In England and across Europe, the sun is setting on an eventful 2025 cricket season. It will be remembered for the visit of India to England for a hard fought, sometimes acrimonious, five-match Test series, which was shared two wins apiece.
The series was immediately followed by the fifth edition of The Hundred, which will be subject to changes previously discussed in this column.
Those who were present at Southampton on Sept. 7 will remember that England scored 304 for three against South Africa, the third highest total yet in international T20s.
The European Cricket Network is looking back in dismay to the loss of funding from the fantasy gaming platform Dream11, which was forced to cease operations overnight as a result of India’s new online gaming legislation.
A much happier group of people are those representing Italian cricket, whose men’s team qualified for the 2026 T20 World Cup in India, upsetting Scotland in the process.
