Cricket

7:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jack Leach will be given his chance to prove he is ready for a Test return in Galle next week, after being named in England’s XI for their final warm-up match, against a Sri Lanka President’s XI, which gets underway in Colombo on Wednesday. Leach has endured a miserable winter

2:11 PM GMT Cheteshwar Pujara is unlikely to feature in the remainder of the Ranji Trophy final because of back spasms. India’s Test No. 3 felt some stiffness in his back prior to taking the field on Wednesday, the third day of the ongoing final against Bengal, in Rajkot. He eventually didn’t take the field

9:57 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England’s cricket team will refrain from taking selfies with fans and limit public engagements on their tour of Sri Lanka amid the global Coronavirus outbreak. The team also asked “all supporters joining the tour to maintain good levels of hygiene” as advised by the World Health Organisation Britain’s National Health

England will defend their World Cup title in New Zealand next year © Getty Images England will begin the defence of their Women’s World Cup title against Australia in Auckland the day after New Zealand open the tournament on February 6, Waitangi Day. The 30-day, 31-match tournament concludes with the final at Hagley Oval in

1:49 PM GMT Lahore Qalandars will field first, having won the toss. Sohail Akhtar believed dew would play a part later on in the evening, and Lahore will look to keep up the momentum that they have built up over the last two games, which they won. Lahore have only ever won three games in

7:40 AM GMT Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Jonty Rhodes believes South Africa should “do anything” to win the T20 World Cup, and that means picking AB de Villiers, who hasn’t played international cricket for nearly two years. But the former batsman is concerned that picking de Villiers in this fashion could set a worrying “precedent”

6:15 PM GMT Owners of all eight franchises have signed a letter that was sent to the IPL, asking the league to put on hold the proposed changes concerning the league standing money and the hosting fee payable to the state associations that house the venues. Among the owners that signed letter, which was sent

10:16 AM GMT Following their axing from the Bangladesh Test side, Mahmudullah and Mustafizur Rahman have been included only in the white-ball players’ list in the latest BCB central contracts (Jan to Dec 2020), which for the first time have players separated according to formats. Mashrafe Mortaza, who has stepped down as ODI captain –

2:50 PM GMT Lahore Qalandars captain Sohail Akhtar won the toss and chose to field against Karachi Kings in Lahore in the second half of Sunday’s PSL double-header. Lahore are seeking to build on a resounding eight-wicket win over Quetta Gladiators in an effort to dig themselves out of the cellar on the PSL points

2:03 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England 316 and 39 for 1 (Crawley 27*, Anjula 1-14) lead Sri Lanka Cricket XI 245 (Priyanjan 77, Parkinson 4-68) by 110 runs Matt Parkinson did his best to make a statement to England selectors ahead of the first Test in Sri Lanka by claiming four wickets as the visitors

2:00 AM GMT “We skipped uni for Beth Mooney,” read a placard at one of Australia’s group games at the T20 World Cup. From a squad that boasts superstars in the likes of Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, and Alyssa Healy, not often does Mooney, the left-handed opener for Australia, occupy front of mind. That placard,

5:40 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Marnus Labuschagne was proud to have put on a show for his extended South African family, even though he was unable to cap his day with victory for his adopted nation, as his maiden limited-overs century fell short of securing a consolation victory for Australia in the third ODI at

9:05 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Wasim Jaffer, the former India, Mumbai and Vidarbha opener, has finally called time on his career, aged 42. He made his first-class debut in 1996 season, played 31 Tests and two ODIs for India. Jaffer finished his career as the fifth-highest run maker in Indian first-class cricket along with 10

4:10 PM GMT South Africa’s ODI tour of India for three ODIs will go ahead after the organisation completed a risk assessment regarding the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) across the world. While South Africa reported its first confirmed case of the virus on Thursday, India’s health ministry has estimated infections are affecting around 30

4:44 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Wood, Hampshire’s left-arm seamer, has announced his retirement from red-ball cricket at the age of 29 to focus on prolonging his limited-overs career. Wood has taken 105 wickets at 30.22 across a 43-match first-class career, but has regularly been dogged by injuries. He will represent Hampshire in the T20

8:08 AM GMT Zimbabwe won the toss and opted to bowl v Bangladesh Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to put Bangladesh in to bat in the third and final one-day international in Sylhet. Zimbabwe are unchanged, but with injury and illness Chamu Chibhabha and Craig Ervine once again sit out, while Bangladesh – who

5:45 PM GMT Even as COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) continues to cripple all walks of life across the world, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has said the IPL is “on” and that the board is taking all necessary precautions for the smooth conduct of cricket’s most lucrative tournament, which begins on March 29. Some of those precautionary

Mushfiqur Rahim’s innings wasn’t short of innovative shots © BCCI Bangladesh selectors have given uncapped left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed a spot in the T20I squad for the two matches against Zimbabwe on March 9 and 11. Nasum picked up six wickets from 13 matches for the Chattogram Challengers, who made it to the second qualifier