2:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj boost for Punjab Yuvraj Singh, who had initially relinquished his spot in the Punjab side to make way for youngsters, has returned to the squad for their clash against Delhi at the Feroz Shah Kotla. In the absence of Yuvraj, Punjab ended up conceding the first-innings lead in both

3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Tasmania 185 (Wade 43, Worrall 4-42) lead South Australia 0 for 0 by 185 runs A four-wicket haul to in-form swing bowler Daniel Worrall put South Australia in a strong position at stumps on day one of their Sheffield Shield clash against Tasmania at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Worrall bagged

2:51 AM ET Opener Imrul Kayes is out of Bangladesh’s second Test against West Indies in Dhaka with a shoulder injury. The home side didn’t include any player in his place, making it likely that Shadman Islam will have a Test debut. “The physio report says that Imrul has injuried in his shoulder and toe.

1:21 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India opener Smriti Mandhana will turn out for Hobart Hurricanes in the fourth season of the Women’s Big Bash League, having previously played for Brisbane Heat in season two. Meanwhile, Harmanpreet Kaur has extended her deal with Sydney Thunder and will return for her third successive season in the tournament.

12:06 AM ET Barny Read The T10 League is eyeing international expansion, with Shaji Ul Mulk, the league’s chairman, in discussions with ‘a few’ international boards over taking the tournament abroad in 2019. The ICC-sanctioned event currently operates in conjunction and with the approval of the Emirates Cricket Board at its UAE home. Ul Mulk

1:00 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yasir Shah has only just recuperated from a hipbone injury, and is feeling his way back in since returning to full fitness after the series against Australia. Here in Dubai, with Pakistan needing to lift their game by several notches to level the series, he quickly understood the need to

12:53 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England women will host West Indies next summer as part of their build-up to the Ashes, with the series against Australia once again contested on a points system across all three formats. Taunton is set to host its first women’s Test since 2006, while the Ashes will begin on July

12:18 PM ET Diana Edulji, the former India women captain who is part of the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA), has said the CoA will not interfere in the controversy surrounding Mithali Raj‘s omission from India’s side for their Women’s World T20 semi-final against England last week. Raj, India’s senior-most player and their highest run-getter

11:34 AM ET Liam Brickhill The Mzansi Super League attracted a live television audience in excess of 3.4 million South African viewers during it’s opening weekend that featured four matches. The league is only just starting to gain traction and attract fans to matches as summer sets in, but TV figures suggest the league has

  shares Play 00:50 Root’s England emulate Ponting’s Australia Ben Stokes turned matches, and Sri Lanka’s batting lacks maturity, but even with all that, and despite the 3-0 result, there wasn’t much separating the teams. These are Sri Lanka coach Chandika Hathurusingha‘s views after Sri Lanka were whitewashed at home by England. While in the