see our cricket news section.

A chase built on Fakhar and Minhas

Sri Lanka batted first and reached 325/8 in their 50 overs. Kamindu Mendis made 131 off 128 balls and Pavan Rathnayake added 77 off 65, with Avishka Fernando contributing 38. Four Pakistan bowlers took two wickets each, Shaheen Shah Afridi (2/50), Salman Agha (2/44), Haris Rauf (2/60) and Naseem Shah (2/80), though Naseem and Rauf were also expensive.

Pakistan finished the chase on 331/7 in 48.3 overs. Fakhar Zaman’s 127 came off 99 balls, Saad Baig made 74 off 75 and Arafat Minhas hit 61 off only 31 to keep the required rate in check. Hasan Nawaz was 37 not out off 45 when the winning runs came. Dilshan Madushanka took 3/63 and Asitha Fernando 2/72 for Sri Lanka.

How the tri-series went

The round-robin involved Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka, with six group games before the final. Pakistan won three of their four group games, beating Sri Lanka by 37 runs, England by 87 runs and England again by one wicket with 17 balls remaining, and lost to Sri Lanka by eight wickets. England beat Sri Lanka by 55 runs in the last group game, and Sri Lanka had beaten England by two wickets with a ball to spare earlier.

Scores are from the ESPNcricinfo scorecards, read on 1 November 2026.

Harmer ends it

Set 288 to win after South Africa’s 387 in the second innings, Australia were bowled out for 111 in 57.1 overs. Harmer took 6 wickets for 16 runs in 21.1 overs and Kagiso Rabada added 3/39. Nathan Lyon, batting at the end, was the top scorer with 33 not out off 57 balls. Harmer had also taken 4/104 in 37 overs in Australia’s first innings, so his match figures were 10 wickets.

The match turned in South Africa’s second innings. After conceding a 100-run lead, they were rescued by Wiaan Mulder, who made 115 off 221 balls, and Ryan Rickelton, who made 101 off 219. Marques Ackerman had added 62 off 80 balls. Mitchell Starc finished with 9 wickets in the match (6/72 and 3/65), and Pat Cummins and Lyon took two each in the second innings.

Scorecard summary

Australia’s first innings was their best passage of the match. Josh Inglis made 102 off 135 balls, Alex Carey 80 off 168, Matt Renshaw 74 and Green 65, which gave them a 100-run first-innings lead.

The series

South Africa lost the opening Test in Durban by 214 runs and then won the last two, which is how they finished 2-1 ahead. Jansen’s three wickets in Australia’s first innings (3/60) and 52 with the bat in the first innings were his contribution to the final Test.

Scores are from the ESPNcricinfo scorecards, read on 1 November 2026.

Gujarat Titans season by season

Two of Gujarat’s 2024 matches ended without a result, so the 12 matches played show 5 wins and 7 defeats.

Hardik Pandya: 2022 and 2023

Gujarat were one of the two new franchises added in 2022, along with Lucknow Super Giants. They topped the table in their debut season, beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in Qualifier 1 at Eden Gardens and beat them again by seven wickets in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, where Rajasthan managed 130/9. Pandya scored 487 runs that season, the most for the side.

In 2023 the team finished first in the league again (11 wins, 6 defeats counting the playoffs) and reached the final, but could not defend the title. Pandya went back to Mumbai Indians ahead of the 2024 season.

Shubman Gill: 2024 to 2026

Gill took over in 2024 and the first year was a weak one: Gujarat finished eighth, Sai Sudharsan scored 527 runs and Mohit Sharma took 13 wickets. In 2025 they came third and reached the playoffs, with Sudharsan making 759. In 2026 Gujarat finished second in the league with 9 wins and 5 defeats, 18 points and a net run rate of +0.695, lost Qualifier 1 to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, beat Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 and lost the final to Bengaluru again. Gill scored 732 runs and Rabada took 29 wickets. Ashish Nehra is the head coach.

The two captains compared

FAQ

Who was the first captain of Gujarat Titans?

Hardik Pandya, who captained the side in 2022 and 2023.

Who captains Gujarat Titans now?

Shubman Gill, who has been captain since the 2024 season.

Has Gujarat Titans won the IPL?

Yes, once, in 2022. They were runners-up in 2023 and 2026.

How the final was decided

Australia chose to bat first and made 115 all out in their six overs. Max Bryant did most of the damage with 44 off 14 balls (four fours, four sixes), and Ross finished on 29 not out off 10. Three Australian batters, Jack Wood, Chris Green and Patrick Dooley, retired out to bring in fresh hitters, which is why the innings is listed as all out. Karim Janat bowled two overs for 27 and a wicket, and Nangeyalia Khan took one for 17.

Afghanistan were 32/2 after 1.4 overs, with Janat (13) and captain Gulbadin Naib (17) both gone. Mir then hit seven sixes in his 53 and shared an unbroken stand of 87 with Farmanullah, who stayed not out on 26 off seven balls with four sixes of his own. The chase ended on 119/2 in 5.1 overs. Dooley and Green took one wicket each but conceded 35 and 30 runs.

Afghanistan had reached the final by beating Scotland by 21 runs in the semi-final, while Australia got past the United Arab Emirates by 53 runs.

All results from the last day

Pakistan came in as defending champions after beating Kuwait in the 2025 final, but lost to the United Arab Emirates by one wicket on day 1 and ended the weekend by winning the Plate, beating Oman by 18 runs.

Bangladesh and India in the 11th place play-off

Bangladesh finished 12th of the 12 teams. After losing to Scotland by one wicket on day 1 and to South Africa in the Bowl semi-final, they batted first against India and made 116/5. Captain Abu Hider scored an unbeaten 62 off 18 balls with eight sixes, and Habibur Rahman Sohan added 18. Krunal Pandya, India’s captain, took 3 wickets for 25 in two overs and was player of the match.

India chased 117 with no balls left, finishing on 117/1. Shashank Singh made 50 off 15 balls and retired not out, Rahul Tripathi added 32 off 12, and Rahul Tewatia ended on 16 not out. Ahrar Amin took the only wicket to fall, Tripathi.

Where to read more

Our day 2 report covers how the finalists got there and how India and Bangladesh ended up in the 11th place play-off.

Scores are from the ESPN scorecards of each match, read on 1 November 2026.