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
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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
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.
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