11:03 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India are finally set to play their inaugural day-night Test, starting on Friday against Bangladesh at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. While the teams get familiar with the pink ball, there’s lots of chatter in the build-up to the match. November 20 Not only pink ball but better facilities needed to

8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tasmania 9 for 251 (Wright 104, Faulkner 49, Hatcher 3-46) beat New South Wales 131 (Sangha 23, Bird 6-25) by 120 runs New South Wales ended their torrid one-day cup season with yet another loss, and their first wooden-spoon finish in 11 years, as Tasmania’s Macalister Wright and Jackson Bird

12:42 AM GMT Australian cricket is facing up to the reality of mental health struggles faced by its players and staff, issues that in the past were hidden away beneath euphemism and denial. At the start of a summer in which Glenn Maxwell, Nic Maddinson and Will Pucovski have all stepped away from the game

4:36 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The PCB has filed a claim for damages against IMG Reliance, in relation to its decision to pull out of a deal to produce television coverage of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) earlier this year. IMG Reliance pulled out days after a terrorist attack killed 44 Indian paramilitary troopers on

7:45 AM GMT Misbah-ul-Haq knows the secret to getting Steven Smith out, and calls it the batsman’s “blind spot”. It isn’t much of a secret at all: simply hit the same spot, hitting at or near the top of the off stump, that troubles every batsman in international cricket. The first trick, of course, is

8:37 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Somerset will start the 2020 County Championship season on minus 12 points after an ECB disciplinary panel ruled that the pitch prepared for their title decider against Essex at Taunton was ‘poor’. In a rain-affected game that Somerset had to win in order to overtake Essex, 21 wickets fell in

3:58 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff On the final day of the group stage, Maharashtra and Punjab (Group C), Delhi and Jharkhand (Group E) filled the last four spots for the Super League round of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20. They joined Karnataka and Baroda from Group A, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan from Group B, and

8:16 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Hobart Hurricanes wicketkeeper Emily Smith has been banned, effectively for three months, under Cricket Australia’s anti-corruption code after posting WBBL team news on social media before a game. Smith, 24, has been sanctioned for putting the Hurricanes’ team line-up on her Instagram account approximately an hour before it was due

6:00 PM GMT Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo The closing stages of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20 were enlivened by a tight race for the Super League and two prominent names making a comeback in Prithvi Shaw and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Sunday was to be the last day of

8:00 AM GMT Tshwane Spartans 188 for 2 (Elgar 88*) beat Paarl Rocks 185 for 6 (Vince 86*, Morkel 2-24) by eight wickets Tshwane Spartans got their first win of this Mzansi Super League (MSL) with only the second successful chase of the tournament so far. After the Nelson Mandela Bay Stars eased to victory

8:00 AM GMT New Zealand A 302 for 6 dec and 169 for 8 (Phillips 36, Archer 3-34, Curran 3-42) drew with England 405 (Buttler 110, Pope 88, Denly 68, Kuggeleijn 3-46) England had to settle for a draw in Whangarei as a stubborn ninth-wicket partnership provided an example of some of the challenges likely

6:45 PM GMT Barny Read The toss is one of cricket’s many, many nuances. That one flip of the coin that, for club cricketers, goes a long way to determining the happiness of a weekend forfeited to chasing leather around a field. For the professionals, it has the potential to decide the outcome of a

8:00 AM GMT The Jozi Stars’ hopes of repeating last season’s events, when they lost three of their first four Mzansi Super League (MSL) matches but went on to win the competition, have been severely dented after they crumbled to a fourth successive defeat. The Stars were skittled out for 108 and went down to

Nov 15, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Sophie Devine continued her stunning all-round form to ensure Adelaide Strikers remain top of the WBBL table after thumping the struggling Melbourne Stars in Nuriootpa. Devine thumped her fourth consecutive half-century and her fifth of the tournament, making 77 not out from 58 balls as the Strikers posted 2 for

8:10 PM GMT Barny Read in Abu Dhabi The T10 League’s third edition – first under its newly minted Abu Dhabi T10 moniker and debut in the UAE capital – was given a perfect day one endorsement by one of its highest profile players on Friday, after being hailed as “so sexy” by West Indies

12:29 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Lynn, Jaydev Unadkat, Robin Uthappa, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Morris, Mohit Sharma and Colin Ingram are some of the high-value players that IPL franchises have released as they prepare for the 2020 auction, scheduled for December 19 in Kolkata. Royal Challengers Bangalore released some big overseas names such as Marcus

7:35 AM GMT Glenn Phillips was left sporting several bruises and a very large smile after a memorable encounter with Jofra Archer on the first day of New Zealand A’s match against England. Phillips, a top-order batsman with almost a dozen international caps behind him, made an impressive century in New Zealand A’s first innings

11:18 PM GMT Tony Mann, the West Australian wristspin bowler who scored the first Test century by an Australian nightwatchman, has died in Perth at the age of 74 after battling pancreatic cancer. In the midst of a long and successful first-class career for WA during the association’s strongest era, Mann played four Tests in