5:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The first-ever Future Tours Programme featuring a World Test Championship and a ODI Qualification League has been released by the ICC’s Full Members, and will span a five-year period from 2018 to 2023. The nine top-ranked Test nations will slug it out for the Test Championship over two two-year cycles
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11:51 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Eighteen-year-old batsman Jannatul Ferdus, who sat out all of Bangladesh’s historic Asia Cup campaign earlier this month, has been left out of the main squad for the upcoming tour of Ireland and the Women’s World T20 Qualifier. She is instead one of four stand-bys, alongside batting allrounder Lata Mondal, the
3:00 AM ET Australia won the toss and chose to bowl v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia have won the toss at Trent Bridge in an ODI they must win to keep the series alive. Defeat in any of the remaining games in the series will mean Australia have lost five ODI series in
8:06 AM ET George Dobell Ollie Rayner has joined Hampshire from Middlesex on a short-term loan deal. Hampshire are currently without leg-spinner Mason Crane (who has suffered a recurrence of back pain as he recovers from a stress fracture), off-spinner Brad Taylor (who has an ankle injury) and will shortly lose left-arm spinner, Liam Dawson,
12:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff He took a few wickets with pace. Then a few more with bounce. Even some with lateral movement. Shannon Gabriel was so good in St Lucia that he vaulted into the record books. Only once has a West Indian bowler struck more than the 13 times he did in a
3:00 AM ET Hampshire 348 for 9 (Vince 171, Northeast 58) beat Yorkshire 241 (Tattersall 89, Dawson 4-47) by 107 runsScorecard The fourth ball James Vince received in this match was pitched slightly short and would have passed a foot outside off stump had he not hit it between mid-off and extra cover for four.
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Two games gone, three to go. And England are on the brink of their second ODI series win against Australia in the space of six months. Leaving aside Australia’s well-documented absentees for one moment, victory at Trent Bridge would be further confirmation of England’s radical departure from their traditions in
11:06 PM ET Usman Khawaja was “extremely disappointed” there was no room for him in Australia’s limited-overs set-up despite unavailability of Steven Smith and David Warner, and has indicated that “training hard” will be a key to his return to the team’s white-ball ranks. Despite an outstanding recent record in domestic cricket and a handful
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 253 and 136 for 4 (Mendis 53*, Chandimal 27*, Gabriel 3-22) lead West Indies 300 by 89 runs West Indies’ players appeal for the wicket of nightwatchman Kasun Rajitha AFP Sri Lanka nosedived into crisis early on day four, losing three wickets for 14 runs after resumption, but a confident
5:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC has charged Dinesh Chandimal, the Sri Lanka captain, with “changing the condition of the ball” during the second Test against West Indies in St Lucia. The ICC tweeted the news on Sunday, saying more details would follow. The charge constitutes a breach under Article 2.2.9 of the ICC’s