11:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Playing late, and close to the body, is the key to counter the pink ball – that’s the early learning India’s Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane is taking back with him after training against the pink ball for the first time over the past few days. Rahane was part of a
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3:15 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Ashton Turner, the Australian finisher, has joined Worcestershire for the whole of their T20 Blast campaign for 2020, in a move that would not have been possible but for the ECB’s decision to change its visa criteria
8:00 AM GMT England XI 285 for 1 (Sibley 100, Crawley 103) v New Zealand XI Centuries from Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley provided a peek into England’s future as the Test leg of their New Zealand tour began. This is not a first-class game and there were moments, at an almost deserted ground on
5:18 PM GMT Sir Alastair Cook has backed Chris Silverwood to bring the same clarity to England’s Test cricket that he offered to Essex during his agenda-setting spell as head coach, and believes that the team’s renewed focus on the longer form of the game will help bring out the best in his own successor
2:33 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka has become the first South Asian nation to criminalise several offences related to match-fixing, after its parliament passed all three readings of a bill entitled “Prevention of Offences Related to Sports” on Monday. Offences related to corruption in sports will carry a prison term of up to
6:02 AM GMT Despite giving India a good run for their money in their three-match T20Is series, the result ultimately went against Bangladesh, and Mahmudullah, leading the side after Shakib Al Hasan was banned for a year, conceded afterwards that his team had “a long way to go” in the format. On the night, Bangladesh
6:28 PM GMT The central crime branch of Karnataka Police has arrested Sanyam, an alleged bookie, in relation to the corruption scandal in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL). Sanyam was booked under Section 420 of the India Penal Code which pertains to cheating. According to Sandeep Patil, the Deputy Comissioner of Police (CCB), Sanyam is
8:00 AM GMT Toss Bangladesh opt to bowl v India Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah elected to field first after winning the toss against India in the series deciding third T20I in Nagpur. Mahmudullah said that they want to bat first as India likes to chase in this format. Rohit Sharma, his opposite number, said that he
8:00 AM GMT Toss England chose to bowl v New Zealand Eoin Morgan opted to bowl first after winning a delayed toss at Eden Park, with the possibility of a shortened game making chasing preferable. England continued to shuffled their personnel, with Dawid Malan, centurion in the previous game, one of three to drop out
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Toss Afghanistan chose to bowl v West Indies Rashid Khan won the toss in the second ODI and elected to bowl as Afghanistan looked to stop a ten-match ODI losing streak. To that end, they chose to tweak the side that lost in the first ODI. Allrounder and former captain