10:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali insists that his time away from the England set-up could prolong his Test career rather than spell an early end to it, after responding to criticism of his decision to sit out the forthcoming tour of South Africa. Writing in his column in The Guardian, Moeen acknowledged that

10:37 AM GMT Tim Paine is relishing the prospect of his resurgent team being challenged by the second-best side the world and expects the pink-ball encounter in Perth to play to New Zealand’s strengths. Australia produced impressive cricket in the recently concluded two-Test series against Pakistan, and are set to name an unchanged team for

3:12 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff December 8: India v West Indies, 3rd T20I in Mumbai NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant) updates Captain: Rohit Sharma Although Rohit has scored only 25 runs in his last three T20Is – the lowest three-game aggregate in his

1:15 PM GMT West Indies v India, Wankhede Stadium: here we go again. In the T20 World Cup semi-final at this venue more than three years ago, India managed only four sixes on their way to a total of 192 for 2. West Indies’ power-hitters, led by Lendl Simmons, then made that look a whole

1:58 PM GMT Andre Russell prefers the “shorter” and “more fun” Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) to Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). The two tournaments often occupy the same space in the global cricket calendar, forcing players to choose one or the other. Russell is set to play for the Rajshahi Royals in the 2019-20 BPL

11:23 AM GMT The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to slash the power of its chief executive officer Wasim Khan who has been working additionally as the head of the cricket committee. He resigned from the role as the head of the committee in order to help revamp it, making it a thoroughly independent

6:22 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Nasir Jamshed, the former Pakistan batsman, will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to bribe fellow cricketers in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Jamshed, 33, was given a ten-year ban by the PCB in August 2018, and is standing trial at Manchester Crown Court, following his

1:45 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Nottinghamshire have signed Pakistan seamer Mohammad Abbas as one of their overseas players for 2020. Abbas will be available to play in nine Championship games for Notts before joining up with Pakistan’s Test squad to play England in July. Having suffered relegation to Division Two last summer, Notts will be

3:55 AM GMT Melbourne Cricket Club, the custodians of the MCG, have no plans to adopt the improved drop-in pitch systems used by Adelaide Oval and Perth Stadium, and have for years had minimal links with the company at the cutting edge of drop-in pitch technology in Australia. StrathAyr, the portable turf company that first

5:10 PM GMT Danyal Rasool It has been over ten years since he played the last of his three Test matches, and nearly five years since he played any international cricket, but Fawad Alam hasn’t been sitting twiddling his thumbs all this while. Year after year, he’s continued to press for national selection with remarkable