4:37 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Victoria batsman Jake Fraser-McGurk, one of three players with domestic experience, has been named to captain Australia’s 15-man Under-19 World Cup squad. Cooper Connolly, Oliver Davies, Sam Fanning, Jake Fraser-McGurk (capt), Mackenzie Harvey, Lachlan Hearne, Corey Kelly, Liam Marshall, Todd Murphy, Patrick Rowe, Tanveer Sangha, Liam Scott, Bradley Simpson, Connor
3:46 PM GMT Marnus Labuschagne is forever blowing bubbles and, over the last few weeks, scoring Test hundreds. With a skip down the pitch at Mitchell Santner he deposited the ball over long-on, for just the second six of his career, to reach his third century in three innings following his scores of 185 in
1:41 PM GMT Pressure is mounting on CSA’s board, specifically president Chris Nenzani and vice-president Beresford Williams, after financial services company Momentum, which sponsors CSA, issued an ultimatum over its tenure. In a statement released on Thursday afternoon, Momentum asked for the CSA board or Nenzani and Williams to step down as one of six
8:00 AM GMT Only 18.2 overs were possible on a dark, wet day two at Rawalpindi. During the 82 minutes of play – split across the morning and afternoon sessions – Dhanajaya de Silva moved to 72 not out, Sri Lanka added 61 to their day one score and lost just the wicket of Niroshan
11:00 AM GMT New Zealand have suffered a bad blow on the opening day against Australia in Perth with debutant Lockie Ferguson picking up a suspected right calf strain. The injury occurred during the second session and he was quickly sent for an MRI scan to determine the extent of the problem. He wouldn’t bowl
10:46 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Glenn Maxwell will return from a six-week break from the professional game to lead the Melbourne Stars in their Big Bash campaign. Maxwell took a spell away from the game due to mental health reasons, after admitting to Australia coach Justin Langer that he was “not having that much fun
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England 327 for 4 (Sciver 100*, Knight 86, Wilson 85*) beat Pakistan 200 (Maharoof 64) by 127 runs Nat Sciver cracked an 85-ball century, and Fran Wilson added a quickfire 85 not out from 49 balls, as England eased to a series-sealing 127-run victory over Pakistan in the second women’s
8:15 AM GMT Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, is hopeful that India’s strong position in the World Test Championship will help persuade them to play at least one pink-ball Test on their tour next year. Cricket Australia has made no secret of their desire to keep pushing the expansion of the day-night format,
2:56 AM GMT India haven’t gone hard at the opposition while batting first in T20Is of late, but they hung up caution and unleashed a no-holds-barred assault on West Indies in the series decider in Mumbai on Wednesday. More than three years after West Indies had overpowered India in the T20 World Cup semi-final at
10:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali insists that his time away from the England set-up could prolong his Test career rather than spell an early end to it, after responding to criticism of his decision to sit out the forthcoming tour of South Africa. Writing in his column in The Guardian, Moeen acknowledged that
© IDI via Getty Images Mushfiqur Rahim has reminded the BCB of the Bangladesh players’ demand for equal if not more pay than overseas players in the BPL. Speaking of the inequality of payments in the BPL, he said that Bangladesh’s all-format cricketers end up making less money than many T20 specialists. “We don’t always
5:19 PM GMT After conceding 89 runs in the first, wicketless session in Rawalpindi, Pakistan remarkably got back in the game in the second. They had bowled 48 balls on a full length in 26 overs in that opening session, conceding 47 runs off these deliveries and straying on leg stump as well. Wayward in
3:46 PM GMT Sri Lanka had sailed through the first session in Rawalpindi, a century opening stand in sight, but at the end of the day were left ruing the post-lunch session in which they lost four wickets for 31 runs. Dimuth Karunaratne and Oshada Fernando had seemed settled, with Karunaratne hitting a fluent fifty,
10:37 AM GMT Tim Paine is relishing the prospect of his resurgent team being challenged by the second-best side the world and expects the pink-ball encounter in Perth to play to New Zealand’s strengths. Australia produced impressive cricket in the recently concluded two-Test series against Pakistan, and are set to name an unchanged team for
1:05 PM GMT Graeme Smith has been announced as South Africa’s first director of cricket, albeit in a temporary role, after several months of negotiation. Smith has signed on for three months and will begin work immediately, with two weeks to go before South Africa play England in a four-Test series at home, starting on
7:43 AM GMT Former New Zealand wicketkeeper and now world-renowned commentator Ian Smith believes room has to be found for Lockie Ferguson to play the first Test against Australia in Perth. Ferguson, who has enjoyed impressive returns in limited-overs cricket, is uncapped at Test level but with the Perth Stadium wicket expected to provide pace
8:00 AM GMT West Indies won the crucial toss in the decider at Wankhede Stadium, a ground made for chasing T20 totals in the night dew. It was a no-brainer that the unchanged visiting side chose to chase, which has resulted in five wins out of six T20Is at Wankhede. Overall in T20 cricket, since
1:10 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Blessing Muzarabani will play domestic cricket in Zimbabwe as an overseas player this season, having put his international career on hold last year by signing a Kolpak deal with Northamptonshire to play in county cricket. Muzarabani, a tall, 23-year-old fast bowler, played 11 times in all formats for Northamptonshire this
8:00 AM GMT History will record the significance of the day instead of the trivialities contained within it, though that is a shame, as the cricket was really rather good. On a day where the breaks between sessions appeared to herald official changes in momentum, the ebbs and flows never really allowed either side to
10:33 AM GMT Alex Carey is “nipping at the heels” of Tim Paine but the future of Australia’s Test captain remains in his own hands, according to Adam Gilchrist. It is not beyond the realms that the New Zealand series, which starts in Perth on Thursday, marks Paine’s last home internationals. After the Sydney Test
10:12 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Justice (retd) RM Lodha, who was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2015 to reform the BCCI, has said the board’s move to amend the constitution he had framed was “unfortunate”. The constitution, which provides for sweeping changes to the way in which Indian cricket is run, was approved by
6:08 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff An in-form Mayank Agarwal is likely to replace the injured Shikhar Dhawan in the Indian squad for ODI leg of the home series against West Indies which will follow after the ongoing T20I series. It is understood that Dhawan has not yet completely recovered from the freak knee injury he
Mitchell Starc bowled a quick spell in the nets © Getty Images Recruiting regulations and the possibility of a Big Bash League marquee player draft will be reviewed by Cricket Australia after a hectic last week of negotiations almost saw Mitchell Starc join Josh Hazlewood in what would have been a near tournament-winning play by
3:12 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff December 8: India v West Indies, 3rd T20I in Mumbai NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant) updates Captain: Rohit Sharma Although Rohit has scored only 25 runs in his last three T20Is – the lowest three-game aggregate in his
1:15 PM GMT West Indies v India, Wankhede Stadium: here we go again. In the T20 World Cup semi-final at this venue more than three years ago, India managed only four sixes on their way to a total of 192 for 2. West Indies’ power-hitters, led by Lendl Simmons, then made that look a whole
8:00 AM GMT Big Picture We’re at that point again, and it seems we’ve been here before. Yet another massive hurdle has been jumped over as Pakistan scramble their way back to what nearly every other cricketing nation takes for granted: playing home matches at home. This time, Test cricket is back in the country,
3:56 PM GMT Paul Edwards To borrow a phrase from a vastly more dignified political era Matt Parkinson is a coming man. Where he is going, on the other hand, is anybody’s guess, including his own. In the short term Parkinson’s diary is settled. Having just returned from the tour of New Zealand, in which
ICC chairman Shashank Manohar © Getty Images ICC chairman Shashank Manohar has indicated that he will not seek to continue in the seat when his current term ends in May 2020. Despite having the option of serving for another two years, Manohar was quoted as saying by The Hindu, “I am not interested in continuing
1:58 PM GMT Andre Russell prefers the “shorter” and “more fun” Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) to Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). The two tournaments often occupy the same space in the global cricket calendar, forcing players to choose one or the other. Russell is set to play for the Rajshahi Royals in the 2019-20 BPL
1:38 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes will be fit to bowl in England’s Test series against South Africa, after undergoing MRI scans in which “nothing really showed up”, following his return from New Zealand. Stokes reported pain in his left knee after completing his second over on the first day of the second Test