IPL 2016

James Tredwell will come up against several England team-mates in the Yorkshire side © Getty Images The MCC has named a team featuring five England Test cricketers to play Yorkshire in the Champion County match next month. Ian Bell had already been announced as captain and he will lead his Warwickshire team-mate Rikki Clarke, Graham Onions, James Tredwell and Scott Borthwick. Kent offspinner Tredwell played for England most recently, alongside…

The recently reinstated Mohammad Shahzad provides Afghanistan plenty of firepower up the order © Chris Whiteoak Afghanistan A maiden Asia Cup appearance was the result of wowing a very small but influential crowd. Successful talks with the BCCI and the SLC placed Afghanistan as the fifth member in the 2014 edition and the team shook the world, beating hosts Bangladesh and registering their first win against a Test-playing nation. This…

Eoin Morgan made 64 runs in five innings during the ODIs with South Africa © Getty Images Eoin Morgan has said that he is not worried about his dip in form during the ODI series with South Africa and suggested that England are close to settling on their best XI ahead of the World T20. Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, made just 64 runs from five innings during the ODIs, which…

England 147 for 7 (Taylor 74*) beat South Africa 132 for 6 (van Niekerk 52, Shrubsole 3-25) by 15 runsScorecard Sarah Taylor made an unbeaten 74 to set up victory (file photo) Stephen Pond / © Getty Images England’s bowlers fought back to secure a 15-run win in the first T20 with South Africa, after Sarah Taylor‘s blistering, unbeaten 74 had masked a top-order failure with the bat. Chasing 148…

BCCI Ombudsman, Justice AP Shah, used the conflict of interest allegation against Harbhajan Singh to set a guideline for similar cases in the board © AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi The BCCI ombudsman, Justice AP Shah, has asked the board to take an “unequivocal undertaking” from spinner Harbhajan Singh that he will no longer be in the management of the sports apparel company, Bhajji Sports, and will not be associated with the…

The BCCI ombudsman has ruled that Sourav Ganguly’s links to the Atletico de Kolkata franchise do not put him in a situation of conflict of interest © AFP Justice AP Shah, the BCCI ombudsman, has ruled that no case of conflict of interest could be found against former India captain Sourav Ganguly under the board’s rules on the subject. Freelance journalist Niraj Gunde had filed a case with Shah alleging…

Faf du Plessis has stressed results are not the most important thing for South Africa in their World T20 build-up © Gallo Images Victories are not the only barometer South Africa will use to measure their readiness for next month’s World T20. Instead, their five home internationals – two against England and three against Australia – will act as dress rehearsals for their matches in India, even though conditions and…

Match facts Friday, February 19Start time 6pm local (1600 GMT) Eoin Morgan found some form in England’s warm-up game in Paarl © Getty Images Big Picture As the days of the southern summer get shorter, so do the matches on England’s tour of South Africa. Cricket’s shortest format is also its most frivolous but there is a serious undertaking in these final two T20s, which serve as a prelude to…