2:24 PM ET Ankur Dhawan in Mumbai Test cricket needs saving and the players can be its saviours by embracing day-night Tests, Sanjay Manjrekar said at the Dilip Sardesai memorial lecture. Manjrekar felt that cricket’s “cocky” attitude towards fans and archaic traditions in dissension with the changing times were impeding the format’s popularity. He expressed
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2:05 PM ET The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is covered under India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act and answerable to the people of the country under its mechanism, the Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled on Monday. The commission, the top appellate body in RTI matters, went through the law, orders of
5:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan have added allrounder Mohammad Hafeez to their 17-man squad for the two-Test series against Australia in the UAE. Hafeez will fly out to Dubai on the first available flight, ahead of the first Test that begins in a week’s time on October 7. Hafeez played the last of his
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A soggy outfield at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad meant the third T20I between West Indies women and South Africa women was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday. South Africa needed to win the match to keep their hopes of a series-victory alive, but a tropical rain
12:29 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The second ODI between India and West Indies, scheduled for October 24, could be shifted away from Indore. This is the potential outcome of a tussle over complimentary-ticket allocation between the BCCI and the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA). The disagreement concerns the Holkar Stadium’s pavilion block, which according to
3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa chose to bowl v Zimbabwe Dale Steyn made way for David Wiese against Afghanistan Getty Images The wait for Dale Steyn’s return to white-ball cricket continued as he was left out of South Africa’s XI for their first one-day international against Zimbabwe in Kimberley, where stand-in captain JP Duminy won
11:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shikhar Dhawan and Karun Nair have been dropped the Indian team that will play West Indies in a two-match Test series starting October 4. This means India are likely to go in with another new opening combination with one of Mayank Agarwal or Prithvi Shaw making their Test debut when
1:20 PM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Shakib Al Hasan has undergone an emergency operation on the injured little finger on his left hand, after it had become infected during the Asia Cup. The pus had spread quite badly, going up to his left wrist, which was only spotted when he had gone to a Dhaka hospital
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Johannesburg is closer to Harare than it is to Cape Town, but it’s been eight years since Zimbabwe last played an ODI in South Africa. The cricketing gap is far wider than the geographical one between these two teams, and the financial realities of modern cricket add a further constraint.
11:01 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando The rift that presently exists between Angelo Mathews and coach Chandika Hathurusingha must be repaired as soon as possible, so that Mathews can return to the ODI side quickly, the former Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has said. Sangakkara, who has been a long-time advocate of Mathews and Hathurusingha