9:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies allrounder Andre Russell will not be part of the T20I series against India, after it emerged on the eve of the first match in Kolkata that he was injured and had not yet arrived in the country. Russell was one of seven players supposed to join the T20I

3:00 AM ET Toss Zimbabwe chose to bat v Bangladesh Nazmul Islam is thrilled after getting his maiden ODI cap Raton Gomes/BCB Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza has decided to bat against Bangladesh in the first Test in Sylhet. Bangladesh decided to pick just the one seamer – Abu Jayed – as they bank on a three-man

3:00 AM ET Toss: New Zealand chose to bat v Pakistan Glenn Phillips rues his dismissal AFP New Zealand have decided to bat after winning the toss in Dubai. In a game his side must win to remain in contention for the series, Kane Williamson had no hesitation about his decision to put runs on the

9:45 AM ET Umar Farooq The PCB has extended Ahmed Shehzad‘s ban by six weeks after the batsman was found guilty of breaching the ruling on his four-month suspension. His original ban was supposed to end on November 10, but will now run until December 22. That forces him to miss the entirety of the

2:48 PM ET Vinod Rai, the chairman of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) that is overseeing the BCCI, has categorically denied that he acted unilaterally in dealing with the controversy surrounding the sexual-harassment allegations raised by an anonymous person against BCCI chief executive officer Rahul Johri. Rai’s role came into focus after it emerged that

3:04 PM ET Liam Brickhill Results summary Cape Cobras have already racked up more wins in the opening rounds of this year’s 4-day competition than they did throughout last year’s competition and they solidified their position at the top of the points table with a fourth victory over Dolphins at Newlands. Under a blanket of

10:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The PCB has admitted it could’ve handled better the circumstances around the appointment of Mohsin Khan as the head of their new cricket committee. What should’ve been an early win in Ehsan Mani’s new tenure as board chairman turned instead into a distraction about the Qayyum report on match-fixing. Comments

1:37 AM ET David Peever, Cricket Australia’s chairman, is expected to exit his role only a week after being re-elected for a further three years, as a result of this week’s fierce reaction to the release of a damning cultural review of the governing body that followed the Newlands ball tampering scandal. A day after

3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan opt to bat v New Zealand Shaheen Afridi reacts after a shot is played off his bowling Associated Press Pakistan elected to bat in a bid to extend their winning record in the UAE. Sarfraz Ahmed opted to stick with the formula that served his side well in the series against

3:00 AM ET Big Picture West Indies did deny Virat Kohli a hundred but a familiar Indian script unfolded at the CCI’s Brabourne Stadium: Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan provided the launchpad for a tall total. In a rather unfamiliar instance, though, an India No. 4 (Ambati Rayudu) cracked a century, as the side moves