6:08 PM GMT Might we have just witnessed a changing of the guard? In the dying moments of the second Test, England had a slip cordon that included Ollie Pope (aged 22 and playing his fifth Test), Zak Crawley (aged 21 and playing his second), Dom Bess (aged 22 and playing his third) and Dom

5:10 PM GMT James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of South Africa due to a left rib injury. Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test history, sustained the injury on the final day of the Cape Town Test. With England pressing for victory, he continued to bowl

5:02 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff If, as the curious saying goes, Test cricket has a habit of biting you on the backside if you disrespect it, then the timing of the Newlands cliffhanger could hardly have been more apposite. A mere days after it emerged that the ICC is considering the introduction of mandatory four-day

1:08 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Australia coach head Justin Langer has promised he won’t call his senior assistant Andrew McDonald as he hands over the reins for Australia’s three-match ODI tour of India next week. Langer will remain in Perth to take a well-earned break following a triumphant home summer thus far where his side

8:00 AM GMT India won the toss in Indore and chose to bowl first yet again, having done the same in the abandoned first T20 on Sunday. Both teams named unchanged XIs. Kuldeep Yadav and Washington Sundar kept legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal out of India’s XI, with Jaspreet Bumrah, Navdeep Saini and Shardul Thakur forming the

8:53 AM GMT The ECB has confirmed that Rory Burns will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after suffering ruptured ligaments in his left ankle playing football the day before the Cape Town Test. Burns underwent surgery in London on Monday and is expected to be out of action for four months. That means

11:20 PM GMT Ross Taylor was overcome by emotion after becoming New Zealand’s highest Test run-scorer as he recalled a conversation at the start of his career with mentor Martin Crowe. Taylor moved to the top of the New Zealand list, overtaking Stephen Fleming’s tally of 7172, when he lofted Nathan Lyon down the ground

8:00 AM GMT South Africa 126 for 2 (Malan 63*) and 223 require 312 more runs to beat England 269 and 391 for 8 dec (Sibley 133*, Root 61, Stokes 72) Mark Boucher encouraged his South Africa side to channel the spirit of the 2008 Perth Test last night, and Pieter Malan’s battling, unbeaten 63

8:00 AM GMT Lunch Australia 454 and 1 for 172 (Warner 89*, Burns 40) lead New Zealand 251 by 375 runs David Warner maintained his latter-day dominance of SCG Tests as Australia hustled towards a third-innings declaration against a bedraggled New Zealand on day four of the New Year’s Test. Under overcast skies, the hosts

Hobart Hurricanes 2 for 180 (Short 103*, Fawad 1-25) beat Perth Scorchers 8 for 172 (Marsh 48, Boland 2-29) by 8 runs D’Arcy Short made the hosts Perth Scorchers pay for a sloppy fielding display, making the most of a string of reprieves to post the slowest century in the history of the Big Bash,