South Africa have called-up uncapped batsman Rilee Rossouw to replace injured Quinton de Kock for the second Test against the West Indies.
The 25-year-old has yet to play a Test, with his international experience limited to nine one-day games and three Twenty20 matches.
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South Africa wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock is a doubt for the World Cup after being ruled out of the rest of the series against the West Indies due to injury.
De Kock injured his left ankle while warming up before play on the third day of the first Test and a scan revealed a torn ligament.
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Gary Ballance has been recalled to a 15-man England World Cup squad that includes neither Ben Stokes nor outgoing captain Alastair Cook.
Cook’s fate was sealed once Eoin Morgan’s appointment as the new one-day skipper was decided at Friday’s selection meeting, while all-rounder Stokes pays the price for a recent record of four wickets and 84 runs in eight games.
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England’s selectors will meet on Friday to decide whether Alastair Cook leads the one-day side at next year’s World Cup.
Defeat over seven games in Sri Lanka took Cook’s record as captain to five defeats in seven series, and it was a lean tour with the bat as the opener scored 119 runs in six innings.
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Jacques Rudolph will captain Glamorgan in all formats of the game after he was announced as club captain.
South African Rudolph, who joined Glamorgan in September 2013, takes on the captain’s responsibilities after an impressive run of form in the 2014 season.
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Lord’s has been proposed as the venue for the ICC Cricket World Cup final when the tournament is staged in England and Wales in 2019 – and the ‘home of cricket’ will also host the ICC Women’s World Cup final in 2017.
The England and Wales Cricket Board will also recommend to ICC that the semi-finals in the 2019 World Cup should be allocated to Old Trafford, Manchester and Warwickshire’s home of Edgbaston, with the opening game being staged at The Oval.
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After falling to a 5-2 series defeat in Sri Lanka, we asked our team of pundits to pick apart what is going wrong for England in ODI cricket and if any positives could be taken from the series ahead of the World Cup in February.
Sir Ian Botham
“I don’t think he should be nailed down as captain and from his interview it seems that if he doesn’t score runs in the warm-up games he probably won’t be considered for the World Cup. He is a lovely lad but is he one of our best one-day players? I don’t think he is. So the selectors have to start thinking.”
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Mahela Jayawardene plans to play with style and a smile in Tuesday’s one-day international against England – his final game on home soil before he retires.
The legendary Sri Lanka batsman will be retiring after next year’s World Cup and wants to enjoy his final international match in his native city Colombo, at the Premadasa Stadium.
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Sir Ian Botham is backing England to level the ODI series with Sri Lanka in Pallekele on Saturday.
The tourists kept the series alive using a critical five-wicket triumph in Pallekele in a rain-delayed match on Thursday and now trail 3-2 with two matches to play.
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Nathan Lyon believes Australia’s bowlers will fostered by the fact Virat Kohli shrugged off a hit to the helmet in Adelaide.
India batsman Kohli was hit by a Mitchell Johnson bouncer on day three of the initial Test, two weeks after Phillip Hughes got a fateful blow in a Sheffield Shield match.
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Matt Prior is backing Jos Buttler to become a massively successful wicketkeeper-batsman for England – if he bats in the correct place.
Buttler, 24, now wears the gloves in most types of the game because of his nation but has allowed his greatest for the one-day international stadium, scoring a maiden – and thrilling – hundred against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in May during the latter overs.
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David Warner dedicated his “best” Test hundred to late teammate Phillip Hughes after racking up three amounts for Australia on day one against India.
Warner posted 145 at The Adelaide Oval on Tuesday in The Baggy Greens’ first match since Hughes passed away after being hit in the neck with a bouncer from Sean Abbott in a Sheffield Shield game.
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Suspended away-spinner Sachithra Senanayake continues to be contained in Sri Lanka’s provisional 30-man squad for next year’s cricket World Cup.
Senanayake is serving a suspension after his bowling action was deemed illegal. He’s taken restorative work and is expecting results of a different test that will discover if he could be permitted to bowl again in international games.
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Sean Abbott continues to be named in the New South Wales squad for their Sheffield Shield battle with Queensland on Tuesday.
The quick bowler is a part of a 12-man squad for the four-day game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the exact same place where his illfated bouncer hit Phillip Hughes to the neck on November 25 – Hughes expired in hospital two days after.
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Pakistan batsman Younis Khan is set to warrant his return to limited overs cricket after being chosen for the five-match ODI series against New Zealand in the UAE.
Younis has played only one 50-overs match in August this year after a 17-month absence because of insufficient form but four Test hundreds against Australia and New Zealand since October have induced a change of heart in the Pakistan selectors.
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Surrey have made their very first manager of women’s cricket – with former England and Surrey allrounder Ebony Rainford-Brent returning to the team to fill the job.
In her new place, Rainford Brent will work alongside Academy Director Gareth Townsend as well as the Performance Section, counseling on all girls’s Cricket played in the team. She’ll also work together with the Surrey Cricket Board in the creation of the girls’s game and strategies to boost involvement at all levels.
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England will soon be looking to claw their way back to the ODI series with Sri Lanka when match three takes place, live on Sky Sports 2, on Wednesday.
Alastair Cook’s side slipped 2-0 down in the seven-match series following defeats in Colombo by 26 runs and eight wickets respectively.
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England will take to the West Indies and Pakistan in World Cup warmup matches.
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Jason Gillespie says cricket “feels” for Sean Abbott following the terrible departure of Phillip Hughes.
Abbott bowled the ball which hit Hughes to the neck during a Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia on Tuesday and set the batsman in a induced coma.
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Nasser Hussain says Australia’s players must decide if they feel up to featuring in next week’s first Test against India following the tragic passing of Phillip Hughes.
Australia are scheduled to play the first of four Tests against MS Dhoni’s team from December 4, though Hughes’ departure has cast uncertainty over if the match will happen.
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