3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan chose to bat v New Zealand Azhar Ali plays a reverse sweep AFP Pakistan elected to bat first in Dubai after winning the toss. On a cool morning, Sarfraz Ahmed said the pitch was ripe for setting up the game with a handy first innings total, insisting the team had put

2:14 AM ET George Dobell in Colombo England were once again indebted to an outstanding piece of fielding from Keaton Jennings for a breakthrough on the second morning in Colombo. For the third time in the space of two Sri Lanka innings, Jennings pulled off an outstanding catch at short leg (to be scrupulously correct,

3:00 AM ET England 336 (Bairstow 110, Stokes 57, Sandakan 5-95) v Sri Lanka Left-arm wristspinner Lakshan Sandakan completed a second five-wicket haul, as Sri Lanka needed only 28 deliveries to claim the three remaining England wickets on the second morning. Meanwhile the visitors added 22 to their overnight score, moving to 336 all out

3:00 AM ET Big Picture The rain has followed Australia’s T20Is around: the one-off match against South Africa was reduced to a T10, the opening game against India had overs lopped off, and in Melbourne the contest didn’t get beyond the first innings as showers teased everyone that they would allow a resumption. On balance,

12:51 AM ET Shakib Al Hasan became the first Bangladesh bowler to take 200 Test wickets. He is also the fastest to complete the double of 3000 runs and 200 wickets, having completed the feat in his 54th Test, one fewer than Ian Botham, the previous quickest to the landmark, had taken. Shakib Al Hasan

11:59 PM ET And then there were two. After 22 matches in three countries, England and Australia are the last teams standing. This wouldn’t surprise anyone who looked at the rankings; Australia are the No. 1 team in the world. Neither would it surprise anyone who referred to the results at the most recent ICC

  shares Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 131 for 1 (Smuts 62*, Marais 42) beat Durban Heat 127 for 6 (Morkel 28, Dala 2-16) by nine wickets © Getty Images After a couple of modestly-attended matches, the Mzansi Super League needed a showpiece exhibition of what the league might offer, and under Friday night’s lights, a

2:03 PM ET Barny Read If there’s one thing the Caribbeans know how to do, it’s party. And on day three of this year’s T10 League they brought the house down in typically legendary fashion. The first game of the day was settled by Pakhtoon’s Andre Fletcher sending Rajputs’ Samit Patel over the rope to

11:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Only days after the BCCI had asked Mohammed Shami to limit his workload to 15 overs an innings, the fast bowler overshot the mark playing for Bengal in the third round of the Ranji Trophy. Shami, who is part of the set of fast bowlers that India are taking to

10:07 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando In general, umpires do not need an excuse to do their job badly in Sri Lanka. Over the last four years, there has been an abundance of botched decisions, over-officiousness, as well as a banning of papare bands in the stands while the over is in motion, so that