1:56 PM GMT Islamabad United won the toss and chose to bowl v Lahore Qalandars All but one of the games this season so far have been won by the chasing side, so it was little surprise to see Islamabad United put Lahore Qalandars in. Qalandars, who are the only side yet to win a

8:00 AM GMT Quetta Gladiators won the toss and chose to bowl v Islamabad United Defending champions Quetta Gladiators decided to put Islamabad United in on a surface that appears to favour big runs. Captain Sarfaraz Ahmed announced Jason Roy, Shane Watson, Ben Cutting and Fawad Ahmed were their four overseas players. New Islamabad skipper

2:11 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff February 23: Lahore Qalandars v Islamabad United, Lahore Our XI: Fakhar Zaman, Chris Lynn, Ben Dunk, Colin Ingram, Dawid Malan, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Shinwari, Seekkuge Prasanna, Hussain Talat, Haris Rauf Captain: Fakhar Zaman Zaman is a dasher who is difficult to stop when he gets going. He was

1:52 PM GMT Islamabad United chose to bowl v Multan Sultans Islamabad United won the toss, and, as has been the pattern all tournament, elected to field first. Shadab Khan said the Islamabad bowlers had been slightly hampered by the dew factor when bowling second last ball, and admitted there needed to be significant improvements

10:12 AM GMT West Indies 3 for 80 (Taylor 26*, Campbelle 25*) . beat Thailand 9 for 78 (Koncharoenkai 33, Taylor 3-13) by seven wickets West Indies opened their T20 World Cup campaign with a win they would have expected, though not without a sizeable fright chasing a small target against a Thailand combination that

1:01 AM GMT Sidharth Monga New Zealand 17 for 0 (Latham 11*, Blundell 6*) trail India 165 (Rahane 46, Jamieson 4-39, Southee 4-49) by 148 runs In bright sunshine on the second morning, Ajinkya Rahane and India had a strange half session of Test cricket. Rahane first ran Rishabh Pant out, then got out caught

4:34 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Moises Henriques, the Australia allrounder, has signed for defending Vitality Blast champions Essex. Henriques, who recently captained Sydney Sixers to the Big Bash League title, will arrive in last May and be available for the rest of the tournament. Essex have already re-signed Adam Zampa for this year’s Blast, after

9:46 AM GMT Big Picture On the surface, Sri Lanka are favourites. They are one spot higher on the rankings (eighth to West Indies’ ninth), finished stronger in the World Cup last year – beating West Indies in a thriller. And they are, of course, at home. But the spirit of resurgence in the West

10:14 PM GMT New Zealand opt to bowl v India On a drizzly, windy Wellington morning, New Zealand got off to a good start to the two-Test series by winning the toss and asking India to bat first. They were missing their enforcer Neil Wagner away on paternity leave, who was replaced by the tall