2:44 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India captain Virat Kohli agrees that Vijay Shankar offers balance to the Indian batting order, but has not committed to the Tamil Nadu allrounder batting at No. 4. On Monday, after announcing India’s World Cup squad, MSK Prasad, the chairman of selectors, said that Vijay was identified as the No.

5:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Patrick Rousseau, the former president of Cricket West Indies, died on Tuesday in Jamaica. Rousseau, who hailed from Jamaica, was aged 85 and succumbed to a long illness. An attorney-at-law by profession, Rousseau was at the helm of Caribbean cricket between 1996 and 2001. He was seen as one of

4:49 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Batsman Lahiru Thirimanne, spin-bowling allrounders Milinda Siriwardana and Jeevan Mendis, and legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay have all been picked in Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad, despite not having played an ODI since at least 2017. Not selected, meanwhile, are wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella, offspinner Akila Dananjaya, openers Danushka Gunathilaka and Upul

3:00 AM ET Hampshire 310 for 9 (Northeast 105*, Vince 56, Rossouw 55, Milnes 5-79) Kent 220 (Crawley 49) by 90 runs There were some players hanging on the announcement of England’s preliminary World Cup squad, but Sam Northeast wasn’t one of them. England ambitions partly explained his move from Kent to Hampshire. But a

  shares Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri have a chat © Associated Press India coach Ravi Shastri said he would have preferred a 16-member World Cup squad instead of the mandated 15 and urged those who missed out to “not lose heart”. India announced a 15-strong squad for the tournament starting May 30 in England,

3:35 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shubman Gill is not getting opportunities to bat higher in the Kolkata Knight Riders line-up because the top and middle-order positions have been firmed up in favour of more experienced hands, their captain Dinesh Karthik explained. Karthik said that Gill did open once this season when their regular opener Chris

3:00 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to bat against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali. Royals won their most recent match, against, Mumbai Indians, and are desperately trying to bring their season to life, having suffered five losses from their first six games. Kings XI, meanwhile, are looking to

11:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of England’s World Cup squad announcement, the name Jofra Archer seems to be on everybody’s lips, and not always in the most welcoming way. The Barbados-born Archer, who recently qualified to represent England, has plenty of supporters, but number of his prospective team-mates have expressed reservations. Here’s

2:49 AM ET Bangladesh have named pace bowler Abu Jayed as part of their 15 for the World Cup. Jayed, who is yet to debut in ODIs, had impressed with his swing bowling during the Tests in New Zealand last month. Middle-order batsman Mosaddek Hossain, who last played for Bangladesh in the Asia Cup in

3:00 AM ET Big picture Before IPL 2019, not many would have pointed at the return fixture between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals being the match they most looked forward to watching. In the post-mankad world though, this is going to be a game where non-strikers will be watched as closely as batsmen and