Greg Chappell has joined Australia’s selection panel on an interim basis © Getty Images Greg Chappell will join Australia’s national selection panel and Trevor Hohns will serve as chairman, after the departure of Rod Marsh from the role on Wednesday. Both appointments have been made on an interim basis only, following an extraordinary meeting of the Cricket Australia board on Wednesday night. Hohns has served on the national selection panel…

Nuwan Kulasekara said Sri Lanka’s batsmen are not used to facing bowlers with the height and bounce of Jason Holder © AFP Sri Lanka barely broke a sweat while easing past Zimbabwe in the Tri-Series opener, but West Indies’ pace and bounce proved a rather more testing assignment in their second match, with Sri Lanka bowled out for 165 in pursuit of West Indies’ 227. Nuwan Kulasekara said that the…

Sam Northeast will lead Kent in Antigua © Getty Images Kent have accepted an invitation to play in the 2017 Regional Super50, the West Indies domestic one-day competition – the first time they will have competed in a recognised overseas tournament. Kent Spitfires will face the West Indies’ Under-19 world champions as well as senior sides from Trinidad and Tobago, Windward Islands and Leeward Islands in the group stages of…

Ashley Nurse picked up three wickets on ODI debut © AFP The road to recognition has been a long one for Ashley Nurse. The offspinning Barbadian made his List A debut nine years ago, played his maiden Twenty20 international more than five years ago, but has since played only three more T20Is – without taking a wicket. He had been included in three one-day international squads before finally making his…

The Lord’s bell – in the charge here of Mushtaq Ahmed – is ringing for Derek Brewer © Getty Images Derek Brewer will retire as MCC chief executive during the winter of 2017-18. In a time of change in MCC administration, the deputy secretary Colin Maynard will also step down next winter, after more than 42 years with the club, leaving a new team to take charge ahead of the…

India women 199 for 6 (Krishnamurthy 71, Vaidya 32*, Nation 2-21) beat West Indies women 184 (Knight 55, Matthews 44, Gayakwad 4-34) by 15 runsScorecard File photo: Veda Krishnamurthy struck her second fifty in the three-match series © IDI/Getty Images Left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad‘s 4 for 34 helped India women defend 199 and whitewash West Indies women 3-0 in the ODI series. India’s total was set up by a brisk…

West Indies 227 (Carter 54, Hope 47, Powell 44, Kulasekara 2-37) beat Sri Lanka 165 (Pathirana 45, Gabriel 3-31, Nurse 3-46, Holder 2-16) by 62 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Jason Holder’s figures of 8-0-16-2 set the tone for West Indies’ win © AFP West Indies’ bowlers, led by Jason Holder and Ashley Nurse, defended 227 on a deteriorating Harare pitch to register a bonus-point win, their first against Sri Lanka…

File photo – Hanuma Vihari’s first century as an Andhra player lifted them to the top of Group C © BCCI Medium-pacer M Ravi Kiran took 4 for 32, as Hyderabad beat Services by ten wickets at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. Ravi Kiran’s four-for on the final day completed Hyderabad’s comeback, who had scored 580 in the first innings, after being 141 for 6 on the first day….

Bhargav Bhatt returned to form with a four-wicket haul to help Andhra Pradesh beat Tripura © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Medium-pacer M Ravi Kiran took 4 for 32, as Hyderabad beat Services by ten wickets at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. Ravi Kiran’s four-for on the final day completed Hyderabad’s comeback, who had scored 580 in the first innings, after being 141 for 6 on the first day. This 580 came…

Bhargav Bhatt returned to form with a four-wicket haul to help Andhra Pradesh beat Tripura © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Medium-pacer M Ravi Kiran took 4 for 32, as Hyderabad beat Services by ten wickets at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai. Ravi Kiran’s four-for on the final day completed Hyderabad’s comeback, who had scored 580 in the first innings, after being 141 for 6 on the first day. This 580 came…