9:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rohit Sharma, who was initially picked in India A’s squad for the first four-dayer against New Zealand A, which starts on November 16 at Mount Maunganui, has been rested, keeping in view his heavy workload. India A squad for the first four-dayer: Ajinkya Rahane (capt), M Vijay, Prithvi Shaw, Mayank

12:25 AM ET Pat Howard makes a final exit from his office at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane on Wednesday. It has been seven years and one month since he was unveiled as Cricket Australia’s general manager team performance, a period of enormous change for Australian cricket. Much of it has been driven by

Nov 11, 2018 England have confirmed that Ben Foakes will keep in the second Test in Pallekele with Jos Buttler admitting the standards he set had been “a wake-up call”. Foakes enjoyed what Buttler described as “probably the best debut ever in Test cricket” in Galle. After becoming the first England keeper to score a

11:07 AM ET Total Sports Marketing (TSM), a Bangladesh-based sports-management company, has bagged Cricket Ireland’s first multi-year media-rights deal. They will broadcast international matches of the Ireland men’s cricket team for the duration of the ICC’s Future Tours Programme between 2019 and 2022. Cricket Ireland CEO Warren Deutrom said that they are focusing on domestic

3:00 AM ET Tea Bangladesh 470 for 7 (Mushfiqur 195*, Mehidy 40*, Jarvis 5-71) v Zimbabwe Mushfiqur Rahim gets on top of the bounce AFP Mushfiqur Rahim solidified Bangladesh’s dominance on the second day in Mirpur with an epic unbeaten 393-ball 195 that stretched well over eight hours and carried his team to 470 for 7

  shares Australia 96 for 1 (Healy 56*) beat Ireland 93 for 6 (Garth 24, Perry 2-12) by nine wickets © International Cricket Council Chances are it may have taken Australia longer to load their kits from the baggage carousel to the team bus than it took to see off Ireland’s small target in Providence.

3:00 AM ET Toss: Pakistan opt to bat v New Zealand Trent Boult and Matt Henry skittled out West Indies’ top order quickly Getty Images Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and chose to bat in the series decider in Dubai. After Trent Boult’s hat-trick set up New Zealand’s victory in the first match, Pakistan

Nov 10, 2018 Uganda’s hopes of a top-two finish at WCL Division Three in Oman were thrown into chaos during their loss to USA, when allrounder Irfan Afridi – the leading wicket-taker at WCL Division Four in May – was allegedly told by an umpire that he would be no-balled for a suspect action if

  shares © Getty Images The ICC are considering moving Women’s World T20 group games from St Lucia to Antigua because of heavy rains and a grim forecast for the next week. The first St Lucia match of the tournament between England and Sri Lanka was rained off and thunderstorms are forecast until at least

  shares © AFP Former India seamer Munaf Patel, who played a key role in the side’s World Cup triumph in 2011, announced his retirement from competitive cricket on Saturday. He was the third-highest wicket-taker for India in the tournament, with 11 wickets in eight matches at an economy rate of 5.36. His last game