3:33 PM ET The 10-ball period in which Sri Lanka dropped three catches – all of them off England top-scorer Jason Roy – was when the hosts lost the one-off T20I in Colombo, according to captain Thisara Perera. Roy was spilled in the deep three times, and the first two chances off the bowling of
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3:00 AM ET Toss India opt to bowl v West Indies Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah wait for proceedings to begin AFP Under sunny skies, the India captain Virat Kohli chose to chase in Pune against West Indies, while announcing three changes to the side that tied in Visakhapatnam. India brought back fast-bowling reinforcements in the
11:33 PM ET Banned Australia batsman David Warner has been involved in a bizarre incident during a grade match in Sydney on Saturday where he walked off the pitch mid-innings. Playing for Randwick-Petersham against Western Suburbs, Warner left the field when on 35. The suggestion from the ground was that he had taken offence to
11:43 AM ET Danyal Rasool A new cricketing committee will be given wide-ranging powers to oversee the state of all aspects of Pakistan cricket. It will be chaired by Mohsin Khan, and includes among its members Wasim Akram, Misbah-ul-Haq and Urooj Mumtaz. Three other former cricketers – Mudassar Nazar, Zakir Khan and Haroon Rasheed –
3:00 AM ET Alex MalcolmESPN Close Alex Malcolm is a Melbourne-based sports journalist and broadcaster. He has been a long-time contributor to ESPNcricinfo and reported for the AFL website for four seasons. He has also worked as a television commentator calling Australian Rules Football, Athletics and Tennis for a number of networks. Tasmania 226 and
1:33 PM ET The future of BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment, will be decided by an independent enquiry committee, with the Committee of Administrators (CoA) deciding to recuse itself and any other internal body from examining Johri’s explanation. An independent three-member panel chaired by Rakesh Sharma, a former judge
1:02 PM ET George Dobell Adil Rashid has called for people not to expect too much, too soon from fellow legspinner Lloyd Pope. The 18-year-old Australian made the headlines this week when he became the youngest man in history to claim a seven-wicket haul in the Sheffield Shield. But Rashid, who claimed a six-wicket haul
7:55 AM ET Umar Farooq Former legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed has ended his stint as spin bowling coach of Pakistan’s National Cricket Academy to take up a consultancy role with West Indies. He is set to become the assistant coach and is on a contract that will need him to commit 150 days in a year.
11:29 PM ET On a rollercoaster day where both team’s fortunes nearly flipped upside down, many accepted the tie in the second India-West Indies ODI as a suitable result. But that moment at the end of West Indies’ innings itself was made by a stalemate that wasn’t apparent at first. MS Dhoni had made a
3:00 AM ET Toss Australia opted to bowl v Pakistan Fakhar Zaman scoops a ball over square leg Associated Press Aaron Finch won the toss and asked Pakistan to bat in the first of three-T20I series in Abu Dhabi. Finch said that he backed his bowlers to keep Pakistan to a score the Australia batsmen were