11:51 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lockie Ferguson will make his return from injury for the New Zealand XI in England’s warm-up matches ahead of their T20I series. Ferguson suffered a fractured thumb at the start of the tour of Sri Lanka in August and the two practice matches at Lincoln on October 27 and 29

4:23 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff FICA, the international cricketers’ association, has lent its support to the striking Bangladeshi cricketers while hitting out at the role of the Bangladesh players body FICA itself counts as a member for over a decade. Tony Irish, FICA’s executive chairman, criticised the Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) – which,

Play 04:32 Faf du Plessis will continue to captain South Africa despite overseeing one of their worst Test results since readmission – he sees it as his responsibility to ease them through the transition. South Africa last suffered successive innings defeats in Tests in 1935-36, and though they have been whitewashed by Australia twice since

11:02 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood are set for their first action since the Ashes after they were named in the New South Wales squad for the Marsh Cup match against Tasmania on Wednesday. The pair have been kept on ice since the end of the series in England. Cummins played

3:20 PM GMT The ball is dangled up, above the batsman’s eyeline. He leaves his crease, almost involuntarily, to try and reach it. He ends up getting nowhere near it. The ball does two devious things. It drifts in first, and that causes the batsman to open up, again almost involuntarily. Then it spins far

7:21 AM GMT Bangladesh’s cricketers have called a spontaneous – and unprecedented – press conference on Monday afternoon, with sources suggesting they could go on strike and even cast a shadow over next month’s tour of India. The development follows simmering discontent among the players over how cricket is run in the country. The trigger

8:03 PM GMT There were big-name omissions, surprise picks and several bumper paydays for local players as the draft for the Hundred took place in London. Rashid Khan, the Afghanistan legspinner, was the first name selected in what is a ground-breaking exercise in British sport, while Chris Gayle and Lasith Malinga were among the top-bracket

7:00 AM GMT Singapore 152 for 5 (Param 72*) beat Bermuda 149 for 7 (Tucker 50*, Prakash 3-44) by five wickets On the opening day of tournament play, Singapore won a thriller by defending seven off the final over against Scotland. Tasked with scoring nine in the last over against Bermuda, they only needed three

7:26 AM GMT Drew Ginn’s first significant move as the new high-performance supremo for Cricket Australia has been to sever a key link to the Pat Howard era by moving on Darren Holder, the Brisbane-based elite coaching manager who had helped the governing body take a top-down approach to the way the nation’s best cricketers

7:00 AM GMT United Arab Emirates 129 for 5 (Mustafa 39) beat Ireland 125 (Stirling 72, Mustafa 4-18) by five wickets Rohan Mustafa did wonders to lift the recent gloom around the UAE squad with a spectacular all-round show, playing a role in eight of Ireland’s 10 wickets before a blistering 39 off 16 balls