1:58 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff They may be defending champions but West Indies won’t be “overwhelming favourites” at the men’s T20 World Cup slated to be held in Australia in October-November according to chairman of selectors Roger Harper. In 2016, Darren Sammy’s West Indies became the first team to win two World T20 titles (they’d

7:29 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Gautam Gambhir has liked what he has seen of KL Rahul as a wicketkeeper-batsman in white-ball cricket. The former India opener reckons Rahul is the “apt replacement” for MS Dhoni in the shorter formats, particularly in T20 cricket, going forward. Dhoni, 38, hasn’t played any serious cricket since India’s semi-final

6:38 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The County Championship season was due to start on Sunday, April 12, but with the coronavirus pandemic sending the UK into lockdown, things had to be done a little differently… Middlesex openers Sam Robson and Nick Gubbins were due to start the season against Worcestershire at Lord’s. Instead, chaos ensued

5:08 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff They don’t play anywhere near as frequently as most of their Full Member counterparts do, but 2020 was supposed to be different for Zimbabwe. They began the year with a home Test series against Sri Lanka, followed that with a full tour of Bangladesh, and were set for a lot

2:20 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan has been making “the best out of a bad situation”, enforced by the coronavirus pandemic, spending time with his three-week old baby. Had things been normal, Morgan would not have been at home, he would have been part of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad in the IPL. Reflecting

11:32 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire have moved to cancel the contract of Nathan Lyon, the Australia offspinner who had signed as an overseas player for the 2020 summer, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Lyon, Australia’s third-highest Test wicket-taker, had been set to feature across a large part of the season – depending on international

12:43 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Pakistan Test captain Azhar Ali has joined Misbah-ul-Haq, the head coach and chief selector, in asking for the World Test Championship to be extended looking at the way the cricket calendar has been affected because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ali, in an online video conference, said he could get behind

Australia lift the Ashes urn after drawing the series 2-2 © Getty Images The precarious finances of English cricket look set to take a further hit this summer, after Specsavers’ deals to sponsor both the County Championship and England men’s Tests against West Indies and Pakistan elapsed without a replacement being confirmed for the 2020

4:52 PM GMT Director of domestic cricket Haroon Rasheed and chief curator Agha Zahid will leave the PCB at the end of their contracts. Rasheed’s contract concludes at the end of this month, while Zahid’s ends on May 31. The duo had been working on a rolling contract and held prominent positions within the setup