Trent Boult is an injury doubt for the first Test © Getty Images Trent Boult is confident he will be able to take his place in the Boxing Day Test and the dream not afford to New Zealand for more than 30 years. Boult missed the opening Test in Perth having not recovered sufficiently from

2:38 PM GMT Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s head coach and chief selector, has criticised fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz for the timing of their retirements from Test cricket. He revealed that the PCB was mulling a policy to ensure that players remain available to play for Pakistan across formats. Amir gave up Tests in July,

4:46 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Lancashire have removed an “inadvertently misleading” statement from Manchester Originals head coach Simon Katich from their website amid fears about the blurring of lines between the the county and the new Hundred team based at Old Trafford.

8:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ellyse Perry, the premier allrounder in women’s cricket, has won two of the three top annual ICC awards for 2019: the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for women’s cricketer of the year and its ODI equivalent. Alyssa Healy, meanwhile, has taken home the Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award for the

7:14 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Former ICC chief executive David Richardson will be in charge of a committee that will study the domestic system in South Africa and advise if it needs a restructure or not. Earlier this year, Cricket South Africa’s members council – made up of the 14 provincial presidents – voted to

4:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley will head to Australia after the conclusion of England’s Test series in South Africa after being selected in the four-day England Lions squad. Keaton Jennings, who has been tipped for a Test recall for Sri Lanka, is also included on the tour, which will encompass

Nathan Lyon goes up in appeal © Getty Images Mitchell Starc is in career-best Test form and Pat Cummins is the No. 1 bowler in the world, and their efforts as part of effectively a three-man attack was outstanding in Perth. But Australia’s victory was another triumph for Nathan Lyon. Claiming the final wicket, when

11:48 PM GMT The signs, it has to be said, were translucent from the outset, from Gary Lineker’s introduction of cricket’s man of the moment as the “main award-winner” a full hour before the voting was due to open, to the presence at the ceremony in Aberdeen of the man himself – kept back from

1:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa have suffered a blow ahead of their Test series against England after fast bowler Lungi Ngidi was all but ruled out of the opening match starting on Boxing Day with a hamstring injury that has also sidelined him for the Mzansi Super League final. Ngidi is in doubt

8:10 AM GMT The WACA has traded off a reduced capacity in a bid to secure the multi-million dollar funding to allow them to redevelop the ground into a boutique multi-purpose venue. On Sunday, it was announced that the Federal Government had committed AUS$30 million to the project. Another AUD$4 million will come from Cricket