2:59 AM GMT Justin Langer has given the strongest indication yet that Joe Burns will retain his place at the top of Australia’s batting order for the first Test against India with the final decision being made after the first of the Australia A matches next month. Both Burns and Will Pucovski, who has made

7:25 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Heather Knight believes comments by former Football Association chairman Greg Clarke have highlighted that there is still work to be done for sportswomen to achieve equality with their male counterparts. Clarke resigned from the FA and from his role as FIFA vice-president this week after using a series of racist

Sourav Ganguly (BCCI president), Manu Sawhney (ICC chief executive) and Jay Shah (BCCI secretary) © Getty Images Five years after hosting its last ICC event, the 2016 men’s T20 World Cup, India will be ready to stage the same tournament in 2021, the BCCI has stressed. Despite the country still struggling under the grip of

2:40 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Joe Burns could have a final chance to keep his Test place after being named in the Australia A squad for the two warm-up matches against India alongside fellow Test specialists Tim Paine and Travis Head, but Steven Smith, David Warner, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood will not play any

10:01 AM GMT Danyal Rasool Asad Shafiq doesn’t figure in the squad of 35, to be led by Pakistan’s new all-format captain Babar Azam, for a series of three T20Is and two Tests in New Zealand, to be played in December-January. Mohammad Rizwan, the wicketkeeper-batsman, will be Azam’s deputy for the Tests, while legspinning-allrounder Shadab

10:22 AM GMT Graham Cowdrey, the former Kent captain and part of one of the sport’s best known family dynasties, has died at the age of 56. Cowdrey enjoyed a long career as an aggressive middle-order batsman for Kent, before going on to work for the ECB as a Cricket Liaison Officer; a role well-suited

3:06 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Gautam Gambhir, the former India batsman, believes it will be a “shame” and “Indian cricket’s misfortune” if Rohit Sharma isn’t considered for the full-time white-ball captaincy going forward. Gambhir was speaking on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time Out soon after Sharma led Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL crown, by beating the

11:19 PM IST Sidharth Monga Mumbai Indians 157 for 5 beat Delhi Capitals 156 for 7 by five wickets They won the toss, batted and lost when batting first was in vogue. Then they lost the toss, and got blown away. They won the toss again, chased and lost when chasing was in vogue. Between

6:53 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Melbourne Stars 5 for 144 (du Preez 61, Villani 46) beat Adelaide Strikers 7 for 140 (Wolvaardt 46, Sciver 4-29) by five wickets Suzie Bates‘ tournament looked to be over with a recurrence of her shoulder injury in her comeback match as the Melbourne Stars continued their form with a