3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa opt to bowl v Pakistan South Africa opted to bat first after winning the toss on a wind-swept afternoon in Port Elizabeth. In the first of five ODIs against Pakistan, South Africa will look to maintain their perfect start to the tour with a number of changes to the

8:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rishabh Pant will feature in the fourth and fifth matches of India A’s one-day series against England Lions on January 29 and 31 in Thiruvananthapuram. The series will also give Ajinkya Rahane, who has been out of favour in ODIs of late, a chance to push his case for World

8:21 AM ET Hemant Brar in Lucknow Before Saturday, Saurashtra had never won a match against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy. They had played seven, losing three and conceding the first-innings lead thrice. That record didn’t look likely to change when Saurashtra ended their first innings against the same opponents in the Ranji Trophy

3:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Vidarbha and Saurashtra pulled off victories over Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh on the final day of their Ranji Trophy 2018-19 quarter-finals, to book their berths in the semi-finals. Saurashtra will face Karnataka to try and get into the title round, while Vidarbha will take on Kerala. Harvik Desai‘s maiden first-class

  shares Melbourne Stars 4 for 124 (Stoinis 70*, Richardson 2-17) beat Melbourne Renegades 121 (Nabi 28, Stoinis 3-19) by six wickets A full-strength Melbourne Stars rolled Melbourne Renegades over for 121, and then relied on Marcus Stoinis to chase down the target with four balls to spare and continue their dominance of the Melbourne

3:00 AM ET Rangpur Riders 195 for 6 (Rossouw 61, de Villiers 34, Taskin 4-42) beat Sylhet Sixers 194 for 4 (Sabbir 85, Pooran 47*, Mashrafe 2-31) by four wickets How the game played out Rilee Rossouw‘s fourth fifty of the BPL season powered Rangpur Riders through the second-highest successful chase in the competition’s history.

11:20 PM ET Australia’s ODI series defeat by India exposed another major flaw in the national team’s approach to 50-over matches since the 2015 World Cup – chiefly their reluctance to play spin meaning they have now fallen well and truly behind the leading opponents in terms of white ball tweaking options. Four years ago,

Jan 18, 2019 Alex Malcolm Sydney Sixers women 4 for 131 (Perry 54*, Tahuhu 1-18) tied with Melbourne Renegades 6 for 131 (Molineux 55, Burns 2-13)Super over Sydney Sixers women0 for 9 beat Melbourne Renegades women 1 for 6 Is there anything Ellyse Perry can’t do? A stunning six in a Super Over saw the

  shares © Getty Images Former South Africa batsman AB de Villiers will play two matches in Lahore for Lahore Qalandars in the upcoming Pakistan Super League on March 9 and 10. De Villiers, who said he had “a role to play in helping international cricket return to Pakistan,” will be one of the most

1:43 PM ET Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai Mithali Raj has said that the acrimony that followed India’s semi-final exit in the Women’s World T20 is a thing of the past, even though she felt the episode did “hamper” the profile of the Indian women’s team. “I don’t know how controversies help the profile of the