12:29 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The second ODI between India and West Indies, scheduled for October 24, could be shifted away from Indore. This is the potential outcome of a tussle over complimentary-ticket allocation between the BCCI and the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA). The disagreement concerns the Holkar Stadium’s pavilion block, which according to

3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa chose to bowl v Zimbabwe Dale Steyn made way for David Wiese against Afghanistan Getty Images The wait for Dale Steyn’s return to white-ball cricket continued as he was left out of South Africa’s XI for their first one-day international against Zimbabwe in Kimberley, where stand-in captain JP Duminy won

12:20 AM ET Sidharth Monga Manoj Prabhakar was a brave, street-smart cricketer, whose spirit of rebellion Indian cricket could have well done without. Those who played with him tell you he carried a deep-rooted resentment for the system ever since Kapil Dev called up Madan Lal from the England leagues to replace the injured Chetan

11:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shikhar Dhawan and Karun Nair have been dropped the Indian team that will play West Indies in a two-match Test series starting October 4. This means India are likely to go in with another new opening combination with one of Mayank Agarwal or Prithvi Shaw making their Test debut when

  shares Indian Board President’s XI 360 for 6 dec (Bawne 116*, Agarwal 90, Iyer 61, Bishoo 3-104, Gabriel 2-41) v West Indies Mayank Agarwal jumps in jubilation © PTI West Indies found moderate success on their first outing in a six-week tour of India, taking six wickets on the opening day of their two-day

12:24 AM ET Success in defending runs in the final overs at the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) influenced Mashrafe Mortaza‘s decision to hand Mahmudullah the ball with India needing six runs off six balls in the Asia Cup final. Mashrafe had earlier considered throwing the ball to Soumya Sarkar, for his military medium, but changed

11:01 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando The rift that presently exists between Angelo Mathews and coach Chandika Hathurusingha must be repaired as soon as possible, so that Mathews can return to the ODI side quickly, the former Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has said. Sangakkara, who has been a long-time advocate of Mathews and Hathurusingha

6:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Adil Rashid’s renaissance as a red-ball cricketer has been rubber-stamped by the ECB, after he was named in their list of centrally contracted Test players for the 2018-19 season. Rashid, who was lured back to the Test fold by the new England selector Ed Smith, played an important, if bit-part,

3:16 PM ET George Dobell Colin Graves, the ECB chairman, was forced to abandon plans to present the County Championship trophy after a tense meeting with the chairmen of the first-class counties. Graves was hoping to present Surrey with the trophy after the meeting at The Oval. Instead Jim Wood, a non-executive director on the

3:00 AM ET Essex 477 for 8 dec (Westley 134, Harmer 102*, Vijay 80, Wheater 68*) and 134 for 9 (ten Doeschate 53*, Morkel 4-28) beat Surrey 67 (Porter 4-26, Cook 4-27) and 541 (Roy 128, Pope 114, Stoneman 86, Jacks 53, Coles 5-123) by one wicketScorecard The chairmen of the first-class counties were holding