7:35 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It is understood that Kolkata Knight Riders will rope in USA’s 29-year-old fast bowler Ali Khan – pending IPL approval – as a replacement for the English seamer Harry Gurney. Gurney is scheduled to have surgery related to a shoulder injury, and has pulled out of both the IPL and

6:27 AM GMT Varun Shetty The Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is set to launch its own T20 league – the Jharkhand Premier League – on September 15 this year. In an email accessed by ESPNcricinfo, several cricketers who are affiliated with the association were informed of their selection for the league and sent accompanying

6:58 PM IST Big Picture There was once a time when Gary Lineker’s famous football aphorism – “Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end the Germans win” – could be transposed almost directly across to cricket and Australia. And while they may have fallen some way since the green-and-golden era

5:57 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England v Australia, second ODI, Old Trafford Our XI: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, Chris Woakes, Josh Hazlewood, Jofra Archer, Mitchell Starc Substitutes: Steven Smith Jason Roy, Adam Zampa, David Warner, Mark Wood NOTE: We might not always be able to

9:42 AM GMT The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), which instructed Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) Board and Executive to step aside on Thursday evening, has written to the ICC emphasising that its intervention cannot be considered government interference and is based in South African law. SASCOC’s communication with the game’s global governing

1:45 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Members of the Australia squad who will return straight home following the England tour will quarantine at the Adelaide Oval for two weeks after an agreement was reached between Cricket Australia and the South Australia government which will allow players to train during that period. The squad, which will leave

5:03 PM GMT South African cricket has hit rock bottom after the CSA board and its executive were instructed to step aside by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) following nine months of administrative implosion. In that time, CSA suspended and dismissed a CEO (and other senior officials), saw another CEO and

2:55 PM IST The ICC is likely to approach CSA for clarification over the board and executive being instructed to step aside by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) on Thursday. That’s according to David Becker, former head of legal for the ICC, who was involved in the drafting of the regulation

2:31 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Sussex 159 for 5 (Wright 83, Wiese 41) beat Hampshire 146 for 6 (Alsop 43) by 13 runs Luke Wright struck his second half-century of the Vitality Blast to send Sussex Sharks second in the South Group with a 13-run victory over ‘El Clasicoast’ rivals Hampshire. Sharks skipper Wright

11:23 AM IST Deivarayan Muthu Daren Sammy: “I see TKR as Goliath. They are the Goliath of the tournament, but like I said to my men: ‘don’t you forget that David defeated Goliath’.” Kieron Pollard: “How long ago was that?” The captains of the last two teams standing in CPL 2020 set up the scene