5:09 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Experienced duo Shemaine Campbelle and Chedean Nation will return to West Indies’ squad for next month’s first two ODIs against India, accompanied by two new faces. Medium-pacers Aaliyah Alleyne and Shawnisha Hector were called up to West Indies’ 14-strong main squad for the first time on Saturday, with Hector having

8:26 AM GMT Anyone of the view that Steve Smith is entitled to automatically return to Australia’s captaincy the moment his Newlands leadership ban elapses at the end of March, would do well to remember the curious circumstances in which Aaron Finch was relieved of the T20 post. Three years ago, Finch had led the

12:42 AM GMT Danyal Rasool He may have died of a heart attack seven weeks ago, but at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday, the influence of Abdul Qadir loomed large. His son Usman Qadir, picked for Pakistan’s T20I squad to Australia, could talk about little else on the eve of Pakistan’s departure, speaking poignantly about

2:36 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Newly appointed Pakistan T20 captain Babar Azam dismissed concerns that captaincy would add unwelcome pressure on his young shoulders, and said he was confident of being able to handle the challenge. On the eve of the team’s departure for Australia in what will be the first tour of the post

8:49 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Afghanistan have announced a raft of changes to both their ODI side, which flattered to deceive at the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales, and the T20I team, which shared the honours after a washed-out tri-series final in Bangladesh in September. For the upcoming matches against West Indies in

12:39 AM GMT Alagappan Muthu Saturday is taking far too long to come, but while we wait for the All Blacks to have better luck than the Black Caps and therefore completely erase everything that happened one July evening at some random cricket ground let’s focus on a sport that is totally devoid of contact

7:00 AM GMT Northern 167 for 5 (Umar Amin 60, Mohammad Nawaz 31*, Amad 2-19) beat Balochistan 115 all out (Imran Farhat 32, Tanvir 3-27, Nawaz 2-10, Shadab 2-23) by 52 runs A half-century from Umar Amin and a frugal bowling display saw Northern thump Balochistan in the National T20 Cup final in Faisalabad. These

8:08 AM GMT Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan‘s aggressive attitude during the Wednesday meeting between the board officials and the striking cricketers, especially his takedown of allrounder Mehidy Hasan, apparently threw the players off to start with, one of them even saying that the incident “rattled” them. One of the puzzling sidelights of the

6:12 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff MPs quizzed senior figures from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) about their plans to “capitalise on the success of English cricket following the men’s team World Cup success,” at an oral evidence session for a Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee on Wednesday afternoon.

7:00 AM GMT Hemant Brar in Bengaluru Karnataka 223 for 1 (Padikkal 92, Rahul 88*) beat Chhattisgarh (Amandeep Khare 78, Koushik 4-46) by nine wickets Are you an engineer stuck behind a desk nursing a passion for cricket? Are you someone who grew up playing tennis-ball cricket in streets, maidans, rooftops with the dream of