Adam Zampa will reassess his future in red-ball cricket after being left “flat” by his omission from the Australia Test squad to tour India next month. Zampa had been told he was a strong chance of making the trip but the selectors opted to retain Mitchell Swepson as the legspinner after he toured Pakistan and

Suryakumar Yadav‘s incredible exploits in T20I cricket have propelled him into the Test arena, with the 32-year-old batter picked in a 17-member squad to play for India against Australia. The squad, picked for only the first two Tests of the four-match home series, includes another player who has made his name in the white-ball circuit.

Governor-General XI 235 (Burns 74, Knott 66, Dar 4-46, Sana 3-27) beat Pakistan 182 (Maroof 74, Wellington 4-33) Legspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington reminded Australian selectors of her talents with a match-winning display with the ball in the Governor General’s XI’s 53-run victory over Pakistan in the 50-over clash in Brisbane. Wellington was dropped from the T20

Peter Handscomb is in a race against the clock to go on his first Australian Test tour in four years after scans confirmed a hip injury. Handscomb was hurt on Tuesday night while playing club cricket in Victoria, when he was hit attempting to play a pull shot. He continued batting, but collapsed in pain

Mitchell Santner has been named captain of New Zealand’s T20I squad for the series in India that begins later this month. Kane Williamson and Tim Southee will both be absent, having chosen not to travel after the ongoing series in Pakistan. Ben Lister, the 27-year-old Auckland fast bowler, is a first time inclusion in the

Sri Lanka chose to bat in the second ODI, at Eden Gardens. Captain Dasun Shanaka said he expected the pitch to be good for batting, on top of which the ground favours teams setting scores. Sri Lanka must win this match to stay in the series. Rohit Sharma, however, said he “was in two minds”

There has been a debate going around if Hardik Pandya should replace Rohit Sharma as India’s T20I captain but Rohit said he has no plans to give up T20Is as things stand. After the 2022 T20 World Cup, both Rohit and Virat Kohli missed India’s next two T20I series, away against New Zealand and at

Big picture: Can Sri Lanka stage a comeback? The last time India and Sri Lanka played an ODI at Eden Gardens, in 2014, Rohit Sharma smashed a world-record 264. He looked set for a big hundred in Tuesday’s ODI in Guwahati as well before getting out for a 67-ball 83. Still, it was a big

Toss: New Zealand opt to bat vs Pakistan New Zealand won the toss in the second ODI and opted to bat first in their quest to square the three-match series after losing the first ODI on Monday. The visitors beefed up their spin attack, bringing in legspinner Ish Sodhi and pairing him up with fingerspinners

Mitchell Starc has been officially ruled out of the first Test against India in Nagpur but has still been named Australia’s 18-man touring squad for the four-Test series on Wednesday which features four spin options including uncapped Victoria offspinner Todd Murphy. Starc suffered a finger tendon injury during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa