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Report New Zealand have recalled Mark Chapman on a surface again expected to aid the spinners Australia won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand Australia’s captain Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to bat first against New Zealand in the series-deciding fifth T20I in Wellington – brought forward in start time

News England captain wants better pitches, more points for a draw in County Championship Joe Root has reiterated his call for changes to be made in county cricket to provide players with better preparation for the international game. Root, England’s Test captain, suggested that flatter wickets and a change to the bonus-point system might result

Day two of our live report of the fourth India-England Test from Ahmedabad. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page for the latest updates. All times are local 3.47pm: Ashwin completes 30th five-for, India are WTC finalists India have wrapped up a

Report Earlier, Danushka Gunathilaka and Pathum Nissanka helped the visitors put up a competitive total Sri Lanka 160 (Gunathilaka 56, Nissanka 37, Bravo 2-25) beat West Indies 117 (McCoy 23, Sandakan 3-10, Hasaranga 3-17) by 43 runs Sri Lanka’s spinners manufactured a convincing 43-run victory over the West Indies in Antigua to keep the three-match

News Manu Sawhney says ‘high probability things might not go as per plan’ With the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup inching ever closer, the ICC will use the fallout from the 2021 Pakistan Super League as a “learning” experience as it prepares to conduct a safe and secure tournament comprising 16 countries. The T20 World

News The plan is to try more players before a packed two-year calendar, India’s T20I captain explains Harmanpreet Kaur has stressed that senior allrounder Shikha Pandey, who was left out of the squads for the upcoming South Africa series, had been rested, and “not dropped”. The rationale behind the omission, she explained, was to give

News De Kock remains on leave as Dean Elgar, Temba Bavuma appointed to leadership roles Quinton de Kock remains central to South African cricket’s plans although there is no indication of when he will be ready to play again. De Kock is on a mental health break and did not take part in the recent

The National Stadium in Karachi wears a forlorn, empty look after PSL 2021 was indefinitely postponed © Getty Images It’s difficult to overestimate the impact of Thursday’s dramatic developments for Pakistan cricket. The decision to indefinitely postpone the Pakistan Super League strikes at the heart of one of the most salient buds of optimism that

Report Alex Carey made 99 for South Australia but his was the only innings of note for the home side New South Wales 4 for 208 (Warner 87) beat South Australia 205 (Carey 99) by six wickets David Warner made a stylish return to action with a thumping 87 off 74 balls in his first

News The West Indies batsman added his name to record books against Akila Dananjaya who had just taken a hat-trick During an extraordinary run chase in the first T20I against Sri Lanka, Kieron Pollard became just the third batsman to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket following Herschelle Gibbs in the 2007

News “I have started to understand more about my own game and leadership skills,” says Zimbabwe’s captain Zimbabwe’s captain Sean Williams hailed his side’s ten-wicket win over Afghanistan in the first Test in Abu Dhabi as a coming-of-age performance from a young group of players, and particularly important for his fledgling captaincy. Three Tests into

News A handful of high-profile fixtures could be moved to help maximise ticket revenues Any changes to the domestic schedule in the 2021 English season are likely to be limited to a handful of high-value games, after the government revealed a roadmap out of lockdown last week. While the government’s roadmap does present some challenges

News The opener played two Tests when he was far from fit but is confident ahead of his comeback for New South Wales David Warner has conceded that he rushed back too soon during the Test series against India following the groin injury he suffered during the ODIs. Warner made himself available for the last

Zak Crawley admits that England may need to be more proactive as a batting unit to overcome another spin-friendly surface in Ahmedabad this week, but he’s confident that a reversion to red-ball cricket may remove some of the challenges associated with last week’s pink-ball Test – particularly those posed by the left-arm spinner, Axar Patel.

News Big day for Ahmed Shah Durrani too, as he becomes second Afghan, after Pakteen, to be a TV umpire in a Test match The first Test between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe had four players making their Test debuts. There was another Test first-timer on the field, too, 44-year old Ahmed Shah Pakteen, who became the

News The opener will make his return in the one-day match against South Australia David Warner will return to action for the first time since the end of the Test series against India having been named in the New South Wales squad for their Marsh Cup match against South Australia in Adelaide. Warner played the

News Jeetan Patel says offspinner is in ‘good spirits’ and ready to return after being dropped Jack Leach and Jeetan Patel have backed Dom Bess to recover from the disappointment of being dropped and play a major role if selected for England’s fourth Test in India as they look to square the series 2-2. Bess

Phil Simmons keeps an eye on a West Indies training session © Raton Gomes/BCB West Indies coach Phil Simmons feels that the key to success during the T20I series against Sri Lanka will be to adjust to the dimensions – one side smaller than the other – of Antigua’s Coolidge Cricket Ground as soon as