11:03 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Steven Smith is in line to make his first BBL appearance in six years after rejoining the Sydney Sixers with the Australian schedule allowing a small window for internationals to appear. Smith, who was part of the Sixers team that won the first BBL and last appeared in 2014, could

8:00 AM GMT Toss: Afghanistan chose to bowl v West Indies The coin fell Rashid Khan’s way after a delayed toss, and the Afghanistan captain had no hesitation in bowling first in the first T20I on a true pitch at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. There was an even spread of grass which was expected

Nov 13, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff South Australia 6 for 490 dec and 2 for 166 (Ferguson 72*, Hunt 69) lead Tasmania 6 for 345 dec (Doolan 170, Wade 89, Cooper 3-76) by 311 runs A big unbeaten century from Alex Doolan, a determined 89 from Matthew Wade, and then enterprising knocks from Henry Hunt and

9:59 PM GMT Young Victorian batsman Will Pucovski has withdrawn from availability for the first Test against Pakistan, citing mental health issues, adding more uncertainty to the squad announcement later on Thursday. Pucovski informed Australia A team management he was struggling on Tuesday evening in Perth, the day the hosts collapsed in their first innings

5:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Nabi will join Kent for a second Vitality Blast season in 2020. Afghanistan international Nabi, who leads the ICC’s T20 allrounder rankings, produced a number of memorable performances for in Kent in nine Blast matches in 2019. He scored 147 runs at a strike rate of 153.12 and his

3:53 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ellyse Perry was in the runs again as her unbeaten 70 anchored the Sydney Sixers to a 39-run victory against the Hobart Hurricanes in Launceston. The Sixers only used four batters as Perry and Alyssa Healy (39) – who launched into Nicola Carey’s first over which cost 26 – added

11:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Playing late, and close to the body, is the key to counter the pink ball – that’s the early learning India’s Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane is taking back with him after training against the pink ball for the first time over the past few days. Rahane was part of a

7:37 AM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka’s parliament criminalised a wide swathe of corruption-related activity in sports on Monday. This was in the wake of the ICC anti-corruption unit’s investigation into the country’s cricket over the past two years. Below is a rough guideline to the punishments, and a list of many of the

8:00 AM GMT Paarl Rocks 170 for 9 (Davids 38, du Plessis 38, Nortje 3-31, Linde 3-23) beat Cape Town Blitz 84 (Shamsi 3-16) by 86 runs After defeating the defending champions in the season opener on Friday night, the Cape Town Blitz were rudely brought back down to earth by their nearest rivals, the

12:30 AM GMT The adoption of the amendments proposed by the BCCI to its constitution would, if unchallenged, be tantamount to “ridiculing” of the Supreme Court and its endeavour over the past several years to introduce reforms in the richest and most powerful cricket board. That’s the opinion of Gopal Sankaranarayanan secretary of the RM