7:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shane Warne has been appointed to the MCC World Cricket committee. Warne, who claimed 708 Test wickets to cement his status as one of the game’s all-time greats, will take over from his fellow Australian, the former wicketkeeper Rod Marsh, who is standing down after six years in the role.
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8:17 PM ET In 2013, Chris Rogers finished his first full Test series and within a handful of days was back playing for Middlesex in the County Championship. Battling through scores of 8 and 2 against Somerset at Lord’s, he found himself far more exhausted than expected, having realised the mental toll of the game’s
3:00 AM ET Big Picture A three-T20I series would be appealing served as an appetiser, but it sits a little awkwardly on the menu offered after the main course.That, however, is where this particular series between Pakistan and Australia has been placed, following on from an absorbing Test series that had more moments of competitiveness
3:00 AM ET Big Picture It may be 17 springs ago, but March 31, 2001 seems like yesterday. It was India v Australia in Indore, and Sachin Tendulkar, in his 259th innings, was on the verge of going where no man had ever ventured. With the score at 77 for 1 and Shane Warne bowling
shares Virat Kohli and Corey Anderson celebrate a wicket © BCCI Allrounder Corey Anderson and wicketkeeper-batsman Glenn Phillips have been added to New Zealand’s T20I squad for the series against Pakistan. The pair are currently part of the New Zealand A squad in the UAE and will play the two remaining one-day matches against
8:32 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ambidextrous spin-bowling allrounder Kamindu Mendis may have a chance to showcase his unique skills at the senior international level for the first time, after being picked in Sri Lanka’s squad for the one-off T20 against England, on Saturday. Thisara Perera, who led Sri Lanka’s limited-overs teams in fits and starts
4:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff An independent adjudicator, Justice (retired) Hamid Farooq, has upheld the 10-year ban that had been imposed on Nasir Jamshed two months ago. The adjudicator, however, “set aside” two sanctions against Jamshed because they fell outside the confines provided under the PCB’s anti-corruption code. Jamshed was banned in August from playing
8:56 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood will continue their build-up to a return to international action by playing for the ACT Comets this week as Australia try to get into a position to be able to field their strongest pace attack for the first time since their meltdown in South Africa.
12:39 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC has appealed to Al Jazeera to share evidence with it, after the broadcaster released its second documentary on alleged corruption in cricket. The documentary has claimed that up to 15 international matches in the 2011-12 period had been subject to spot-fixing. Al Jazeera has claimed to have obtained
3:00 AM ET Toss Bangladesh chose to bat v Zimbabwe Bangladesh players Mehidy Hasan and Fazle Mahmud at training AFP Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza decided to bat against Zimbabwe in the first of a three-match ODI series in Mirpur. The visitors have Sikandar Raza back in their line-up after mending contractual differences with Zimbabwe Cricket. Raza