10:19 AM ET Australia’s first Test match collective since the Newlands ball tampering scandal will be a statement about indifferent playing stocks. It will also be about the sorts of characters Justin Langer and the selectors think are capable of weathering the team’s biggest storm since the mid-1980s. Suspensions robbing Langer of Steven Smith, David
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3:22 PM ET Late on Saturday, when Hanuma Vihari walked down the steps from the dressing room onto the field, he had to stand a few minutes on his own while his captain skirted off for a toilet break. India had lost the quick wickets of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane to slip to 103
4:24 PM ET Melinda FarrellCricinfo England will miss the calming influence Alastair Cook has in the dressing room environment, particularly on their upcoming tour to Sri Lanka, according to assistant coach Paul Farbrace who spoke as Cook ended the third day at The Oval unbeaten on 46. Cook had walked out to a rapturous standing
11:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC will grant all matches in multi-team one-day tournaments ODI status when they include teams with and without international status, beginning with the Asia Cup in the UAE this month, amid a wider review of the application of status in one-day cricket. The decision will also extend to World
3:00 AM ET India 170 for 6 (Kohli 49, Vihari 25*, Anderson 2-20) trail England 332 (Buttler 89, Cook 71, Moeen 50, Jadeja 4-79, Ishant 3-62, Bumrah 3-83) by 158 runs For one last time, England’s lower order made a nuisance of themselves against India and turned the Test match all the way around. Oh
3:00 AM ET Trinbago Knight Riders 180 for 5 (Ramdin 51, Imran Khan 2-25) beat Barbados Tridents 171 for 5 (Pooran 44, Fawad 3-28) by nine runs Fawad Ahmed goes up in appeal Getty Images Denesh Ramdin‘s second half-century of the season was backed up by a tight bowling effort to guarantee Trinbago Knight Riders’ top-two
10:37 AM ET Cricket South Africa’s members’ council has voted unanimously to launch a T20 league this year. The tournament, which will replace 2017’s postponed T20 Global League, will include six teams, consist of a 30-match league phase, an eliminator match and a final, and will be played from November 9 to December 16. There
2:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The three-match T20I series against “benchmark team” New Zealand later this month will be a “huge test” and help Australia evaluate their standing in the format ahead of the World T20 in November, according to the women’s team coach Matthew Mott. “New Zealand have been the most consistent side in