9:44 AM ET The Pakistan Cricket Board appears to have made peace with potential conflicts of interest with the appointment of Misbah-ul-Haq as the head coach and chief selector. Though it has not been made public or official yet, Misbah is also on the verge of becoming the PSL franchise Islamabad United’s head coach but

2:03 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ajaz Patel, the New Zealand spinner, will play the final two games of the County Championship season for Yorkshire, replacing Keshav Maharaj as the club’s overseas player. Patel, who took nine wickets in New Zealand’s 1-1 draw in their Test series in Sri Lanka last month, has spent most of

8:00 AM ET Far from pretty and at times bordering on the masochistic, the often torturous platform laid by Joe Root, Joe Denly and the early phase of Ben Stokes‘ masterpiece in the second innings at Headingley has set the template for how England believe they can outlast Australia’s three-man pace attack at Old Trafford

9:51 AM ET Australia’s captain Tim Paine has publicly conceded for the first time that he misjudged the thrilling conclusion of the Headingley Test, admitting he had not pressured Ben Stokes enough by keeping fielders up to the bat and at the same time allowing the England allrounder to farm the strike away from the

Sep 1, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has called Jasprit Bumrah “the most complete bowler in world cricket”. Those words were understandable, coming at the end of a Test series in which he picked up 13 wickets in two Tests at the average of 9.23. “There is not much you can say about Jasprit, the

11:19 AM ET “The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.” Adam Gilchrist once penned a book called Walking To Victory. For Justin Langer, a more appropriate title

9:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ricardo Vasconcelos has signed a new five-year contract with Northamptonshire. Johannesburg-born opener Vasconcelos still had two years remaining on his previous contract but has penned the new deal to secure his place at Wantage Road until the end of the 2024 season. “It was an easy decision for me to

2:26 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Wriddhiman Saha, Kuldeep Yadav and Umesh Yadav will slot back in with the India A squad following their tour of the Caribbean with the national side. Saha will lead in the second four-day fixture against South Africa A in Mysore. Shubman Gill will lead in the first four-dayer starting on

3:00 AM ET Innings West Indies 117 (Hetmyer 34, Bumrah 6-27, Shami 2-34) trail India 416 by 299 runs India took just over an hour to end West Indies’ innings on the third day, with Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja splitting the last three wickets between them. West Indies were bowled out for

8:56 AM ET If Josh Hazlewood is happy that the pressure he has applied on England’s top order has helped force the hosts into a change in batting order for the upcoming Test at Old Trafford, then his words about what that change represents apply equally to Australia given the sorts of adjustments being pondered