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
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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
3:00 AM ET Sidharth Monga Rishabh Pant is set to make his ODI debut in the first of the five-match series against West Indies. Pant was named in the XII that had six batsmen, Ravindra Jadeja as allrounder, and five bowlers. The series begins in Guwahati on Sunday. This has been a remarkable turnaround for
1:41 PM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna The ICC announced on Saturday that the diet of 50-over fixtures
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Northern Districts 378 (de Grandhomme 115, Brownlie 77, McConchie 2-41) & 234 for 6 dec (Cooper 58, Henry 2-64) drew with Canterbury 228 (Murdoch 59, Sodhi 3-48) & 221 for 9 (Boyle 108, Nicholls 54, Sodhi 4-82, Wagner 3-50) Colin de Grandhomme steers the ball into the off side Getty Images
12:52 PM ET South African wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock is the IPL’s first trade of 2019, before the auction takes place in mid-December. ESPNcricinfo understands that de Kock, who last year played for Royal Challengers Bangalore, has been traded to Mumbai Indians in an all-money deal. Royal Challengers had bought de Kock for INR 2.8