8:00 AM GMT Australia 6 for 337 (Labuschagne 143, Head 56, Wagner 3-77) v New Zealand Australia pushed their first innings towards 350 even though they lost Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head in circumstances that both batsmen would regret in the first session on day two of the pink ball Test at Perth Stadium. The
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4:36 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Aneurin Donald is set to miss the whole of the 2020 season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Donald, the 22-year-old batsman, joined Hampshire from Glamorgan towards the end of the 2018 domestic season, and impressed in his first full season at the club, hitting a 144-ball 173 against
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
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,
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
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
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
11:57 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lord’s and Hove will host the inaugural finals days of the Hundred, with the grounds confirmed to stage the showpiece event of the men’s and women’s competitions respectively. As revealed by ESPNcricinfo in September, the competition’s knockout format will mirror that used in the Kia Super League. In both competitions,
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,
6:04 PM GMT The South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) will not engage with Cricket South Africa’s negotiating panel if it includes any members of the current board. In a statement released on Monday, three days after CSA CEO Thabang Moroe was suspended and an interim administration headed by Jacques Faul was appointed, SACA again called