Jalal Yunus, BCB’s cricket operations chairman, has said that Bangladesh’s coaches have to do more to “transform” their players to be more attacking in limited-overs cricket. Bangladesh are under fire for losing both the T20I and ODI series against Zimbabwe. Concerns over their performance in the 50-overs format isn’t grave – it is only their

West Indies are yet to figure out their team combination and preferred style of play for the upcoming T20 World Cup, their head coach Phil Simmons has admitted. West Indies’ team management, perhaps, missed a trick by not pairing up Akeal Hosein, the left-arm fingerspinner, with Hayden Walsh Jr, the legspinner, in the T20Is against

McGrath did not line up with her team-mates during the national anthems and was seen sitting by herself in the stands wearing a face mask while the other Australian players sat in their dugout. However, she came into bat at No. 4 without a mask on. Commonwealth Games Australia confirmed the news of McGrath’s participation

A tearful Katherine Brunt exited the Commonwealth Games without a medal to show for what had been – until their semi-final loss to India – an excellent tournament for England… and without knowing whether she will play international cricket again. Brunt, England’s 37-year-old seamer, had seen this event as her “one and only shot” at

Big picture Two years after they played the T20I World Cup final in front of 88,000 fans at a packed MCG, Australia and India will square off in the gold-medal match at the Commonwealth Games 2022. The setting is perhaps a little less intimidating, but Edgbaston will likely be sold out to its 25,000 capacity.

England fell back to earth with a thud as India ran right over them and into the Commonwealth Games gold-medal match with a thrilling four-run victory in front of a near-full house at Edgbaston on Saturday. The host nation, who entered the tournament with more than one eye on a shot at the Commonwealth title,

Richard Thompson has been named the chair of the ECB for the next five years. Thompson, currently chair at Surrey CCC, will start in his new post on September 1, filling a vacancy which had lasted for nearly a year. Thompson was the unanimous choice of the nominations committee, headed by independent director Brenda Trenowden.

The various challenges posed by the conditions in the Caribbean will help India’s preparation to face different situations during the T20 World Cup in Australia, according to batter Dinesh Karthik. After playing the first three T20Is in the West Indies, the teams have moved to Lauderhill in Florida for the last two games of the

South Africa 182 for 6 (Hendricks 42, Klaasen 39, Delany 2-24) beat Ireland 138 (Tector 34, Parnell 5-30, Pretorius 3-33) by 44 runs South Africa wrapped up the white-ball leg of their tour to the UK with a second T20I series win after sweeping Ireland 2-0. Their 44-run triumph in Bristol was their fourth victory

One day out of India’s semi-final against England at the Commonwealth Games, head coach Ramesh Powar attributed the chopping and changing of player roles – and team compositions – to the side being an evolving team. In the first three games, India have used all 15 squad members en route to the knockout stage. Jemimah