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The ICC appears ready to scrap its two-division idea and place all twelve Full Members in a single Test Championship. For Ireland and Zimbabwe, that sounds like progress. The catch is money: no additional hosting funds are expected, so smaller boards may end up playing the Tests they can afford instead of the ones they […]

India have only eight confirmed bilateral one-day internationals before next year’s tournament in southern Africa, and the biggest stretches of nothing sit between them. For Kohli, who now plays no other international format, match fitness has to come from somewhere else. The answer is a mix of Vijay Hazare Trophy games, IPL cricket and a […]

England are our pick to win the first ODI in Perth, with a 54% win probability against 46% for Australia. The case rests on batting depth, with Joe Root and Ben Duckett at the top, and a pace attack led by Jofra Archer and Gus Atkinson. This Australia vs England match prediction covers the toss, […]

Lumbini Lions are our pick to beat Karnali Yaks on Thursday, with a 52% win probability against 48% for the Yaks. The call comes down to form and firepower: Lumbini have won three of their last five, Karnali have lost three in a row, and Niroshan Dickwella gives the Lions the more dangerous top order. […]

Biratnagar Kings are our pick to beat Pokhara Avengers on Thursday, with a 53% win probability against 47% for the Avengers. The edge is thin. It rests on a 1-0 head-to-head record, a slightly better five-game run (two wins to one) and the pairing of Angelo Mathews and Andre Russell. This Biratnagar Kings vs Pokhara […]

Hridoy’s unbeaten 242 is the better innings, even though Mushfiqur’s 219 not out was the one that actually won a Test. Hridoy scored faster, carried a far bigger share of his side’s total and dragged Bangladesh clear of real danger against West Indies in Sylhet this November, while Mushfiqur built on a platform against Zimbabwe […]

Siraj, Bumrah, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna should form the seam attack when the first Test starts in Wellington on 19 November, backed by one spin-bowling all-rounder. Shami’s farewell to the format on 6 November changes less than it seems, because the selectors had already moved on from him after his last red-ball appearance in […]

Shami had the better Test career, and the gap shows up the moment you stop counting wickets and start measuring how quickly and cheaply they came. Srinath edges the raw tally, 236 scalps across 67 matches against 229 in 64, yet Shami beats him on average, strike rate and returns in India and overseas alike. […]

Livingstone’s move gives Chennai a middle-order hitter for the fifth slot and an occasional spinner, not a frontline bowler, and his arrival probably costs another overseas player his place. The Super Kings prised him away from SRH on 5 November for INR 6 crore, less than half the INR 13 crore SRH had paid. The […]

Cricket Australia’s 2018 inquiry found that only David Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft knew about the ball-tampering plan in advance, and Usman Khawaja’s memoir now says the whole touring party knew. Sabr, out through Penguin Australia on 10 November, places the first discussion of the plan at Port Elizabeth, a Test earlier, rather than […]