2:17 AM ET Bangladesh have included Mohammad Mithun and Mohammad Saifuddin to their T20I squad for the three-match T20I series against West Indies starting in Sylhet on December 17. Both Mithun and Saifuddin have been part of the ODI squad against Zimbabwe and West Indies. The home side have dropped Mosaddek Hossain and Abu Jayed

1:12 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sharmeen Khan, who is widely credited for having women’s cricket in Pakistan officially recognised, has died aged 46. News outlets in Pakistan reported that she died of pneumonia. Sharmeen played two Tests – Pakistan’s women’s team has only ever played three – and 26 ODIs between 1997 and 2002, opening

1:54 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Perth The role of the host broadcaster has come into sharp focus in the aftermath of the Adelaide Test. Ishant Sharma is now a marked man, and he spent a major part of the nets session a day before the Perth Test trying to get his rhythm right when

Dec 12, 2018 Big Picture In cricketing lexicon, Perth has been synonymous with pace and bounce for the last five decades. A fiery surface with cracks so wide you could insert a whole finger, or lose a key, the WACA ground offered visiting batsmen their sternest test even if its liveliest days had been left

  shares © BCCI Durban Heat 189 for 8 (Morkel 57*, Klaasen 36, Sipamla 3-37) beat Tshwane Spartans 188 for 6 (de Villiers 93*, Rashid 2-25) by two wickets There were two no-balls, two dropped catches, and two breathtaking innings, each playing a decisive part as the league stage of the 2018-19 Mzansi Super League

7:50 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Perth Bowling coach Bharat Arun believes this current Indian bowling unit is the best they have ever had, and it is the consistency of the fast bowlers that has been the missing link. In the Adelaide Test, the Indian bowlers were made to bowl more overs than Australia in

  shares © Getty Images A firm handshake from the banned batsman Cameron Bancroft was the extent of the Australian captain Tim Paine’s activity at training on Tuesday, but rather more was undertaken by Mitchell Starc as the only member of the “big three”, with Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins, to bowl. While Paine, the

3:13 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The IPL franchises have finalised a list of 346 players who will be part of the pool for the auctions on December 18 in Jaipur. Originally 1003 players had submitted their names for the auction, but the list was pruned down after the eight franchises submitted their shortlists of players.

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 275 for 8 (Anmolpreet 71, Bawne 48, Shankar 42, Rance 3-49) beat New Zealand A 200 all out (Seifert 55, Kaul 4-37, Gowtham 2-40) by 75 runs Siddarth Kaul‘s four-wicket haul and opener Anmolpreet Singh‘s brisk half-century helped India A complete a 3-0 rout of hosts New Zealand

3:00 AM ET West Indies chose to bowl v Bangladesh West Indies captain Rovman Powell decided to bowl first against Bangladesh in the second ODI in Mirpur. The visitors have brought in left-hand batsman Chandrapaul Hemraj in place of Kieran Powell, who has been in woeful form on this tour. The home side will be