3:17 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ever since his comeback into the Indian team after the 2019 World Cup, Shreyas Iyer has been among the most consistent batsmen in the side, flying under the radar perhaps given the exploits of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul. In nine ODIs since August 2019, when Iyer returned

8:05 AM GMT Midway through last season’s Big Bash League, the Sydney Thunder were travelling nicely with Joe Root and Jos Buttler playing vital roles in the batting order as the club set themselves to challenge for the title. However, when England came calling, both had to take their leave, leaving Chris Jordan and Anton

6:26 AM GMT Entering the semi-final, Divyaansh Saxena had an average World Cup. Barring an unbeaten 52 against New Zealand in a rain-hit game, he had got starts but failed to make them big. That’s not to say his innings haven’t been attractive. They’ve just been too short. But against Pakistan in the semi-final, Saxena

7:07 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan admitted that England’s 50-over players were “way off the mark” in their first ODI outing since the World Cup final in July, but said that he expected the new members of the team to learn a huge amount from their failure at Newlands, after Quinton de Kock and

12:28 PM GMT Australia captain Meg Lanning went to extraordinary lengths to ease her back condition in Canberra at the weekend. The problem flares up for Lanning from time to time and it happened towards the end of the match against England on Saturday, stopping her fielding in the Super Over which Australia went on

6:23 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal “will definitely start” as openers in the three-ODI series in New Zealand, maybe as early as in the first game on Wednesday, while KL Rahul will continue to keep wicket and bat at No. 5 to give him more time to settle into his new