Nov 19, 2018 ESPNcricinfo staff Legspinner Fawad Ahmed could be in line for a cricketing homecoming of sorts, after he was picked up in the PSL 2019 draft by the Quetta Gladiators. Fawad is an Australian citizen but was born in Pakistan, and lived there until his late 20s. He had also played first-class and
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shares The PCB’s case against the BCCI – seeking compensation for India’s refusal to play bilateral series against Pakistan – has been dismissed by the ICC’s disputes committee. The ICC said the judgement was “binding and non-appealable”. The dispute centred around an agreement the two boards signed in 2014 to play six series over
7:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India captain Virat Kohli has made it clear that he, and his side, will be drawing their own “line” about behaviour on their tour of Australia, and will not stand for conduct that goes against their “self-respect”. “Aggression depends on the situation on the field. If the opposition is aggressive
6:50 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jonny Bairstow has signalled that he is up for the fight when it comes to the Test wicketkeeper position, having lost the gloves to Ben Foakes in Sri Lanka. Foakes was the beneficiary after Bairstow rolled an ankle during the one-day series and has impressed behind the stumps and with
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India have opted to bench Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Washington Sundar and Umesh Yadav for the first T20I against Australia that will take place on Wednesday at the Gabba in Brisbane. Virat Kohli is back to lead the team after having skipped the T20I series against West Indies. India’s XII,
4:36 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Uncapped offspinner Nishan Peiris has been drafted in to the Sri Lanka squad for the third Test against England, which is set to begin on November 23 in Colombo. The 21 year-old Peiris replaces Akila Dananjaya, who is set to undergo a bowling-action assessment at the National Cricket Centre in
1:56 AM ET Australia captain Aaron Finch has implored his men to do the hard things against India from the start of a summer in which the two teams will meet no fewer than 10 times across three formats, rejecting verbal confrontation as “the easy stuff” called out by the review that damned Cricket Australia’s
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Victoria 282 (White 63, Meredith 4-61) and 276 for 4 (Harris 67, Gotch 66*, Short 64*) beat Tasmania 81 (Tremain 5-13) and 476 (Wade 137, Doolan 94, Silk 90, Bird 50, Siddle 4-100) by six wickets Matthew Short and Seb Gotch produced an unbroken century stand to maintain Victoria’s unbeaten
10:46 PM ET Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will serve the full term of the bans imposed upon them by Cricket Australia for their roles in the Newlands ball-tampering scandal after the board considered their sanctions in the wake of the release of the independent cultural review of the governing body. Meeting via
shares Joe Root made good use of the sweep shot © Getty Images A tweet from Sourav Ganguly to Parth Jindal, the co-owner of Delhi Daredevils, may have helped to revive Joe Root’s long-held ambition of picking up an IPL contract. Root, who went unsold in the 2018 IPL auction, made a brilliant 124