News Today’s the last day for teams to retain players, ahead of the IPL 2021 auction in February As the IPL teams juggle their budgets and squads, removing some big names to make way for new signings at the auction, ESPNcricinfo tracks it all with live updates on Deadline Day. (If the blog doesn’t load

England look set to rotate their seam attack as they seek to win a sixth successive Test in Sri Lanka. While England’s seamers performed admirably in the first Test, the team management are keen to ensure none of them are overworked ahead of the Test series in India as well as providing experience and opportunity

Report Munro overcame a sluggish start but he hit full tilt in the end overs, making a 54-ball 82 Perth Scorchers 5 for 174 (Munro 82, Inglis 25, Morkel 2-24) beat Brisbane Heat 115 (Lynn 27, Ahmed 3-25, Richardson 2-10) by 59 runs A smartly paced 82 off 54 balls from Colin Munro – his

News What the Gabba and Galle results mean for each of the three teams, and New Zealand India’s incredible 2-1 series win means they are now strong favourites to make it to the final of the World Test Championship, while Australia have plenty to do before they secure a place in the top two. Here

Report Updates, analysis and colour from the fifth day of the fourth Test Welcome to our live report of the fifth day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page

News “We landed here, we saw the security that was going on and everyone became calmer” “Those sharks are everywhere at the moment.” Quinton de Kock was not talking about the security arrangements or the lurking spin threat from a Pakistan squad that has been bulked up with slower bowlers, but about a real life

Sarah Taylor, England’s World Cup-winning wicketkeeper, says that a new sense of identity has left her in a “much healthier, happier place” after retiring from the game aged 30 due to anxiety issues, and has not ruled out making a comeback on the cricket field. In fact, having not picked up a bat since her

Report Updates, analysis and colour from the fourth day of the fourth Test Welcome to our live report of the third day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here 9.15am: The fairytale of Sundar and Natarajan Neither Shardul Thakur nor Washington

With yet another lower-order rearguard from a depleted India, the visitors saw two new heroes in debutant Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur, who was playing only his second Test. Compared to the match-saving gutsy partnership between Hanuma Vihari and R Ashwin in Sydney, this one in Brisbane was more counterattacking that saw flashy upper cuts,

Report Deficit reduced to 44 as England’s spinners struggle to exert control Sri Lanka 135 and 242 for 4 (Mathews 30*, Chandimal 20*) trail England 421 by 44 runs Lahiru Thirimanne‘s first Test century in almost eight years has helped Sri Lanka take another step towards parity on the fourth morning in Galle. Thirimanne’s only