3:58 AM ET There was a time when everybody used to be surprised when a spinner did well against India, leave alone a humble offspinner. However, there is no surprise right now who the highest wicket-taker in this series is. He is Australia’s most successful bowler against India, and the world’s second-most successful spinner against

1:44 PM ET Umpire Tanvir Ahmed, whose erroneous no-ball calls during the third T20I between Bangladesh and West Indies had caused an eight-minute halt in play, has admitted that he had made a mistake. Off what was supposed to be the final ball of the fourth over of Bangladesh’s chase of 191, Tanvir wrongly pulled

1:51 AM ET Ravindra Jadeja has been carrying an injury from even before he landed in Australia, and yet he was named in the 13 for the Perth Test even when not fully fit, India’s coach Ravi Shastri has revealed. In trying to defend himself against criticism from all corners regarding the selection of the

6:07 AM ET No-one has spent more time batting on the MCG’s hotly-debated pitches this season than Marcus Harris, and he has counselled his team-mates not to judge the surface by the expected preponderance of green grass geared towards ensuring a result after last year’s bore draw during the Ashes series. Harris got the fright

  shares Aaron Finch in pain as the physio takes a look at his injury © Getty Images Australia’s opening batsman Aaron Finch has rarely felt more pain on the cricket field than in the moments after his battered right index finger was jammed by Mohammed Shami in Perth, to the point that it felt

8:40 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Mirpur Play was stopped for at least eight minutes during the series-deciding third T20I in Mirpur after West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite contested a dubious on-field call by umpire Tanvir Ahmed. The incident occurred in the fourth over of Bangladesh’s chase when Ahmed called wrongly a no-ball off Oshane

  shares Shakib Al Hasan steers the ball towards the leg side © AFP Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan has decided to field first against West Indies in the third and deciding T20I in Dhaka. The visitors have brought in debutant Sherfane Rutherfordin place of Darren Bravo, in a bid to to salvage something from

8:39 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cameron Bancroft has written about learning to accept that he will be known as a cheat following his role in the ball-tampering scandal and has opened up about his nine-month ban which finishes at the end of December. Bancroft, who was caught on camera putting sandpaper down his trousers at

  shares Imam-ul-Haq brought up a fifty on Test debut © Sportsfile/Getty Images Pakistanis 306 for 7 dec (Babar 104*, Azhar 100) and 195 for 4 (Imam 66, Sohail 73, Simmonds 2-79) beat CSA Invitation XI 318 for 7 dec (Ackerman 103*, Richards 98) and 182 for 7 dec (Brand 71, Amir 3-35) by six

12:41 AM ET For the first time since his career was turned upside down, Steven Smith has spoken about the moments inside the Newlands dressing room when he ignored the blatant attempts at ball-tampering that were going on in front of him. Giving his first press conference in Australia since his tearful return to the