Cricket

7:24 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ian Watmore has been named as the ECB’s new chairman and will succeed Colin Graves when he leaves the post in November 2020. Watmore, 61, was chief executive of the FA for nine months in 2009-10, during which time he launched the Women’s Super League and the St. George’s Park

11:30 AM GMT Australia 189 for 1 (Healy 83, Mooney 81*) beat Bangladesh 9 for 103 (Fargana 36, Schutt 3-21) by 86 runs Australia flexed their muscles on the back of a record opening stand to set themselves up for a likely winner-takes-all final group match against New Zealand as Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney

12:34 AM GMT “I want you to get a feel of enjoyment rather than think of runs…” As Harmanpreet Kaur made her way into the nets for a second round of hits at a windswept Junctional Oval on Tuesday, India head coach WV Raman tried to put things into perspective for the captain of India.

4:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad has committed to Nottinghamshire until 2022 at least, after signing a new two-year contract. Broad, 33, is second behind James Anderson among England’s leading Test wicket-takers with 485 scalps to his name, and is set to play his 13th and 14th seasons at Trent Bridge, the venue where

11:25 AM GMT Pakistan opened their T20 World Cup campaign with a comprehensive win against a sloppy West Indies at Manuka Oval in Canberra, only their second win over the opponents in the format. Diana Baig and Nida Dar did the job first up, rattling the West Indies’ line-up to restrict them to 124 for

12:21 AM GMT Domain, the naming-rights partner for Test cricket, is not the only brand to be exiting Cricket Australia’s suite of sponsors. Mastercard and Specsavers are also on their way out, with Bupa to scale down its commitment and so lose its naming rights sponsorship of the national cricket centre in Brisbane and place

4:32 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England’s World Cup celebrations have continued with Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler collecting honours at Buckingham Palace. The pair were named alongside their World Cup-winning captain, Eoin Morgan, coach, Trevor Bayliss, and Joe Root on the New Year’s Honours list and received their awards from the Duke of Cambridge, Prince

10:38 AM GMT Corrie van Zyl will return to work at CSA after the completion of his disciplinary process, although his role within the organisation is yet to be announced. Van Zyl was working as interim director of cricket before he was suspended in October last year on allegations of misconduct related to unpaid commercial

Neil Wagner roars in celebration after dismissing Steve Smith © Associated Press Neil Wagner is almost certain to be back in New Zealand’s bowling attack for the second Test against India, which begins in Christchurch on Saturday. Wagner missed the first Test in Wellington on paternity leave, but he will return to the squad on

6:40 PM GMT When Kagiso Rabada earned his fourth active demerit point in a 24-month period and was suspended from the final Test against England last month, his father sent him a little something to make him feel better and it’s not what you might expect. “I sent him a song about the ICC. To

10:52 AM GMT Australia 5 for 123 (Haynes 60, Lanning 41*, Prabodhani 2-17, Siriwardene 2-20) beat Sri Lanka 6 for 122 (Atapattu 50, Sanjeewani 25, Carey 2-18, Strano 2-23) by five wickets Australia are not playing well at all. Australia are still in the T20 World Cup. These two truths were undeniable at the end

1:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Over the dominant home season, India’s coach Ravi Shastri talked about taking the pitch and the toss out of equation, which, while lofty, is something for dominant teams to aspire to. To a large extent, India did do that in home Tests, but in away conditions against good teams, tosses

6:23 PM GMT While South Africans celebrate their double success in T20 cricket on a super Sunday in which both the men’s and women’s teams won crucial matches, Australia are not making any attempt to hide their disappointment that victory could have been theirs. Their men’s team lost a T20 for the first time since

9:24 AM GMT Karachi Kings captain Imad Wasim won the toss and went against type for the early part of the PSL, choosing to bat first at the National Stadium in Karachi. The winner of today’s match will break the five-team gridlock to move two points clear of the rest of the field onto the

1:40 AM GMT India’s attempts at a roaring comeback in the basin Reserve Test were thwarted by a quick 71-run stand for the eighth wicket between Colin de Grandhomme and Kyle Jamieson. After his four-wicket haul with the ball, Jamieson ended up with the highest score for a debuting No. 9 for New Zealand: 44,

5:39 PM GMT 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 USA Cricket board chairman Paraag Marathe and chief executive Iain Higgins

10:04 AM GMT West Indies 3 for 80 (Taylor 26*, Campbelle 25*) . beat Thailand 9 for 78 (Koncharoenkai 33, Taylor 3-13) by seven wickets West Indies opened their T20 World Cup campaign with a win they would have expected, though not without a sizeable fright chasing a small target against a Thailand combination that

12:07 AM GMT Sidharth Monga India 165 (Rahane 46, Jamieson 4-39, Southee 4-49) v New Zealand In bright sunshine on the second morning, Ajinkya Rahane and India had a strange half session of Test cricket. Rahane first ran Rishabh Pant out, then got out caught at the wicket when leaving the ball, and India lost