Alex Carey plays a pull © Getty Images There are many things Alex Carey is primed to achieve, including the possibility of captaining Australia in the future. But above all, the wicketkeeper-batsman hopes to mirror MS Dhoni, whom he observed at close quarters during India’s tour of Australia in 2018-19. While his team were at

11:12 AM GMT Cheteshwar Pujara has started the year by joining a select band of cricketing greats. On Saturday, he scored his 50th first-class century, in the Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka at his home ground in Rajkot, thereby joining an elite list of nine Indians led by Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

Jan 9, 2020 Varun Shetty January 11: Perth Scorchers v Brisbane Heat at Perth Our XI: Chris Lynn, Tom Banton, Josh Inglis, Liam Livingstone, Max Bryant, Mitchell Marsh, Jimmy Peirson, Ben Laughlin, Fawad Ahmed, BenCutting, Jhye Richardson NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about a late injury (or other relevant)

5:58 PM GMT If there is one man who embodies the character of this new England side, it is, perhaps, Joe Denly. A year or two ago, Denly’s occupation of the crease – his resilience, his determination, his resistance – may have been used against him. It would have been characterised as demonstrating his limitations.

10:57 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Andrew Strauss, the former England opener and ECB director of cricket who now sits on the ICC’s cricket committee, has warned that any move towards making four-day Tests mandatory “should be an easy sell or we shouldn’t be doing it”. As revealed by ESPNcricinfo, cricket’s world governing body is mulling

1:59 AM GMT Having dominated the home Test summer, Marnus Labuschagne wants to become a multi-format master in the vein of Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, Joe Root and his friend and team-mate Steven Smith as he embarks on a first ODI tour for Australia to face India on the subcontinent. It was in the 50-over

5:58 PM GMT In normal circumstance, Zak Crawley would probably be looking forward to his trip to Australia on the England Lions tour. And, in all truth, that’s probably where he should be right now. He’s 21, after all, and he has a first-class average that barely tops 30 with just three first-class centuries. Promising,

9:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle‘s love for cricket is still going strong. Having taken a break from the game towards the end of 2019, he’s back in action with the Chattogram Challengers in the BPL, and he says he will continue playing T20s for a while yet. “A lot of people still want