1:54 PM GMT Toss: Lahore Qalandars chose to bowl v Quetta Gladiators A much-rejigged Lahore Qalandars, in desperate need of some points to stay afloat, have won the toss, and decided to put Quetta Gladiators in to bat. Lahore must approach each game as a knockout, rooted to the bottom of the table with one

5:43 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff March 8: Lahore Qalanders v Karachi Kings, Lahore Our XI: Ben Dunk, Chris Lynn, Babar Azam, Sharjeel Khan, Alex Hales, Imad Wasim, Samit Patel, Shaheen Afridi, Salman Irshad/Dilbar Hussain, Umer Khan, Mohammad Amir Captain: Alex Hales Hales has scored 101 runs at a strike rate of 177.19 in his last

12:42 PM GMT Hemant Brar During the Saurashtra-Gujarat Ranji Trophy semi-final, played in Rajkot this week, Chirag Jani had shouldered arms to a Roosh Kalaria delivery that pitched outside off and hit him on the pads. The finger went up and, when Jani asked for a review, he was denied, though Saurashtra had all their

Alyssa Healy hits over the top © Getty Images The Women’s T20 World Cup final will be the fifth time Australia and India have met in just over a month. The played three times in the recent tri-series, including the final, and also played in the opening match of the tournament. The teams have won

3:05 PM GMT Toss Karachi Kings opt to bowl v Multan Sultans Karachi Kings won the toss and opted to bowl against Multan Sultans in Lahore. This top-of-the table clash was in doubt because of the heavy rains that had lashed Lahore over much of the past 24 hours. Karachi made one change to the

1:28 PM GMT Toss West Indies opt to bowl v Sri Lanka West Indies won the toss and opted to bowl in the second – and final – T20I in Pallekele, despite having won comfortably batting first on Wednesday. The decision may have been influenced by the threat of rain later in the evening –

5:07 AM GMT Sunday at the MCG will not be an ordinary day or an ordinary cricket match. It remains to be seen if the world-record crowd for a women’s sporting event is broken, but the match-up of Australia against India means there’s a great chance of it happening – after more than two years

6:27 PM GMT Even as COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) continues to cripple all walks of life across the world, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has said the IPL is “on” and that the board is taking all necessary precautions for the smooth conduct of cricket’s most lucrative tournament, which begins on March 29. Some of those precautionary

10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has signed a two-year contract extension with Sussex that will keep him at Hove until the end of the 2021 season. Though hugely in demand in all formats of the game, at international level and in T20 leagues, Archer says he retains a special bond with Sussex, the

5:29 AM GMT Match abandoned India v England India were through to their first ever Women’s T20 World Cup final after torrential Sydney rain washed out any hopes of even a truncated contest against England, a side they had never beaten in T20 World Cups in five attempts. This now leaves India with the delicious