2:16 PM ET Former India captains Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly along with former India batsman Brijesh Patel are among the biggest names put forward to contest the BCCI elections scheduled for October 23. They were part of an electoral draft roll made public on Friday which also included Jay Shah (Gujarat Cricket Association secretary

10:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andy Moles, who has been a key influence in the rise of the Afghanistan team, will now be their director of cricket. The 58-year-old former coach has also been appointed chief selector, as the team tries to navigate its way out of a patchy 2019. Moles has the experience of

2:28 PM ET Umar Farooq in Lahore Netherlands are set to host Pakistan for the first time ever in 2020. Comprising three ODIs, to be played between July 4 and 9 in Amstelveen, it will be their longest series against a Full Member country – outside of the newly inducted Ireland and Afghanistan. Pakistan will

12:43 PM ET Alec Stewart is understood to have withdrawn from the race to become England’s head coach. Stewart, the director of cricket at Surrey, was shortlisted for the role and asked to an interview this week. But it is understood that he notified the ECB over the weekend that he was no longer available

10:45 AM ET If Keshav Maharaj thought touring India would offer him ideal conditions to show off his skills, the first two days of the Test series would have made him think again. South Africa’s first-choice spinner had to bowl 34 overs before he saw any success and has described the Visakhapatnam surface as one

2:36 AM ET CSA has sold the broadcast rights for the second edition of the Mzansi Super League (MSL) to the SABC, South Africa’s insolvent free-to-air broadcaster. This is a change from last season when the SABC were gifted the rights without having to pay anything, after CSA failed to strike a deal with their

3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka opt to bat v Pakistan Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat, in their pursuit of a series-levelling victory in the third and final ODI of the series against Pakistan. Pakistan made two changes to the XI that won on Monday. Imam-ul-Haq who hurt the webbing on his

9:09 AM ET Less than a week after Shanta Rangswamy stepped down from the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), the other two members of the ad-hoc panel – Kapil Dev and Anshuman Gaekwad – have stepped down too. The resignations follow the notice of conflict of interest served to the three by the BCCI ethics

8:13 PM ET Alex Malcolm Sydney Thunder have signed England batsman Alex Hales for the upcoming BBL season. Just a day after it was announced that AB de Villiers would be joining Brisbane Heat, the Thunder have signed Hales to bolster their top order. The Thunder had Jos Buttler and Joe Root for the early

3:00 AM ET India women 140 for 4 (Shafali 46, Rodrigues 33) beat South Africa women 89 for 7 (Woolvardt 23, Poonam 3-13, Radha 2-16) by 51 runs South Africa women dropped three catches in the first four overs. India women nailed a direct hit with their very first opportunity through Pooja Vastrakar in the