8:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women have called up the uncapped 20-year old Sheneta Grimmond from Guyana for their title defence at the Women’s World T20 that begins at home in November. However, they retained the bulk of the squad that lifted the trophy in 2016, naming 11 of them in a 15-member
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10:49 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai Australia’s coach Justin Langer took his team’s left-handed batsmen – Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Travis Head and Matt Renshaw – to the middle of the Dubai International Stadium for a debrief and discussion on how to handle a spinning pitch after the touring team were flattened by the
3:00 AM ET South Africa opt to bat v Zimbabwe Faf du Plessis goes for a catch AFP South Africa’s white-ball experiment continued as they picked two debutants for the first of three T20Is against Zimbabwe. Gihahn Cloete will be the first of the two international rookies to take the field when he opens the batting,
3:00 AM ET Lunch Australia 137 for 0 (Khawaja 68*, Finch 59*) trail Pakistan 482 by 345 runs Aaron Finch scored a fifty on Test debut Getty Images One of the most persistent cricketing truisms warns us to never judge a pitch until both sides have batted. Even going by that degree of caution, it may
11:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hong Kong’s Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed and Haseeb Amjad have been charged by the ICC for breaching the anti-corruption code for a total of 19 counts. The ICC provisionally suspended the players with immediate effect, pending determination of the charges, a release from the governing body said on Monday. While
11:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Six teams have qualified for the quarter-finals of Vijay Hazare Trophy, with four teams from Elite Group C still vying for the two remaining places. From the 18 teams that were jostling for five spots from Elite groups A and B, Mumbai led the way, followed by Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra
3:00 AM ET Lunch Pakistan 329 for 4 (Hafeez 126, Imam 76, Siddle 2-28) v Australia Asad Shafiq keeps an eye on the movement of the ball Getty Images This session may not be on the postcard, but you will find it in the manual. On a morning that typified the recipe for success Pakistan have
12:35 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Years after taking the last of his 444 international wickets, Shoaib Akhtar may have made another match-turning contribution for Pakistan – via a phone call to Mohammad Hafeez. With his international career seemingly winding down, and having been downgraded in Pakistan’s central contracts list, the 37-year-old Hafeez had contemplated retiring.
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Under-19s 304 for 3 (Jaiswal 85, Simran 65*, Rawat 57, Badoni 52*) beat Sri Lanka Under-19s 160 (Madushka 49, Paranavithana 48, Tyagi 6-38) The victorious India Under-19s pose for a selfie Raton Gomes/BCB Compared the senior men’s and women’s Asia Cup finals this year, this was an anti-climax, as India
3:00 AM ET Victoria 332 all out (Handscomb 80, Harris 73, Maddinson 58, Coulter-Nile 3-50) beat Western Australia 269 all out (Inglis 64, Maddinson 4-29) Glenn Maxwell and Peter Handscomb celebrate a wicket Getty Images Some rollicking batting from Peter Handscomb and Marcus Harris and an allround effort from Nic Maddinson completely outplayed defending champions Western