shares Tom and Sam Curran take a break during training © Getty Images On one hand it was a memorable 2018 season for Tom Curran – part of Surrey’s first County Championship title since 2002 – but on an international front his England career stalled due to injury ruling him out of the entire

3:00 AM ET Victoria 332 all out (Handscomb 80, Harris 73, Maddinson 58, Coulter-Nile 3-50) beat Western Australia 269 all out (Inglis 64, Maddinson 4-29) Glenn Maxwell and Peter Handscomb celebrate a wicket Getty Images Some rollicking batting from Peter Handscomb and Marcus Harris and an allround effort from Nic Maddinson completely outplayed defending champions Western

3:00 AM ET Toss Zimbabwe opted to bat v South Africa Faf du Plessis jumps to deal with the bounce AFP Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza won his first toss of the series and opted to bat in the third and final ODI against South Africa at Boland Park in Paarl. South Africa have already wrapped up

8:20 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai In the aftermath of Australia’s infamy at Newlands, one of the most common questions was this: how come “looking after” the ball for the pace bowlers was a task assigned not only to a batsman, but to the most junior member of the team in Cameron Bancroft? While

  shares Travis Head plays off the back foot © Getty Images Australia’s captain Tim Paine will go into his first Test since the fateful South Africa tour with three debutants, Aaron Finch, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne, in place of the banned trio of Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, all suspended by

1:54 PM ET Liam Brickhill Blind cricket in South Africa has been rocked by soaring highs and emotional lows over the course of the last week. On Tuesday, Ferdi Boer became the first South African visually impaired cricketer to hit a T20 double-hundred during a successfully staged provincial tournament. But, by the end of the

3:00 AM ET Big Picture South Africa have walked a narrow line between tryouts and continuity in this series, and they are clearly still in phase one of Vision 2019 : experimentation. The first two ODIs against Zimbabwe saw new players in pivotal positions and old players trialled in unfamiliar ones. In both games, stand-in

2:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff When Sachin Tendulkar first saw Prithvi Shaw several years ago, he had predicted that the young man would go on to play for India. On Thursday, Shaw became the youngest player to make a century on debut for India in Test cricket, making 134 against West Indies in Rajkot. Shaw,

  shares Sophie Ecclestone, Joe Denly and Ollie Pope pose with their PCA awards © Getty Images Kent’s Joe Denly has capped a fine season across all formats, at the end of which he won an England recall after eight years out of the set-up, by being named the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) Players’ Player

10:31 AM ET West Indies endured a tough start to their tour of India, losing their captain Jason Holder to an ankle injury picked up during the third week of September, when he was in Dubai, training with his team to prepare for this tour. “I am not in a position to discuss Jason’s injury,